What do you guys use your knife for?

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I'm writing a speech for my class and it's about how knives are not generally used for violence, like most people think, and I wanted to know what you guys use them for.

I use mine for food, boxes, rope, all the common stuff, etc. One of the less common tasks I've done with a knife is make a funnel using a water bottle.

So, what do you guys use your knives for? The more common tasks and the less common as well.


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Good luck with your speech!
This week I had un-usual uses for my knives.
1. Cut off old carpet and padding from floor and pried off planks that nailed it in place - used original fix blade CS Tanto.
2. Trimmed down king size mattress to full size for another bed used ZT0100, ZT0200, few hunting drop point fixed blades.

And of course usual stuff ropes, food, cardboard, plastic bottles, etc.
 
Mostly just usual farm cutting tasks. Cutting rope, fishing line, feed bags, hay-bundling twine, packaging, indoor tasks, etc.

I use my machete more than my pocket knife. Especially during the summer, so my machete is definitely a edc. In a long time battle with overgrowing blackberries, bamboo, and other vegetation. I got a great 3V slimline machete for that!

During the winter I will break up the frozen drinking water with my edc folder if I forget to bring a fixed blade out with me.

I also work nights at a Ortho/Neuro section of a hospital. My knife helps me with small cutting tasks there. Everything is wrapped in plastics, sometimes cardboard, etc. It helps when I have one hand busy and I need to open a package and take out a single "whatever", then go about my business. Two weeks ago we got 10 inches of snow over night and it helped me make a "shovel" out of a cardboard box so I could get my truck uncovered.

All in all the most handy tool I have! And I do not even think of it as a weapon, never have!

Good luck on the speech buddy!
 
An aspect that you may want to consider is the collection. While I am not a collector some want to preserve a knife as a piece of cutlery history.
 
Cutting stuff.

Ok, ok. Food prep. Opening blister packs. Making other tools when practicing survival techniques. Impromptu screw driver/pry bar. (Not recommended) Eating utensil. Splinter remover. Something to play with/bother the wife. Art piece. Collectable. Modification practice. I could go on... ;)
 
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i have used knives for
- cut up food - hot dog weiners, 5 apples, an onion, chicken breasts, home-made bread, pan of corn bread
- spread mustard and relish on hot dog buns
- cutting rope, nylon baling twine, string, clam packs, dog food bags, cattle feed bags, horse feed bags, plastic bags containing rolls of paper towels and toilet paper, sacks of chocolate, flour and sugar
- whittled a plug for use as a temporary patch in a water line
- cleaned under my finger nails
- wedged mud and dog poop from the treads of my tennis shoes
- cut open gallon water bottles for use as temporary plant pots for the blackberry plants I dug up
- pried open cans of MinWax "Honey" and MinWax "Ebony" stain for staining 20 tomahawk handles
- threw knives, tomahawks and double bit axes out back as exercise and for fun for an hour, (6 to 30 feet) - I do this daily, 30 minutes minimum, weather permitting.

and that was just for today.

Within the last 10 days -
- cut up lots of food and opened a bunch of food packages
- chopped the head off a rattlesnake
- cleaned 2 squirrels
- clean a mess of white bass
- scraped a dead rat out from under a desk out in the shop (used a machette for this one)
- cut ragged ends of a garden hose to splice a repair
- broke down a pile of cardboard boxes
- cleaned insulation off electrical wires while installing a light switch out in the warehouse
- cut insulation for a wall
- grafted fruit tree scions onto root stock
- cut open packages of seeds to plant in started cups
- cut open 6 bags of mortar mix and 7 bags of cement mix
- cut open 15 bags of peat moss
- opened packages of AA, AAA, C, D and 9V batteries
- chopped down 2 pickup loads of dried Johnson grass between the back fence and the old barn (wanted the grass from goat feed, rather than butchering it up with a weed eater)
- scraped the battery terminal posts clean on the tractor battery when the tractor wouldn't start after a cold spell
- sharpened a few pencils
- cut leather for a few sheaths
- scraped the "fuzzies" off the ends of PVC water pipes that I cut with a hacksaw
- cut the foil off the tops of a couple of bottles of wine

and probably a whole bunch more stuff that I'm forgetting about.
 
To cut things that need to be cut, often when others need something cut, but don't have anything to cut it with...
 
Besides most of the above, a knife is far superior than teeth in opening those pita beef jerky packaging. I read an article by a dentist a while ago and the dentist was saying if everyone carried a pocket knife then dental problems would drop. Wish I saved that article. But yeah a knife is handy in lots of situations.
 
I don't use a knife anywhere near as much when I was a boy in the 60's. One thing a pocket knife had to do was survive being thrown at trees (yeah we used to throw knives at tress to see if we could get them to stick in them *shocker*). Also carving our names in trees. Cutting sticks and whittling wood. Or just practice throwing knives into the dirt to time them getting stuck in the ground. We really used our knives for anything we felt like it.

Today I am old and afraid to use a knife for anything more than cutting rope, bubble wrap , food prep (and even them on a cutting board and not on a plate), opening packages and envelopes. All the fun things we did with knives-where did it go? When did we grow up so much to be responsible and worry so much about what is proper use of a knife and what used to be just plain fun?

Oh yeah,.. and we also brought our knives to school to show off to our friends what we had in our pockets. Like jawbreakers, BB's, magnifying glasses , bubblegum ect
 
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This time of year I use my edc folder multiple times per day to cut twine on bales to unroll to feed my cows and not much else but opening packages. It's a Benchmade Adamas auto. About as "scary" a pocket knife as it gets with a thoroughly boring life.
 
At work its just mostly cardboard boxes, nylon straps, my lunch and snacks. Sometimes the other folks would ask me to cut open some packages for them. At home my knife cuts open packages, envelope and kill those annoying price tags. And sometimes they are used to help remodel the place.Good luck with your report buddy!

-Kevin
 
I use my knives for life's menial daily cutting tasks from opening packages or mail to cutting the occasional food. I'm currently carrying a Victorinox recruit so I also get aa few useful tools that have me reaching for my knife even more during the day.
You should also ask this question again in the traditionals section as the knife usage and mindset with traditionals can vary.

One thing you may want to think about is the fact that many people may cary a second knife which they know won't offend or scare anyone if used in public, this really goes to show that it's usually nice friendly people who carry knives and not criminals.
Another thing of note is how it's almost always kitchen knives that get used as weapons.
 
i carry mine for protection mostly

i like to carry knives like the emerson cqc8, spyderco chinook, bechmade 860, spycero civilian/matriarch, benchmade 741, cold steel vaquero, spyderco pkal, spyderco police 3, spyderco endura, spyderco military, al mar sere 2000, spyderco manix xl, spyderco native 5 lightweight
 
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CAMPING

Chopping wood, splitting (batoning) wood, making feather sticks

FISHING

Cutting bait, line, scaling fish, filleting fish

KITCHEN

Cutting/preparing meat and vegetables
 
Ha! I just used my military to fix my shoe. the sole had come loose and gotten squashed flat a bit, so when I glued it back on the leather was a little too wide for the rest of the shoe - I trimmed it to size with my pocketknife and then applied some dye and hey presto it looks good as new.
 
I tend to use my knife for a lot of things. I work in a warehouse/store at night and i fix computers in my free time. So at work i tend to open and break down boxes i open the coffee bags (apparently im the only employee whos not lazy and fills up the coffee machine). At lunch time i cut my food. At home ill do some food prep cut zipties. Flip my knife because its fun. And not too long ago i trimmed a leather strips to make some strops. I needed a small strop i could bring with me on trips and made one for my mother. Otherwise well i would agree with hickory n steel about people who carry knifes are usually good people. I myself carry two knives at all time. Usually a 3-4 inch folder (varies depending of my mood) and i have a spyderco ladybug on my keychain at all time. Its in hap40 so its got that non scary orange handle and so small it cant really scare any non knife people.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
i have used knives for
- cut up food - hot dog weiners, 5 apples, an onion, chicken breasts, home-made bread, pan of corn bread
- spread mustard and relish on hot dog buns
- cutting rope, nylon baling twine, string, clam packs, dog food bags, cattle feed bags, horse feed bags, plastic bags containing rolls of paper towels and toilet paper, sacks of chocolate, flour and sugar
- whittled a plug for use as a temporary patch in a water line
- cleaned under my finger nails
- wedged mud and dog poop from the treads of my tennis shoes
- cut open gallon water bottles for use as temporary plant pots for the blackberry plants I dug up
- pried open cans of MinWax "Honey" and MinWax "Ebony" stain for staining 20 tomahawk handles
- threw knives, tomahawks and double bit axes out back as exercise and for fun for an hour, (6 to 30 feet) - I do this daily, 30 minutes minimum, weather permitting.

and that was just for today.
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I hope these were done with two separate knives, or at least in that order! :D
 
bt93 said:
Besides most of the above, a knife is far superior than teeth in opening those pita beef jerky packaging. I read an article by a dentist a while ago and the dentist was saying if everyone carried a pocket knife then dental problems would drop. Wish I saved that article. But yeah a knife is handy in lots of situations.
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LOL I was trying to figure out for the longest time what pita beef jerky was. Figured it was some new fangled hip mixture of pita bread and beef jerky :D:D:D:D:D:D

I get it now :p
 
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