Times when you needed a knife...but...

Rich S said:
Why are you biking in 10 degree weather??!!! Only crazy people (like us knife people) would do that :)

Rich
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10 above ?
Toasty weather.
15° F Bellow is my coldest commute. Would go colder if it ever happened here. That was with about a foot of snow (well a good ten inches on the street anyway) 11:00 pm. It was beautiful ! ! !
Very quiet, hardly any traffic. 'course I got very serious gear. Not temps to fool around with.
The game is to do it and be perfectly comfortable.
Cold fingers or cold feet mean : points off.

Not crazy . . . I just like good gear and use it.
Well maybe crazy but not because of that.
 
palonej said:
Happened to me today also!
Installing a 75 gal water heater......HUGE & THICK cardboard box. Reach for a knife......SH!T!!!
Had to use a box cutter that wasn’t long enough to get through it.
That was fun.
UGH
JOE
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Dang dude.
I'm commiserating with you !
I think at that point I would just go home and go back to bed and try it again tomorrow.
(well that's what I would WANT to do anyway)
 
T.L.E. Sharp said:
MUCH safer than just letting a technician carry a knife. Morons.
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Aaahhhhh Ha, Ha, Ha.
Ha, Ha, Ha

I kind of know what you mean :
Had a customer yesterday, he pulls out a nice Spyderco Para2 digicamy . . . COOL SO FAR !
Then he proceeds to grip something and dig the tip of the knife into what he is cutting getting ready to push the tip hard toward his hand.
I threw a flag at that point and asked if he would like me to take it into the shop and do that for him.
Man there would have been some serious blood flow if I hadn't.
We compared Para2s and had a good time otherwise though.
 
palonej said:
Would have LOVED a vid of that debacle Bryce!!
:D
I shouldn’t talk though!! I used my sawsall to Open that beast today.........verrrrrrrry carefully!! That could’ve been a blackmail vid!!!
Joe
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Yeah, I should've made one. It was one of those triple walled freight boxes and they used some sort of crazy adhesive so you couldn't peel it apart. Scissors just weren' cutting it (see what I did there), but I had a 4lb hammer with me.

That lady was pissed when I returned her scissors.
 
Para2 digicamy customer
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I think I may have a problem of having too many knives on me / in my proximity :
so what knife did I use to do the task safely for my customer ? ? ?
Was it MY para2 ?

Naw I usually go with the least and safest . . . I used the knife with the hooked blade in this photo. That was the perfect knife for what he was attempting.
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How long do you suppose until somebody here has a sheath implant ?
Swimming naked ? No prob got my EDC right here. Kind of changes the term "EDC".
 
783400D2-4BB1-4BB7-B774-D087BEF0A2C8.jpeg You had me laughing at that one WB!!
In the winter, on the colder & shorter days, I put on my snowmobile one piece, amazingly warm, jump on my Cannondale ‘V’ mountain bike and ride with the pooches running beside me. Both LOVE the cold.They freakin love it!! These 2 MUST run almost every day, otherwise they get a bit wired out!
No one is outside around here after 9:00, so no problem with them off leash.
Love it!

Wowbagger said:
10 above ?
Toasty weather.
15° F Bellow is my coldest commute. Would go colder if it ever happened here. That was with about a foot of snow (well a good ten inches on the street anyway) 11:00 pm. It was beautiful ! ! !
Very quiet, hardly any traffic. 'course I got very serious gear. Not temps to fool around with.
The game is to do it and be perfectly comfortable.
Cold fingers or cold feet mean : points off.

Not crazy . . . I just like good gear and use it.
Well maybe crazy but not because of that.
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palonej said:
View attachment 795616 You had me laughing at that one WB!!
In the winter, on the colder & shorter days, I put on my snowmobile one piece, amazingly warm, jump on my Cannondale ‘V’ mountain bike and ride with the pooches running beside me. Both LOVE the cold.They freakin love it!! These 2 MUST run almost every day, otherwise they get a bit wired out!
No one is outside around here after 9:00, so no problem with them off leash.
Love it!
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The woofer on the left looks like he has his "Tasmanian Devil Face" on. About to turn into a little tornado.
 
I'm sure it's happened once or twice, but I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't have a knife on me. Other than places a knife is completely illegal, I always have one in my pocket, on my keys, or at minimum, within arms reach.

Last time was when I flew for work about 6-8 months ago, and even then, it went into my checked luggage just before, and came out just after my flight.
 
Forgetting a knife.... it's happened to me. Unlike a cell phone, I generally will not turn around and go home for the knife where I usually will for the cell phone (unless the drive is short term... store and back sort of thing). You wouldn't get me riding a bike in those temps if I had any other choice.

You probably carry keys to your home, attach something to the keys. Clearly attaching a knife to your car keys would not work in your case. But you still need keys and that is the the place to attach the knife that will always be there should you forget your normal carries.
 
I was in the shower last night and decided it was time to get circumcised. No knife on me so I was forced to us what was at hand. It took forever using the lid to my bottle of shampoo, and it was quite messy. Luckily, there won't have to be a next time, but if there were, I would be sure to have a knife on me. Spyderco ARK maybe?
 
A couple years ago, I was working in a small warehouse and at the end of my shift I would break down all the cardboard boxes that were opened during my shift. They all had that really tough-ass tape on them, which I would have to cut to break the box down and toss in the recycling bin.

I forgot my knife one day and I couldn’t find a box cutter! I was forced to start punching the taped parts of the boxes trying to get them to bust open. Took a lot longer.... really wished I had had a knife on me.
 
jstn said:
I was in the shower last night and decided it was time to get circumcised. No knife on me so I was forced to us what was at hand. It took forever using the lid to my bottle of shampoo, and it was quite messy. Luckily, there won't have to be a next time, but if there were, I would be sure to have a knife on me. Spyderco ARK maybe?
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I suggest your next DIY be a lobotomy ! :rolleyes:
 
jstn said:
I was in the shower last night and decided it was time to get circumcised. No knife on me so I was forced to us what was at hand. It took forever using the lid to my bottle of shampoo, and it was quite messy. Luckily, there won't have to be a next time, but if there were, I would be sure to have a knife on me. Spyderco ARK maybe?
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Reminds me of the time I tried slashing my wrists with an electric razor. That was messy.
 
jstn said:
I was in the shower last night and decided it was time to get circumcised. No knife on me so I was forced to us what was at hand. It took forever using the lid to my bottle of shampoo, and it was quite messy. Luckily, there won't have to be a next time, but if there were, I would be sure to have a knife on me. Spyderco ARK maybe?
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I think you have rewritten the definition of "impulsive".
 
palonej said:
View attachment 795616 You had me laughing at that one WB!!
In the winter, on the colder & shorter days, I put on my snowmobile one piece, amazingly warm, jump on my Cannondale ‘V’ mountain bike and ride with the pooches running beside me. Both LOVE the cold.They freakin love it!! These 2 MUST run almost every day, otherwise they get a bit wired out!
No one is outside around here after 9:00, so no problem with them off leash.
Love it!
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Love my Cannondale Joe! It's an older one (M300) with no shocks! Still ride the crap out of it with knife on of course :-)

Only place I don't have a knife on or on me is at work..not allowed. So, I guess a sharp screwdriver works just as good.
 
I went to the mailbox today with my son in his car as I had a package to pick up. The package contained a Spyderco Ladybug and a Kershaw Camp 18” machete.

Yup, I had no knife with me to open up my knife package.:rolleyes:

I do have a tiny Kershaw blade on my keychain, but it wasn’t with me. :thumbsdown:
 
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