throwing away knives

Wipe your fingerprints off those junky knives. Wear gloves. Drive through the "bad" part of town at night. Drop them one at a time out your car window and keep driving. Then watch the newspaper for the next day or two for entertaining reports of some stranger's nocturnal gift giving. Hey, bums need knives, too. :D
 
If you have any sort of belt grinder, put a 36 grit belt on and go to town! Heck you could probably even use a disk or bench grinder!
 
Cougar Allen said:
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Seriously, the best way to immunize yourself from hype is to test a cheap knife or two. Stab a coin, use it for a canopener for a while, go to the auto salvage yard and stab some cars, baton through a nail, pry with it until it breaks -- then you won't be so impressed when some hypster tells you "this knife can stab a car door!" Your answer will be "So can that thing I bought for $5 at a flea market." Most of the hype on the market depends on the suckers never having tried any of that stuff for themselves.

If you've already done all that stuff give your knives to newbies to test. Strike a blow for truth in advertising!
 
I buy a lot of kitchen knives at garage sales and thrift stores (I probably average one a week for the last 5 years). A lot of them are trash, but I want to find out how trashy. Sometimes I learn interesting things from these $1.00 knives. Quite a few of them are best thrown away. I wouldn't even feel right donating them back to Goodwill. I take my belt sander and grind off the edge and point before I throw them in the trash. Prior to that treatment they are generally shaving sharp and I wouldn't want my refuse hauler maimed. If I didn't have a belt sander I would cover the edge with duct tape.
 
I threw out a Maxam liner lock a while back. My sister had given it to me as a stocking stuffer.

I ended up taping the blade with painter's tape, just folding it over to protect what little edge it had, and removed the blade from the handle.

Don't worry, I gave my sister a Griptilian so she'd stop carrying a cheap Maxam linerlock she was bound to injure herself on :)
 
Personally, when I get really sloppy knives I just use them on messy jobs like cutting packing tape or drywall, and when they get nasty just wrap them shut with duct tape and toss.

Bad fixed blades I practice my grinding skills on. These I also wrap in newspaper and tape before I toss.
 
Well my neighbor makes a very nice living selling ones like that at gun/ outdoor shows. I'll bet that he does better then the knife dealers.

Thers plenty of dopes that'll buy 'em
 
Take it apart dump pieces into recycle bin, dull blade and drop it in too.
 
Put all the knives in one gigantic listing up on ebay and start it at 99 cents. One man's junk is another man's treasure...
 
Put flashy words like Sebenza Quality and Supreme Liner Lock, Ultra Stainless Blade, Midnight Spec Ops black coating, start bidding at $500.
 
Put out a small table in the front yard by the road. Lay the knives out and post a sign saying they are for sale at $50.00 each. They'll be gone by morning...
 
I have a box of knives under my work bench. knives I just never use any more, beat up old Moras, Pakistani knives, retired kitchen knives, etc.

I generally use them for every terrible, rotten, vile, Heinous task I can find. Sometimes I do have fun at the grinder with them. I have one or two in reach at all times. It's kinda handy, really.

Once they aint mo more fun I throw it in the dumpster. (duct taped blade, if it's still left) Or donate it to charity. My last trip I gave 'em half a dozen beat up old kitchen knives and China specials. The guy taking the donation was looking at me and acting like I'd just handed over my wifes jewelry box or something.
 
Use the old knives for scraping off paint, working in the garden, and other jobs that needs a knife, but you wouldn't want to use good ones on.

Place the knives on a table with a sign saying 'Free Knives'.

Keep a few in the car for 'just in case'. You would be surprised how useful they can become when a knife is needed in the worst way.

Finally, burry them in the yard. Dig a hole a foot deep, with sand for drainage. Plant point down with handle up. Add horse manure and water well. Wait and see if the knife will take, and what it may grow into. Cross a Frost cutlery classic with a cutco or Wiltshire and see what just may come up.:)
 
Get a bag
Drive out to country with shovel and bag of knives
Dig hole , deposit bag , drive home.

Several thousand years from now someone digs them up and gets rich.
 
rebeltf, I finally took time to look up what your tag line means.

Outstanding.
 
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