So what have you broken?

[_scorpio_]

not much... my first ever knife, a folder which cost about £10 (a lot when your 7) died gracefully after i spent an hour at a scout camp felling a 5-6" tree with it. others are just cheap folders which die as throwing knives and of course tips of opinels, why they dont send them pre-snapped is beyond me!

 

[dave53]

i tkink we should report him to the knife police for knife abuse lol regards dave

 

[8thsinner]

People never used to believe I could break balisongs by flipping them properly. and I am talking about benchmades and tachyons here not ccc's.
One tach I admit was thrown, but well, into a throwing board, semi soft rotted chipboard...It was pretty good steel just couldn't take the vibrations.

When it comes to working blades, I break the tips quite often more than anything else, too many blades with tips ground too small. My north star now has a nice belly tip, axes I tend to chip out at either the top or bottom, I don't know how.

I don't know how people break things so much...

 

[Wayland]

I once snapped a scalpel blade by being careless but apart from that I've never broken a knife.

A mate of mine broke my axe handle but we were using it to split a 5 foot diameter oak log to make beams for a Saxon house at the time.

 

[Neumo]

Battoning a kinfe with something made of metal is not a good idea.... = broken blades in a lot of cases.

When I found I was regularly having toruble battoning wood it was usually because it was too thick or I was using the wrong tool. If you want to split anything bigger than 4", in my limited experience, then a knife is probably the wrong tool; as mentioned axes, wedges, froes etc.. are much better

 

[MrEd]

leg, nose, vertebrae in my back, multiple fingers....

oh bushy stuff? the tip off my mora knife, thats all!

 

[phaserrifle]

the handle of an axe. to be fair, it was some kind of plastic, and hollow. nearly embeded itself in my toes to boot.
my first knife (a cheapo SAK alike) sort of gracefully fell apart over a period of several months, and my current locking folder (another cheapo) is trying to do the same.

bones wise, both main bones in my right arm, the day before I was supposed to go on holiday to france. mum was not happy.

 

[Tengu]

2 blades on an SAK?

lots of needles

 

[salad]

Umm where to begin

1.Jaw and left forearm on a scateboard when I was 12
2.My left hand little finger one year after the jaw on a beach in cornwall
3. Compression fracture in two of my lower lumber(back) mountain biking outside queenstown in new zealand 8 years ago
4.My pelvis and my right wrist 2.5 years ago riding a bike over the top of a car which came over my side of the road on Park st in Bristol
5 O Yer and my nose a couple of times
6 Umm and a chip out my left elbow while drunk about 15 years ago

I think that is it

 

[Harvestman]

The handle of one of the two wood vices on my new workbench. This weekend. Turned the dratted thing the wrong way.

 

[SouthernCross]

I can't say I have ever broken any knife :yikes:

Does that mean I'm not a knife user



Kind regards
Mick

 

[DaveBromley]

my very first lock knife that was given to me as a present from an uncle bent 90 degrees the wrong way when i took it to a scout camp and tried using it to carve oak. Apparently my uncle had been given it on his 16th birthday and he's now 64 no surprise really lol. now had it fixed and is in a drawer as a memento nothing more

Thanks Dave

 

[JonathanD]

I can't say I have ever broken any knife :yikes:

Does that mean I'm not a knife user

Means your not a knife abuser

 

[apj1974]

broke one of them quick clamp thingies the other day:

and the skin on my hand as the bits of metal went into it!

 

[Deleted member 7976]

With general kit...

I had a friend in the scouts once who was on an expedition, one particular leg being circular so using the same field two nights on the trot. Rather than carry all of the heavy stuff around they had the bright idea of cutting away some turf, digging a hole, putting all of the pans, etc in it and replacing the turf to hide it. During the day farmer let the cows in to graze and by evening every pan was squashed flat. When they unpacked they also seemed to have one less scout tent than when they packed in the morning


With knives....

Just my bank account and credit cards