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

I don't even lend out my pens. I sure won't lend a knife. It's not even the damage they can do to the knife. If they aren't into knives enough to have one of their own, I don't trust them not to hurt themselves, and I don't want blood all over the blade. :(

It's not a prybar? it's not a screwdriver? How about a scraper, for the chewing gum or dog poop on the sole of their shoe? Forget it.
 
I treat my knives like any other tool. Just like I'm not lending you my $300 DeWalt 24V drill for just anything, just as I'm not letting you use my $80 frame hammer to "tap" a piece of concrete level, you are not being lent my knife for just anything.
 
I don't loan my knife either. I have, however, been known to give decent knives as Christmas presents to coworkers who expressed interest in my knife habit.
 
Sometimes I have to loan my knife and I always carry a good folder. I am a FireFighter/Emt and a knife is a needed tool. I do wish evryone in my dept. would carry a knife of their own though.But I figure they can't do much worse than I do to it and I trust these men and women with my life I suppose I can trust them with my knife
 
Hey how big is that Opinel #8 (do they carry well in pocket) and are they any good. I've been thinking of getting back into carrying a Slipjoint but most of mine are of the expensive collector variety, and I don't like SAKS (no offense anyone). And NO I don't loan my knives, my EDC is usually a PE Delica or a Serrated Endura or on occasion a 4.25in CV Stockman, and you could shave with any of them, I like to keep em sharp. No way am I handing one (as sharp as I keep one) over to someone that doesn't have their own knife, that's just a self-inflicted wound waiting to happen, that I could possibly be "blamed" for.
 
There's one guy at work that I would consider loaning my EDC to, and he's the guy that convinced me I was an idiot for carrying around a staghorn handle case folder beating my testicles regularly. Everyone else I'll dig out a stanley razor knife out of my tool kit to use. No touchey me EDC. I'll be the dipshit that breaks it first. Nuff said.

710BMFAN
 
Wow, lots of people here are super anal. I'm just a poor college kid, but if it doesn't cost me anything to help someone out with something they need then I'll give it to them. I don't see any reason not to, other than being a jerk. Guy sitting next to me in calculus would lend me his extra pen if I needed one, and I'd do the same for him. It's unspoken, but just understood friends can borrow most anything I've got that could be covered with a credit card, and I can borrow theirs. If I break their stuff, or they break my stuff, then we'll make it right... just common sense. No pretentious crap about how I'm afraid people will hurt themselves. You're a big boy, you know knife = cut. You can handle a 3500 lb hunk of steel going 65 mph to get to where I was, then you can handle my knife.
 
I'm not talking pretentious crap, I'm talking about working with idiots. I had a woman break a Cross ballpoint, for crying out loud. I wouldn't trust people like that with a butterknife.
 
Spydiefan04, go ahead and get an Opinel. You really have to hold one and use it to see, but it is compact, comfortable, lightweight, and your biggest carry problem will be that you'll forget it's in your pocket, it's so unobtrusive.

Unless you work in a particularly corrosive environment, go for the carbon steel. The stainless are good, too. The blade is thin and convex with a slight or no secondary bevel, and it will help to put a narrow bevel on it. Once it is sharp, you generally only have to strop it to maintain the edge.
 
I was thinking of getting a douk-douk for this very purpose: Not a POS (good steel blade), but like the Opinel it's inexpensive enough to be semi-disposable.
 
If you're thinking of a loaner, go with the Opinel. I love that Douk-Douk, but I'm sure the ones I've got are typical. They are stiffer, they snap shut, the thinner, slicker metal handle is harder to control. Someone who isn't as familiar with knives will take to an Opinel like it's an ordinary kitchen knife, but the Douk-Douk could be dangerous.

The Opinel is sharp but the Douk-Douk tip will cut through a finger like it wasn't there.
 
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. :)



note to self: don't loan out the douk-douk to the unwary... :footinmou
 
Boink said:
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?
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I'd rather lend someone my toothbrush than my knife.

maximus otter
 
Sure......that's why i always have a BM on me to hand out...... :D


oh no...where's my asbestos suit?? :D
 
I used to, at times, carry a junker/beater along with a quality one, but I don't bother any more. The last time I lent someone a knife to be used unsupervised, he cut grip tape with it. %@#$ing grip tape! :mad:

Instead, if someone asks to use my knife, instead I'll ask them what they need cut and do it for them. Either that, or lend them my Leatherman Squirt S4, since scissors are usually a better choice for their particular task anyway. :rolleyes:
 
I carry a beater as well as a favorite, just becasue I miight have to (ab)use it for something. By no means is it a junker--rather a kick-ass Spyderco.

And as you might expect, when I do use it for something rough and dirty, it gets cleaned and sharpened afterwards. In fact, it so sharp that I haven't lent it in years, becasue the last time lent out a similar knife, the idiot decided to see "how sharp it was" and ended up slicing his finger to the bone.
:rolleyes:

I hate driving people to the emergency room.
 
I use whatever I have in my edc rotation, could be a BM 720, Buck mini- Strider, or some kind of SAK, to name a few. Though I normally have 2-3 on me at any givent time between a full sized folder and my key keychain knife and maybe even one in my watch pocket. Anyway, they aint high priced collectors knives, but they get carried, if they get carried...... they get used.

I try to not lend my knives to people, either because they don't really need a knife and/or wouldn't know how to use one safely. What most of them need are wire cutters, scissors, a screw driver or a prybar, not a knife. I don't carry anything extra just so I can supply the rest of the un-prepared world with tools (or whatever) to help them get through their day.
 
I don't carry a POS, period. Depending on the situation I could have no problem lending out a knife, or I might just say I will cut what needs cutting. It would really depend on what I was carrying at the moment, who was asking, and what needed to be cut.

The knife that I would most easily lend out is my beater knife and work knife, a Combat Elite RRF. By no means a POS at all, but a great knife. Anyway I just use it and beat it when I need to at work, so I wouldn't have a problem letting someone else do it. Just don't pry to much with it please.

If I happened to be carrying my Mayo large TNT, and I didn't know the person well and exactly what they wanted it for the answer would be NO. If I felt that the knife was the right tool for what they wanted I would have no use helping out.

Eric,
It's not about being pretensious, or being an ass. Would you lend someone something that cost hundreds of dollars and not worry about it? Reality is that if they break it they might not replace it for you. My bet is they would just reply with "I can get you a knife for much less", then go out and buy you a POS as a replacement.
 
It has nothing to with being pretentious. In this day of " suing McDonalds for being fat," you are foolish to loan any kind of knife to some coworker that you barely know. Let the office supply the proper equipment.

I think that a person who does not carry a knife is disqualified from even handling my knife, even my EDC.

Having said that, I commonly give knifes to friends whom I know well. A man is not fully dressed without a knife in his pocket.
 
I've always carried a secondary slipjoint folder in addition to my primary edc. Like it was said earlier....I don't lend out my primary, but then I rarely lend out the other one !!
 
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