[S]Ya'll[/S] Y'all knives too thick

Back when I was young and working construction, I carried a Stanley Utility Knife (i.e. Sheetrock knife) in my nail apron. It cut everything - sheetrock,insulation, trimmed wood, cut tubing, plastic & tile. I would wear out 2-3 blades a day. My pocket knife was rarely used at work. Today, I carry various Case & Schrade folders, bur when I'm working around the house on a project, that same Stanley utility knife is always handy.
 
mtngunr said:
For those of us who have actually worked outside for a living, we know something many modern knife owners and commenters do not know....the world is not made out of paper and cardboard, or, even clean manila rope....it is made of flesh, bone, wood with black shiny hearts, staples, nails, spinning stripped screws, holes which need to be gouged, wires and reinforced tubing and belts needing cutting, and NOW....and that big yellow thing in the sky, we call "the sun", WAIT! don't run, it won't hurt you, not at first...

But, for all the cubical dwellers, a box of safety razor blades will certainly do....
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I couldn't find the scene in the movie Circle Of Iron but the main dude is selecting through combat trials the ultimate person to send on this all important mission to find Zetan the holder of : you name it, "All knowledge", "The Grail" etc., you fill in the blank "_______"
he tells our hero after he has disappointed the big kahuna : Any body can do that . . . we don't need a fighter that can stun a man with a kick we need someone who can bind an elephant with a spider's web !

I think some where along the way someone said : argue for your limitations and they are yours.

(I did have a customer the other day that probably isn't going to be sent on the above mission to find the secrets of the universe. He busted out his thick folder. Stuck it under a wire tie (a little one) on some packaging and started to force the knife under pushing the point toward his other hand . . . I couldn't watch . . . just as I looked away I saw that he didn't even have the edge against the wire tie but was prying the spine part of the edge against the tie and twisting. hahaha he probably had tried the edge in the past and realized the futility of that.)

Anyway . . . the big yellow one is the Sun !
 
Delica is pretty thick behind the edge so is pm2, possibly military but the overall geometry of them is good and I can appreciate the robustness of these folders. That s30v on PM2 would probably chip with some folks using it if it was thinner.
 
My very first post here was standing on a soap box banging the tambourine for thin blades . . . even . . . sometimes . . . when I am not outside where the sun can see what I am doing and thwart my attempts . . . thin blades with shallow edges.

No those are reserved for indoor use, late at night, when no one is looking, when I am alone in a corner doing something unspeakable and depraved . . . well . . . slicing an apple usually.
But I wouldn't want my buddies down at the lodge to know I was doing it this way.
No sir. Luckily I have my Blade Forums Community to share my darkest secrets with and be . . . if not actually accepted . . . at least tolerated.
Only you all understand.

PS: right tool for the job. If the thin one chips or seems unsuitable . . . reach for the right tool.
I'm not stupid and neither are you.

PPS: my very first post wasn't as popular as a hunk of fresh meat in a pack of rats but it is nice to see there are still a few of us "undesirables" still around".
 
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jbmonkey said:
its y'all. come on you're from the south.....sort of anyways.:)

if it cuts, I don't care so much about angles. my biggest beef with makers isnt thicker blades and edges, it's not getting somewhat even bevels and edges. I really dislike having to reprofile and even out brand new knives......so they can be easily touched up.
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Apologies, and fixed! :confused::D Been in the NW long enough to mess up my y'all.
 
wazu013 said:
Old school slicer.
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Damn that's a good'un.
 
I've always preferred my folding knives to be thinner and slicier, any fixed blades are fair game to be as ridiculously thick as you want them to be, they can take the abuse. I carry a multitool to pry with, personally.

I find humor in the fact that some like to brag that their 1/4" thick knife blade will never break no matter what they do to it and simultaneously brag about the lock bar being at 5% and barely holding the blade open. I like this community but we can be silly sometimes.

Locks fail before blades most of the time.
 
I'm seein' a lot of Spidercos. They must be doing something right in the slicey department.

Here's a Mecha knife, convex. Don't know what the angle of the edge was, but I'd guess it was about 15 degrees included. Less than 1/8" at the handle and tapered. I wouldn't try to turn a tight screw with it iff'n I was you.

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This short machete is about the same but bigger:

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This machete is the same but even bigger:

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Had a cracked windshield replaced on my truck yesterday. I asked the guy how they scraped off the inspection sticker intact so it could be reused. Said he had a scraper with an ultra-thin 1-use blade. So thin it would rust within 3 minutes and "you can almost see through it". Maybe he was too young to remember the old-fashioned razor blades, or maybe they do have something different. Thin is in.
 
NMpops said:
Back when I was young and working construction, I carried a Stanley Utility Knife ...
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Not long ago, Home Depot had a sale on Stanley utility blades. 200 blades for $10, made in USA. What am I going to do with 400 blades? I'm retired.
 
When I used to do more camping in the past, I used Gerber Shorty as my only camping knife.
It was used for cutting, chopping, and opening cans.
The blade was like 2~2.5 mm but withstood the abuse.
 
dkb45 said:
I don't get why everything has to have geometry that could handle chopping through a car. I don't want a knife that cuts like a brick. If you want to chop or pry, get a knife made for that task, don't abuse a folder and make everybody's knives worse because you insist on picking the wrong tool for the job.
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The whole thing is, "Get the right tool for the job"...and "Options are good." I don't think any of us can really whine that we cant find a knife that suits us in todays market, picky is good to a degree.
I agree that there are some things better left to another tool. But not all of us work a desk job and different cutting jobs are better suited to another kind of knife, and cute and slicey wont always cut it or we'd all be carrying traditionals and SAK's. Although 50% or likely a lot more could be xut with those blades, I'll bet most people complaining carry a PM2 or Griptillian (or similar) multiple times a week.

I'm glad there are options. Lots of them. And while I wont use the tip of my folder to pry with I do use my fixed blades to baton. ;) HYOH
 
Someone say slicer?

.160 at the spin and thinner behind the edge than all of my Spydercos.




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