What is your most common EDC task?

[Evil D]

Man my life has changed so much in the last year that I went from cutting corrugated all day every day to now most days I don't even use a knife. I think I'm to the point that my most common EDC task is opening the mail or a bag of chips lol. I carry my Yojimbo 2 a lot for work because I get into some shady neighborhoods and my employer won't let me carry my sidearm so it's my next best thing. I'm mostly concerned about dogs and such but ya never know. Since my uses have died down so dramatically, I have definitely gained an appreciation for less wear resistant/easier to sharpen steels, and I'm currently re-falling in love with VG10 all over again.

[ZrowsN1s]

1st most common, cutting plastic and cardboard. 2nd, cutting fruit and meat. 3rd my MBC blade, sitting in my pocket doing nothing.

[npad69]

opening product packaging mostly, sometimes cutting food if there are no suitable knives around (i really hate those plastic butter knives they hand out at fast food joints)

[Doc Dan]

My most common task nowadays is cutting apples or fruit, opening envelopes, and packages. I do not do exciting things like skinning out some animal I hunted or cutting seat belts in a rescue.

[Brock O Lee]

At home I'll cut up fruit, rags, string, packaging, open mail - piddly stuff, but at work, as this vid shows, a bit more (here with Delica wharnie proto, for anyone who hasn't heard of it)...

https://youtu.be/Sczu0kXNswQ

Nice video Jazz... I should get myself a wharnie...

For me it's mostly packaging, food prep, boxes.

[ChrisinHove]

My Delica SG gets carried daily for when I occasionally need to poke into old structural timbers to check for decay (a lot of the buildings here are pre-1860, some early 1800's, a few much, much older) and for comfort in wandering around urban areas and sometimes empty buildings. My Kiwi4, for cutting down their absurd glossy sales brochures for scanning, and for idle fondling whilst staring at a screen.

[ShaneInDenver]

Mine usually just sits in my pocket until I overhear someone that needs to cut something. Then I immediately jump at the opportunity to loan out my knife and I always explain how it is VERY sharp before handing it over. For some reason I like people to experience what a properly sharpened knife should be able to do and how it should feel.

For my own personal use, like others, it's usually opening mail/packages and small chores in the kitchen. I work in an ecommerce office with a warehouse attached, so sometimes I do get to use my knife when I'm out in the warehouse looking for stuff. But my favorite task is always opening a new knife with one I have on me.

[Blerv]

Opening boxes by cutting the tape. Yet...I'm still obsessed with edge retention tests. :o

[ThePeacent]

Cutting plants, twigs and vegetal matter







and then cutting food

[Water Bug]

I don't really have a common EDC cutting task for my :spyder:s or any of my other knives. I pretty much just use my :spyder:s to cut whatever needs cutting at the time.

[ZMW]

1) Boxes
2) Boxes
3) Boxes
4) Gardening
5) Misc cutting

[jstrange]

I wish I had something more adventurous to report, but I basically use mine to trim my nails, cut up boxes, and open packages. Occasionally I will cut some foodstuffs and trim some vegetation in the yard. After analyzing this recently, it kinda made me realize the absurdity of "hard use" folder with super thick blades for my uses. Probably why I almost exclusively carry Spydercos with thin blades and pointy tips nowadays.

[ZrowsN1s]

Mine usually just sits in my pocket until I overhear someone that needs to cut something. Then I immediately jump at the opportunity to loan out my knife and I always explain how it is VERY sharp before handing it over. For some reason I like people to experience what a properly sharpened knife should be able to do and how it should feel.

This ^ :D The huge grin on my face when ever I hear someone say, "does anyone have a knife?". Yes. Yes I do.

[ZrowsN1s]

Cutting plants, twigs and vegetal matter

How is it that the handle of that salt looks more beat up than blade?

[NJMS]

Usually the first cut of the day is the top off a sachet of oats

Bah ditto, I do the same first move.

My main use is packaging and breaking down boxes at work if I get deliveries. And fruit slicing at lunchtime.

At home I'll slice up anything I can get my mitts on :rolleyes:

[Cor]

Main use would be cutting fruit during the week. Also I just found that theres me small tasks that would not necessarily require a knife, but its way more fun to use it! Also during weekends we spend a lot of time around a braai (similar to a BBQ but not quite) so comes in handy making kindling and all sorts.

[bearfacedkiller]

To a kid with a hammer everything looks like a nail. I use mine for anything I can think of and I suppose I look for things to cut. Could I open a bag of chips without cutting it open? Sure but what fun is that? Over the past year my two most common uses have been cutting pallet straps at work (sometimes 500 or more per day) and prepping food for my son. He still needs his food cut into manageable pieces. I might add sharpening to that as well. Three fingers of whiskey, a dull knife and some stones is my idea of a good time.

[bearfacedkiller]

Oh yeah, along with the sharpening I love cutting phone book paper. I am a sharpness geek and I LOVE that sound when a knife just sails through a piece of phone book paper. Shoo!

Maybe not my most common uses for my EDC but my favorite uses are fishing, hunting and wilderness survival. I really enjoy building bow drill kits for friction fires and have built a few kits with different folders I consider EDC folders just for the challenge and just so I know I can. I would prefer to use a solid fixed blade but is always nice to know you can do it with any knife. I have built quite a few with my Leatherman wave and Victorinox Craftsman which are my two favorite multitools.

[ThePeacent]

Cutting plants, twigs and vegetal matter

How is it that the handle of that salt looks more beat up than blade?

Better this way?





It was the light conditions in which the pic was taken. I can make it look shiny and like new!



Light out:


Light in!:


:D

[Bugs]

Cutting leader material and chunk bait. If this Tropical Depression 9 ever leaves SW Florida I can get back to that task. Slow moving storm dumping tons of rain on us and causing flooding.

Yeah Bugs, that right there is 95% of my everyday use. I fish most days on the kayak and my knife gets more use in a day on the kayak than it does in a month in the rest of my life.

There's a couple of cameo Atlantic Salt appearances at the end of this video from today.

https://youtu.be/U0Ei9bLf9FE

If I had a dollar for every shark & cuda I've lost to mono. :D