What do you primarily use your knives for?

I am an urban home owner in my late 60's whose house is about 38 years old. Older houses require repairs. I use knives when working on DIY projects around the house and yard.

I have several Cold Steel knives, but I bought them mostly because I found the designs interesting. Cold Steel's love of 4" blades decreases the frequency with which a Cold Steel product makes it into the carry list. I do have a Grik, which does make it into the list.
 
knarfeng said:
I am an urban home owner in my late 60's whose house is about 38 years old. Older houses require repairs. I use knives when working on DIY projects around the house and yard.

I have several Cold Steel knives, but I bought them mostly because I found the designs interesting. Cold Steel's love of 4" blades decreases the frequency with which a Cold Steel product makes it into the carry list. I do have a Grik, which does make it into the list.
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They’re tough and affordable. You know they’ll come out just fine from most tasks you throw at them, given reason and loving maintenance after. I can do dirty jobs with ‘em that would make me hesitate to reach for the Spydercos.
 
Opening boxes, edc stuff and splitting firewood. Yes I baton my lawman to split firewood. Got a dedicated lawman for it and been doing that for 5 years.
“Right tool for the job”, in this case my lawman is just right, and is doing it better than my other tools. Won’t do this to folders from other companies.
 
Anything I can't break by ripping or folding is probably going to get a taste of my steel. Really l carry two knives a smaller like a broken skull in my back pocket an a large folder for safety but being a mechanic I cut scrap an in peel apart all kinds of different materials from plastic copper gasket an xhp is the best I've ever came across years ago I tried i90 form another company it was a expensive at the time an it chipped bad I traded back I never cared about rust because I hanle mine so they don't get much chance to rust but aus8 was easy to sharpen aus10a seems pretty good in my Rahja2 but I haven't used it working only cutting trees an boxes but love that knife second to my true favorite large espada g10 cts xhp that is my favorite I carry almost everyday but I just got a vaquero xl serrated because its easier to replace so this will be my new everyday into unknown carry.
 
Richard1369 said:
Anything I can't break by ripping or folding is probably going to get a taste of my steel. Really l carry two knives a smaller like a broken skull in my back pocket an a large folder for safety but being a mechanic I cut scrap an in peel apart all kinds of different materials from plastic copper gasket an xhp is the best I've ever came across years ago I tried i90 form another company it was a expensive at the time an it chipped bad I traded back I never cared about rust because I hanle mine so they don't get much chance to rust but aus8 was easy to sharpen aus10a seems pretty good in my Rahja2 but I haven't used it working only cutting trees an boxes but love that knife second to my true favorite large espada g10 cts xhp that is my favorite I carry almost everyday but I just got a vaquero xl serrated because its easier to replace so this will be my new everyday into unknown carry.
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Large Espada in XHP is a great choice, man. Wish I scored one but I don’t think they make them anymore haha.
 
Bit of everything, diy cutting carpet some pvc or fibreboard.
Working at the stables, haylage twine, bridal leather in need of a trim surprising how much a knife is needed there.
 
johnnywizzo said:
Actually, I live in a very rural area and just recently sold about 400 wooded acres. If I have any serious cutting to do, I use an axe or a chainsaw. But I always carry some sort of knife with me, I just don't use them much. But I do like them.
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Nice choice. I agree that for serious cutting I would rather use a chainsaw like this. I have an electric one for my garden which can be transformed into a pole saw when needed.
I use my knives mainly during hikes when cooking or cutting wires.
 
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Speaking of hard use, I've been batoning this XHP lawman regularly for firewood since 2015. It's still going strong. It's probably gonna make some people butt hurt that i'm using the "wrong tool" for the job. But this is the only tool i have at home that split wood, and it's worked well for more than 5 years so is folder still a wrong tool for it?
Someone from IG ask me "why don't you disengage the lock before batoning?" - joke of the day...

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