You did WHAT with your knife?

One time when we were car camping, I went to get some firewood to make dinner. I come back horrified to see my wife opening a can of beans with my Fiddleback Nessmuk by pointing the tip straight down on the lid and wacking the butt (of the knife, perverts) with another can. My knife came away pretty much unscathed. the can of beans...didn't.

I know, it's not a W&SS scenario, but pretty funny in hindsight.
 
I've always said there is nothing I wouldn't use my knife for if my life depended on it. I haven't needed to abuse a knife but I wouldn't hesitate if I did need to.
My pickup was stuck in the desert once and I needed something under a tire or I would have been walking out. The stock of my Remington 870 gave me just the traction I needed:eek:. It shows no sign of damage but it probably should.
 
protourist said:
I've always said there is nothing I wouldn't use my knife for if my life depended on it. I haven't needed to abuse a knife but I wouldn't hesitate if I did need to.
My pickup was stuck in the desert once and I needed something under a tire or I would have been walking out. The stock of my Remington 870 gave me just the traction I needed:eek:. It shows no sign of damage but it probably should.
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A man after my own heart. Sounds like you have your priorities well sorted :thumbup:
 
When I had my RTAK II I abused it. Was about 3 years ago and the first abuse it suffered was when I was converting an old church into a house for my dad. We decided to salvage the yellow pine boards that made up the majority of the pews. The screws were buried deep into the wood and the heads were trashed. I ended up batoning down through seasoned 80 year old yellow pine occasionally hitting and cutting some screws and nails. Worse I let my dad do the same, instead of the wooden baton I was using to hit the spine he used a metal hammer. Leaving more than a few marks.

Later that summer I was on exercise and a guy locked his keys in the SUV we had. We used my RTAK II to pry open the door and hold it open to allow him to reach in with some wire and get his keys back. The knife bent alarmingly but returned true.

It never failed me and I sold it on. Many of the lessons I've learned about big knife use I learned with that knife, it has the marks to prove it.
 
Boy, I'm going to be telling on myself with this one. It was in 1979, and I was living in the barracks on Ft Bragg. I had just been moved from the third to the first floor, and right next to a laundry room. After a couple of nights with no sleep due to the slamming of washer and dryer doors, and the non-stop noise of the machines, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I had an old medium sized bowie with a stacked keather handle. I walked into the laundry room and hacked the washing machine cords. Then without thinking, I chopped thru a dryer cord with one swipe. There was an explosion of sparks and an arced pit that went half way thru the blade. I didnt even stop to think about the dryer voltage. That leather handle saved me. I still have the knife.
 
Last winter, I came across a sapling that had broken at the top in an ice storm and had a huge burl at the bottom. I decided that I had to have the burl and went to town chopping at the frozen wood with my Sakai bowie. Towards the end, I heard a pop and realized that I had separated one of the scales from the tang slightly and popped a small chip out next to one of the rivets. When I got home, I inspected the edge and discovered that it was still perfect *phew* and got to work applying some epoxy. No serious harm done but it was pretty bone-headed. If I had to chop through a frozen sapling to make an emergency winter shelter, I would do it again.
 
hrmm i was at a party and some guy said "you cant baton wood with a SAK!"....since i always carry my SAK OHT i whipped it out grabbed some firewood and batoned the crap out of it....no damage whatsoever....i did practice the utmost technique :) booyeah!
 
I hammered the tip of a BUSSE BATAC through a cinder block. The blade had some scratches and a little dulling. The cinder block died horribly. No I would never do this again. Yes it is abuse IMHO. Knives are just much stronger than I remember them. Which is good.
 
Three of the most abusive things I've to my knives was beat an A2 blade on an anvil with a 3lb. hammer after HT and temper, no problem, shoot an S7 blade with a 41 magnum, bent and left the bullet impression in the blade and baton an O1 PSK knife with a 3 lb. hammer. I did eventually break the PSK blade trying to pry it out of a knot. It was imbedded in the knot from batoning with the hammer. Broke at the drill hole
Scott
 
Let's see

Spyderco Endura 3,broke tip on screw,cut up electrical cords.

Spyderco Delica 4,threw it end over end and scalped a mouse.

H.I. Chiruwa Angh Khola, used it to hack up shingles and other debris after tornado.
 
My first Busse was a Basic 9 with leather sheath. I took it on an overnight camping trip and used it to baton all my firewood. A couple of times, when it got stuck, I was using a "baton" about the size of my wrist. It came through with flying colors and was still amazingly sharp. My B11 should arrive soon, can't wait.

2nd best is using my Rat 3 to cut shingles when helping to roof my Mom's house. It was quicker and easier than hunting the razor knife. Scuffed the finish and let some tar on the blade, but no nicks or dings whatsoever.

GregB
 
My son called, shaken up after finding out first hand that a Jeep with a burst break line doesn't like to stop at red lights. Luckily, there was no other vehicles around. Unfortunatly, there were no other vehicles around to help.
The braided stainless steel brake line split vertically. As a field repair, I had him use a set of vice grips to pinch off the brake line above the split to stem the flow so he could limp home with 3 brakes working.

When that didn't work, he had to cut the line, and roll the end up like a tooth past tube, pinch off the line, and zip tie it up. 10 minutes later, he pulls up the driveway, vice grips holding the brakeline closed.

After we got the Jeep in the garage, he casually mentioned he was able to cut the brake-line with the serrations on an Seal Pup he found in my survival kit in the Jeep.

Expecting the serrations to be chewed up from the sawing, on a knife that was less than a month old, I about had a cow. I am glad to say, I DID NOT throttle the kid, as the knife shows no apparent damaged.
 
Was hunting awhile back and found a half rotted whitetail that had a really nice set of antlers. Figured it would make good beads or fire steel handle. Had my ESEE RC 4 but nothing to baton through the skull around the base. So I found a rock and gently went to work. Rolled a little bit of the spine but nothing a file and some various grits of sandpaper didn't fix. Looks just fine now. Probably wouldn't do it again...... Or would I?
 
It was abuse on purpose but had a $10 hollow handle "rambo" knife and i wanted to see what I could do to it. Battoned it and twisted with vice grips. Blade just bent like tin foil. Pulled it out hammered it flat enough and started hacking thru corrugated tin roofing and broke off most of the saw back. Handle stayed in place till I started throwing it. Broke on the forth throw.
 
Was trying to learn to throw knives...outside...well I was standing on the street aiming at the grass and the knife stuck to my hand a little and I threw it as hard as I could and it slammed into the concrete and shattered...I was so dissapointed lol I was trying to throw a damn pocket knife
 
mistwalker said:
Once when I was out in the weather with no place to go... really bad winter weather a mix of freezing rain and sleet, and I was younger and knew less. I found an old abandoned building back off of the road. There were no recent track at the gate or anywhere on the property, and the lock on the gate was so rusty I doubt it would have worked. I made my way to the building only to find another rusty lock on a door made of corrugated metal. Since the door was rusty I used my pilots knife to try and pry the hasp off but there were washers on the back side and the metal wasn't as weak as it appeared. Soooo...I found a stick and chiseled out the hasp using my knife to cut the metal. Once inside I used the knife to punch some holes in a metal five gallon bucket and used that for a makeshift stove burning planks from old shelving and some that were just laying around. It took a while with the factory stone on the sheath to restore the edge but given the same circumstances I'd definitely do it again.
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One of the old Ontario/Camillus pilot survival knives? That's pretty impressive!
 
The worst abuse any of my knives have seen was performed by a friend who asked to use my knife. I had a custom 4" fixed blade on my belt that was made by a friend. I handed it over so he could cut a small fish into pieces for bass bait. What I didn't expect was him dropping to his knees, laying the fish on the ground and proceeding to cut right through the fish and into the ground SEVERAL TIMES! :o I was so shocked and stunned I couldn't say anything! Then he hands over a bloody and muddy knife that I was sure would have nicks all over the edge. There were no nicks, but after cleaning it up, it did need some touching up. I have hardly talked to him since and never loan out knives anymore. I ask them what they want cut and cut it myself!
 
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