Cut a Fireman Today...

I'll bet that guy won't tell his coworkers what really happened to his finger. :D At least I wouldn't! :p
 
Lot of good replies.

My friends and family are fearful of knives I've been sharpening, which is a mild compliment. Seems like no one knows how to sharpen anything, nowadays.

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Having a sharp knife in your pocket is Almost Like Being In Love (with a bad girl!)
 
This is a really interesting thread!

I've lent my knife to a few people over the years, and fortunately, no one as gotten more than a slight nick. But one of the posts causes me to comment.

I carried slip joints as a kid, then moved to lockbacks for safety reasons. I typically carry at least one Spyderco lockback, usually 3" or less.

As for the sheeple factor, slipjoints are friendly, because people view them as the pocket knife their grandfather carried. BUT, a lockback is far safer for them to borrow. In other words, if someone asks to borrow a knife from me, their safety is better served if they borrow the lockback, rather than the friendlier looking slipjoint.

Anyone else ponder this, and come to any conclusions?
 
Thats exactly my dilemma. I get a lot of noise about my "dangerous lock knives" and snide comments like "how the heck do you close this without losing a finger?" but I've cut myself and seen too many people cut themselves with slipjoints to want to lend them out. This is compounded by the fact that you aren't legally allowed to carry locking blades without "good reason" i.e. work or bushcraft. To make THIS even worse, a judge has stated on the record that the law was meant to allow folding lock knives to be carried by the public but not stanley knives and other sliding knives because they're "viscious weapons". The final catch-22 being I'm not allowed to use a normal folder for work, I have to use a "stanley type knife". So do I carry a slipjoint that likes to cut me (which I can't use for work but I can use it for convenience!), a normal locking folder (basically barred from everything except camping but by far my preferred choice) or a stanley knife (a viscious weapon according to the law and in constant need of new blades)?

And which do I lend to let other people cut themselves with? :barf: :D
 
edb said:
BUT, a lockback is far safer for them to borrow. In other words, if someone asks to borrow a knife from me, their safety is better served if they borrow the lockback, rather than the friendlier looking slipjoint.
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Not in my experience, most try to close the knife using force intead of asking how. They either find the lock by accident, closing the blade on fingers, or they slip trying to apply more force.. and run fingers into the blade.

Of course, I'm surrounded by SAK people (of which I am, sometimes). :o
 
The trick is to persuade them to give it back to you to get it closed. All the lockbacks I've lent out are rock solid so there's no chance of accidentally causing the lock to fail and severing fingers. They're usually quite careful about it anyway...
 
Knifeclerk said:
Is it possible that I have been making my knives too sharp?
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Um, I don't see a winkie-face so I wonder if you are asking that in earnest.

Me, I find the premise silly. What would be the alternative? To keep the knives such that they won't quite cut flesh? What good is that?

I think a better solution is to keep fingers out of the way of the blades. :p

-Jeffrey
 
Knifeclerk said:
However my real question is, who else here has let someone use their knife briefly only to cut themselves?
::or maybe i don't have a question and just wanted to brag about how sharp i keep my knives::

-KC
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sure, there are alot of idiots out there with no knife handling skills...but hey I was ALWAYS taught by my granddad since i was a youngin drooling over his old slip joint that a sharp knife is a safe knife regardless. knicks and cuts happen, but slipping with a dull knife and then wounding yourself is far more severre.

just my 2 cents...
 
Merek said:
I was learn't never to trust a man what don't carry a knife... :eek:
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I thinik that's the best advice; if they can't carry their own knife, they ain't borrowing yours! Let 'em gnaw thru whatever! (Especially if they ain't man enough to be prepared with a basic item like a knife.)

Matt in Texas
 
About two years or so ago a friend asked me to bring my cooking knives over to his place so his wife could have a try and pick out something for her birthday.
Before I would let either of them handle them I showed them how to hold them, how sharp they were and what a sharp knife would do to some samples of bread and vegetables. And I said "Be CAREFUL!"
They both did fine until washing up, when she bundled them all together to take to the sink and sliced her wrist! She didn't even notice until the water turned red. He panicked and it was a year before they got up the nerve to replace their old "blunt stick" with a real knife.
Greg
 
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