What hard use (but not abuse) have you put your knife through recently?

[Atakdog]

Today I decided to put my Spyderco Southard to a little test. Had a few tires, and after seeing some people cut tires on Youtube in hard use tests of knives I wanted to see how hard it was for myself. The Southard I have is on the thin side of the variation on edge thickness that they come with, and I have a 33 degree mirror polished edge on it with a 40 degree microbevel. It had no problem piercing it, and once it was in it cut like butter. Depending on the angle and where I was in the sidewall I could even get push cuts for a few inches at a time.

But I decided that that wasn't enough, so I proceeded to take it to an old truck tire. I don't recall ever seeing anyone cut one of these, so for science I put the Southard to the test again.

The rubber on this one was much tougher, and I doubted I was going to make any progress. However, I got into it and started cutting, and slowly but surely I was able to get through. On this one I could feel that the shoulders of the grind were providing resistance, and I would say it took 30-50lbs of force to saw up and down in order to make the cut. Even so, after a few minutes of hard work it was done. A very slight amount of edge flattening, but no chipping and it could still cut decently. Didn't cut the other side or pose the knife in the picture because there turned out to be an ant colony inside it, but for a size reference the pieces of wood on the left are 2x6s.

Use your knives and use them hard; they can take it.

 

[Spartan00]

Paid the neighbors kid to cut my grass the other day. I wasn't feeling up to it , kid needed money....

I hear the god awful souND of a mower hitting something by our pool...Go outside and the kid had ran over the cord to our pool pump ,as well as the hoses that go to the pump and the vacuum attachment .

Grabbed first knife I had closest to the door which was a zt 0770cf.

Had to cut a total of about 4 feet off the cord of the pump ,strip the wires and put the cord back together .

Now that might not sound like much but the times I've chipped edges it was on wires .

Elmax handled it like a champ, I have a working pump again . Besides a couple of tears from the boy after I gave him a deserved butt chewing as well as an award conversation with my neighbor as to why I sent his boy home crying all is well .

 

[smith357]

My SAK stripped dirty old armor-flex (a foam rubber coating on AC lines) and wire from a few hundred pounds of old corroded copper refrigerant lines.

 

[blade dude]

I didn't do much hard use today just a few hundred feet of drywall. Other day I batoned through a piece of wood with my trusty delica so that's the hard use i've done this week


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[jc57]

What you did wasn't hard use, it was hard testing unless you had a need to cut up tires.

I used a chef's knife to cut some crusty bread this weekend. I know a lot of people use serrated bread knives for that but I wanted to put that gyuto through a torture test. Plus I don't like all of the crumbs produced by serrated bread knives. Anyway, other than having to use the point of the blade heel to get the cut started, it worked like a charm and I got nice slices of bread with very few crumbs.

 

[Phydeaux]

I batoned my Ontario field knife through a chub of frozen hamburger with an osage orange scrap.

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