What is the "toughest" thing you have done with a folder?

Chipped the tip off a griptillian digging the little brass plug out of a schlage deadbolt screw hole. Not the right tool for the job, but it was what I had.
 
Cut lines in old cars at a junk yard. Got tired of hearing about "Strider Tuff" and such.

Penetration is a concern, it does dull the knife (Carbon V, Ecko mystery metal, BM M2, BM 154cm, Buck 420, Gerber ATS-34, and other metals/knives tried), and upper body strength is a deciding factor. Newer econo-cars are easier (no suprise).

It is a bad way to kill an afternoon, though, and do it with friends (allows a bit of competition).
 
I'm pretty obsessive about ruining my "perfect" edges so I don't do Cold Steel tests or anything near them. My friend was scraping off some corrosion of a car battery with the edge of my beater (Emerson CQC-7) the other day. As soon as I got home, I sharpened out the chips. I didn't care that he did it, that's what that knife is for, to lend to friends while my tough folder (Hinderer XM-18) is babied.
 
Used my Spyderco Crossbill to cut carpet I pulled out of my house to more managable sizes to take to the dump. I tried using some gardening shears and they did'nt do anything to the thick carpet. The Crossbill cut through it like butter and made my life easier that day. Then I told my wife about the importance of having different kinds of knives. Hope she remembers when I get the itch again.
 
Cracked the tip of a Spyderco Native S30V using it as a Screwdriver. After the chip was made it worked pretty well. I gave to the maintiance Guy I working with as a keepsake to remind him to have his tools while on the shop floor. He reprofiled the tip and used it for a long time. About a month ago I saw it wedged under a wheel of a rolling press to chauk the wheel in place. I laughed my ass off and went on my way!!!
 
Never done a tough thing to my folders, just a regular cutting or carving job.
Their construction is far from being tough.

After I began to make knives, I did some tough test to my
hand made knives including destruction or corrosion test.
But they are all fixed blades.
 
I cut 9' of dry wall with a SE Dragonfly! I did make a line cut with a Dremel tool how ever. The only thing that slowed me down a little was having to constantly wash the dry wall out of the serrations. That Dragonfly is a tough little bastid!
 
I punched a hole into the trunk of a car, oh and also his car door with a Camillus aftermath, bastard was stealing my weber BBQ, Knife was fine, D2, he still got my BBQ, well it was late at night, zombies will steal anything..G.
 
I use my ZT 0500 for battoning on a relatively regular basis. It has shown no signs of negative affects. it is one beast of a knife! Now if I can just make it able to do normal tasks.........
 
My Benchmade folder, with aluminum handle, was "used to" shatter the large front glass window of the display case where I bought my knife...

The salesman was remarking that the Axis lock was fully ambidexterous. My friend, who was kind of a hotshot, loved to flick folders open without touching the blade - just using inertia. He took the knife from me and tried hard to WHIP the blade open with his left (weak) hand. After a couple brisk swings, the knife flew out of his hand (still closed) and went straight into the glass display case. The whole front glass (probably 5 feet long by 2 feet high) shattered into pieces and the knife dropped at my feet :eek: I have never seen a person's face turn such a bright color of red as my friend's. His expression was kinda like this -> :o

I then proceeded to talk the guy down on the price of the knife and bought it :) I got a knife and a good story out of the deal.
 
Batoned through 22 gauge roof deck with a BM Ares. Cut densglass with a Schrade peanut, open cans of soup and beans with a BM TSEK and Kershaw Random Task. Only the roof deck required more than a heavy sharpening to fix any problems.
 
I killed a man in Botswana and then dug his grave with a Spyderco Manix. No chipping. Seriously. :cool:
 
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