The coolest thing you've ever done with a knife?

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What is the coolest thing you've ever done with a knife, or the most brilliant? Original? Innovative? Anything spectacular or abnormal?

How about the most abusive thing you've ever done? Not something to test it on purpose, but something that needed to get done, and your knife miraculously pulled it off, because you had no other tools with which to do it. Stuff like that.

How about the dumbest thing? Maybe you were doing some kinda William Tell stuff, or practicing your knife-juggling routine with a monkey as a partner.

Not sure about mine yet. I'll think about it and post mine ASAP.

Howie
 
My wife and I were in Chicago several years ago along with other members of my family and some of their kids to attend my cousin's wedding. About 20 members of my family were in one of the rooms having a little party and my nephew (age 11 at the time) had an empty can of that cheese that is under pressure and squirts out onto crackers. He asked if anybody knows how they make them so the cheese squirts out like it does. In the interest of his quest for knowledge, I got out my Randall mod. 14 (with the saw teeth) and we cut the can in half to see how it worked. My sister later said her son thought it was so cool to do something like that.

I was able to say to my wife "See, thats why I always take my Randall with me when we travel... for emergencieslike this!"
 
Is a way of life for us Balison fanatics
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i still rememer the first time I made one of those butterfly knives REALLY FLY. Oh the beating heart!



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Well, probably the most abusive/useful/bloody lucky thing I've done with a knife was when I was at college, working in the theatre on the flyrail.

We had a new crop of freshmen in to learn the flys, and one of them had Billy Badass complex pretty bad (Ex-Navy, knew everything on earth about knots...uh-huh). We had the first three lines locked off, since we were doing maintenance on those lines. The guy who was doing the intro was working at the far upstage end of the rail, showing the folks how the locks worked, etc.. Well, you guessed it, our boy wandered downstage, climbed over and around our barricades, and starts fiddling with the knots. Me and a buddy were down onstage, working on the fittings at the pipe, and noticed the lines moving--we looked up just in time to see Brainchild fiddling with the line, just before it all went to Hell. Somehow, he got the bright idea that he could "improve" our knots, which were the only things holding the Arbor in place. Sure enough, as we all screamed in unison, the Arbor (with pipe weight on it) comes crashing down, carrying our boy's knife (he'd been using his marlinspike to work on the line) up in the pulleys, and wedging it securely into the mechanism as a couple of hundred pounds slammed into the rail.

Anyway, after beating him soundly, taking him outside and shooting him, etc., we crawl up to the loading gallery to survey the damages, and find his knife, wedged into the pulley. So, with four buddies down below to heft the Arbor and take weight off, I was able (after ten minutes of working and cussing) to use my Al Mar Recon Tanto to lever it out of the housing, thus salvaging expensive hardware, and preventing us from having to completely re-rig a lineset the day before move-in. Nice knife, still has a good edge, and a place of honour in my toolbox.

And no, that boy never worked fly again, as long as I was there.


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I was getting tires put on my truck when a woman and her husband came up to me. They had pulled off the highway looking for someone to help them. Their young son had found a zip tie in the back seat of there car and had managed to cinch it tight around one of his fingers. By the time they pulled off and found me the finger had swolen and was turning from red to blue black. I pulled out my SAK and quickly cliped the tie from his finger restoring the circulation. The woman thanked me, the husband didn't have much to say. It might seem like a small thing but it is exactly why I carry a pocket knife every day.
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Jim - that was a great story. Those of us living in the Bay Area can appreciate it. I agree with your approach. I learned the "comand voice" when I marched troops in the Air Force many moons ago, and can still use it effectively. How's your lawsuit going?

Ed
 
Ok...the most abusive thing I ever did to a knife must have been when I was practicing throwing my SOG Seal Team 2000 knife...Yup that sucker will stick something fierce if you get it right...Unfortunately with me, throwing knives and getting them to stick is more luck than anything else
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Well, I had had a streak of off throws and in frustration I let it fly full bore at the tree I was using as the unlucky target. Well, this particular tree had a steel pipe affixed to it at about 7 feet off the ground. Well the knife ofcourse hit this pipe with a great deal of force, an impressive sounding clang that made me wince in fear of what I had just done to my Seal knife, and sent the knife ricochetting off the pipe in a high arc and over my head...
It landed with an audible thump on the lawn and for a few seconds I just stood there, trying to swallow my own heart...I was positive I had completely ruined the blade...
I got up the nerve to walk over to the sad remains of my knife, only to pick it up and discover it didn't have a single mark...Not a scratch, ding or dent...Nothing...I looked at the pipe that had suddenly acquired a large dent and then I looked at the handle of the knife, which was obviously the part that had struck the pipe...still no marks...
What can I say??? A testament to my own stupidity and to the solid construction of the Seal knife...I love that baby dearly
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Only problem is...Now...I want one in BG-42!!!
Waaaaaaah
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Regards

Joshua "Kage" Calvert

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Ed, check my website. You'll find a *killer* 53-page .PDF file called "CCW in California: A Disaster Analyzed". That document is the "payment" for round two of my suit if I get denied; a whole pile of people are applying right now figuring we'll get denied, but knowing we've got a pro-bono lawyer lined up.

The lawyer is from the firm that the NRA uses in California. That doc of mine is going to go to legicritters to support a shall-issue reform effort...there's stuff in there that's absolute *dynamite*.

Jim
Equal Rights for CCW Home Page http://www.ninehundred.com/~equalccw
 
i was eight, he had a 6 inch folder and we were playing chicken he stuck te folder right next to my shoe, I pulled out my 12 in bayonet (scary sharp) and stuck it through the guys shoe between his big toe and 2nd toe he was not cut but very scared.

it wasn't a knife but i 9at age 15) took a shurkin on a field trip with te state troopers they took when it fell out of my pocket and admonished about it being illegal for a minoor to have a concealed weapon...

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