What don’t you use your knife for?

[Pilsner]

Prying. Hurting other people. Throwing. Batoning into breeze blocks. That sort of thing.

 

[91bravo]

I don't use my knife as a screwdriver or prybar. Right tool for the job.

 

[Casinostocks]

Lots of funny and whimsical responses in here

I don't use any of my knives for shaving my face although I suspect that quite a few of them will do fine if had to be used as such, in a bind!

 

[Natlek]

I don t use my knife to cut my self , but sometimes I break that rule

 

[sodak]

I don't use my knives in a gunfight. That's what guns are for.

 

[Wowbagger]

I don't use my knife as a hammer.
Wait... I actually do that sometimes...
Take 2:
I dont use my knife as a nail.

Why not ?
one minute 15sec in

 

[Wowbagger]

I don't use my knives, when I can use someone else's knives. :-D

you'd think in Colorado . . . with Spyderco just up the road . . . things would be different but I never ask to use anyone else's knife :
1. They don't have one.
2. If they have one, after I look at the edge, we have to stop in the middle of what we are doing and have a burial service for the knife.

It just works out better, and less embarrassing for everyone involved, if I DON'T EVEN ASK

 

[Wowbagger]

It should be common sense but in my youth (a longggg time ago) Ive done both and broken tips off.
Lesson learned the hard way.

and now we have come to why I don't let other people use my knives.
You borrowed those didn't you ?

Case in point; I posted in another thread that The Chef (who has decades of experience in restaurants including head Chef, now retired to a legal desk) trashed one of my German paring knives. Second knife down in photo. I had JUST sharpened it for her a day or two before. I had to take a steel to it to unroll the edge and fix it up. That's OK though, she went years with out hurting it a bit before that.

I don't use any of my knives for food prep. Gunk always get into the pivot area. That is the reason I always have a smallish fixed IWB.

EXACTLY !
It was my old EDC fixed way back in the eighties; I carried it in a stapled cardboard sheath in my back pack to make breakfast, lunch and dinner back when I was more . . . shall we say . . . mobil. I never really thought about whether it was legal. I just NEEDED the dammed thing to cook with . . . leave me alone.

I haven't changed much.

 

[Wowbagger]

I didn’t use my knive today for anything

Well get busy . . . surely there is a phone book or two that needs some adjustment. Look to the legal pages . . . full page ads . . . lots of edge testing area and still can leave the phone / address lines in tact.
DO IT !
DO IT NOW !
Get to the choppa !

 

[Puleio]

You know that spot in the middle of your back... the one you just can't quite scratch.... I do not use my knives to scratch it... at least after that one incident. *

Or prying. Definitely not prying after learning that lesson as a kid.

Enjoy.



* - there was no incident.... really.

 

[stabman]

For some reason (probably the cough medicine due to being sick), I read "prying" as "prancing."

I never use my knives for prancing.

 

[b00n]

Hopefully Frunkey will mention not using his knives for surgery

 

[SharpieB]

For some reason (probably the cough medicine due to being sick), I read "prying" as "prancing."

I never use my knives for prancing.

But prancing around knives can be socially acceptable. Damn you Michael Flatley and your Lord of the Dance.

Oops. That’s swords. Really just big knives though.

P.s. I do not dance (or prance) around my knives nor do I condone it.

 

[Bill1170]

I never use m knives to phone my friends. I never throw my knives. I never use them to remove earwax.

 

[Frunkey]

Hopefully Frunkey will mention not using his knives for surgery

Haha! I DON'T use my knives for surgery, prying, or fighting.

 

[Horsewright]

Don't use for anything a knife isn't suppose to do. I have an axe, a chainsaw, a screwdriver, a pry bar etc. I cut stuff with my knives, that's it. I do use mine for surgery though:

Cowboy surgery.

But if I plan it right, which I usually can, since I'm the boss, I'll just stay up and rope. It's more fun.

The wife does a lot of surgery too.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Know what else I don't use my knife for?

I don't use it for fish bait.

I don't eat it either but I do use it for eye candy.

 

[KnifeLife_MD]

Prybar.

Unless its a Becker BK2. Then I can field strip a Buick.

 

[Dan of Bazz Clazz]

Some knives I don't use for anything, not even testing a whet stone. Although they do take up space in my collection so maybe that is a use.

Some of my knives get lots of use. As a slicer, a dicer, a insides finder. A mirror, a stir'r, an opener, a closer, a measurer and a shortener. A pointer, a jointer, a spreader, a shredder, a crusher, a puncher, a trimmer, a peeler, and sometimes even a squeeler. But a little oil fixes that.

But as to the original question. I never use any of my knives:
To pry - Other people's business is their own.
As a screwdriver - Stick to the original vodka and orange juice.
For transportation - I could never take a knife to work. no wait, huh???
As a watch - Knives made in China aren't even on the same date, much less the same time zone, but that is the worst case scenario. Knives made in the USA obviously have the same date at least.
For brain surgery - If you have to do this, particularly on others, make sure you use a borrowed knife to limit or eliminate any personal liabilities that others might try to hold you to. Of course, if you are doing brain surgery on yourself, use your best judgment as to the condition of your knife and a borrowed one. Obviously, the blade with a mirror finish will help you see what you are doing better than a satin finish.

I hope this helps.