A friend asks, "Lemme hold yer knife a minute." What's your response?

sketchbag said:
Kind of surprised how up tight some responses are (no offense). I dunno what kind of people you associate with, but I've never had a problem letting any of my friends see or use any of my knives.
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YET.

when it does happened, it'll be someone you wouldn't expect. someone you thought was an intelligent, responsible person.

for me it was my old Chief. he asked for a knife, i gave him a BM mini reflex, then realized he was prying staple out of a ticket book. NOTE - these are NO regular office staples - INDUSTRIAL size/strength. he would turn the knife edge up against the metal, also. lotso chips :-(

you never know who it'll be, but one day someone is gonna turn you into one of us "uptight" people who say "NO, you can't use it"
 
If its someone I don't know well then they can use the Leatherman Squirt thats on my keychain. It would be easier and much cheaper to replace than my good knives.
 
zignal_zero said:
you never know who it'll be, but one day someone is gonna turn you into one of us "uptight" people who say "NO, you can't use it"
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Perhaps. But until then I will give my friends the benefit of the doubt and let them see my knives just as I'd expect them to let me see theirs.
 
I say, "Don't flick it." I ask this now because my friend ruined a nice Al Mar SERE 2k's lock with a single overzealous flick. Lockup prior to that one flick was absolutely rock solid.

If they ask to use it, I ask what they need to use it for. If they say "I need to screw something in" or similar, I'll tell them I don't have it on me.
Weird thing is they usually don't ask for it to cut with. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah so I went to take a shower and I walked in on a bunch of kids in my room. they are my roommates friends, and right as I walk in some kid snaps his arm down as hard as he can and I hear my Kershaw S30V Blur snap open. So I say "hey thanks for asking to use my knife."
"oh sorry, I was just playing with it."
"Yeah exactly, put it back, flicking it open like that could have seriously f***ed up the knife."
"I only opened it once..."
"Yeah, I didn't ask that. It's a $75 knife, you should really ask people before you touch their [stuff]"

Moral of the story: Some people won't even ask, they just assume whatever is within 5 feet of them is theirs.

I was pissed at that kid and normally I'm a pretty cool guy. I need to have a talk with my roommate later because I had my wallet and my keys on my desk too, and that's not the first time I've come back to my room with trash on my desk.
 
zignal_zero said:
YET.

when it does happened, it'll be someone you wouldn't expect. someone you thought was an intelligent, responsible person.

for me it was my old Chief. he asked for a knife, i gave him a BM mini reflex, then realized he was prying staple out of a ticket book. NOTE - these are NO regular office staples - INDUSTRIAL size/strength. he would turn the knife edge up against the metal, also. lotso chips :-(

you never know who it'll be, but one day someone is gonna turn you into one of us "uptight" people who say "NO, you can't use it"
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Exactly this. I had a major almost disaster incident with one of my blades and now i'm pretty "uptight". I'm not rude about it until they start getting pushy. Anyone who gives me a hard time about it isn't my friend in the first place..
 
ehhh said:
I say, "Don't flick it." I ask this now because my friend ruined a nice Al Mar SERE 2k's lock with a single overzealous flick. Lockup prior to that one flick was absolutely rock solid.

If they ask to use it, I ask what they need to use it for. If they say "I need to screw something in" or similar, I'll tell them I don't have it on me.
Weird thing is they usually don't ask for it to cut with. :rolleyes:
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I think he just uncovered a defect.
 
I generally don't have a problem with letting people use my knife, howeverm, if they damage it, they get to keep it- after they buy me a replacement.
 
I personally don't think that there are any uptight replies here they all have their own logic to them. The, "Lemme hold yer knife a minute." comment is a bit southern but not 'offensive' as much as it is 'familiar.' I have friends who think every knife is a thrower and immediately check for the 'balance point.' When I was young and worked on loading docks, coolers and warehouses I would never hand anybody my knife because then he has a knife and I don't. While land surveying it seemed like anybody who wanted your knife either wanted to pry something or cut a metal cable. My guys didn't ask for a knife, they were faithful Buck 110 carriers. Now that I spend most of my time in an office with Engineers, technicians and administrative personnel who don't carry knives I usually end up going with them to cut something (rolls of print paper, plastic straps, cardboard) because every time I let one go to someone I am not familiar with they want to pry open the plotter because they don't know where the release is or jam it in to something electrical (and still plugged) to scrape something out. So if I don't know the person they don't get to 'hold my knife' and even if I do know you that doesn't mean you are going to get it. Of all the people I have met in 50 something years only three guys know the proper way to receive or return a borrowed knife and I think we all learned it in Boy Scouts.
 
"A friend asks, "Lemme hold yer knife a minute." What's your response?"
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It depends on which one of my friends and which of my knives. With a few of my friends I would have no problem with them holding any of my knives
 
So he asks to hold my knife, huh. Easy enough response, I just grab my crotch and tell him I have something he can hold onto, and it's a LOT bigger than my pocket knife! LOL;):D;)
 
Squeezymo said:
Yeah so I went to take a shower and I walked in on a bunch of kids in my room. they are my roommates friends, and right as I walk in some kid snaps his arm down as hard as he can and I hear my Kershaw S30V Blur snap open. So I say "hey thanks for asking to use my knife."
"oh sorry, I was just playing with it."
"Yeah exactly, put it back, flicking it open like that could have seriously f***ed up the knife."
"I only opened it once..."
"Yeah, I didn't ask that. It's a $75 knife, you should really ask people before you touch their [stuff]"

Moral of the story: Some people won't even ask, they just assume whatever is within 5 feet of them is theirs.

I was pissed at that kid and normally I'm a pretty cool guy. I need to have a talk with my roommate later because I had my wallet and my keys on my desk too, and that's not the first time I've come back to my room with trash on my desk.
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AMEN!!!

BTW, am I the only person here that gets very annoyed when people try to "flick" open a knife they've just asked to use? Apparently they don't realize that is what the fingernail groove, thumb stud, and/or round hole is for.....
 
Its usually "Hey dude let me borrow your knife so I can cut..."

My response is usually. "I'll cut it, you need to get your own knife.", or if I'm busy "Dude, you need to get your own knife, here, don't lose it". And about 2 minute later "Got my knife?" (instead of wondering if they have it I'm actually hinting that they give it back at this point).



I don't have any really expensive knives, however, I get annoyed as hell when someone asks to borrow or use a knife (unless they are female), IMHO a man should have a knife.
 
I was showing a good friend my Randall 14 and a friend of his said,wow,can I see that.I handed it to him and he said,"I am somewhat of an expert with a Bowie knife",as he flipped it up and tried to catch it.He squalled like a mashed cat,and said "it's sharp on top"as he tried to stop the bleeding.I said no shit sherlock as I picked my knife off the concrete.I once let my brother in law use a Case stockman and when I looked back over to see what he was cutting,I saw him trying to loosen a phillips head screw with the clip point blade.That is why I don't hand over knives anymore.
 
Friends I have sharpened knives for, given knives to, showed my collection to, these people still pry and hack with my folders, so I just don't lend anyone my knives. If you aren't going to resharpen the edge, then don't jack it up to begin with. I'm not one to waste a half hour of my time taking out rolls and chips just to do someone else a favor because they don't bother to carry.
 
The Motivator said:
AMEN!!!

BTW, am I the only person here that gets very annoyed when people try to "flick" open a knife they've just asked to use? Apparently they don't realize that is what the fingernail groove, thumb stud, and/or round hole is for.....
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You are definitely not the only one. Seeing as that's exactly what the kid was doing.
 
JackBauer24 said:
I think he just uncovered a defect.
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If it was a defect (maybe a poorly heat treated liner) then I would never have known about it and it would have never affected my use. The guy is pretty strong and he used his entire arm and wrist to do an inertial opening. Thumb flicking without major wrist movement is ok in my book, and I do it sometimes, but what he did was grossly overboard.

To be more specific about the ruined lock, the impact dented the lockbar face slightly and created vertical play. It wasn't a major failure that I would attribute to a defect. Could have been a defect, but I seriously doubt it was.
 
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