You did WHAT with your knife?

I did some prying at a HUGE stump in the back yard with an NMFBM LE and rolled the edge a tiny bit. It steeled out fine. Understanding the limits of the knife were important to me though, and I feel better having tested some of it's different purported capabilities.
 
Plainsman said:
... a friend who asked to use my knife ...
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I have a similar story. Lent my knife to someone who then proceeded to use it to dig through hard ground to get at some roots. Edge was tore up, but was resharpened with a bit of work. Actually, a lot of work.

I broke the tip off a folder once, but I don't recall the details. Reground the blade to make a new tip, and she's as good as new.

I pounded a CRK Green Beret through some steel shelving once, just as a test. Used a mallet to drive it though some thick shelving and make small cutouts. Edge dulled, but the knife was fine.

But in general I try to be kind to my blades.
 
Oh I remembered another one just now. I had one of the Gerber bowies years ago, with the coffin shaped Kraton handle and double brass guard. I got it and was like WOW this thing is THICK (5/16"). So I headed out back and proceeded to use the back of the blade to bust up cinder blocks. I smashed up 10 of them, I think. I did the last two with the cutting edge. Other than some marks and dings on the back and the edge, it didn't hurt it at all. It did take a while to get the edge back in order though. That blade was 425M. I never got a good razor edge on it, looking back, I'm sure it was my lack of skill (even with a new Lansky) and not the steels fault.
 
Nice thread.

I broke off the tip of a SAK throwing it (would have been ok, if it was just a single tool sak with only the blade, but all the other stuff was just too havy not to follow gravity) as a kid. I smoothed the tip out and henceforth had a rounded large blade - which didn't really hurt me, cause the small blade still had (and has) a good tip.
But no, I wouldn't do that again.

And later on, I made a small mistake batonning an Opinel through wood, which destroyed the lock (you have to make sure the lock cannot close during batonning, then it should be ok), if necessary I'd use an Opinel for batonning again, but my life would have to depend on it.
 
I just found a tiny, long lost Gerber 300 folder that I once used to get a friend's pickup started. It has some nasty black burn marks on it but is still a great knife. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.
 
When I first got into Custom/handmade knives a few years ago I ordered a beautiful Combo from Koyote. Here is the larger knife of the combo. I think it's a 7" blade at only 1/8th thick



Anyway, a short time later I went to the WLC and brought this bad boy with me. Then for some stupid reason I decided to try to baton it through this nasty piece if maple. It was almost as wide as the blade was long. Their was maybe about an inch of blade sticking out. I was bashing the tip, handle, everything as other watched in horror. When I was half way through the knife was being flexed somethinmg nasty and I thought it was going to break. But stupid me just kept pounding it through.



Anyway, it made it all the way through and when I checked the knife, the blade came back true and straight. Koyote can put one helluva differential heat treat on a blade!

Anyway, a year or so late at the New England get together in Mass, I did the same thing. This time with a frozen piece of Oakwith a wicked knott. I know, I'm a dumbass...






Once again the knife came through just fine. However, if it did get a permanent bend or even broke, I would not have bothered Christof about it, as it was clearly stupid to use a knife like that for no reason at all. I thankfully have gotten a little smarter since then, but only a little.
 


Also, before bending the blade 90 degrees I cut a hanging 1 inch sisal rope then chopped a 2x4 in half twice then shaved hair with it.

The result:



It wasn't an official J.S. test but it was done under the supervision of an M.S. at the ABS School. The real result is that when I do the test officially I will know that it can be done and can be done by me!
 
To kill a channel cat I drove a rapala fillet knife into its head. Bent the knife so now its a pretty poor fillet knife.
 
I lost the keys to a steel gun cabinet, so I pried it open using a crowbar and a full tang 6 inch bladed Bowie knife.:eek:
The knife survived; my brother has it now.:)
It took some straightening of the blade though...
 
I have used a Cold Steel Bushman (original model purchased in 1995, not the folder) as a throwing knife and throwing spear. It suffered only minimal edge and tip damage which was easily repaired. I still have the knife and would be glad to take it into the woods with me on outings.
 
Joben said:
Turn it around and hit it on the other side. :D


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Oh also, this might count: I cut wire fencing with my tomahawk.
Thin'ish rather rusty wire, but still.
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i did the same thing with a crappy old machete now its a saw :D
 
I took a condor and hit it vertically into a log, and then stood up on top of it. I really like that knife, so I wouldn't do it again. It wasn't bent, or anything of that sort. After putting the edge on a machete I went about "chopping" out steps on the side of a hill. Thank god I took the edge back and put more steel behind the edge. It didn't chip out nearly as bad as I thought.
 
I was using a cold steel fixed blade to do some yard work many years back cutting roots to lay sprinklers, then came across a 1 inch wide 1/8 thick piece of mild steel buried in the dirt just out of view. the knife broke right at the handle..
Ah, stupid youth...lol

Personally I'd abuse a knife to just about any extent for the sake of survival if it came to it.

Great thread BTW!
 
I once took my knife out of my sheath and fondled it. Much to my dismay, I noticed that I smudged its mirror finish with my finger prints. My reflection in the surface of the blade became all distorted. I panicked thinking all was ruined. Skills were on my side however. I dashed to the cabinet under the kitchen sink and found a bottle of Windex. Carefully aiming the projectile of clensing fluid onto the knife blade I managed to get windex on the ruined area without spilling a drop on its delicate handle. Using a chamois of virgin lambs wool purchased from Italy, I then carefully wiped the windex off and was astonished at the recovery of the mirror finish on the blade. I quickly re-sheathed and placed the prized possession back into the safe. Phhhew, that was a close one. Might have lost some re-sale value there!
 
My brother worked as a tow truck driver , one of them vultures who sit on the scanner waiting for a wreck ... he buggared up a couple nice knives I sent him that Id bought , a damascus and camelbone folder , and another knife I forget now , cutting battery cables " the hardway" as he put it .. and other abuses , he reckoned if he has a knife its gunna be used ... so I made him one I figured he couldnt mess up

now I made it tough , this is the test I did just before sending it to him to make sure it would hold an edge under his use

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all it had to do was put up with being rammed thru a car panel and not have any rough spots on the edge .. still slice clean thru the paper , no big ask .
It did it , I sent it off , and got a phone call a couple weeks later ...

he had gone to a smash , a car wrapped around a pole , the wiring harness melting down under bonnet , the battery fuming up begining to vent , a fuel line busted and the electric pump doin its thing .. pumping more fuel out allover the show ... with a drunk abusive guy trapped behind the wheel telling him to f off away and not touch the so and so car ..

My bro grabbed his new knife , and the biggest shifter spanner in his tool box and belted the knife thru the bonnet till he had opened up a hole over the battery , and cut the cables .. .. then leaving the guy screaming abuse in the car still he rang me up at 3am ... to tell me what he did and that the knife still was still " bloody sharp" after that

He still has the knife , but he gave up the towing business , he never hesitated tho several times after to do similar things to that poor lil knife as well as daily use, I dropped by when I was in his end of Australia and he asked me to sharpen the knife cos he didnt want to damage it and it had lost some of its edge ...

He saved a guys life , ok maybe a drunk idiots life , but still .. I reckon it was worth the risk to the knife for that
 
Myal said:
My brother worked as a tow truck driver , one of them vultures who sit on the scanner waiting for a wreck ... he buggared up a couple nice knives I sent him that Id bought , a damascus and camelbone folder , and another knife I forget now , cutting battery cables " the hardway" as he put it .. and other abuses , he reckoned if he has a knife its gunna be used ... so I made him one I figured he couldnt mess up

now I made it tough , this is the test I did just before sending it to him to make sure it would hold an edge under his use

knifeduntest.jpg

knifedunpass.jpg


all it had to do was put up with being rammed thru a car panel and not have any rough spots on the edge .. still slice clean thru the paper , no big ask .
It did it , I sent it off , and got a phone call a couple weeks later ...

he had gone to a smash , a car wrapped around a pole , the wiring harness melting down under bonnet , the battery fuming up begining to vent , a fuel line busted and the electric pump doin its thing .. pumping more fuel out allover the show ... with a drunk abusive guy trapped behind the wheel telling him to f off away and not touch the so and so car ..

My bro grabbed his new knife , and the biggest shifter spanner in his tool box and belted the knife thru the bonnet till he had opened up a hole over the battery , and cut the cables .. .. then leaving the guy screaming abuse in the car still he rang me up at 3am ... to tell me what he did and that the knife still was still " bloody sharp" after that

He still has the knife , but he gave up the towing business , he never hesitated tho several times after to do similar things to that poor lil knife as well as daily use, I dropped by when I was in his end of Australia and he asked me to sharpen the knife cos he didnt want to damage it and it had lost some of its edge ...

He saved a guys life , ok maybe a drunk idiots life , but still .. I reckon it was worth the risk to the knife for that
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That is a neat shape, I love it. :thumbup:

You can send me a knife and I promise I won't ruin it. :D
 
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