What do you use your carry knife for?

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What does your knife pop out of your pocket (or sheath) to do? Open a package? skin a goat? toothpick? potential self-defense? Slicing some cheese? Or do you just like knowing it's there...Tell us some interesting uses for the blade(s) you reach for!
 
To cut things...of coarse.
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Actually, you just about listed everything.
(Except for the billygoat)

--The Raptor--

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I cut all kinds of things. Today I had to use it when the post hole digger we were using got wrapped up in some old tarp that was burried. I cut it off quickly.
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I also used it to cut many rose bushes and shrubs, when my Felcos weren't near. My mother has a home bussiness that draws in about ten large carboard boxes a week. All of these must be cut into small enough pieces to fit into the garbage can. I like to make them really small. I harvest vegetables, cut fishing line, cut bait, cut rope, yada yada yada..... Jeff
 
I never skinned a goat. Lots of other things though.
I usually carry 3-4 knives. A Spydie Delica does most of the work. My LadyBug with my keys 'cause it fits. My Spydercard in case I forget the others. A 4th knife may be added at any given time, but mainly when hunting, fishing, camping etc.

Paul
 
Not counting the Leatherman Micra that I carry in my key-wallet, I carry 2 knives:

A Cold Steel 5 inch Gunsite. (This is my offensive/defensive knife...I haven't cut anything with it, yet.
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I also carry a 3 inch Cold Steel Tanto Voyager, for my "normal" (non-flesh) cutting tasks.
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I usually carry my SAK. I use it to open letters, open boxes and packages, cut tape, cut newspaper ads or articles, open my Heineken, clean the tread of my sneakers, trim my fingernails, sharpen pencils, remove tags from new purchases, tighten loose screws, take apart and tinker with all kinds of things, strip insulation from wire, scrape corrosion from batteries, use it to prodd or lift things I don't want to touch, remove staples, cut fishing-line, pry open fishing sinkers, remove paper-jams from the printer, cut a flower stem for my wife, and hundreds of other little tasks.
 
A good knife day... Camping with my girlfriend and her kids, one of the kids falls from a small rock face he was climbing and badly damages his knee. Used the only tool at hand, my Spyderco Delica, to 1. Cut away his pant leg to inspect the damage 2. Cut some bandaging materials to stop the bleeding 3. Cut a heavy cardboard tent box and some paracord to fashion a comfortable splint. After a good cleaning later that day, the knife was put to some real mundane uses, like cutting some cheese and croghan bologna to go with our wine.
 
Nothing that somebody else hasn't mentioned. But my girlfriend as pried open a couple of tin lids with my $150 Klotzi folder - couldn't figure out what caused those wierd marks on the blade until I asked
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Red

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"Praise not the day until evening has come;a sword until it is tried; ice until it has been crossed; beer until it has been drunk" - Viking proverb
 

I used a BM 940 to carve a pumpkin yesterday.
In fact this might be a good thread for us knife nuts. What blade(s) do you use for the Halloween Jack O Lantern?
 
Whittling. I take scraps of wood that I find; sticks, old bits of broken furniture, pieces of shipping pallets, whatever; and turn them into linked chains, ball-in-cages and other trivial and useless items. They are fun to give to people, especially because it's free, I get to use my knives, and people appreciate an original hand carved doodad from a single piece of discarded wood. It's loads of fun and challenging at the same time to boot, to say nothing of the recycling aspect.
 
Last Sabbath at church, I used a Ka-Bar 'Hobo' knife to dice some dried fruit for one of our senior members. My wife steals my Kershaw Boa to open her UPS parcels because it has 'a pretty handle.' I open the mail with a Paragon ATKO-8 because I keep it on the TV stand. I clip a Microtech M/A Tanto to my jeans about 30 weeks a year, and rotate the others for fun. Of course, I polish all of the bevels just to drive 'Classified00' crazy with envy...--OKG
 
I carry a Swiss Army Craftsman every day, along with a Leatherman PST on my belt.

I'll use my Swiss Army to tighten screws and such in the office. That knife never raises an eyebrow and usually gets compliments.

At home, I used my PST's screwdriver as a pry bar on one of my screen windows. I didn't feel like fishing my tool kit from the back of the closet, and I couldn't get enough leverage with my Swiss Army.

When I open mail or packages, I use a real letter opener and an old utility knife. Gummed envelopes or taped packages will leave a sticky film on a blade that I use Goof-Off (Goo-Off?) to remove.

Basically, I just love the weight of the Craftsman in my left front pocket. It helps me feel as though I'm reasonably prepared for the unexpected. Or at least as much "unexpected" as could occur in a business office or townhouse!
 
To open those UPS packages of knives
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Mostly it's to open envelopes and food packages, or cut up a sandwich. Yesterday I had to pick out thorns on my shoe with my Mt LCC.
 
Boxes, letters, pencil sharpening...just hate those automatic ones!, Rope, banding material, apples today actually, bags...

And a lot of stuff that really didn't need cutting, but hey, it was asking for it!
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G2

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Today...............well I carried two knives.

The Benchmade 940sbt. And the Benchmade 730s.

They were both razor hair splitting sharp when I started, and now they are both butter knife dull.

What did I cut? About 200 feet of very thick nylon weed mesh and a ton of dirt that was under it.
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Oh well, guess I'll have to sharpen them again tomorrow. Later, Jeff
 
I only carry one knife if I'm only in my boxers (a Spyderedged Endura). If I'm fully dressed then I will add my Leatherman Wave and a plain edged Endura II. One of the best things to cut (gives me great satisfaction) is those annoying hard plastic packages that electronics and some knives come in. Other than that I find myself cutting anything around the house/shop wheter it needs it or not. Gotta have fun somehow.

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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
 
I use my knife whenever possible ..... and yet still not entirely enough.

Besides standard everyday functions, I used my knife to cut and fashion a make-shift radiator hose for my car. I became stranded on the side of the road one afternoon this last summer and was about 1/2 hour out of town. I happened to have some spare tubing in the trunk of my vehicle from a dishwasher that I had fixed for my girlfriends Mom and Dad. Using my knife, I "MacGyvered" the hose to fit well enough to get me back into town where a suitable replacement could be located. That one incident completely justified my need to carry a knife with me at all times .......
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It may not win the prize for the BEST or MOST INTERESTING knife story out there .... but I'm proud of it.

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Crushing the weak since 1970 .... the Demon has spoken.
 
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