What is the hardest thing your folder has done?

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awesomeness!
 
dsmegst said:
Some of them have shape shifted so effectively that she thinks I have a handful of knives I rotate through.
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I was happy to whip out a new CS Recon 1 in front of Mrs. Powernoodle yesterday, and she never batted an eye. Once you reach a certain critical mass, there are so many that new ones go unnoticed. She doesn't care one bit when I buy a new toy, but I like being sneaky nonetheless.

As for the thread topic, I have never engaged in the hard use of a knife. I understand why others do, but I have been blessed with things like screwdrivers, prybars, Atwood tools, hack saws and hammers to take care of my hard work.

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I cut up some sausages on a glass plate with my persistence. I don't know if this is hard use but it was really hard on the edge. Really dulled it although 15 minutes on the DMT aligner, and it's hair whittling now.
 
You don't know how many times I've had to ask my wife to get rid of the glass cutting board. She's no longer using it but won't throw it out. Glass and ceramic just kills an edge. :mad:
 
dsmegst said:
You don't know how many times I've had to ask my wife to get rid of the glass cutting board. She's no longer using it but won't throw it out. Glass and ceramic just kills an edge. :mad:
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glass.... cutting board?

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

who would create such a thing? may as well forgo the cutting board and do chopping on the counters.

Which irritates the heck out of me. no matter how many times i ask, someone in the house uses the kitchen knives on the counter.
yesterday i caught my mother using a kitchen knife to cut a pill in half, right over the ceramic tile. slammed the entire edge onto the counter :grumpy:
 
Used an Opinel No.8 to chop through some darn plant that grew out in my back yard. Darn thing had a diameter between three and four inches. Quite surprising what such a simple folder can do. Had a Mora sitting in the car, but I was just plain curious to see just what that Opinel could handle. It did the job wonderfully.
 
I have used my Sebenza to spread peanut butter onto toast. The toast's surface was hard and abrasive, but I had faith in the BG42.

Yesterday, I picked seeds out of a slice of watermelon with it. :)
 
I skinned and quartered a huge samba stag(507 pound gutted) with my speedbump.it didnt like it,but it got the job done.
 
i used the tweezers on my sak executive to pluck some wayward neck hairs and the orange peeler to peel an orange on the same day.
 
I cut up 3 couches with my new CS AK-47 today, dull as a butter knife after dealing with nails and some metal strips but performed flawlessly.

Also impressed my friend that said it couldn't be done :)
 
dsmegst said:
You don't know how many times I've had to ask my wife to get rid of the glass cutting board. She's no longer using it but won't throw it out. Glass and ceramic just kills an edge. :mad:
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break it "accidentally" :p
luckily my parents were raised in a butchers home (my grandfather) and all my grandmothers knives are "sorta sharp" the occasional steeling dosent cut it as far as shaving sharpness but i cant run my finger across the blade like in my moms drawers :rolleyes:. and everyone in my family only uses wooden cutting boards.


Dnullify said:
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glass.... cutting board?

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

who would create such a thing? may as well forgo the cutting board and do chopping on the counters.

Which irritates the heck out of me. no matter how many times i ask, someone in the house uses the kitchen knives on the counter.
yesterday i caught my mother using a kitchen knife to cut a pill in half, right over the ceramic tile. slammed the entire edge onto the counter :grumpy:
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OUCH!
 
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well if my knives are anything like the toys in Toy Story, probably the hardest thing is getting sold. the XM-18 loves to be played with.
 
recent camp trip I used my g10 Tyrade to:
strip wet bark from firewood
make hotdog skewers
build tarp shelters
crack walnuts
cut any food that was being prepared
and baton through a big block of cheddar
 
I used my Volt to carve out a recess in the exposed wood part on top of a metal exterior door. I battened done through two sections and then used it as a draw knife in between the two spots. I was making a place to put a door contact for a security system.
 
Forgot, I have to cut wires for my brakes,(same Delica 4) when I was on the trail. (I forgot my leatherman at home :()
 
I think the hardest thing for me I ever tried to use a knife for was to glue two things together. No matter how hard I tried, no matter how much force I used, even trying to smack the spine of the blade over and over, in the end all it did was cut things. =/

For the knives themselves, it's probably pretty hard for them to sit in a drawer while my $18 CRKT m16 gets pocket time.

-Freq
 
I used my Florida Black Knife (auto) to demolish my old couch.
 
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