What do you use your knives for?

Bladenoobie1

Bladenoobie1

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Being a relatively large forum, with many different knives, what do you use your knives for? Whether you just have em as a safe queen or you use them as a baton, post your response here :D Personally, I use mine for cutting fruit, opening packages, and bring them on backpacking trips for regular camp tasks. No hard use and I keep em pretty clean. ~ How about you?


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Ranges from hard woods use, to dirty work, to cutting food. None of them are designated for anything except my Gerbers, which are for trashy abuse.
 
Telemarketers.

... and opening packages containing other knives.

My choppers/bushcrafters are pretty self-explanatory ;)
 
I do a lot of fondling, opening and closing and cutting apples. Doesn't make sense that I enjoy knives so much I don't really need more than what is in my kitchen if I am honest, but I do. Luckily my wife has put up with it because I have a lot of very expensive knives. :D

I guess one added benefit of collecting knives is that I have added a lot of healthy fruit to my diet. :thumbup:
 
I use mine mostly at work, cutting boxes, plastic ties (not zipties), paper, and big cardboard slabs. Outside of work they cut fruit, open packages, wood, more cardboard, and when I get a chance I take them out hunting/fishing/hiking and use them for everything. I dont consider anything I use them for as hard use, but my fixed blade will get used harder than my folders. I keep my knives pretty clean and unabused, except for that tape stuff that gets on the blade after opening a couple hundred boxes.. but that cleans off pretty well.
 
My EDCs mostly get used at work, because the kitchen knives we have there couldn't cut wet tissues. :disgust:
So I use my own knives for preparing my breakfast and lunch.
Also for opening packages and cutting cardboard so it fits the container better.
At home I use them when I'm too lazy to walk to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife :D
The larger fixed blades only get used for camping etc
 
i mostly use my knives to cut stuff. occasionally they double as a temporary paperweight. but mostly its all cutting.
 
I used my folders frequently at work cutting wires, cardboard and opening stuff.

Also use 'um to open boxes of ammunition, food prep, open the bag of doggy food and a little whittling here and there.

My NMSFNO I used when camping, such a great all around'er.
 
I have four knives dedicated as Users. Those get used for cutting stuff, backpacking and hiking, and general carry. The one that gets used the most is a small Swiss Army Knife with a stylus that I use on PDAs at work.

The other ~450 knives are for lookin' at, fondling, and collecting. :D
 
I am an urban home owner. I use them when working around the house and yard tacklng the never-ending list of fix-its.
I trim flashing off plastic parts,
cut hose,
cut rubber,
cut cardboard,
open bubble packed parts.

When I was a young man, I used to use my pocket knife to scrape carbon off my spark plugs before re-gapping the plugs and reinstalling them back in my engine. But that was a few decades ago.
 
Everday use(tools)
Everything, cutting 80%, prying 10%, screwdriver 4% & hammer 3% whatever needs to be done 3%

Customs/handmade
20% cutting 80% safe queens.
 
Cutting, screwing, crushing, scraping, fondling, electrocuting, sharing, bragging, bleeding, chopping, prying.

Particularly, opening packages, cutting zip-ties, adjusting screws, splitting pills, prying plastic, making fires, scraping metal, cutting food.


Haha... I never thought I'd have to remember any of these things.
 
Nullity said:
Cutting, screwing, crushing, scraping, fondling, electrocuting, sharing, bragging, bleeding, chopping, prying.

Particularly, opening packages, cutting zip-ties, adjusting screws, splitting pills, prying plastic, making fires, scraping metal, cutting food.
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Yep... Pretty much all of those.

Not all with the same knife though ;)
 
I don't really know. Cutting stuff. Depends on the problem. I have been known to beat on a knife pretty bad.
 
Opening ketchup packets. They hurt my teeth.

:D

What do I use my knives for? Everything, of course.

Moose
 
Being an auto tech, I use mine to cut rubber hose, lots of electrical tape, opening parts boxes among other cutting tasks.
 
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