whats your hardest, non-life-critical, use for your knives?

Hawkins

Hawkins

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i discovered a new one for myself. after bending too many spoons trying to get some ice cream out of a new carton of haagen daaz, i found that my minicommander worked sufficiently well, though now i need a knife with a wider blade that can "scoop" more :) maybe a FB strider to keep in the freezer? :)

post your "overkill" stories- those times where a knife knut can appreciate the humor in sharpenning a pencil with a machete, or using a tomahawk to cut an apple... or even real, day to day, not-so-humorous-but-fun-fact hard-use application.

just don't talk about car rescues or fending off bad guys :)
 
oh, thats just awful :)

(highlight below if you don't get offended or disgusted easily: )

dave chappel (a comedian who was in Half Baked, and some others) does a routine where he discusses slang for various private parts. one of the ones he mentioned when going over female anatomy was hatchet wound :barf: but he had the audience dying on that one... except the girls i was with- they were a bright embarassed red, but they were like that throughout his whole show. :)
 
I have a bolo machete that hangs out in my bar and often gets used to cut little things like string. Feels pretty silly to cut a piece of string with a machete, but sometimes it's easier than getting the folder out of the pocket.
--Josh
 
I've been cracking open walnuts with the spine of my CF EDC....and they say spine whack tests aren't practical:rolleyes:
 
This one time at sleepaway camp I shaved my legs with a wood carving knife.

When I was 10 years the watermelon got the Katana treatment. We had no knife big enough to use, the watermelon was at least 30 inches in diameter. :p This was at my dad's marriage party at our house by the way, the guests were quite scared :p
The katana or saber has been used for the big fruit duties ever since.

Halloween pumpkins got carved with a 10 inch tanto blade. YUM.
 
I use my ek commando blade to chip holes in the ice for ice fishing. Not as fast as an auger but then heck I ice fish about three times a year and am to cheap to buy an auger when I can spend this good money on knives.


R
 
I have shamelessly abused knives on my canoeing and kayaking trips to the wild. I confess. Digging on rocky ground, mountain sides, ice floes [they're tough!]. I usually take one beater upper for those ugly jobs. Me bad.
 
What the hell is KNIFE CONTENT doing at COMMUNITY?!?!?!
You guys NUTS or somethin'!
;)
Moving to General,
VG - Sir Movealot
 
My friend and I decided to have a coconut cutting contest at the end of the hall in my apartment to test out our machetes...Basically to see who was better at sharpening and general technique. His machete was literally blunt so instead of it being cut, the coconut practically exploaded, showering us and the building with coconut residue. Actually this probably isn't that bad of a test for a larger knife. You actually need to have a decent edge and adequate technique to cut cleanly through a coconut. This is probably one of the more intense, yet useless tasks I've performed with my knives.

I don't know we decided to do this, I hate coconuts.
 
Okay, well maybe not "OVERKill", but pretty close: It is a tradition that one of the older ladies here at work bakes a cake for each of us on our birthday. She always brings the knife to cut it, too. She was on vacation, so someone else took it upon themselves to bake a cake for the birthday boy/girl, and didn't bring a knife to cut it. Everyone looks over to me, for a knife, as I'm pretty open about my passions, and I handed over my MicroTech LCC D/A. Just long enough to slice neatly through, but icky sticky frosting took a little while to clean off. Okay, so that's really not all that exciting...

DD
 
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