I just left it in my mom's attic. I never said that they are USELESS. That's just yet ANOTHER indicator that you can't READ properly. What I said, <font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font>, is that for the same size and wt, there are BETTER gear choices. More versatile, at the least, less likely to be RUINED for one task, by trying to do some other task with it. For instance, lets say I badly need to pry off, cut, etc, a hasp, or some such, to enter a building, open a drum, free up a boat, or some such. I ruin the Bowie by trying such, instead of using the Skatchet and the chisel blade of the SOG multitool. Or I try to CUT a screw or bolt, instead of just TURNING it loose, using the SOG's ratcheting plier jaws. Or I waste hours TRYING to get a shaving edge on the Bowie, so that I can shave hair from around a wound, instead of just using the straight razor.