What did your knife do today?

cut down a tree with my BK13 to use as a fishing pole
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Opened a headlamp clamppack for the wife; clipped broccoli rabe and lettuce from the community garden; changed batteries in a kids toy; and took a bath to be ready for reuse where food is involved.
 
Use the BK2 for making some walking sticks for me 'n my friends' kids.
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Use the nessie for a spoon and scaling fish.
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It got tied to the end of a rifle and it killed a snake. Now it needs some quality time with a stone.
 
Cut some thread to sew my school/gym/woods bag back together yet again.:)
 
working on some cane arrows. used a david farmer wharncliff utlity knife to scrap the nodes, trim to length and cut nocks.
 
opened a box of start and run capacitors for a large single phase pump motor
opened a pack of Wendy's raspberry vinegarette salad dressing
 
Nice whittling.

Today I used my Maxam one-hand-opener to trim glue on jewellery I was assembling, and to lever off a glued-on bail from some jewellery I wanted to alter. I used the same knife to dis-assemble my wife's electric toothbrush.

This evening I made a split peg for mounting a snare. I used my Swedish Eka folder to make the split:

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As many will understand, I am seldom without a knife. Nowadays I often carry the Maxam folder. It has a fairly thick blade, but it is so convenient. I will often use it when opening packages, or when wrapping packages of our jewellery for despatch.

Sometimes when I walk the dog into a scrubby area nearby I will carry another knife for the fun of it. I've used all the knives below in the last few days:

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Thanks to Doc from Canada, I now know that the plant the knives are lying on is called mullein.

Earlier in the week I used the BRKT Gameskeeper (top in picture) to make some split pegs for setting three snares. I made these from gorse shoots, so my method of manufacture was to slice the spikes off the shoot before cutting it from the bush, and the Gameskeeper does this superbly. I'd been seeing rabbits on the dog walk, so I set the three snares on some small trails leading into the gorse. I didn't get a rabbit, but I did get a brushtailed possum. The dog thought it was wonderful having a possum laid on for entertainment when we went for our walk early next morning. I used the Maxam to skin and gut the possum.

The blue-handled utility knife is something I play with regularly.... I bought three of these for a total of around NZ$23. They have a hollow handle so they could be quite simply used as a spear if desired, and they seem to hold a reasonable edge. They don't have a brand name. Anyway, if I'm going to get vegetables from the garden I might typically take this one to trim away the unwanted bits before I come back inside.

This is a good topic. Knife use is definitely a daily thing for me. And if I'm not using one, I still like to feel it in my pocket or on my belt..
 
My knife hasn't done anything really dramatic today. Opened the seal under the cap of a jug of tea...
Yesterday, though, it was in spectacular mode, and did a magic trick. It disappeared.

It did reappear. It was getting pushed up in my pocket by a leg strap on my harness, and got tossed toward my pack. Not only did it somehow end up in a side bottle holder pocket that had a 1L water bottle in it, but the opening was facing away from me.
My partner was clipped in to belay me with 3 feet of webbing holding her 10 feet away from the pack, so I'm trying to figure whether the odds favor it landing there on its own...or her dog putting it there:confused:
 
cut a bottle of acid open today and stained the blade of my blue delica ffg but looks pretty cool lol
 
This is hardly a workout for this knife, but there is something SOOOO satisfying about cutting up a melon with a really nice sharp knife!

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I also used it to cut the protective plastic wrap off some pieces of metal stock I am using to build another stove.
 
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