What is your most beat, abused, or thrashed knife?

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ShooterMcgavin

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Pictures are encouraged, but I'm also wondering what types of knives, and what price category, people use for real beater knives (intended or not)? Or, maybe you tried to modify a knife and it didn't turn out as planned, so an expensive knife became a beater? Or, maybe you had an emergency where you needed to abuse a knife for a task (prying) and you ended up damaging a really nice knife?

I have been lucky enough to never need to abuse a knife to save me from a situation. However, I would have to say mine is a standard BM Griptilian 154CM blade. It was never really beat on or damaged, but I used it for turning a valve once and then put a crude convex grind on it. Awesome knife for the role.
 
I don't have pics with me, but I'll upload when I'm home.

Surprisingly, the MOST ABUSED knife I own is a Kershaw OSO. I bought it for my wife a few years ago when she expressed an interest in carrying a folding knife. I was a bit concerned she'd lose whatever I gave her, so the OSO was what was sacrificed. Fortunately for both of us, she is very responsible with her knives and has graduated beyond the OSO. It was sitting around one day when I needed a knife to clean up some cure epoxy off a fixed blade I was working on. Held up surprisingly well. Now it rides my pocket around the shop and gets used for almost everything that can damage a knife/cutting edge. I cut sandpaper with it. I clean up brass, copper, and stainless tube burs with it. I pry with it. I've pulled trim off walls with it. All the nasty stuff, and it has held up.

For a fixed blade, I have a parang-ish blem from when I first started seriously making knives that I screwed up on a little. I found it under the metal shaving pile a few months after I boogered it up and got frustrated. It had rusted pretty good. I put an expedient convex primary grind on the rudiments of the flat grind had had made before and taped, yes taped a handle to it as a joke. Then I went about destruction testing it. I never did manage to break it so it sits in the rain and gets beat around on bigger chores now and again. Then goes back to being neglected.
 
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SOG Pentagon Elite. Probably the first of the PE line considering the age.
I've had this one for a long time. Can't remember exactly when I bought it but at the time it was my only carry knife and I (ab)used it for everything. Tip has been repaired, blade rubs the liners, clip is bent, chips in the handle, gouges in the blade, etc.
It's just starting to get a little character. ;)
This thread made me hunt it down. I'm going to tinker with it for a while then get a picture. Everybody likes pictures. :)
 
Folder--SOG Mini X-Ray Vision
Fixed--SOG Seal Pup

Pics tonight.
 
I wish I could help but I don't beat my knives so I have no beaters, I have a BK2 I won in a giveaway here at BFC and I use it to baton kindling for the fireplace but I don't abuse any what would the point be? :confused:
 
My carbon v srk(2000ish) has saw several deployments while I was in the military and spent 10 years in my pickup toolbox after that. Its been to hell and back and never let me down.
 
Folder - Al Mar Sere 2K. By far. Mine is beat to hell and back. It looks like 20 miles of bad road. Very little coating left on the blade and what is there is scratched all to hell. Dings and gouges in the handle (mainly from opening bottles with the space between the scales). Clip is solid silver (no coating). It has been sharpened so many times that the blade profile is visibly a lot different and has a subtle recurve to it.

Fixed blade - Busse Basic 9. Coating completely gone in big areas all over. Small damage (mostly rolls) all down the edge. Several big round dings on the spine from whacking it through things with a hammer. This thing has definitely been put through hell, used and abused. It has probably been sharpened 50 times but shows no wear to the blade profile. I cut several big sections out of a refrigerator door with it, and just for fun I cut the door all the way off. I have stabbed it through 55 gallon drums, and chopped it into them. I even stabbed it through the deck on an old lawnmower once just to see if it would go through. It did. It has served the function of jack handle, tent stake, and prybar many many times. It has batonned and chucked more wood than a woodchuck ever could. I have used it to dig out several rotten fenceposts. I didn't know it, but they were all countersunk into concrete. I had just chopped right through the concrete without noticing. It was the only time I remember the edge getting damaged and it just rolled more than chipped. It got a lot of "character" and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Pics as soon as I get a cable I need... Watch this space....
 
Folder: Probably a tie between a little Guidesman folder I keep at work for cardboard cutting duty and an old POS Chinese Buck copy that I got as a gift when I was a kit. The Guidesman is the better knife by far, but if not for its absolutely awful edge retention, that Chinese monster wouldn't be a bad knife.

Fixed: The only fixed blade I've really subjected to much use/abuse is an XT2B made with so-called "SCHRADE+" stainless steel that is rumored to be either 420HC or 440A depending on the source. The black blade coating scuffed up so quickly that I stripped it off, revealing a flawed grind near the tip, but that hasn't interfered too much with what I use it for. Living in the suburbs on a quarter-acre lot, I don't have much need for a thick fixed blade, but I like to think that if I lived out in the wilderness or on a farm, the Schrade would lead a much more fulfilling, meaningful life.
 
Ontario SP 6 that I reground 15 years ago, to a convex grind.
Nothing but sweet, skinned so many deer/bear/animals over the years, I simply could not describe what this knife has been through.
Batoning KING!
Always sand paper/mouse pad, sometimes wet sand paper (to 1500 grit or higher).
Cut an empty beer can in half once, 1 swipe!
Looked like a laser cut it!
Still can mind ya!!!
 
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Bk14 that sits in e shop. Gets used for everything cuts rope' fertilizer bags, feed sacks, every crappy job in the yard and it ask for more. Love that blade.
 
I would never do today what I did to this knife when I was 14yrs old!!! I'm 52 now and much wiser---at least I think so:o

Here's a Schrade USA 125 0T That I carried when I worked in our family furniture Store years ago. If a screen door wouldn't stay open I'd insert the handle of the knife between the slip bracket and the plunger to hold the door open, I'd hammer with it, cut almost anything with it, rope, wire and the like. Took a un-necessary beating and came back for more:thumbup:

I still have it to this day---it is now my "SHOP" knife and it has ZERO play!!!

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The Izula in the middle was not intentionally abused, it was totally unintentional:thumbup:

I had to cut a bungee cord holding a ladder on the roof of my work van and then the my cell phone rang---long story short. I forgot about it, drove away and a few miles down the road I heard something thumpin on the roof---look in the side view mirror and to my horror see my Izula cartwheeling down the pavement. Got home and a reprofile later and she has years of life left in her.

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This 710 was never abused just USED HARD...sold off a couple of years ago---still shows up here on the forum

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Paul
 
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Batoning:D Still have both pieces. Figure I could get someone to make a nice knife out of the blade.

Replacement Kukuri I've used cleaning up around the yard. Live on a hillside. Small yard surrounded by woods. Found out there are rocks under all those leaves! A few dings, dents and chips. Good thing about it is there is plenty of steel to work with. A file will make it good as new. Maybe better....







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paulhilborn - NIIIIICE pics! I love seeing pics of well loved users! I'd rather look at well used knives than safe queens. I used to have a 710 that looked a lot like that one. I didn't abuse mine either - just used it a LOT. My Sere 2K is like that. I wouldn't necessarily call it "abused", just used a lot and not babied.
 
This happened to today. I have Edc'd this knife for 10 years. She finally gave out. I put this knife through a lot. May it rest in peace.







Later, Battle
 
Digging out a boulder from my back yard. I went to pry it.....The boulder won. :cool:


I broke the tip off 3 years ago. Then I stopped sharping it. And used it like a pry bar the last few years. I was starting to think it was indestructible....:eek:
 
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paulhilborn - NIIIIICE pics! I love seeing pics of well loved users! I'd rather look at well used knives than safe queens. I used to have a 710 that looked a lot like that one. I didn't abuse mine either - just used it a LOT. My Sere 2K is like that. I wouldn't necessarily call it "abused", just used a lot and not babied.
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Thanks AntDog:thumbup: I have the great pleasure of working in the trades and get to use my knives daily as the cutting tools they are. If you can post up pic's of your Sere;)

Paul
 
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