What do you use your knife for in a typical day?

Aside from my EDC of the day, I carry a Vic Classic, and a Leatherman Micra. I use the screwdriver blade on the Classic for minor prying operations, but mostly I carry that one for the toothpick. I use the small screwdriver blade on the micra to adjust my glasses, and the larger screwdriver for tightening screws.

What I cut with my EDC depends on what I am doing that day. If I'm working in the back yard it's everything from trimming branches to making repairs on hose to opening packages.
 
tearing with my fingers and teeth, growling like some jungle animal :eek: But nowadays, I can't even break into a candybar half the time, and so have been forced to make the transition to civilized knife wielding gentleman.:)

Take my small SAK away, and I'm completely helpless.
 
I use my knives on packing tape, cardboard, plastic bundle strap, shrink wrap, and clamshell packaging. If I have a Swiss Army Knife on me then the screwdriver blades get used for screws, staples, and light prying chores. I don't use my pocket knives on food too often. Probably because I usually don't keep track of what I've cut.
 
I use mine for several things that would tax even the finest of steels; sharpen a few pencils at work, cut paper, open packages, trim loose strings, and I have even used it to cut blank transparencies in half! For these jobs my little Protech Runt 2 usually works just fine. I rarely ever have to use my right pocket edc, which is a ZT0500 today, but that's alright as I get a kick just from being able to carry it, or one like it. :D
 
This thread is kind of repetitive, thats probably because most are using their knives for their intended use- cutting. That said, I use it for cutting open packaging, food preparation, cutting string material etc.

Then there is personal grooming, cleaning fingernails, cutting away dead skin, and digging out splinters, and food prep.
 
Mostly, shaving arm hair.

Other than that, the usual. Oh, and I open and close them a lot.
 
well on the average day, preparing food (pealing slicing and spreading), making afire in the fireplace(this include battening off a chunk of 2x4 and making shavings) I am outside basically everyday so limbing trees and skinning/cleaning game is a very often occurrence, cutting various packaging, you know...the usual
 
I am using my little knife for the usual just like most of you. And I realize that we almost all carry a good knife just because we like it and not because it's so useful anyway. I think we just like the feeling of carrying something we love and hope someday to use it to save our lives or do something special that needs a real knife. We can do the usual things with a small cheap office cutter with plastic handle. And we do these things in places like home or office or job where many cheap and more proper tools are arleady available. Of course if we go camping or fishing it's another story. For those of us who use our own hands for small constructions, repairs etc, to carry a small multitool is a must. And there is always a good blade on them for our packages and stirngs.
All in all, I do love carrying a real knife!
 
Cutting open palletizing wraps, cable times, odd metal straps, opening letter, scrapping fat off table (use the spine for scraping), opening packages, rubber tubing.

I work in a factory, so there are lots of cutting and scrapping for me, my mini manix and by gerber multi does most of the job.

I drive home (1.5 hr each way), so my folder isn't used much for SD. I have a seal 2000, and a cold steel shovel in my car, they are with me everyday, but not carried on person. The shovel is actually decent for plowing a bit of snow off or knocking ice off curbs and stuff.
 
I use my knives at work all the time, to strip wires, cut wires/cables/zip-ties, open boxes, scrape cruddy gunk (silicone & duct sealants), make a toothpick if I don't have one, make a sandwich & slice it in half, etc. Outside of work, usually whatever knife I have in my pocket sees kitchen duty, whittling stuff out of wood, leather & wood projects, trimming fingernails, and the ever-present "Honey, can you cut this?" for the wife. She has a SAK somewhere, but seems to favor asking me.
 
Around the house, I use the tools on my Leatherman Wave more than my knives, except sometimes I prep food with my Spyderco Pacific Salt. For EDC, it depends on what I'm doing that day. Mostly, it's carried for fun. I rarely absolutely need a knife, but it's always fun to have it, especially in those rare times when I actually do need one.

I really just enjoy having a pocket knife. I spend most of my (knife) time ensuring that my knife can cut through time and space and admiring that it can.

I actually had a friend that asked me if I would "really" use my knife in a fight. I had to educate him on the fact that that's not why I carry. So his next logical question was, "what do you have a knife for then?". My response "To cut stuff when I need to". End of conversation.
 
My Kershaw Leeks ( Damascus, and S30V) are my letter openers, as I have to open piles of mail every day. This weekend ,it and my Needs Work were called on to trim Photographs and once to sharpen a pencil. Ocassionally I use my Leeks as a paring knife in the kitchen.
 
My letter opener is an Italian melon knife a "Rostfperi"...... It was 30,000 lira (I think that's $20 at the time)... about 10 years ago. It is a folder with a 4 1/4" X 5/8" blade ...... made to cut small sections out of a melon to check ripeness. In my pocket, always, is spyderco 1 1/2" ..... the kids gave it to me a long time ago that cuts almost anything that needs it. I also carry a Dozier 3" most of the time for things my spidy can't handle. I have a custom knife on order from a contributor to this board ...... due almost any day now, that will replace the Dozier. I have lots of other toys and tools that find their way to my pocket or belt on occasion but none have replaced the above yet for every day.

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I use my EDC for carving up hitchhikers so they'll fit in my freezer.

Not really.

Pedestrian urban deskjockey stuff: packages, clamshells, plastic straps, etc.
 
Opening boxes and blister packs. I use mine around the kitchen quite a bit. I do some handy man things around the job that constantly require a knife. Just general knife stuff people have been using knives for forever. Making my day to day life easier and more comfortable. Sharpening them provides therapy.
 
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