So, what DO you use your knives for?

Time is money, right? Let's add up all the time we would be doing the following without a pocket knife:

-Searching for a utility knife
-Dulling said utility knife half way through your job, and searching for new replacement blades.
-Sawing away helplessly at your food with one of those terrible serrated "steak knives" while you starve to death.
-Looking around for scissors (who has scissors?!)
-Asking people why they carry knives
-Feigning terror as someone steps in and efficiently cuts what you were struggling to open for twenty minutes.
-Making snide and uneducated comments every time you see a pocket knife being used.
-Lost sleep over how much of a fool you looked when that other guy had the right tool for the job and you looked like a girl in front of everyone.
 
Give that man a cigar, just make sure you use a cigar cutter to trim it. Wouldn't want to see him use his knife to do so.
 
Use my KA-LOK as letter opener, fruit prep, box cutter, whittler, grafting knife in the garden, and anything else that needs doing.
 
As the day comes to an end, I must admit that my knife stayed in my pocket all day.
Well, I may have a banana and I guess I could use my knife on it.
 
pvicenzi said:
Give that man a cigar, just make sure you use a cigar cutter to trim it. Wouldn't want to see him use his knife to do so.
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I use my RAT 1 with at 17 edge on it to do just this task. you have to score the wrapping all the way around then cut through or slice it like a banana & use your thumb or table as a stopper ( thumb not recommended).

Stabman, you've never used the tip of your knife to get corn or something out of your teeth!? not that hard haha
 
jeffwithaj said:
Just get a couple SAK's and all bases are covered.
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This.

The tacticool knives many people carry and show off here are not terribly useful tools for most tasks. While I have a Mini-Grip with me daily and a Buck 501 prior, the knife I've used most often for 30+ years is the Victorinox Classic. These days, it's the similar but larger Ambassador. But it's not the blade I use most often, it's the scissors, toothpick, tweezers, and nail file.

You want to use a Sebenza to cut threads? Be my guest. I'll use the scissors in my SAK Ambassador.
 
anything I need to use them for... :p

just got a new job as a bicycle mechanic and my most common use is picking thorns out of tires... also breaking down boxes and cutting zip ties. admittedly I use diagonal cutters for most zip ties as they are near by and much more efficient, not to mention less likely to scratch up a brand new bicycle.

used to cut sod, cut roots, trim branches, pick splinters, prep lunch, sharpen pencils, cut tape, cut wires, etc...

only thing I generally avoid is heavy prying and using as a screw driver. unscrewing something like a light switch cover, and very light prying is generally fine, but I understand I might damage my thin knives if I underestimate the necessary force.
 
For EDC my Leatherman Charge does everything I ever need it to. The only time I actually need other tools in in specific circumstances like when I'm camping, and then I always use fixed blades. A good quality multitool is all that is necessary for EDC imo, and is a fair bit more useful than a knife alone, especially when you consider that the blade on my Leatherman is in S30V. Also Leatherman>Victorinox! :D
 
I have a Wave and while it's not a daily carry for me (it's in my glovebox with a Griptilian) it's probably a far better choice than what I do carry ( a little SAK and a Mini-Grip).
 
CSG said:
This.

The tacticool knives many people carry and show off here are not terribly useful tools for most tasks. While I have a Mini-Grip with me daily and a Buck 501 prior, the knife I've used most often for 30+ years is the Victorinox Classic. These days, it's the similar but larger Ambassador. But it's not the blade I use most often, it's the scissors, toothpick, tweezers, and nail file.
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I use my screwdriver on my Victorinox Pioneer more then the knife.. Needless to say I stopped carrying single blade knives as EDC and just carry my Pioneer now with a Victorinox Signature on my keys to compliment the missing features such as scissors and tweezers.
 
I use mine to clip grocery coupons for my wife so she can't complain about my knife addiction. :D
 
the kid said:
I use my screwdriver on my Victorinox Pioneer more then the knife.. Needless to say I stopped carrying single blade knives as EDC and just carry my Pioneer now with a Victorinox Signature on my keys to compliment the missing features such as scissors and tweezers.
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Whereas my SAK goes almost unused. In the entire 20+ years I've owned SAKs I've used the toothpick once(found it so useless as a toothpick that I never bothered again), the tweezers maybe 3 times...I do use the screwdriver once in a while and the scissors occasionally, but most of the time, a single blade knife does fine, and is easier to carry, easier to draw, and easier to deploy 1 handed(as often when I need to cut something, I have something in my other hand).
 
DShiflet said:
Whereas my SAK goes almost unused. In the entire 20+ years I've owned SAKs I've used the toothpick once(found it so useless as a toothpick that I never bothered again), the tweezers maybe 3 times...I do use the screwdriver once in a while and the scissors occasionally, but most of the time, a single blade knife does fine, and is easier to carry, easier to draw, and easier to deploy 1 handed(as often when I need to cut something, I have something in my other hand).
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For EDC (office environment) I don't think a single blade knife is easier to carry. The Pioneer goes in the 5th pocket in my jeans and I don't even notice it is there.
I do use single blade pocket clip knives when I'm doing work around the house though, for the reasons you mentioned and the fact that is has a lock.
 
the kid said:
For EDC (office environment) I don't think a single blade knife is easier to carry. The Pioneer goes in the 5th pocket in my jeans and I don't even notice it is there.
I do use single blade pocket clip knives when I'm doing work around the house though, for the reasons you mentioned and the fact that is has a lock.
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My pants don't have a fifth pocket...and if they did, I'd use it for change most likely. I work nights at a hotel, jeans can't be worn(even if I wanted to, which normally I don't).
 
I carry a small multitool in addition to a pocket knife. None of my carry knives would serve as effective weapons. I use the knife for cutting / slicing / piercing /scraping / shaping things like food, paper, cardboard, plastic, and wood. If I need to pry something or remove staples I tend to use one of the flat screwdriver bits on the multitool.

My lifestyle doesn't require hard use of a knife most of the time but they do get carried and used daily.
 
doesn't anyone else occasionally use their knives for cleaning fish or gutting deer, or am I the only one?

and lets not forget fondling and flicking....Probably what their used for more than anything else.
 
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