Carrying a POS so you don't lend out your good ones?

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Has anybody felt the need to carry a POS or lesser knife in addition to your EDC because anyone you lend to doesn't handle your good knives the way you'd like?
 
All the time.. I used to sell alot of small and inexpensive Schrade folders to my co-workers.
 
Luckily, in my field of work- oh wait, I don't work :D - I don't ever get asked to loan out knives, so I usually only carry one.
 
I used to keep a Super Knife folding utility knife on my tool cart, some one needs a knife it works fine, if it gets dull or the tip breaks replace it.

When they ask why they can't use the $350+ Crawford Custom I use, I just ask them for a credit card as deposit, that usually shuts 'em right up. :)
 
never! quite the opposite actually. i carry whatever i like at any given day, and if that day i'm carrying a $200 knife and someone needs to borrow it, then so it goes. then they truly see how quality cutlery is, and if they break it they owe me a new one.
 
Some of the idiots I've seen out there I don't even want to lend out my Opinel. In general I will not lend out my knife. If they don't have one thats too bad, they made a choice not to carry a pocket knife. Let them live with that.
 
I will loan a knife to someone I trust implicitly, but to others, nope. I'll cut something for them if it needs cutting, but no loans.
 
Santi said:
Always got the SAK available.
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Absolutely right -
why even think about carrying a POS - when one can actually get world class leading quality for less than $10? - like these -

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Opinel #8 in stainless or plain carbon steels <$9

or
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Victorinox Waiter <$10

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No touch my knife! No borrow my knife! Only my wife borrows my knife. Everyone else can, well, they no borrow my knife! My knife's got swampwalk and they can't have it! They no got swampwalk so they no borrow my knife. You don't got no knife out of choice? Then use your fingernails you knifeless savage! You have no knife because you lost knife or no afford knife? Me cut for you if you got swampwalk. You no got swampwalk? Then tough shizzac, your own fault for voting taxes too high to buy knife.

AKA I don't even lend out my low-end knives. :)
 
I lend my knife to my wife all the time. She is respectful of it. She knows how much it cost... but most of all, how I treat it, how much I depend on it, and how much time I spend keeping a -popping edge on it. There are a few other people I know who have the same respect, but other than that, I'd have to agree with Roadrunner and jackknife. If they choose not to carry a knife, it's really not my problem, though I'd be happy to help out with anything I can that doesn't involve handing it over to someone else.

And I'm always happy to point out that they wouldn't be asking if they carried one of their own. :)
 
I don't like to let other people use my knives, especially my Dad because he usually wants a knife to pry at something or screw something. :) You should see all the slip joints he has with broken tips.
 
I don't carry POS junk, and the only way that I'll loan out any of my knives is when I can see what will be cut with it, then I get it RIGHT back.
 
i have a handful of friends i trust to use my "really good" knives as i would. beyond that, i do the cutting. i don't see any reason not to help the knifeless, but if it's anything more than 1 or 2 simple cuts, i pass.

at work, i will lend out my M16-12z 'cause it's a beater (since i messed it all up trying to sharpen it back in my knewbie days), but i explain "no prying" and "no screwdriving".

abe m.
 
At work I carry a Superknife and a small "good" folder. I pull out the Superknife if I have an "audience". I don't get asked to lend out knives very often but I'd lend out the Superknife without reservations. If someone does ask to borrow a knife my response is usually, "What do you want to cut?"
 
I don't have a problem lending my knife (usually Syyderco Military, lately Manix) - no one can abuse them as much as I do. They can take it. I will just check that it is to cut something however - no prying with the tip.
 
Sam Pai Kenpo said:
I never let anyone use my weapon.
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That's nice. When you grow up, maybe you can get a real knife! ;) J/K

If it needs to be cut, I cut it myself. There's exceptions, like when you're sitting around with your squad lashing your LBE's together and everyone needs to cut some paracord.
 
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