I use my knives to the same extent. But, this is an issue of the "right" tool for a given job.yablanowitz wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:00 amI do have a serious question here. Why spend hundreds of dollars on a well-designed knife with great ergonomics, made from premium materials with a blade of carefully selected high-performance steel honed to a razor edge when you do all the real work with a 5 cent utility knife blade?
I know a lot of you cringe when I use a Sprint Run S90V/CF Military for drywall work. You get the heebie-jeebies when I scrape an old wax ring off a cast iron floor flange with a Maxamet Manix. You'd have had a heart attack seeing me cut steel bands off a bundle of gas pipe with my trusty Cold Steel Tanto. But thats why I spend that much on a knife, so I don't have to baby it. I paid for that performance, and I'm darned well going to use it.
A razor knife, you buy blades by the hundred, abuse them for a short period of time, throw it away and pop in a new one. For actual construction tasks, a razor is way better than any knife Spyderco makes.
These knives are too thick to do 90% of the jobs I would use my razor knife for. My $200 pocket knife is for the times when I don't have my pouch on and need to cut something at that moment.
Time is money. Stop, go get my pouch on and come back to cut something, or just pull out a pocket knife and slice it right then?
It won't take long for that to add up to a considerable amount of wasted time.