The Proper Way to Use a Knife (Prying with a folding knife)

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I assume a lot of people will want to take the high road to feel good about themselves and tell me this is wrong. But I am curious if EVERYONE thinks doing this with THIS knife is wrong (Mini CQC7). I wouldn't pry with any other folder I own, but something like a bottle cap off with an Emerson seems like a piece of cake for this knife. I've been doing it for a little while with no problems.

Do you do this? If so, with what knife? Any problems? I feel like I want to carry this knife at all times along with anything else I carry because I like using it as a bottle opener but feel that it wouldn't be good to do this to any of the other tac knives I own (mini grip, Benchmade Torrent, PM2).

[video=youtube;sCquAwg0M6g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCquAwg0M6g[/video]
 
Look again: the difference is that he is using the knife edge. Now aside from concerns about the edge chipping (all in the heat treat, folks), all the stress is bearing on the steel scales at the pivot point.

Although it sure looks disrespectful, I don't think much torque is actually being applied to the lockbar...
 
I cringed watching that video. I found that if I need to open a bottle using a pocket knife, I use the pocket clip itself. It has several benefits over using the actual blade:

- You won't ruin the blade
- You won't cut your hand if you miss on the first try
- You get better leverage because you can fit the cap between the clip and the knife handle
 
Shorttime said:
Look again: the difference is that he is using the knife edge. Now aside from concerns about the edge chipping (all in the heat treat, folks), all the stress is bearing on the steel scales at the pivot point.

Although it sure looks disrespectful, I don't think much torque is actually being applied to the lockbar...
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Looks like he's popping it off with the spine to me
 
Oh no f-ing way. Not with a $5 knife, and not with a $200 knife. Maybe with a wave like TheBong said, but knives aren't for prying, Imo.
 
To clarify, I am popping it off with the spine. I have done this for years with my cheap, thin butcher knife in my kitchen and it has been fine. It's a bottle cap vs a 154cm, heat treated blade. I'm not concerned about the blade! I am concerned with all the folding stuff. Like the lock bar, detent thingy on the Emersons, etc.

FYI - The wave is too small to grab a hold of a cap. Doesn't actually work, at least on a mini.
 
I EDC three bottle openers, coincidentally. I'll never need to do something like that with my knives. If I didn't have a bottle opener on me, I'd go get one of them.
 
cards94 said:
folding knives aren't meant to pop bottles. i use a bottle opener.
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Yep, that would be the standard response I would expect (as noted earlier). Reasons why would be good. I can imagine that using my mini grip would cause it to flex in terrible ways but the Emerson doesn't seem to. I'm curious about the other innards (liner lock, bushings, etc.) To me, a bottle cap SEEMS to be less side to side stress than anything this knife is designed to randomly experience during normal hard use.
 
I've done that with my Strider PT, but I kept it closed and used the spine. Can't see why it would be a problem, but I wouldn't risk getting cut by opening the blade.

DJK
 
Kwon Kwang said:
I EDC three bottle openers, coincidentally. I'll never need to do something like that with my knives. If I didn't have a bottle opener on me, I'd go get one of them.
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That has nothing to do with the question at hand, guy. I edc a bottle opener in my zippo pocket of my jeans every day. It still doesn't answer the question of whether its good or bad for this knife and why.
 
Master the mysterious power of leverage, and almost anything becomes an effortless bottle opener.
 
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