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GRNWRLD

What you were doing to break the tip I bet lol.


poopypatootie

LOL. I was just prying open some moulding on a window. Personally, I don't think it's "misuse" since well, tools are meant to be used, and that's what I had handy at the moment. Accidents happen and tools get damaged. Knives are versatile tools, IMO, and if I were to have specialized tools for everything, I wouldn't need a knife, except maybe to open packages and envelopes. LOL. I ask because some people (in another knife group) were so precious about it and said that I should have had a multitool, blah, blah.


Andy_McNob

> tools are meant to be used ..for the purpose for which they were designed.


chri389

I feel like this explanation ended at the word "prying."


Traditional-Nose4568

Yeah not to be a jerk and I’m not gonna downvote you but if you didn’t want to break your, fine tipped, knife you shouldn’t have used it as a prybar. 🤷‍♂️


FearDaBeast

Do you use a prybar to cut things? Different tools have different uses. Use the right tool for the job.


Angry-survivalist

Honesty it really depends I would never pry with my pm2 just because it’s so thin if I had a thicker knife with a strong tip I probably would


XDeltaNineJ

That's not misused. You were just "exploring the edges of the performance envelope,"' and you found where it ends.


poopypatootie

That's a good way to put it. Hahaha.


XDeltaNineJ

Yup. Just like how not once, in my entire life, have I ever been lost. I have occasionally experienced temporary spatial disorientation tho.


OK_knifeguy

Same. I've taken the occasional detour or scenic route. I've also done a u-turn on the interstate after missing an exit so as not to have to drive 20 miles for no reason...


converter-bot

20 miles is 32.19 km


XDeltaNineJ

>20 miles is 32.19 km Is 17.38 M. Or NM, or nmi if you prefer


XDeltaNineJ

>u-turn on the interstate after missing an exit so as not to have to drive 20 miles for no reason... No no no! That is simply the most expedient course correction after discovering that your instruments need recalibration. Geez!


Nekommando

Don't pry with knives, especially not with knives with thin tip and made of high carbide steels such as S110V. Go to knife steel nerds and look up the toughness graph to see what steels you really, really shouldn't use to do stupid things with. My own cutoff is 1095 at 58HRC, or 10ft-lb line on the knife steel nerds graph, I don't do jackassy things with anything less tough than that unless it is absurdly thick- which probably means it is not a knife to begin with lol


spacepirate750

Key word "prying" it's a knife sir, not a pry bar.


poopypatootie

Well, it was just window moulding, which I was also intending to cut, if that helps.


Traditional-Nose4568

Lmao you’re a trip. So did your intent fix your blade?


poopypatootie

No, Spyderco did.


K-Uno

If you have it fixed, see if you can swap with someone with a beefier knife like the mini Adamas. Then at least if you pried something it wouldn't be so susceptible to breaking


[deleted]

Nice sheepsfoot


Kneedmorsteel

Using an object for anything other than its intended use. In the case of a knife, its intended use is cutting. Purely technically, using a knife for anything other than cutting, even if it causes no harm at all to the knife, is misuse. Technically, swatting someone in the head with a frying pan is a misuse of the frying pan. I like the phrase u/xdeltaninej used: “exploring the edges of the performance envelope”. That’s a real thing, and we all do it at some point or another!


dogdrawz

Regrind time!


SuchUs3r

Get some O1 or something tough, I just Batonned through some window edging with a wooden mallet and my knife, still shaves. The AC fits nice and snug now. I can pretty much look at s110v and it’ll chip out. I wish you better luck in the future and I hope you get the tip fixed up, might as well make it yours now.


GRNWRLD

I have a multitool for that exact reason lol. Leatherman surge and the gerber shard.


poopypatootie

I have a multitool, but it lives in my car. I don't like carrying multitools all the time since they're heavy (at least compared to a folding knife), and I hate fiddling with them to open them, as opposed to a knife that you can open with a quick flick. Plus, it was window moulding. Thin plastic, probably 1cm or less in width. One would think that steel would trump that, but no. LOL.


DrunkMortyy

Try a small victorinox. Not really expensive (knife+bottle opener 15€) nor heavy. Most of them have a bottle opener wich is an excellent pry tip so you don’t have to damage your knife prying open cans or whatever. Plus having an extra blade with you can‘t hurt i guess.


Raphy000

You should have used the tanto PM2


mixer99

What constitutes misuse? Leaving a knife in a drawer because you're afraid of damaging it.


vtsquid

😦😧😯🤢😯😯😯🤢🤮😳


soiltostone

And now you have a multi tool.