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

I carry Kershaw Scallion to lend out. I don't trust random people to not hurt themselves with a balisong. Although the Scallion really makes people jump when they don't expect the assisted opening, and NO ONE I've ever lent it to can figure out how to close it. Its a liner lock, people!
 
bill_G said:
Sure......that's why i always have a BM on me to hand out......


oh no...where's my asbestos suit??
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The axis-locked BM's are very intuitive to figure out. Only had to stop one person from almost severing his fingers.

If BM is a POS to you, may I borrow your Spydercos, Microtechs, and Chris Reeve knives? They're probably only slightly better POS's and you'd hardly miss them. :p
 
Roadrunner said:
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.
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What he said ;)
There are only about 3 or 4 people I would trust enough to loan to. While my EDC is no $400 collector, it's still mine and I don't want it busted or some jackass cutting themselves (or someone else :eek: ) and then saying "duh... I didn't know it was sharp" (heard that before :rolleyes: ).
 
Case in point happened just this weekend while assembling some pre-fab wooden shelving. My neighbor was going to open up the cellophane bags of screws in such a manner that the blade would have scraped against the screws. WTF! I stopped it cold and demonstrated how to slicey-the-baggy with no damage to the blade. :rolleyes:
 
About the pretentious thing- People say they won't lend to anybody because they're afraid they'll hurt themselves, right? Working with idiots, like I'd heard it told. I trust all my friends, and anybody else I like with what I have. Yes, there's always a chance that they'll break it and refuse to replace it. But I don't believe someone would betray my friendship and trust over something as trivial as a $100 knife or so. I don't see how you guys can.

It must be a terribly lonely way to live, thinking that everyone but you is an idiot or out to screw you over...

I might end up getting nailed someday. But even if I do, a knife is just a knife, and there's more important things than that. I want to be able to
believe in my friends...and when I see you, unless you give me reason to believe otherwise, I treat you like a respectable, intelligent person and expect the same in return.
 
Good grief, what, do you work in a church or something? Try a job with a couple thousand people in the building, maybe a couple hundred in your section of it, some of whom have to be reminded by the supervisors to bathe periodically. Just as a health thing, you understand, not trying to interfere with anyone's traditional customs, but phewwww ...

No, they're not all "friends" and they don't get to "see" my knife.

Yeah, I'm pretentious.
 
About three months ago, me and a friend are taking the 1 train uptown after our Kali class. Were standing and this guy sitting right by us is trying to poke holes in a carboard box with a key. My friend askes if there is something alive in the box. The answer is yes, birds. Being a nice guy, I say "Here, wanna use this" and offer him a very a CRKT Peck that was on my key chain. This was my cheap EDC beater/loaner. The guy pops about 3 or 4 hole in the box before he cuts the webbing between his left thumb and index finger. He was pretty embarrassed and just handed me the knife back. He was pretty bloody, I still wonder what would have happen to his hand had I given him one of my other shaving sharp EDCs instead of the PECK.
So to answer the post, I used to, but because too many people lack such a basic and primitive skill as using a knife safely, I no longer do. If you wanna cut yourself, get your own knife, I wont be a party to it any longer.

Eric 425, the original post question was extended to coworkers, not friends only. My friends I have much respect for and would trust with any of my knives, but I work with some serious knuckleheads. I would not trust them with anything sharp.
 
Eric_425,

Come on down Eric, down off your self righteous, idealistic pedestal for a moment. My friends are way different than some stranger or person at work. Most of my friends carry their own knives and multi-tools the rest of my friends I trust with mine. When it comes to people other than close personal friends I have a different opinion.

Fact is, I don't want that same person asking me for a favor hurting themself, then getting me into trouble/fired/lawsuit. When you grow up, get married, have a family, own a home ..... things you have worked hard for, you will have more to lose. When you get to that stage in your life, it isn't just about you anymore, I have to consider my family as well.

This doesn't mean I don't stop to help change flat tires for strangers, or let them use my cell phone if they need to make a call, or hold the door open for people. It doesn't even mean I won't cut what needs cutting if they ask. But if I don't know you that well, or we are just an acquaintance all bets are off when it comes to loaning you sharp pointy implements.

And no, I don't feel it's a lonely existence or that I'm being harsh.

So Eric_425, come down son.
 
i recently skated my new s30v spyderco native across the floor to my wife so she could cut open a box. i love the knife (it was a gift), but boy do those cheap-lookin' FRN handles bug me -- that's probably why i'm more prone to beat it up a little. in my book, FRN handles scream "beat me up, i'm a beater" :D. i'm a hopeless G10 or micarta fan.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
That's what they're for, they can take it. :D

I like micarta myself.
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true.. hey esav, do you have any idea what the difference in tensile or elastic strength/wearability, heat resistance, etc, etc is between G10 & FRN? just kinda curious here.
 
Not a clue. I don't do engineering. But G-10 is way more resistent to heat and chemicals. I bet you could melt FRN with a match.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Not a clue. I don't do engineering. But G-10 is way more resistent to heat and chemicals. I bet you could melt FRN with a match.
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welp, i guess it's time to take a lighter to some G10 scales & compare the effects to FRN. lemmie know how it goes, will ya brother man? ;)
 
Eric, I think that Esav covered this very well already, but let me give you just two examples of my own experience with 'loaning'. A fellow soldier once asked to borrow a knife when we were in the Motor Pool. I asked what for. She got a sort of chagrined look on her face and said "To scrape some goop off the walls in our office." I let her use my Swisstool and didn't get it back for two days. :rolleyes:

The other one happened with yet another fellow soldier. One of the guys in my squad was told his belt was too long and he needed to cut it down to size. He asked to use my Camillus EDC to cut it. He was sitting right across the table from me so I handed it to him. He opened it up and prepared to use the tip to pry open the back of his belt buckle! I stopped him with much head shaking and expletives. Now these are just two examples, I have more and have read many, many more here on the forums. After witnessing so much idiocy, I have a hard time trusting someone I barely know with my favorite knife. My brother, sure. My Dad, hell yeah. But, wait, hold on, my Dad has a choice of three different knives that I've given him over the years to carry, and my brother just asked for my help in choosing a new EDC. He decided on a Kershaw Rainbow Leek and loves it (carries it too). Hmm, I see a pattern here. The people whom I trust to use my knives always carry their own. Mostly because they're intelligent, responsible individuals. The guy I barely know from work who wants a loaner probably doesn't fit in that category.
 
Thanks for the opinel info, is it farily thin? Also I don't lend knives cuz I keep mine SHARPER than most non-knife people would be used to and anyone that I carry will CUT if handled carelessly many non-knife people are used to butterknife sharpess. Also, like ESAV I don't loan pens either, mainly bc I always carry expensive Watermans:)
 
The Opinel blade is thin. I have a big one with a blade 4.75" long and it looks to be only 3/32" at the tang, where the width is 1".
 
I usually only carry one knife and I’m happy to loan it out to anyone. The fancier it is the better! It’s interesting to see people’s reactions to a nice knife. Some of them are impressed and compliment you, while others just insult you (as in: “It’s stupid to spend that much money on a knife!”) LOL!

I’ll keep a close eye on how they’re using the knife. If they start to do something stupid with it (which happens frequently), then I’ll quickly jump in and chastise them. It’s a good opportunity to teach people how to use a knife properly, which benefits them as much as it does me. :)
 
Where in the original post did it say anything about only coworkers? The posts I was referring to was about not lending to anybody. If you're just worried, why not just say "Sure, but it's an expensive/sharp knife. Be careful with it." I'm not saying I go around handing the keys to my car to strangers who ask for it, but if it's small, cheap enough to be paid for with a credit card, and the person hasn't done anything to make me think he's an idiot, then why not?
 
right on, cerulean. loan is a really strong word here. i let people use my utility knives, and i'll let people handle any one of them, though not all at once. i do not let them out of my sight, and nine times out of ten they learn quite a bit from the encounter, if it's the first time. if it's not all they learn is that they should have bought there own by now. that and that if they go to the local knife store (the only local knife store in a city of like 250,000!!!!!) and tell them i sent them then they will get straight talk and probably a deal.
i've done my whole family, all of my close friends, and a larger percentage of regular aquaintances. and a several strangers as well. i'm keeping that man in the green! spreading the knife love.....
 
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