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You folks seem to like a good knife-related story as much as I do... 
Years ago, I was buying my first quality knife. I shopped around a lot and then found something real solid, a Benchmade 720 with an aluminum handle. Because of the all Al handle, it has some heft (4.3 oz). I was in the store with a good friend. My friend loved to use only hand/wrist action to sweep the blade open, without touching the blade, thumbstud, etc. It made him feel "cool", I guess
He was flicking the knife open with his right hand, when the knife salesman was describing the excellent, fully-ambidextrous qualities of the AXIS lock. My friend tried sweeping the blade open without pulling the AXIS lock or touching the thumbstud using his left hand. Being his off-hand, he was less secure with it. At the time, I was looking into one of the display cases. My friend made a huge arm motion to fling the blade out and lost hold of the knife. The knife flew into the front of a glass display case and smashed the ~5 foot wide glass in the front of the case. The knife then dropped right in front of my feet. I looked up in shock, at my friend, who's face turned the deepest shade of red I have ever seen in someone's face! He was speachless. There was a slight indent on the end of the knife where it hit the glass case. I bought the knife and I still like reminding my friend of that experience
Any other funny knife-buying experiences out there? Let's hear 'em.
You can see the small dent on the end of the knife, on the left side in this picture.
Years ago, I was buying my first quality knife. I shopped around a lot and then found something real solid, a Benchmade 720 with an aluminum handle. Because of the all Al handle, it has some heft (4.3 oz). I was in the store with a good friend. My friend loved to use only hand/wrist action to sweep the blade open, without touching the blade, thumbstud, etc. It made him feel "cool", I guess
He was flicking the knife open with his right hand, when the knife salesman was describing the excellent, fully-ambidextrous qualities of the AXIS lock. My friend tried sweeping the blade open without pulling the AXIS lock or touching the thumbstud using his left hand. Being his off-hand, he was less secure with it. At the time, I was looking into one of the display cases. My friend made a huge arm motion to fling the blade out and lost hold of the knife. The knife flew into the front of a glass display case and smashed the ~5 foot wide glass in the front of the case. The knife then dropped right in front of my feet. I looked up in shock, at my friend, who's face turned the deepest shade of red I have ever seen in someone's face! He was speachless. There was a slight indent on the end of the knife where it hit the glass case. I bought the knife and I still like reminding my friend of that experience Any other funny knife-buying experiences out there? Let's hear 'em.
You can see the small dent on the end of the knife, on the left side in this picture.
Win-win, I'd say!
Eventually we found one at a place called NATS sporting goods in Bowling Green Ky. and those store employees where knife nuts. We eventually had all three employees over the glass case talking knives and they let my wife and I handle just about every knife there. 
