Story Time: Dumb Things You've done to knives?

I used to use my new buck 112 to pry apart matchbox cars and hotwheels to customize them! It was the first knife my dad gave to me for hunting and fishing. I messed it up pretty good but I kept it and after I figured out how to fix it, I did and continue to use it as my back up hunting knife in my pack! I can't tell you how many scars I have from that knife cutting up cars! I never did tell my parents for fear of losing my knife! I would just hide my hands and bandaids.
 
I learned a life long lesson when I was a teenager. The fine fixed blade my father gave me had an insecure sheath, but I kept wearing it and using it that way until the day it caught up with me and when I reached for that knife it was gone and all I stared at was an empty sheath on my belt.
 
There are two dumb things I have ever done to knives:

1.: As a kid, I used to think I could throw an Opinel into a tree like a throwing knife, resulting in two Opinels with a broken blade.

2.: I've let other people use my knives, resulting in them prying with my knives to open a package that was shut with wire (which damaged the edge on my Vantage Pro pretty bad) as well as getting them back completely dull after a few(!) hours.

edit: Ha, there are others that threw (or atleast tried throwing) folding knives into trees as well.
I feel your pain :-)
 
out of pure curisoity i tried very light batoning with an ontario rat 1.... the stop pin broke first hit..... it was only a $30 knife but it was the first "good" name brand knife i had every bought myself ( i was 14 at the time ) and now i no longer have myfirst edc even though it is crappy compaird to my other knives

with that same knife i stratched the black blade coating on purpose because i thought worn out knives looked cool...... wow i was dumb:rolleyes:
 
When we were remodeling the house I am living in now, my razor blades kept snapping when cutting dry wall so I said screw it and whipped out the Spyderco Tenacious. Needless to say it cuts like a champ and its cheap enough to thump on.
 
Tried to cut open a baseball with a slipjoint knife (circa age 10) and cut myself deep. Used my teeth to open a rusty old folder and chipped a tooth. Thought my first tactical folder was meant to be drawn from back pocket, stabbed myself in back (about 1 cm) when attempting to draw and flick open in one stroke.
 
Done WITH a knife:
First day with the AXIS lock. Closed it on my thumb. My luck = the only out-of-box sharp Benchmade.
Used cement blocks as cutting boards. (Gerbers)
Thrown folders (Gerbers)
Chopped (Gerbers)
As you can see, my Gerbers get abused.

Done TO a knife:
Used a Frost sharpening system on a 30-50 year old original Camillus folder. The "system" Likes to use a metal clamp to hold the knife in place while you scrape hunks of metal off with "sharpening stones". I was a novice knife person then for sure.
Used a EAB utility knife handle as a hammer. Dented the crap out of the handles. It was a pretty decent Sheffield EAB too.
 
what knife-related burden do you carry? i lost our late father's case XX peanut when i was in sixth grade. he had that knife for like 8 years. fast forward when i graduated and became an independent adult. i was too cocky (and maybe too angry) to thank our father for a lot of things before he died. one regrettable oversight is i didn't even think of buying him a new case to replace the one i lost.
 
Not sure if this counts, but used my SAK scissor as a side cutter and damaged it
 
The dumbest thing i've done to a knife.. well.. by far trying to sharpen my first edc(tenacious) that came with a dull edge. I've scratched the living s. out of it and finally gave up and gifted it to a friend. One year later i've bought a new tenacious to finally enjoy it. Spyderco rules.. i suck.
 
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