What do you use your knife for?

Lord_Balkan said:
I am just curious to see what everyone uses their knives for.

I use it mainly for cutting down cardboard boxes, packages and food prep. I want to get back into fishing so I will be using them for that too.
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usually just use it for cutting stuff buddy. though i know some fine people who use theres for prying and such but i just doest ever think thats much of a good idea to be honest. but oh well if it works it works so i don't complain at them. have a good one :thumbup:
 
Mine get used for everything a sharp steel edge and point is capable of being used for, and sometimes a little more.
 
jc57 said:
Pocket knives - to cut random stuff I may encounter during my daily activities that need cutting. The times I need to do that are increasingly rare, and a small SAK is usually up to most tasks. I do cut down cardboard boxes at home to put into the recycling bin. I leave a folding knife in the kitchen specifically for that.

Food prep - I have some nice kitchen knives and cutting boards and they are used in the kitchen for their designated purposes. I don't use pocket knives for food if I can avoid it.

So not really much a knife user to be honest. More of a hobbyist.
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Truth be told, jc, that would be 99% of us here!:)
 
Opening packaging whether on food or other products, my lunch every day and fruit after supper. Opening boxes. Cutting string and tape.
 
(D) All the above. Plus as a rancher, castrate calves, doctor sick cows, open feed sacks, hay bales etc.
 
Electrcician here. So pretty much everything. I put my knives through hell and I'm pretty much a carry one knife type of guy. Stripping wire, cutting tape, boxes, jet line, rope, bundling straps, reaming conduit, trimming Sheetrock, and on and on. First lesson I teach a green hand is to get a pocket knife you like and have it with you at all times.
 
I have many edged tools, some are for general cutting stuff, many are for very specific tasks from an octopus pulling knife in the kitchen to a curved draw knife in the wood shop, to a case back knife in my watch tool box.
 
jackknife said:
Truth be told, jc, that would be 99% of us here!:)
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Probably not 99%. Plenty of people have good solid reasons for carrying and using knives on a daily basis and get a lot more use out of theirs than I do. Lots of people work in emergency services, the construction and service trades, agriculture, food preparation, manufacturing, distribution, or just have a lot of outdoors recreational pursuits. Not everyone is a cube-farm inmate like me.
 
I used my absolute favorite knife to cut the umbilical cord when my youngest daughter was born. The nurse tried to hand me a pair of scissors. I said "Im good" as I held up my Les George VECP and flicked out the blade. The nurse just shook her head and said "go for it". The knife is extremely sharp and in one little edge-up pull cut the cord was cleanly severed. The nurse commented on how sharp it was. She was impressed and then to my dissapointment she said I wasnt the first "dude" to do that in her hospital. I was shocked. Then I thought about it... To a knife guy that may be a very rare chance and I am proud that other knife knuts have done the same as I did. I emailed Les George and told him about it. He replied within the hour congratulating me on the new baby and said he was happy to hear that one of his knives had been used in such a cool way.
 
To cut...

Zip ties, paper, plastic, cardboard, tape, string, paracord, wire, strip wire, scrape stuff off of glass, pop balloons, slice food, open foil on the top of vitamin bottles, etc.

Also, to carve wood into things (whittle).
 
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