Do you ever get tired of being the one with the knife?

Sesoku

Sesoku

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Does it ever bother anyone when the people you are around every day rely on you to cut everything for them? It is fun to show of your knife once in a while, but mostly the people who want something cut couldn't care less what kind it is. What really irritates me is that I have bought knives for my family and most of the time they don't carry them. I bought my dad a mini AFCK, and guess what he carries everyday? A Schrade Uncle Henry with a 2" blade that he has worn down to about 1/4" wide by sharpening it on a grinder. I bought my mom a SAK Huntsman. Yesterday she asked me to cut her sub in half for her. I asked her where her knife was and she told me it was at home in her other purse. I bought my girlfriend a cute blue handled SAK and she never carries it.

I usually cut what people ask me to cheerfully, but it just irks me that after all I have explained the virtues of carrying a good knife, most of it has fallen on deaf ears. Can anyone relate??
 
Better to be the one with than without. Of the 20 or so knives I have given as gifts about 4 actually became daily carries. My GF does keep the Micra I bought her on her keychain but she leaves the Running Dog Lil' Camper in her desk drawer most of the time.
 
No.....I love it!

My favorite thing is when someone says "does anybody have a knife?"

My eyes get glazed over and I say "Do I have a knife? sure, what kind do you need, take your pick etc..." :D

Drives my wife nuts. LOL
 
I know where you are coming from. i bought a friend a Delica 98 because he is left handed and he said that he "loves it" and "keeps it in the kitchen" WTF? I keep a bunch of FB in the kitchen -- folders are to be carried, IMHO.

Oh well...
 
My wife carried the BM350 I gave her in her purse every day. Doesn't use it much though.

I gave my bother-in-law a Gerber "Fred Carter" Utility-1 and I'm told he takes it to work everyday (he's a firefighter).

I gave my dad a Gerber EZ-out, and just sent him a Timberline Discovery Lock yesterday. Dunno if he will actually use either of them though.

I've gave my mom & a couple sisters knives recently. My impression is that they don't carry them.

I've been tempted a couple times to give some to friends, but I get the distinct feeling they wouldn't actually carry them either.

Mike
 
Sesoku, I'd guess what you've run into is the is the social acceptance aversion so common today.
Can't carry a knife at.....work, school, airports, etc. People just get out of the habit because it is
such a hassell. That plus the fact that knives in general are lumped into one broad incorrect
catagory of ......weapons. As you've discovered the older folk's carry slipjoint pocketknives
because that's what they grew up with and learned how to use. Women don't carry pocketknives
as a rule because the seldom need knives outside of the home. I had to insist that my wife add a
spyderco ladybug to here keyring to have a blade handy. Now that shes gotten (key stament
here) "used to it" she won't be with out it. So as we all can see it is social norms that determine
what we learn to use and accept. The knifenuts of the world are just a bit out of step with the
"civilized" world just now. Just wait until they need us...........
 
Can't relate. When I bought my first Spyderco Endura, my Dad asked me why I needed such a big knife. Same with my brother. They would just roll their eyes and shake their heads. I bought each of them a Spydie that Christmas. Now my Dad never goes anywhere without his Endura or Delica. and my brother always has his Delica with him!:D

When I started working the job I currently have now, over 3 years ago, I was the ONLY guy who wore a pocket knife with a clip. Now three other guys besides me carry Emersons too, one a BM 720, one a CRKT large KFF, one guy a small KFF.:D

Now I just have to convince my dad and brother they NEED a larger knife while hiking and/or camping. So this Christmas they are gonna get CS SRK's.;)
 
I'm not sure that it's as much that knifes are now
thought to be weapons as much as it's people just don't
think they need it. Must people don't have tools in there
car, or in there house for that matter. Once then my aunt
had moved to a new house we got stuff un-packed, the next night
I went over, and A door need to be removed from the frame..
So I said "Aunt where are your tool box" the response was a blank
look of "T..o..o..l.s.???" "Ok a hammer then"
"Don't think I have one do you really need it?"
"I'll be right back (Out to the car)"

People just don't seem to want to think, and be ready!

And YES I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT!!!!
 
Some folks just have different things they "need" to carry. My wife has a Victorinox Camper and a Spyderco Delica. She only puts the Camper in her luggage or purse for long trips and she carries the Delica about 50% of the time. But she seems to NEVER be without chewing gum, lip-balm, things to put her hair up with, and those little stain removal packs. And of course MAKE-UP!
I also think women like for men to cut stuff for them.

I confess: sometimes I lie to my co-workers and say "Sorry, I forgot my knife today". I just get tired of them always borrowing mine instead of getting their own. I also don't trust them not to foul-up my knife by abusing it.
 
Hate it when that happens to me!!

I just got laid off from a seasonal construction job as a laborer. I thought common sense would dictate that if you work construction, you carry SOMETHING that can cut, a cheap disposable razor knife, a $12 Wal-Mart knife, something with an edge. well...once again, i was wrong. I'd have people walk a half a damn mile to borrow my knife. being as I don't loan my knives out any more (learned this after a field supervisor ran the edge of my Sebenza straight down a brick wall) I'd have to walk over there, and do the cutting. I always found this just about incomprehensible. On the lighter side though, it did often times get me a nice little break from shovelling, jack hammering or whatever.

I work as a Volunteer EMT also...same story, actually about half the guys have something (Spyderco's in some shape or form are very popular with the guys) But the women I work with wind up trying to use Trauma Shears for everything (truth be known I'd give up my pocket knife before my shears myself) but it still seems silly not to have something with a blade. I realize not everyone in the world is going to have a need or an interest in Sebenzas, Microtechs, Benchmades, etc. but they could at least pick up a little Gerber LST or something.

I get the similar thing from my father. often times when we're at the cabin, fishing, or working in the garage something needs cut, and I manage to do this quite rapidly with the deployment of my mini-SOCOM, or my Protech Runt, while he's still fishing his Uncle Henry out of his pocket, what thanks do I get? "gawd da#%it, I don't understand why the h3ll you need them fancy rambo bambo pieces of sh!t! aint no real man that carries them things! aint no one but arm chair warriors and wanna be hunters use them things! blah, blah, blah...." I'm going to try to change his perspective by picking him up an Alaska Knives Super Cub....wish me luck! I guess that's another irritation that branches off the original post. You're the one that has the cutting implement all the time, and then people wanna give ya crap about being a knife freak, paranoid, wasteful, or whatever. Whenever my mechanic friends start this up I simply tell them that I carry a Sebenza for the same reason they use Snap-On tools- because I feel it's the best I can possibly get. actually, that usually works pretty well...anyways, I'm done with my gripe. y'all have a good day!
 
You figure in my line of work and considering where I work (look to the left...) that more people would carry knives, especially clipped folders. Wrong. Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis are either serving or former military or police (myself included - former military) and you would figure they would carry...nope. The police guys I work with can't imagine "bein' without mah nine" (add southern drawl here) yet almost none of them carry a knife and of those that do, 99% couldn't do much more than open a box with it....Geez, my wife has lent some of these guys her knife when they needed one... She is never without her CS Delica unless of course she is carrying her MOD Ladyhawk (which she says she prefers to do when she is "dressed up"... She tells me she uses her knives a million times a day, but if you want to talk about someone catching flak because they carry a knife, what about this one: "What's a nice girl like you doing with a knife?". Good thing for them she is a "nice girl" or she would show them her FMA or silat skills and they would know (why do you think I married her?).

So, she and I can BOTH relate...
 
...HELL NO! I LOVE the look I get everytime I have the chance to whip-out my Monster REKAT Sifu!.:D.:eek:.:D.
 
I don't mind being the only one with a knife, what I get tired of is when you offer a knife to somebody who needs it and they act like you are handing them a spinning buzz saw.
 
Yeah, I got tired of it. Tired of people asking to borrow a knife on a daily basis, because they're too cheap, lazy, and irresponsible to get one of their own, and tired of the ones who do carry one asking me to sharpen theirs over and over, because they are too cheap, lazy, and irresponsible to go buy a Sharpmaker or something.
One coworker informed me recently that he had several knives he was going to bring to "let me sharpen":rolleyes:
Last time I took my Sharpmaker to work, three different people came up to me while I was working on my knife, and expected me to stop and sharpen theirs, as if I had time to reprofile their gouged up edges on my twenty minute lunch break.

I don't lend them knives, or sharpen theirs, anymore.
I tell them if they want a knife-go buy one.
If their knife needs sharpening-go sharpen it.
 
Originally posted by Steve Harvey
I don't mind being the only one with a knife, what I get tired of is when you offer a knife to somebody who needs it and they act like you are handing them a spinning buzz saw.
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Man, that is *exactly* the look I get. Usually after that I hear "whoa..watch out, she's armed".

I don't get tired of anyone asking to use my knife, and it happens almost daily. I can hear people at work chattering around the corner about some delivery they got or something...the next words I always hear are "Go get Danelle's knife"

D
 
I never get tired of being the only person with a knife. Very seldom do I hand over my knife for someone else to use, but I will gladly cut things for them. The part that gets me is when the same person that needed a knife, then asks me: "Why do you carry a knife? Do you feel threatened?"
 
I kinda enjoy being the one with the knife, although I am from Texas, and almost every guy, and some girls have a knife on them along with a gun. Most of the time it is during hunting season, and someone is cleaning a deer or hog, and the knife they are using is too dull to do the job. So, they borrow one of mine.
 
The loved ones in my life have all gotten three to four things from me over time. (1) Leatherman Micra (2) Photon Light (3) Spyderco LadyBug II & Sometimes even a Fisher Bullet Space Pen. So far I have only been able to covert those in the same age group or younger to carry these items all the time. I am pretty sure I have spent over $1000 trying to spread this kind of tactical knife & equipment love around me. I guess I will be rewarded in heaven for my good deeds. I wonder what kind of knife God has on him anyway??? Maybe a MT Halo II. :D

Ryan
 
No I never get tired of being the one with the knife. What I get tired of is always being asked to lend someone my knife. If you need to use my knife for something, then you need to go and buy one for yourself.

I have had people ask to borrow one of my custom knives to open a box with staples in it. Not a chance. For this reason I have started to carry a POS Buck 110 copy for these guys to use. If I can't convince them to buy their own knives then at least I am going to have a knife that I don't care about for them to damage.

Ok, rant mode off, blood pressure coming down, ready to move along.
 
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