1. My use
Carving and trimming. Not wood but hard rubber and aluminum and even some steel.
Not hardly any cardboard any more.
Precision opening of plastic bags so I can reclose them and make them look professional / new if what was in the bag was not acceptable to the customer. Translation : I can appreciate a pointy ("weak") blade tip.
2. My high value points
Sure . . . everything takes a shave sharp edge (hair whittling etc.) but I want something that doesn’t loose it’s crazy sharpness in one day of light use (S110V I’m putting you back in the drawer and reaching for my trusty M4 and ZDP-189).
And while we are at it for the latter I don’t need diamonds to touch up and for the former I do.
I hate using diamonds . . . so that pretty much sintches it for me.
S110V to look at and talk about.
M4 and ZDP-189 to actually EDC the crap out of and smile every time I use them.
3. What I care less about
Tactical . . . killing . . . maiming . . . stabbing car doors . . . I know, I know I’m such a wimp.
I couldn't care less about . . . er . . . what I care less about is : Backward, left handed chisel grinds to be sure the person I stabmaimkill won’t fit back together again. Are we sure all this is necessary ?
I don’t care about sharpenability / how easy it is to sharpen. See S110V above . . . actually it is easy to sharpen (with diamonds . . . no really; it’s no big deal).
Currently, I find myself actively turned up by .12” stock
FOR BOXES wait until you try .016 “ (.4mm)
That’s the Stanley “regular” box knife blade (for non retractable box knives).
I fitted that blade in the top knife here
Wire ties . . . especially cutting wire ties while on ladders
. . . nippers . . . nippers, nippers, nippers
taking down ridiculously constructed merch shippers to get them into an undersized compactor.
Time to have a little fun I say :
There has literally never been a time when I’ve thought or cared about the weight of a folder I’ve carried.
There’s a man that doesn’t own a standard old school Buck 110. People make fun of me when I carry mine because I list to one side from the gravitational pull.