What Knife And What Do You Use It For?

I am an urban homeowner, and a volunteer for fixit projects at church.

I use a knife to trim plastic parts, cut small twigs, open blister packs, open wrappers, modify the edge of wood when it sometimes develops splinters. I do a small amount of light prying as when a plastic plug is over the screw I need to remove.

Moreover, when and where I grew up, all the men I knew carried a pocket knife of some kind. It became ingrained in me: a grown man carries a pocket knife and knows how to cut safely with it.
 
I have a Kershaw KO Whirlwind I use for my daily carry pocket knife....its light duty because I want to keep it nice.....but I have other older beater knives that I don't care about that do the dirty work...I have a old bowie type knife in my tool box that takes on all jobs! :D
 
Here is a list of what I cut this past week.....as best I can remember:
4 apples
countless pieces of mail
a knotted shoe string
some weather stripping that came loose
some 550 para-cord for tying lanyards
a piece of rope for my sons fort
electrical tape (and one wire by accident...damn it)
a handful of zip ties
a garden hose
three bags of bermuda grass seed
some weeds and grass roots tangled around a tiller blade
last but not least about 10 minutes ago I just cut the plastic off the Indiana Jones adventure collection that just came out on dvd
 
I use my knives to cut everything under the sun, from small pieces of string and packing tape to chopping wood. There's nothing like quality steel.
 
Most recent thing I used it for was cutting off the plastic packaging for the special edition DVD Set of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ('54, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Disney)
 
food items.

non-food items.

My knives are from 1.5" blade (Anza) to 14" (Ontario 'Butcher' Knife) .. and 3/4 (?) of them are kitchen knives, and the rest are Self Defense and Utility knives..

My EDC is for cutting things Now and it's usually a CRKT with a 3.5" blade, part serrated spear point.. but I don't use it on sammiches..

see, every different category of knife, is justification for a DIFFERENT knife.. so you need to protect those separate categories..

unless you're single, of course.. ;)
 
I believe that a grown man should carry a watch, a lighter and a knife. If I didn't carry the knife, I'd be a hypocrite.

I use it to cut mail, packages, food, string and other odds and ends; I carve wood plastic and clay with it, and just about anything else that suits my fancy.

A knife is a little like an electron microscope; if you carry one, it's amazing how often you'll feel like using it.

Right now my friend is a Benchmade 921.
 
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