What has your Emerson gone through...?

batosai117

batosai117

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What has your Emerson gone through that any other knife would have gone ka-put? First off, you can't beat Emerson folders even in the great outdoors. I have the Commander SF model and it is the only folder that I trust in and out of the wildy. I have batoned with mine, whittled, skinned small animals (rabbits mainly), cut off small branches and then shaved them clean, made snares and traps, and even made coordage from thin strips of bark. My Commander has been through a lot of campouts and abuse around the house. Food prep is another plus, the rounded front end makes a great pizza cutter for those $1.00 pizzas from wally world :D.

So, what has your Emerson gone through that most other knives would have cried at the scene?
 
My cqc7 deanimated this 10lb icecream cake with ease. Any other knife would have easily frozen and broken from the bitter cold.
On a serious note i have stabbed it through 55gal drums to drain the remaining chemical out of. Only scrapes to the coating(which give it character) but it keeps on taking it. I have it on my at work everyday.
 
My CQC-7B has cut a sling loaded hmmv loose, cut up G.I. issue cravats to use as dressings & splint ties, opened mail, opened MREs, cut open bags of mulch & top soil, and provided comfort in bad areas.
 
My SOCFK-B punched 1/4" through the steel lid of a Webber grill. No damage to the knife, they still wonder how the grill got that hole in it.

Some friends were locked out of their car and only had a key to the trunk so I crawled in and broke the rear seat trunk-acces lock using my Emerson as a prybar. No damage to my P-SARK, lots of damage to the lock. They were happy.

I was 35' up in a tree tying a rope to a broken limb so a friend could rip it down with my truck. It wouldn't give so I used my CQC-7A to hack through about 1/4 of the 8" diameter limb. I could have gone for the chainsaw but I didn't want to climb down.

Used a roofing hammer to pound my Benchmade/Emerson 970ti through 1" thick hard rubber. You can see the strike marks on the spine but no damage, dents or chipping.

Can't think of anything else right now but they'll come to me

Oh, and there's my most famous Emerson abuse story. Used my vintage CQC-7A to cut a live extension cord. It cut it clean through, but the blade is toast.
 
cut me:o:o
i never realy used my emerson hd7 that much like it to much.;)
but it has opened a lot of boxes at my job and never missed a beat.
nothing to hard use tho.
 
I used my 12 to get a chainsaw guide bar out of a "pinch" the other week there. After about half an hour i was getting rather annoyed and all regard for my knife and saw was dissapearing fast but i managed to cut away enough wood to get my saw out and the knife had nothing more that a few nicks out the edge and scrapes from hitting the chain a few times.
I also drop kicked the same knife out a tree about 3 days later, i fumbled it when i was cuting some rope and automaticaly stuck my foot out to catch it but just booted it about 40ft to the ground. luckily there was no visible damage to the knife at all from that one.
Thats what lanyards are for i suppose :rolleyes:
 
jonshoup said:
I treat mine like they're my Ex-wife. I give 'em crap every chance I get.
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lol. I carry mine everyday and it usually just sits in my pocket. I carry a much cheaper folder for everyday tasks although my emerson has a few scratches from other items in my pocket.
 
I've cut through tons of seatbelts and clothing with my CQC7B. I got it in 2000 and Carried it till last year. I cut through the roof of a car to gain access to a patient and had to use a chunk of wood to beat it through the last bit. I retired it after that as I thought it went above and beyond what a knife should be asked to do. now I carry a CQC11 and it has quite a few seatbelts and clothing chalked up as well. Emersons are the only knives I will carry...they're the only knives I trust...
 
tidefan said:
I've cut through tons of seatbelts and clothing with my CQC7B. I got it in 2000 and Carried it till last year. I cut through the roof of a car to gain access to a patient and had to use a chunk of wood to beat it through the last bit. I retired it after that as I thought it went above and beyond what a knife should be asked to do. now I carry a CQC11 and it has quite a few seatbelts and clothing chalked up as well. Emersons are the only knives I will carry...they're the only knives I trust...
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That's great, My emerson commander is the only knife that I trust to really put to the test :thumbup:.
 
I agree. I gave up carrying anything else. Occasionally I'll slip a Benchmade in my pocket but I don't leave the house without switching it out for an Emerson.
 
jonshoup said:
I agree. I gave up carrying anything else. Occasionally I'll slip a Benchmade in my pocket but I don't leave the house without switching it out for an Emerson.
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LMAO!!! :D. I do the exact same thing with my benchmades and spydercos. I'll play with them, switch them out while I'm around the house, but if I am leaving somewhere, I'll put in the good old commander.:p
 
I havent been too hard on my emersons, I dont baby them but I havent really needed to use them too hard yet. I was hard on my commander when I tried to sharpen the damn thing, and Im a leo so Ive used my cqc7 to cut open a few beer cans that an idividual had hidden bags of crack in.
 
I've been carrying my Specwar A, partially serrated, satin finish, since I acquired it in 2002. It's been resharpened 3 times, sees daily use on cardboard boxes, shrink wrapped skids, zip ties, etc... The interesting thing is, I bought this knife before I knew what a good knife was. It's outstanding ruggedness is what eventually lead me to bladeforums! But while I own 2 other folders (kershaw leek s30v, and buck sirus ats34) and I'm currently looking at several benchmade folders, I've never even thought about replacing the emerson as my daily carry. I'm only sorry that I'm running behind on sharpening the sucker again!
 
As a former Paramedic, I have shattered car windows and basicly used my 1999 Commander as a haligan tool to cut, lever and pry just about anything and everything imaginable. I am now as I write this working on a full overhaul of this trusty old friend of mine. So far I have done some grip enhanceing file work to the liners,satin polished all the formerly black slotted scale screws and am now mirror polishing the blade sides leaving the V grind and top swedge satin. All were formerly black when I bought her in"99".
 
runeman said:
I am now as I write this working on a full overhaul of this trusty old friend of mine. So far I have done some grip enhanceing file work to the liners,satin polished all the formerly black slotted scale screws and am now mirror polishing the blade sides leaving the V grind and top swedge satin. All were formerly black when I bought her in"99".
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Dont forget to post some pics for us when you done :thumbup:
 
I will post the pic's when she is done.I might need some advice on how to post the pic's as I am not very computer saavy. I have encounterd a problem
with the mirror polishing though.The blade was originaly black and over years of "hard use" it has worn, so I took it down to bare metal with my dremel and scotchbrite wheels. I noticed through looking at the steel that it appears that it was heavily blasted (I assume) before the coating was applied.
This has left the surface very pitted.Since I am doing all the work by hand on my kitchen counter I cant seem to get all of the pores smooth without taking to much off the blade.I have progressd through 320-1000grit emery and still have a ghosting in some areas near the thumb disk as the blade does not seem to be perfectly flat. Any ideas ? I am using a perfectly flat surface to sand on but no help.
 
Id go back to the heavy grit and remove all the material you will need to to get it all flush then move progresivly to a super fine grit for the esthetic finish.
Doing it by hand is a labour of love. I have done it my self so I know how you feel :D:thumbup:
 
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