Use the right tool, or blade!

[bikerdoc]

Rant on.
So tired of people, one guy in particu!ar, who brings me abused blades and expect me make it look new again.
AIN'T HAPPENING BUCKO!
You can't use a good knife, in this case a ZT in S30 V to cut a room of sheet rock, let up threshholds, and remove old nails and expect me to get it back showroom fresh.
Rant off
Thanks for listening.

 

[herrwalther]

If I know I am going to abuse the crap out of a knife, I am going to use a crap knife that costs me less than $5 at any big box store. Often, the right tool for the job is the one I throw out when the job is over.

 

[bikerdoc]

Plus 1 and many internet points to herrwalter!

 

[JeffG]

A ZT no less.... There is soooo much cheap junk that could do that duty, and get pitched on Friday afternoon.

 

[SharpDog]

I have zero tolerance for that kind of behavior ...

 

[C0untZer0]

I can't imagine tearing out a whole room of drywall just happens spur of the moment, and there isn't a hardware store or a Walmart anywhere around ?

I did have a situation where drywall needed to be torn out ASAP. An elderly relative said that she thought her toilet was leaking. So another relative and I went over there and the toilet had been leaking a long while and the drywall in the room below had black mold. Black mold was everywhere.

We had time to purchase two dust respirators at Home Depot, construction bags, a couple of $6.00 hammers and a pry bar.

I just can't imagine being in a situation where you have no other option but to use your expensive ZT as a wrecking tool.

I did recently pick up a "wrecking knife" also called a chisel knife. I didn't have it with me when we discovered the ruined drywall, but I keep it in my car now.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

So tired of people, one guy in particu!ar, who brings me abused blades and expect me make it look new again.

That "one guy" must have seen too many scenes of knives tested on "Forged in Fire".

Your post reminded me of something that happened 40-50 years ago.
My buddy's folks asked my Dad to make a knife for a birthday present. Sure. My friend gets his knife and the following deer season he is hunting with his cousins. One shoots a deer, but has no knife.... He asks Marc to use his knife, he obliges, to much dismay when he comes up to him using it like a hatchet to split the pelvic bone.
Knife was retrieved, rolled edges and lesson learned.
Dad put a new edge on the blade , and I believe three people learned something from that experience!

 

[bikerdoc]

COuntZerO said:
I can't imagine tearing out a whole room of drywall just happens spur of the moment, and there isn't a hardware store or a Walmart anywhere around ?

It wasn't unplanned and there was a mall with Lowes and a Wal-Mart 1/4 mile East.
He is a just a spoiled brat, with access to more money than brains.

 

[bannockburn]

Doc

It wasn't unplanned and there was a mall with Lowes and a Wal-Mart 1/4 mile East.
He is a just a spoiled brat, with access to more money than brains.

Sounds like he's way past due then to either pay top dollar to get things fixed or else do it himself!

 

[Double_J]

I will admit I used a spyderco delica to cut some copper communications cable once as I was in the middle of a maze of conduit, structural steel, and piping and my cutters were in my tool bag about 100 yards away.
It did mangle the blade some and I very apologetically called Spyderco asking if they would help me out. The customer service rep. laughed at me when he heard what I did and told me to send it in for examination. I think I spent $20-25 for the repair and shipping both ways. I got it back better than new and used the heck out of it for several more years until it was "lost" on my 21st birthday. I also knew it was not the right tool for the job and I should have gotten the right tool. I now have a pile of cheap blades for that kind of abuse and would not think of using a good blade for something like that again.

 

[Boattale]

I can remember when Buck ads had a picture of one of their knives, driven well into a bolt with a ball peen hammer. Never tried it myself.

 

[FL-NC]

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. At some point, knives start to look like hammers to some people I guess.