"Can I use your knife?"

I will generally say yes, because all of the people who would ask me to use my knife are close friends and family and I tell them how much I spent on each knife before they ever get to touch it, and where I'm from people generally know how to use a knife because they either fish or hunt. So far I have only had to get on to somebody once. I stuck my Spyderco Gayle Bradley in a piece of wood on a pallet so we could hose it down with the pallet and the person I let use it after that apparently thought that since I stuck it in the pallet he could also do that. I told him not so kindly that no that was a line that he does not get to cross.
 
I'm a more lenient person. IF I KNOW THE GUY/GAL, then yes, I usually don't have a problem. If it's a random person, then I ask what. Then I ask why. Then I tell them to bring me what needs to be cut. The only reason I'll give It to someone I Know, is because my friends are well aware of the costs and sharpness that accompanies my blades. Yes my cqc4k only costs 40 dollars. But that's 40 of my hard earned frog skins. And while I save for a true Emerson, it's what I have. But every tool needs respect. Especially my tools, when it comes to lending them
 
Depends who asks and which knife they wish to use - I have a number of buddies who are knife guys and I wouldn't hesitate to lend them any one of my users.

Also if the knife is a beater fixed blade, ie golok, machete or mora then yes, I would lend it to most people.
 
Three reasons I no longer let people borrow my knives.

Last week I lent my Paramilitary 2 out to my grandfather at a family gathering. Half an hour later as he gave it back he said "Your knife was too sharp to use, so I scraped it across the garage floor a bit it to dull it down."

The time before that my niece decided to use my 940-1 as a throwing knife against the side of the shed after she had requested to borrow it in order to help her younger sister open her birthday present. The actually reason for borrowing it is because her mother had confiscated her own throwing knife after almost striking the family pet with a poorly aimed throw the day before.

The third time I was sitting down at my workbench sharpening a dozen or so knives when my girlfriend asked to borrow one to open some mail. She grabbed my freshly sharpened Izula and walked out of the room. Five minutes later she walked back into the room incredibly embarrassed with a heavily bleeding hand asking me to take her to the hospital.
 
benzology said:
Depends who asks and which knife they wish to use - I have a number of buddies who are knife guys and I wouldn't hesitate to lend them any one of my users.
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That is the reality of it for me, all joking aside.

Sometimes my worker bees will ask to borrow my knife. They know I always have one on me. The problem there is that some think it's the knife's fault if it breaks or the blade chips when they use my knife and "part of the job" same as using another tool that I provide. If it breaks, it breaks. I have news for them. Get your own knife.
 
DO you have insurance? All joking aside, I was showing my coworker my brand new Strider SMF a few months ago and the first thing he did when I handed it to him was try to thumb flick it. He didn't know what he was doing and the blade only deployed 1/3 of the way. Instead of just opening it the rest of the way with his thumb he decided to wrist flick the ever loving hell out of it. I cried inside a little and felt a great hatred for him the next couple of hours. I am a former Marine and he was in the Air Force, maybe he thought flicking it would impress me or maybe he thought it was okay. At any rate, I will never let anyone use my knifes again. P.S. We are friends again haha, he just knows not to ask to see any of my knives from now on.
 
Sgt_Bobbo said:
DO you have insurance? All joking aside, I was showing my coworker my brand new Strider SMF a few months ago and the first thing he did when I handed it to him was try to thumb flick it. He didn't know what he was doing and the blade only deployed 1/3 of the way. Instead of just opening it the rest of the way with his thumb he decided to wrist flick the ever loving hell out of it. I cried inside a little and felt a great hatred for him the next couple of hours. I am a former Marine and he was in the Air Force, maybe he thought flicking it would impress me or maybe he thought it was okay. At any rate, I will never let anyone use my knifes again. P.S. We are friends again haha, he just knows not to ask to see any of my knives from now on.
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My buddy used my fixed Eickhorn knife to dig a fire hole.

Maybe there is a pattern?
Airforce tends to want to make things fly.
Army wants to dig in.

How about the Navy?
 
Jens Schuetz said:
My buddy used my fixed Eickhorn knife to dig a fire hole.

Maybe there is a pattern?
Airforce tends to want to make things fly.
Army wants to dig in.

How about the Navy?
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I think the Navy would dunk it in salt water and watch to see if it were rust resistant. Damn squids haha.
 
Luckily, I am so immersed in the knife community, I don't get asked this very often. When it comes up, I usually have no problem steering it into the "I'll do it for you" scenario, or more often than not, the "Let's get the ACTUAL tool for this job." Any push back, then it's either a NO or I start sounding like an insurance salesman, explaining what he or she's liable for.

I sell knives, and at one shop I worked for, I had a coworker who did not know anything about knives. We were checking in inventory, and I asked her to open the shipment. She asked to borrow my knife. Of course, her being a knife salesperson, I asked "Don't you have one?" and she replied: "Why would I need knife?" (Let me reinforce, a KNIFE SALESPERSON)

That is the person you don't want to loan a knife. I found a boxcutter in the back and she went on her way and my knife was unharmed in this situation.
 
"Oh hell no!"

See the thread about lending people knives. Last time I let someone "borrow" a knife, it was a CRKT. The person threw it into the lawn to "test the sharpness". Lucky the blade came out with only a few scratches.
 
Havoc5J said:
Three reasons I no longer let people borrow my knives.

Last week I lent my Paramilitary 2 out to my grandfather at a family gathering. Half an hour later as he gave it back he said "Your knife was too sharp to use, so I scraped it across the garage floor a bit it to dull it down."
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That makes me cringe just thinking about it. What does "your knife was to sharp to use" even mean? I just cannot believe someone would take another persons knife and scrape it across the cement. That is just insane to me. I know its your Grandfather so you cannot get to mad, but damn. I hope you have learned a valuable lesson from your experiences.
 
Capt. Spaulding said:
That makes me cringe just thinking about it. What does "your knife was to sharp to use" even mean? I just cannot believe someone would take another persons knife and scrape it across the cement. That is just insane to me. I know its your Grandfather so you cannot get to mad, but damn. I hope you have learned a valuable lesson from your experiences.
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We might underestimate Grandpa. What if he is a witty knife nut in disguise.
Just messing up the edge isn't that bad and a small price for grandson to learn not to lend his knife out to Anybody. :D
Just imagine somebody else could have twisted the tip on a screw head or even broken it prying things or hurt themselves or others.
 
I would ask what did they need cut. However family or close aquainences would let me cut said item if they didnt have a knife of some sort, just so i can get amusment out of using my knife.
 
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