Can I use your knife?

I generally will loan my knife out. That said, I view it like loaning money...so I generally will decline anyone that I wouldn't loan money to.

knives are tools and I won't tolerate misuse of tools of any kind. I also am not a fan of lying or being lied to. If someone wants to borrow a tool and misuse it, I attempt to educate them. If that fails, we are done talking and obviously I won't loan my tools to someone that refuses education (this falls under the rule of never loan tools to idiots).
 
JustinFournier said:
I tell people no all the time after having a Sebenza dropped by someone who borrowed it to use for a second. The last straw was when someone just wanted to see and flicked it open.

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I brought a CRK into work so someone could see it. I had to talk to the guy sitting next to him, so I just handed it to him. All of the sudden I noticed out of the corner of my eye he was repeatedly flicking it open - D'Oh! I figured it was my mistake and I will be careful who I hand my knives too. Although I now trust him not to flick MY knives after the lecture I gave him LOL
 
I know this is the CR forum and I don't happen own any but I have nothing but good things to say about them.

, I generally carry two knives with me. I might loan out the cheapo but I don't loan out my good knives whether I made it or others.

Unless its a prospective buyer for one of my customs.:)

Carry two knives. Your CR and a chinese speacial or Leatherman if you like.
 
I typically don't let people use my higher end knives out of fear that they will 1) badly cut themselves 2) start prying with it 3) drop it on concrete 4) over extend the lock bar

Like many others here I always carry a secondary knife, usually an SAK or traditional folder - that's what I let other people borrow.
 
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I let someone use a brand new Spyderco delica many years ago without asking any questions. Guy used it as a screwdriver and snapped the tip off. Lesson learned!!! Now, especially since getting into sebenzas, i offer to cut whatever needs to be cut or i start asking questions... What are you cutting, is there any metal in it, wires, staples etc. by the time i'm done they usually seek another option. I've also done the "ummm, i don't have a knife on me" and quickly make sure the pocket clip is not visible so i don't look like a douche.
 
I just tell folks "There's no way in hell you're using my CRK", when they give that "you dirty S.O.B. look" I hand them a Strider to use.
 
I guess I look at this situation differently than most of you.

If a friend, coworker or peer asks me to use my knife I'm going to let them. I don't baby my knives. They're tools. They're meant to be used. I'm not going to carry a knife I'm not confident in. Or a knife where I'm trying to preserve its pristine, new condition. In my opinion, scratches, dings, and dents build character. They're nothing to be afraid of.

Moreover, if the knife breaks while being used on a pedestrain task it's either (a) a shit knife or (b) a defective knife. If it's the former, time to get yourself a new blade. If it's the latter, I'd hope that the manufacturer would cover the cost of sending out a new knife.

For the record, I carry a Large Sebenza 21 with a Ladder Damascus blade. It's an expensive knife. It's a pretty knife. But at the end of the day, it's a knife. It's meant to be used!
 
TerryBlinski said:
I guess I look at this situation differently than most of you.

If a friend, coworker or peer asks me to use my knife I'm going to let them. I don't baby my knives. They're tools. They're meant to be used. I'm not going to carry a knife I'm not confident in. Or a knife where I'm trying to preserve its pristine, new condition. In my opinion, scratches, dings, and dents build character. They're nothing to be afraid of.

Moreover, if the knife breaks while being used on a pedestrain task it's either (a) a shit knife or (b) a defective knife. If it's the former, time to get yourself a new blade. If it's the latter, I'd hope that the manufacturer would cover the cost of sending out a new knife.

For the record, I carry a Large Sebenza 21 with a Ladder Damascus blade. It's an expensive knife. It's a pretty knife. But at the end of the day, it's a knife. It's meant to be used!
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I need to adopt you philosophy. I think my hang up is that i know what these knives are made for but the person i hand my knife over to may not. I know that they are CUTTING tools, my fear is that i might hand my knife to someone who doesn't share that knowledge may unknowingly "abuse" the knife by using it as a prying tool, a screwdriver or try to cut material that can damage the blade. I do have knives that i will use for almost any type of task (serious hard use) but my Sebenzas are NOT those knives, eventhough they are probably best designed to handle it. Maybe it's a cost issue for me. I should designate one to use without reservation and free myself from this reluctance.
 
Unless I am on a plane nobody would believe me.
While the Sebenza is a cutting tool, it is a very special tool.
I am into knives long enough to know that even for cutting, there are different solutions.
So under no way the Sebenza is a substitute for a screwdriver, a prybar, whatever.

"Think Twice - Cut Once" this is why I love to carry my Sebenza.
I do use a SWISS-Tool around the house.
 
I find it sad that anybody that carries a knife and they do not use it, why carry it at all??? Just saying.
 
I always carry a Case or SAK along with my primary carry knife. The Case or SAK is the one that I let people borrow, not my CRKs...
 
Depending on the usage I am willing to let others use my knife. But in your specific instances I would've just said no to their requests. No need to lie, especially to your son.
 
rio said:
I find it sad that anybody that carries a knife and they do not use it, why carry it at all??? Just saying.
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Out of curiosity, which particular person here said they don't use their knife?
Loaning out tools or anything for that matter, no matter the cost, is a highly personal choice..
I have loaned out tools before that have been handed back to me broken. One of them was a .0005 test indicator to the night shift at my previous job. When I came into work the next morning, it was in pieces with a note; "Sorry Bill, I found your indicator this way"
Riiight..I left it in my box, in one piece functioning correctly and now I get to replace it because someone can't take personal responsibility for their choices.
Really, I can imagine someone snapping the tip off of my knife, which isn't cheap, to do a job a $5.00 screwdriver should have been used for and handing it back and saying "Sorry" or worse yet, not saying anything.

Like I said..It's a highly personal choice.
 
None of us said WE didn't use our knives, we just said, YOU don't get to. Big difference.
 
I've had a few handed back minus .5 inches of tip. One handed back with no finish left on the knife, and the edge looking like it had been used to cut penny nails.

I'm very picky about lending. I usually offer to cut. If I see it is a job for another tool, I say so. If it is a knife appropriate job, and they want to do it them selves I warn about the level of sharpness. Often people get cut anyway.

Once, in a building with 200+. I was approached by a woman who needed a knife. She wanted to cut bagles. I cut them for her. After doing so, she made a very snarky judgemental question about why I would ever need to carry such a dangerous knife, that was obviously only good as a weapon.

I smiled, and said, "why, I've been carrying that knife for 15 years for the sole purpose of cutting your bagles. Now I can stop carrying it!"
 
Hummmm... I am still a newbie here thus forgive me for a newbie question.
Chris reeve knives are not to be flicked like a spyderco?
 
Skyler71 said:
Hummmm... I am still a newbie here thus forgive me for a newbie question.
Chris reeve knives are not to be flicked like a spyderco?
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I don't think the problem is flicking per se on an occasional basis, but there are or used to be many that would sit around flicking their knives open over and over for whatever reason. Like anything else, cycles can reduce life where the lockbar is concerned.
What that does for returns, repairs and warranty work is only known by CRK, but I am somewhat confident that flicking is not really recommended by CRK.
 
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