What do you use your folding knife for?

Food, cleaning game, cutting packages open, cutting loose strings from clothing, cutting belts, small work like cutting drywall (though I'll get a box cutter if I need to do much).... all kinds of stuff.
 
I usually use mine for daily knife fights and shankings.....

Lol just kidding. I use my EDC for what most people living in the city use their knives for, not nearly enough! Truth is everything is made in today's society to not need a knife. Packages come woth pull tabs so they can be opened without ever cutting anything at all. I am practically looking for reasons to use my blade. Mostly opening boxes, mail and manicure type stuff. Cutting loose threads and such. Of course peeling my apples!! I also like to have my knife incase of emergencies. My uncle freed a kid who's shoelace got caught in an escalator. It was pulling the laces tighter and tighter so he couldn't get his shoe off. Well my uncle cut that lace which was being pulled so tight it went *TWANG* like a guitar string. I think that is a good reason to carry a knife. I also bring it with me snowboarding, fishing and camping.

Now if you work construction or on a farm you can probably have a million uses for your knife.
 
I am obsessed with cutting up household plastic. Cardboard boxes, milk jugs and the like are destined for the recycle bin but from my house they get there in small pieces. I use them for any task an old retired guy such as myself comes across except food prep only on occasion.
 
I use my knives for the usual mundane tasks. I find uses for pocket knives each and every day. I'm carrying four knives on me at the moment. Already today I've had to use three of them here at work. I work for a well known corporate coffee chain. I'm always using a knife to cut zip ties, break down boxes, and slice through tape at work. I used a small locking blade and a Leatherman today to remove a stubborn plastic lid from a large bottle of sanitizer. Dang thing just wouldn't unscrew, so I had to mangle it and destroy it with a saw and a can opener! I used my SAK Rambler to tidy up my nails at lunch today. I don't know how I'd get through my days without at least one knife on me. Even on my days off they see heavy use. I love my knives. ❤️


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Let's see - I have used two folding knives so far today. The one in my pocket (Rough Rider Baby Copperhead)- I used the larger clip-point blade to cut open the plastic bag containing a new pair of Levi's and to cut all of the little plastic ties that hold the labels on. I used the smaller pen-blade to cut off the foil seal on a bottle of prescription pills.

I used a Case Slimline Trapper that I leave at my desk to cut a Honeycrisp apple into manageable sections to eat for lunch.

That's it so far today. Some days, or even weeks, I don't need to use a folding knife for anything.
 
Just about everything...i even had to pull it out and use it at a dinner for the fire department the plastic knifes kept breaking and they served prime rib. Who puts out plastic knives with prime rib needless to say I enjoyed my steak more than everyone else did ;)

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Almost always I have a two bladed slipjoint. The main I usually use for cutting fruit for lunch or dinner, the secondary is used to cut threads, foil, paper etc. Pretty much always light work, sometimes I don't use it at alland it's in my pocket just for the feeling. For lucky charms, if you will. You.neber know when it comes handy, so it's best having one in the pocket at all times.
 
I really like to open and close the blades on my folding knives. That's the one thing I've found they are exceptionally better at than my fixed blades.
 
joeradza said:
Mostly humble tasks as noted before. Food (a lot), envelopes, normal everyday tasks. At this point carrying anyone of my traditional knives is more emotional satisfying just knowing its there and gives me a connection to something that is hard to adequately express.
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thank you for that :thumbup:
 
Lapedog said:
Truth is everything is made in today's society to not need a knife. Packages come woth pull tabs so they can be opened without ever cutting anything at all.
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Yes, but how many times to those pull tabs fail to work? Or do work, but leave the container damaged so that they can't be re-sealed? Using a pocket knife or multitool scissors is often a far better way to open those packges.
 
joeradza said:
Mostly humble tasks as noted before. Food (a lot), envelopes, normal everyday tasks. At this point carrying anyone of my traditional knives is more emotional satisfying just knowing its there and gives me a connection to something that is hard to adequately express.
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Well said Alan!
 
I have a case peanut that i ise for general utility cutting tasks and for food.

I use my sak hiker for work. The various tools are used for lignt prying, screwdriving, cutting wood or sheetrock, punching holes in stuff. Dirty work stuff basically. If the sak didnt have those tools though, i dont think id ever use it
 
Jeff_R said:
Yes, but how many times to those pull tabs fail to work? Or do work, but leave the container damaged so that they can't be re-sealed? Using a pocket knife or multitool scissors is often a far better way to open those packges.
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I don't care if they fail or not. Those packages are getting knifed! My room mate knows if there is a cereal box or a pack of Haagen-Dazs ice cream then he best let me cut that sucker. I hate seeing a box torn open. In Canada milk comes in plastic bags. (I know I thought it was weird when I moved here too) You better believe the corner of the bag is getting cut into a spout with my trusty EDC.
 
Besides the normal fare, I am also an avid gardener. Anyone who doesn't carry a pocket knife has never worked a garden, even a small one. Either my Case 18 stockman or my Hayn Helper is always with me out there, and they get constant use. Opening bags of compost or mulch, cutting twine, harvesting vegetables, etc. It's a crucial tool.

I will go with a fixed blade if I will need to use any type of lateral force that might loosen the joints on a folder, or bend the thinner blades, or if I just plain need a longer blade. If I'm cutting through a lot of cardboard, or if I actually need to scrape something pretty hard, I'll get a utility knife to save myself a lot of sharpening time. Other than that, the knife in my pocket does pretty much everything.


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Lapedog said:
I don't care if they fail or not. Those packages are getting knifed! My room mate knows if there is a cereal box or a pack of Haagen-Dazs ice cream then he best let me cut that sucker. I hate seeing a box torn open. In Canada milk comes in plastic bags. (I know I thought it was weird when I moved here too) You better believe the corner of the bag is getting cut into a spout with my trusty EDC.
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Milk in a bag? What do you do with it after you cut it open? (Sorry, not trying to derail the thread, but I just gotta know how this works!)


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Trout Hound said:
Milk in a bag? What do you do with it after you cut it open? (Sorry, not trying to derail the thread, but I just gotta know how this works!)


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Don't worry. I thought it was crazy too when I moved here. Now that I've lived here it is actually genius!! No hard jugs or cartons. Basically the milk comes in a 1 litre sealed clear or blue rectangular bag. Every household has a little pitcher or jug type thing with a handle on it. This is usually made of plastic. It is designed so you put the bag of milk vertically in the jug which has a wide mouth the circumferance of the bag width wise. Sticking out of the top of the jug is the two corners of the bag. We simply cut one of those corners and it becomes the spout.

Just search "canadian milk jug" in google images and you will see the brilliance.
 
Today it was trimming down the annoyingly long coffee stirrers at work (that's a daily chore that ensures that whatever I'm carrying sees the light of day) and opening a USPS priority package.
 
Lapedog said:
I don't care if they fail or not. Those packages are getting knifed! My room mate knows if there is a cereal box or a pack of Haagen-Dazs ice cream then he best let me cut that sucker. I hate seeing a box torn open. In Canada milk comes in plastic bags. (I know I thought it was weird when I moved here too) You better believe the corner of the bag is getting cut into a spout with my trusty EDC.
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Hah""" milk in plastics,bags indeed it, does. ,something else to,cut open[emoji3]
 
Lapedog said:
Don't worry. I thought it was crazy too when I moved here. Now that I've lived here it is actually genius!! No hard jugs or cartons. Basically the milk comes in a 1 litre sealed clear or blue rectangular bag. Every household has a little pitcher or jug type thing with a handle on it. This is usually made of plastic. It is designed so you put the bag of milk vertically in the jug which has a wide mouth the circumferance of the bag width wise. Sticking out of the top of the jug is the two corners of the bag. We simply cut one of those corners and it becomes the spout.

Just search "canadian milk jug" in google images and you will see the brilliance.
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Wow, that is really something. I am 100% certain that I would eventually bust open an entire bag of milk, probably in the trunk of my car.

Okay, back to knives. Sorry.


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