Using a knife as prybar

Neat... but apparently we can't get them in Canada. Tried twice with the out-of-country address, and couldn't change it to Canada. Then noticed they only use UPS which can't deliver to a PO box. Too bad, nice product.
 
A while back I got the TOPS Pry Knife. http://www.bladehq.com/item--TOPS-Knives-PRY-KNIFE--5382

I've never used it. It's 1095, but don't know the hardness. At 1/4" thick, for most of it's length and height, it seems pretty strong compared to "regular" knives.
Like mentioned, everything has it's limit.
I've wondered what it's limit would be, then I think maybe my own strength would be the limit.
The other Probe Punch tool seems way stronger, yet so short that I don't think I could break it.
 
I was putting my Spyderco Gayle Bradley through some serious workouts and it passed all tests without any suggestions of a problem.
Not thinking, I grabbed my $400 "best of the best" production knife and promptly broke it doing something I'd done a zillion times with my GB (light prying).
My $400 hard use knife failed next to knives FAR less expensive.
I was pissed.
My Kershaws did far better than my $400 "work knife" (i.e. they didn't break!)
Come to think of it Kershaw has never let me down... love that company! (please gimme a Blue Mountain with M390!)

I want a hard use work knife and few are actually able to live up to the 'hard' part of hard use.
Guess I use knives kinda hard. I've worked with cutting hand tools for over a decade and I feel I have a pretty good idea of what a tool should be able to do.
Yes, I was hard on the "best of the best" but it's nothing my more affordable knives couldn't handle.

me - irate with a certain manufacturer for not getting with the times
 
Alberta Ed said:
Neat... but apparently we can't get them in Canada. Tried twice with the out-of-country address, and couldn't change it to Canada. Then noticed they only use UPS which can't deliver to a PO box. Too bad, nice product.
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For Breacher Bars & Widgy pry tools from Countycomm you can buy from http://www.endtimesreport.com/survival_shop.html for overseas orders - that's where I got my 3 widgy bars & 2 sizes of peanut lighters, very reasonable on the shipping costs too.
 
I use my Vic classic sd blade to pry out stuck AA batteries from my son's toys or TV remote all the time. I don't think it's any different than using your finger nail to open a coke tab. Use common sense and understand the limits or at least the consequences if you are going to pry with anything. I've never broken a knife from prying.
 
just snapped the can opener off of my SAK. not a big deal though, i never used it to open cans, and i figured it anything was going to snap, i would prefer it to be the can opener.
 
darkflcn said:
just snapped the can opener off of my SAK. not a big deal though, i never used it to open cans, and i figured it anything was going to snap, i would prefer it to be the can opener.
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I worry that prying too hard with a SAK might do some kind of damage to the pivot area, I don't really want to suddenly find it has moved apart and all my tools are loose. That's part of the reason that I have started EDCing a Widgy pry bar. I have pried with my large screwdriver/cap lifter on my SAK - but I'm pretty sure that I have never come close to breaking anything, I've never pried very hard with it.

I think that anyone that snaps a knife or part of a SAK while prying really ought to think about EDCing a pry tool. For $22 + shipping you could buy 4 Widgy pry bars from Countycomm then if you break the one you carry you have 3 more at home - you could pry all you need to without being concerned about breaking the tool. I'm not too sure what it would take to damage a pocket Widgy - but I would guess that any prying that does would have also broken just about any knife you could carry.
 
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