Open bags of cement, soil, fertilizer;
Cut drywall;
Carve wood;
Cut down cardboard;
Bevel 100s of feet of baseboard;
Notch and cut plastic;
Cut templates;
Shave and scrape paint;
Scribe lines,
Chamfer edges,
Pluck splinters out of my hand,
Pinch-hit for a chisel when setting lock strikes,
Open thousands of clam-packs,
Trim shrubbery;
Shave wooden plugs;
Take insulation off wire;
...and when clean,
Cut fruit & sandwiches for lunch.
Plus whatever else comes its way.
This knife has worn out the right pocket of several Levi's jeans and Carhartts. Got lost for a week at one point; it had clipped itself to a wire fence as I leaned over, and the fence withdrew the knife out of my pocket as I stood up. Nobody saw the knife hanging there and I picked it off the fence a week later. Today I pulled out a spare (new in box) Caly 3 and compared them. Remarkable how well this work knife has held up. See for yourself!
Worn knife top, new knife bottom. Now, I'm not a knife abuser, and I carry a utility knife and a putty knife in my toolbox and use them when they're the better tool to use. But this Caly often pinch-hits when I'm lazy.
As you know the tip of the blade on a backlock generally moves a little bit vertically; this has maybe 1mm of movement at the tip, had it when new and seems to have not changed the whole time I've owned it. No side-to-side play. Faint scratches across the blade. Circular ricasso scratches. A very faint stain appeared on the VG-10 early on, just barely visible in the photo. The G-10 shows "smoothing" wear, and shiny on the edges. The "ink" inside the spyder has mostly worn away. Anodizing on the clip long gone. But seriously, folks, does this look like a knife that's had 7 hard years of on-the-job work? Goodness sakes, it is going to outlast me. And it's called a "gentleman's folder." I call it my primary work knife.
