Wow! I think most of you would be appalled at what a real, hard working knife looks like and gets used for....
As 'knife-nuts' you all collect, admire, and covet knives for they're design, or materials, collectability, or whatever, and expect that everyone is going to use them solely as cutting implements. But that's just not how it works out in the real world, where the majority of the people who own and carry knives just see them as a fairly universal tool. Hell most of them aren't even that sharp, and when they are sharpened it's on a pull through or electric sharpener.
The average knife owner isn't going out and buying a $500 CRK to abuse on the job site. Hell, they They think Chris Reeves is the guy who played Superman in the 80's, and think Spyderco and Benchmade are the most expensive knives available. Yep, they're gonna use their knives to pry, scrape, twist, dig, any another job you can think of, when they don't have time to go find the proper tool. Maybe one out of every hundred of these guys and girls have any idea about knives other than that they can get a pretty decent one in Cabela's for $50 to $100.
Walk in/on to any job sight, shop floor, military base, firehall, or garage, pull the knife out of the pocket of someone at random and look at it. Chances are, it's not gonna be some pristine piece of pocket jewelry whose toughest challenge was cutting an overcooked piece of leftover steak the guy had for lunch. Most likely it's gonna be fairly worn, and been used for tasks some of you wouldn't dream of putting a knife through.
But hey, this is a thread wanting to see hard used EDC blades, so let's go ahead and bitch about when someones apple slicer gets a little dull. You want to baby your safe queens, it's your money, go for it. To each there own. I'm still gonna use my hard use knives pretty hard.