What do you refuse to do with your knives?

aaronu said:
It's a tool. Use the right tool for the job. But.

If you don't have the right tool, improvise. And if it is warranted, kick yourself really hard for not having the right tool. If improvising means you have to abuse your knife, weigh that risk against the challenge you're facing and decide which means more. In a survival situation I bet even the most hard core knife nut would give up his blade to save a life.

I guess I'm saying it is situational, and there is nothing I would refuse to do to a knife if enough was at stake.

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If it was my knife versus saving a life then yes you can use my knife to pry, cut, hammer...

If you want to open that can of beans or coffee and you are too lazy to walk over to the lunchroom to get a can opener I will open the can opener on the Leatherman or hand you a P-38.

I highly doubt your survival hinges on getting the can of soup open.
 
I refuse to lend out my knife (to all but a few) when someone needs one. I have no problem performing the task for them but I just don't trust most people to treat my knives with the same care and respect I do. If they don't understand why I would spend 100$ plus on a single knife in the first place, they will not be test driving mine in an effort to find out.
 
I don't use them for other than what they're meant to be (screw driver, pry bar, scraper, can opener). Although I also always carry a Vic super tinker or Gerber Artifact, which both have pry bars, screw drivers, and can/bottle opener, so I have no reason to use them as such.
 
Cut people or metal, pry or spine-whack. I don't even need to mention the screwdriver routine, do I?
 
I'm pretty sure I'll never dig a latrine with any of my knives.
 
I'm a bartender and someone aske me to open a can of monster(energy drink) with my knife because she broke the tab off. I said flat out "f*** no"

I had a para 2 on me. If I had one of my strides I would have
 
it makes me grin when I see people saying not to use a knife to pry open a paint can , but to use a screwdriver and include phrases like " right tool for the job" in their stuff .
My mechanics teacher from school would be steaming at such abuse of a tool , screw drivers are NOT for prying ... they are for using on screws , get a lid opener to open lids

I dont carry stainless steel knives , I snapped off way too many tips ..

I carry a few high carbon mass produced knives , I am generally careful with them to a point .. I will expect them to do duty as a screwdriver , light duty prybar , lever , to take being battoned on with a wooden baton .

I carry a few self made knives , I expect them to take being beaten on with a ballpein hammer thru sheet steel up to about 2mm thick , being used as screwdriver , meduim duty prybar and still hold a working sharp cutting edge . I use allhard highspeed steel power hacksaw blades for blade stock tho . ( gotto use a good steel if your reputation rides on it :P )

what I wont do with a knife depends on the knife .. some I wont carry at all .
 
filipino here and my first answer would be the so-called coin test for filipino balisongs. how many knives (both cheap and expensive customs) have i seen with the tip broken off?
 
As counter productive as this may sound, I always keep a few cheap knives that are meant for things I wouldn't want to use a more expensive knife on.

For example, I keep a Byrd folder I've had for years in my car. I use it to do things like cut cans that I use for an ash tray when smoking cigars, etc.

In the garage, I keep a Gerber Gator folding knife I have had for 15 plus years to use on a few chores. I also keep a Bear Grylls Fixed Blade for working on my property - cutting open concrete bags, prying, hacking a limb, etc.

In my basement, I keep 1 or 2 MTech USA knives to cut open cardboard boxes and to practice sharpening.

My nice / more expensive knives I carry everyday and just use for things like cutting in general when out and about, etc.
 
I always have a swisstool or Leatherman on me, so no I never pry or drive screws with a knife.
 
I, like many others, won't pry. But not because I'm worried about my tip breaking, I just don't want to have to deal with a cut for a few days until it heals. I'd rather pry with a little prybar or my leatherman and have to carry something else than cut myself.
 
I refuse to cut anything. My knives are exclusively reserved for prying, hammering, and removing screws.

Walks away laughing.
 
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