What do YOU do with your knife?

jfindon

jfindon

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Search isn't working, so I don't know if anyone else posted this. I was just curious what some of you do with your EDC and what you tell people when they ask why you need such a knife.
 
I use my SnG to cut shrink wrap and small pieces of paper at work. Nobody asks because their too busy clawing at it. :D
 
It depends on the day,somedays it gets used hard and other days it doesn't hardly ever come out.... In all honesty, I've never had anyone ask me why I carry a knife. It never fails though, on the very rare occasion I leave the house and forget it, I WILL NEED IT..
 
Most of the time, my EDC is used to keep the clip in my pocket.:) I don't have a need to use it all that often, but when I do, it's to cut boxes, tape, string, and what not. not heavy duty things. Sometimes, to cut fruit.
 
In all honesty, I've never had anyone ask me why I carry a knife.
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You know, me neither. I live in a blue state, which everybody says should be packed with highly vocal sheeple.
But I think about the only comment I've ever gotten in public was at church at lunch when somebody said "You're eating that with your POCKETknife?" And the emphasis was just like that, too.
What it meant was, "There are butterknives over there on the counter, why don't you just get up and get one?" That's what he meant, and if that's what he had said, I would have told him "Cause this one is sharp, and it was already with me."
But that's NOT what he said. So I just told him, "Yeah."
:D
Mike
 
I've had people ask why I couldn't just use a box cutter to cut boxes and things, I guess they assume I'm going to go around and flash it in front of everyone's face and cause trouble.
 
Oh, I don't know, I use my knives for prying, tightening screws, jimmying locks, scraping moss off cinder blocks, hammering nails, carving my initials into desks (ie 'carrot wuz here'), cutting myself out of steel drums, stabbing into car hoods, slashing at pieces of meat on hooks, picking my nails, throwing at trees, doing pull ups...








Just kidding. I usually use my knives to open mail and packaging, and cutting my food. My standard answer when someone asks me why do I carry is "because I sometimes have to cut stuff."
 
Im with carrot 100% opening mail, and packages, and cutting food, but very rarely (for certain knives)
 
I use it for opening packages and things, especially when I do food pantry at my church (I have to open a whole lot of boxes then).


I've only had my aunt ask me why I carry a knife... I just said something like "Why not?" or "Just cause...".


EDIT: Its also entertaining to just flip it open and close it (I have a Kershaw Leek with assisted opening, so that just makes it more entertaining), rinse, and repeat.
 
Lets see......
open mail
cut up cardboard boxes to fit in the trash
dig .45 slugs out of the ground
prepare food on occasion
pried open a car door
cut a "locked" seatbelt off of me
whittle on occasion
practice making deadfall, figure four and other traps
used for steel when practicing flint and steel fire starting
prune the trees in my yard (hehe)
used to make spindle, bow etc on fire bow drills
Stuff like that.

Edit : i forgot to add "random playing with it" also ;)
 
I use mine for anything that needs cutting when there is nothing else around. I do get comments sometimes but usually the comments are "Does anyone have a knife?". When peaple ask "Why do you carry a knife?" I say "Why DON'T you carry one?".
 
I usuall get a wide array of comments varying from, "why do you carry a knife" to "why do you have so many knives?" Responses vary depending on how well I know the person/how sheeple they are. Commonly it's because I use it for work and stuff often. Once, to a close not sheeple friend I told him the last person who asked that ended up in the river. We had a good laugh. Definitely not a common response I give though. As to what I use my many knives for...

mail, boxes for work, zip-ties, food, as well as just playing with in the privacy of my own room.
 
I work in a relatively knife friendly work environment so I don't get asked all that often:)

Things I do with my blades?

Day to day - pretty well what everyone else does - open packages/letters, cut zipties, food prep now and then and playing when I'm in an idle moment. Knocking down cardboard boxes and cutting zipties for LAN wiring is about as hard as it gets there.

Evenings and weekends - depends if I'm at home or doing reno work and what time of year, but there, my "beaters" can start coming into play - gardening type things, which can be anything from cutting to digging. If I'm in "home reno" mode (I also have revenue properties) this can be anything from standard cutting things to stripping/cutting wire, drywall, lino, whatever - scraping paint/junk, cutting drywall, tape, opening packages of every size imaginable, whatever....:) I've used one of my folders the odd time when I have to trim leather when doing my leatherwork.

- gord
 
I've never been asked why I carry but I had a supervisor ask me if it was legal for our building. I work in a CA state government office and the length limit is 4" for a blade. The knife in question was 3.25" long and fully serrated and all stainless. I guess it alarmed him. But nobody else could open up the large package with heavy plastic stapping. I just told him, "Oh yea it's well below the limit." He didn't ask to measure it and never questioned me again.

I use my knives to open packages and mail. I also cut food with it and occasionally trim a bush or tree in the yard. I always have a knife on me and there always seems to be something in need of cutting.:D
 
I use my EDC knives to cut stuff up - fruit, boxes, paper, plastic, blah, blah, blah. If I need to pry stuff open or what, I use my Atwood Bug Out Bar.

BTW, no own at work or otherwise has asked me why I carry a knife. I guess it's because people has become accustom to me in having one on my person.
 
i use mine daily for to many things to list. When people ask why I carry them I tell them its for stabbing people who ask to many questions.
 
MSCantrell said:
I live in a blue state, which everybody says should be packed with highly vocal sheeple.
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You, sir, live in Michigan. Its only really a Blue state when you include the irrational people living in Detroit. I grew up there and lived there most of my life, and I think you and I would almost have to agree that the VAST majority of Michigan people have a better understanding of what a knife is for and why its important to carry one than someone from a more "traditional" blue state (like Massachusetts).
 
Like everyone else, I tend to use my EDC to open packages and whatnot.

I used to covertly de-animate stuff with it, but it's "just" a BM 710, and wasn't designed to do that, so I just kept feeling woefully inadequate.

Jubei
 
SpyderJon said:
You, sir, live in Michigan. Its only really a Blue state when you include the irrational people living in Detroit. I grew up there and lived there most of my life, and I think you and I would almost have to agree that the VAST majority of Michigan people have a better understanding of what a knife is for and why its important to carry one than someone from a more "traditional" blue state (like Massachusetts).
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Good point! I forget that sometimes... there are enough heads in Detroit to swing the politics, which makes them the majority numerically. But geographically... that is to say, in the rest of the state, there's some good midwestern common sense.
I've only been here a few years, so I'm still getting used to it. :)

Straying off-topic just a little... I have a friend who's an auto insurance claims adjuster (I'm actually a homeowner's insurance claims adjuster, so we talk shop sometimes). He told me that more than 90% of fraudulent auto claims come from the five counties of metro Detroit. Isn't that ridiculous?

Mike
 
MSCantrell said:
Straying off-topic just a little... I have a friend who's an auto insurance claims adjuster (I'm actually a homeowner's insurance claims adjuster, so we talk shop sometimes). He told me that more than 90% of fraudulent auto claims come from the five counties of metro Detroit. Isn't that ridiculous?
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It IS ridiculous, and always has been. The Detroit area has almost NOTHING to offer the rest of the state. YET, you'll notice that although they consume the vast majority of the state's annual budget, especially for things like education spending and social services (though you'd not know about the school spending by thier test scores or graduation rates), they also produce the most complaining about not getting anything! Its disgusting, and I ALWAYS hated that when I was living there. No matter what anyone ever did for Detroit it was NEVER enough. I say they should just cede Detroit to Canada and be done with it.

Now, to put things back on track, I always try to make as few comments as possible when using my knives. I don't use the BIG knives (like my GB or Devastator) to cut threads and such, but rather take out my smaller knives for smaller jobs and open them slowly. Then I merely do my job and then put it away. I've been asked exactly one time why I carry a knife, and my response to them was that it was alright because I was a responsible adult. I figured it was better than screaming that I'd rather use a knife than to see them using their TEETH to get into food packages that *I* might be eating from later.
 
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