What has a new knife made you do?

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whitty

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A lot of times when I get a new knife I find myself needing to use is immediately. Before I even own the knife I start thinking of the first thing I want to do with it when I get it in my hands. In case you are wondering, I never thought about this until looking through some old pics tonight. Here are a few I found.


The ZT0220 had me just needing to cut up anything and everything. I don't think I had this planned ahead. The knife came in, I did a paper test, and the next thing I know I had spent like an hour plus cutting paper and cardboard.
https://flic.kr/p/Fo6ywE https://www.flickr.com/photos/57703464@N02/

https://flic.kr/p/GZaLrs https://www.flickr.com/photos/57703464@N02/

Fiddleback Runt! The day it came in I called the wife and said we are having steak for dinner. I don't think of the Runt as a steak knife, but for some reason I had to cut a steak up with it that night!
https://flic.kr/p/sFy5eX https://www.flickr.com/photos/57703464@N02/


I had not been fatwood hunting in a long time. The second I got my TM Hunt M-18 in my hands I destroyed an old office chair with it and then hit the woods to find some fatwood. Fun Day and it was my Birthday!
https://flic.kr/p/GSq7kY https://www.flickr.com/photos/57703464@N02/

These were just the ones in my old pics, I know there are a good bit more, I just don't have pics to show.

So what has a new knife had you wanting to do ASAP?
 
I know my woman just loves it when I see a nice piece of wood and don't stop till I have made a spoon :)

Alaska has tons of firewood which if bundled tightly with shrink wrap makes excellent tamashegiri targets or tatami mats :)

Nothing is safe in my back yard lol
 
If a new knife can't baton through a 2x4 in the easiest direction to split it then I won't use it. I've done it with my delica and a stockman and many other knives. Only my Kershaw failed


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Folder: cutting paper, pocket it in various clothes, and if practical slice and dice meat and veggies for an improvised stir fry.

Fixed: rounding edges of a 2x4 or a log then use the chips to start a fire in my backyard and have a Weiner roast.
 
What has a new knife made me do? Bleed like a stuck pig, for one. :D

I received a China-made large stockman I paid a pittance for and decided to do a side-by-side with a Case 6375 large stockman (which, by my eye, had to be the "inspiration" for the copy-job that created this knife -- especially ironic was the large script "American" shield on the same knife that has a faint "CHINA" etch on the master blade).



Getting the master open the first time was a real bear, the pull was easily a 9.5 even after a light oiling with 3-in-1. I could barely budge the thing.



The knife did prove to have one of the most wicked half-stop snaps I've ever experienced; after I got the blade to about 45 degrees open, it instantly and forcefully thwacked into place at the half-stop position, leaving a rather deep gash and a sizeable pool of blood underneath. All that from what seemed like a simple grazing by the tip while opening (sharpened side down).



Days later, the pervasive itching and residual pain were constant reminders not to play games with sharpened steel, no matter where it may be from.
 
I just got a rr trapper in a gaw, after sharpening it I just had to use it in the kitchen to cut up so.e pork and now I think it'll be my new food knife.

My new vintage imperial h6 fixed blade made me want to edc it, and before I never would've even thought about carrying a fixed blade as big as 8-3/4" because a 4-3/4" blade is way more than I could ever need for daily tasks. But I like it, and it makes me happy to carry it.
My sodbuster Jr made me want to put it right to use ( with most knives I'll do a paper cut test, then sorta baby them, because stainless Steel just gets all scratched up and looks like crap )
And I didn't hesitate to use it.
 
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