"Can I use your knife?"

Well, I haven't had a chance to wash it after the last time I keister'd it up my bum, and I have AIDS, salmonella, and ass-cancer.

"Are you serious?"

Do you really want to find out?

------ or how about ------

I actually need some new fingerprints to throw off the forensics people after that last ordeal.

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The last time I let someone use one of my EDC items, was a retarded ex-girlfriend asking to borrow my headlamp. She used it for less than 2 minutes to traverse the dark staircase outside. She gave it back to me cracked and broken. She said she bent down and it fell off her head, crashing into the asphalt and cracking the plastic nubs that held the battery cover on. The light had served me well for years without an incident. I used it every day (night), and in two minutes that dumb "C - U - Next Tuesday" ruined an important part of my repertoire. Never again.
 
I always have one of the cheaper Leatherman multitools on my belt, so it's no big deal to loan out.
Anything happens to the blade, the 25 year warranty kicks in for repair/replacement. If the borrower cuts himself or herself, tough luck, they should have been more careful.
 
GMacFullEffect said:
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)
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I literally laughed out loud reading that last line.
 
No.

I use my knives as weapons. I never surrender my weapons, unless it's a lawful command. If I'm on mission, I will use them as a tool or let a teammate also; however, in that instance, they usually get destroyed.
 
HST said:
No.

I use my knives as weapons. I never surrender my weapons, unless it's a lawful command. If I'm on mission, I will use them as a tool or let a teammate also; however, in that instance, they usually get destroyed.
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:eek:
 
I agree with just about everyone here who said some form or NO.

I can't pat my pockets in a feigned attempt to be searching for a knife because everyone who knows I carry at least one most always.

I always agree/offer to cut whatever it is they need cut - assuming, of course, that cutting is what they actually intended, contra to some of the antics I have seem and others here have described.

All of that being said, given that I have a Gerber EAB Lite, I may start carrying it on me more often; good idea.
 
HST said:
No.

I use my knives as weapons. I never surrender my weapons, unless it's a lawful command. If I'm on mission, I will use them as a tool or let a teammate also; however, in that instance, they usually get destroyed.
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I just had gecko45 flashbacks
 
If people do not stop derailing threads with the vulgarity and references to such, there will be infractions handed out accordingly.
 
"No."
"Why not?"
"It was very expensive"
"Like $50?"
"More like $350."

After they hear that, they're usually not interested anymore, and if they are, they will be gentile. :D
 
I don't usually let anyone outside of my family use any of my knives. Just safe to do. If they really need a knife they should be carrying one themselves
 
I'm always laugh when people say wow that's a sharp knife. I mean yeah that's kind of the point of a knife, if I wanted a dull tool I have a pocket with many keys that are about as sharp as most of the knives in people's pockets. Nothing but dam gas station tactical crap and jarbenzas
 
Almost everyone that I work with carries a knife.
The few times that someone asked to borrow my knife, I have taken the minute to cut what they needed.
I don't take the chance of someone handing it back damaged.
 
NeilB said:
I've loaned a knife twice since I got into quality knives. First time it came back unscathed with the comment that it was "too sharp". I'm not even sure what that means.
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I could see someone looking at a pocket knife and thinking that having a razorblade edge on it defeats the purpose of having a pocketknife over a straight edge razor. If your edge wont hold up well to cutting but shaves hair- "too sharp" could be them implying that the edge is too sharp of an angle.

In other words the edge is too fine to support the intended use of a knife. example: turning a chopper into a slicer- a 20 degree inclusive angle on a machete is too sharp for it be used as a machete.

All that said- I doubt that's what they meant- but THAT would make it a valid statement.
 
Two days ago I was in the medical supply store waiting for my order while a lady behind the counter was trying to remove a taped label from a cane for a customer. This went on for a long time, and when it was time to pay she was holding up the line. She tried using sissors to get under the tape to cut it, so I asked if she would like a knife and handed my old Spyderco Police to the customer who was waiting for his cane. He quickly cut the tape and had to say, Wow, now that's a knife. Job done everyone happy. It was in the right environment; everyone with older gray hair, I wouldn't do this for youngsters.
 
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