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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
Posts: 24,825
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Paper (to include cardboard), plastic (hard like clamshell packaging or Zip-ties and soft, like MRE packs or electrical insulation), nylon and polypro cordage (like ropes, 550 cord, tubular nylon webbing, seatbelt webbing, fishing line, etc.), fabric (like canvas, tarps, uniforms, web gear, and clothing), leather, drywall, explosives, det cord, time fuse, wood, shingles, fiberglass, tape, hair, monofilament line, metal (copper, brass, lead, aluminum, tin cans, magnesium, sheet metal, steel, since commo wire has a stainless conductor and snare wire is steel as well), firestarting with flint or ferrocerium sticks, skinning and preparing game, peeling, preparing, and portioning food, and occasionally, human skin.
I also use my knives far too frequently for other than cutting purposes, like prying, scraping, turning screws, etc., though since I started carrying a multi-tool, I do a lot less of that.
About the only materials I can say that I have not tried to cut with a knife are concrete, stone, and glass.
Cutting difficulty depends on the hardness of the material, its density, and the sharpness or edge geometry of the blade. Sometimes, it needs to be a razor, and other times, it needs to be an axe. Clearly, the size, weight, shape, and length of the blade can determine the appropriate geometry.
The majority of the use is about what you would use one for in the shop or around the farm.
As with a gun, the best one for the job is the one you have with you at the time you need it.
Hope that helps.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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