"Do you have a knife?"

I love Carl64's response of, "What happened to YOUR knife?" That sort of question isn't rude and definitely points out the usefulness of a knife to the would-be borrower. Hopefully, it'll get the person thinking...
 
I will often let people borrow my knives but I never let them out of my sight. The result of this is that I'm the one who ends up screwing up my knife because i'm not paying attention to what I'm doing.

I refuse to carry a knife that I spent more than $30 on. Knives i have carried in the past include: an original buck crosslock (back when it was just a knife), a scallion (gift), a paraframe II, and currently a Magnum Speedlock (sans spring). I also carry a Leatherman Wave but rarely use the blades.

I have bought more expensive knives such as: an EDI Genisis 2, a Boker Infinity Ceramic, A Boker Orion, A Ka-Bar Mule, A Kershaw Leek, A Boker Helios Ceratitan, and a Gerber Spectre. Most of these I have given as gifts to people important to me, but only after discussing proper usage and saftey with them.
 
For me it's not "Do you have a knife" it's "Hey give me your knife"... and my reply everytime is either WHY? or Let me do that you are gonna get cut!
 
I cringed reading each description of the horrible damage done to your knives! :( And I'm also impressed at how many people on this forum are kind-hearted enough to lend their knives to ignorant non-knife carriers!

I don't use the word "ignorant" as derogatory, but in the simple dictionary meaning of "lack of knowledge", because I think most people who don't carry a knife have a lack of knowledge of their usefulness; otherwise they'd carry one. I just don't get it, but I guess there are "tool people", and then there are "non-tool people"! Anyone in the trades knows what I'm talking about....and rarely, if ever, lends a tool. Why put a carefully chosen tool, that will probably last you a lifetime, to an almost certain risk of damage within 2 minutes' use by a "tool-ignorant" person?

Okay, how about this one:

"Have you got a knife?"
"Yes, and it's very expensive, and very, very sharp."
"Oh. May I borrow it?"
"Well, 5 of the last 10 people who borrowed it sliced their fingers to the bone, and needed to get stitches at the hospital."
"What about the other 5?"
"They damaged my knife, or lent it to someone else, so I put them in the hospital." :D
 
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