Dont lend it out

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bell

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Yesterday, I gave my edc to an admirer. In less than five minutes he came back to me showing me the blade missing a half inch of the tip. He used it as a prybar on a waterheater. Glad it was a beater.

When someone says "does anybody have a knife" we are usually eager to jump in and save the day. Resist the temptation!

Why? The person will either damage the knife or cut himself.
 
Good tip (no pun intended).

I hope he's going to replace it.

Generally, I'll only put one of my knives in the hands of people I trust--either to use the knife correctly or to replace it if they, for some reason, screw it up.
 
would you lend a cowroker your woman?

theres MY thinking on the subject!
 
I always ask what they plan on doing with it, before I make a decision as to whether or not I am going to lend it out or not.
 
You got that right ! There is a no carry law up here so its easier for me . Someone cutting themselves is all too possible when they are not used to a knife that cuts !
 
bell said:
Yesterday, I gave my edc to an admirer. In less than five minutes he came back to me showing me the blade missing a half inch of the tip. He used it as a prybar on a waterheater.
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Your friend is incapable of discerning the difference between a knife and a pry bar. Definitely let him know you expect a replacement. And also that he's an idiot.
 
"If you want something done right... Do it yourself". I'm with TheKnifeCollector. Everyone at work knows I carry a knife. When they ask to use it, I ask what they are going to use if for, and do whatever it is myself. Then if the knife gets damaged, I have no-one to blame but myself. But common sense would tell you not to use the knife as a prybar. The more I see individuals, and the way they abuse knives, there is no such thing as common sense. What may be common to us, is definitely not common to everyone else (in the knife sense anyway).
 
As a tradesman (carpenter), I learned long ago: never lend tools. Most people have no clue whatsoever with regard to the use of tools. in addition, they often have little or no respect for others' property. You can COUNT on your knife, or other tool, to be damaged. And since a tradesman's tools are his livelihood, it ain't worth it.

This may sound jaded, but this is what I have learned.

The only exception I make would be to a fellow tradesman, who also uses the same tools, and who I know will use them appropriately.
 
I always hesitate anymore to jump to the loan. You never know what someone may do to your baby. I just give them my SAK most of the time if I do loan one. My personal single blade is for me only. :D
 
I always answer the question: "Do you have a knife?" with a question of my own: "Why, what needs cutting? "

Usually the answer is that something needs prying, scraping or screwing in/out. Then I offer the correct tool for the job.

If something really does need cutting, they've just let me know what it is. That allows me to evaluate whether it is a job for a knife or not (it might turn out that something does in fact need cutting, but that the cutting is best done with, say, tin snips :eek: ).

If it's someone I trust, they get the knife. If it's someone I don't, they get my offer to cut it for them.
 
I bought the knife, so I get to use the knife. I don't mind cutting for other people, and this way I get to make sure it's not for a dumbass job.
 
Yep! Someone asked if I had a knife,like a moron I handed over a $200.00 knife.Luckily I stopped him before he tried to use it to shimmy open a door by prying the lock.
Then another time, I was talking knives with a beginner knife nut.He likes auto's.I showed him a new italian stag stilletto I paid $80.00 for.As soon as he opened it he dropped it on the floor and broke the nice stag handles.:(
 
I've lent out my knives twice (to friends)
first time - broken tip
second time - badly scratched blade
Im all done with lending out. :grumpy:
 
Last summer when we were camping a woman came by our site and asked to borrow my ax -- a razor sharp single bit Iltis -- because they had 'forgotten' to bring one. We gave her an armload of chopped kindling instead; she asked if I didn't trust her with my ax. I just smiled and said I would feel really bad if she had cut herself with it... it has a 24" handle which makes it dangerous in unfamiliar hands. What I really thought though, was anyone who 'forgets' such a critical outdoors tool is too dumb to be trusted. Same with people who ask to borrow a knife... I keep a cheap Mora beater for such occasions, but even then I'm loathe to loan pointy things to stupid people.
 
I don't lend mine out.

I keep some $5 Victorinox Sportsman II's that I got at Wallgreens a while back to hand out to the morons.

This way they get a good knife and if they break it then they just broke their own knife. The one I gave to a co-worker gets used now almost daily and he likes it. He takes good care of it and doesn't use it for a prybar. :)
 
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