Dumbest thing someone else has done with your knife

KeithAM

KeithAM

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Years ago I was helping some friends move and brought along my fairly new SAK Huntsman. As you may already know, the Huntsman has two screwdrivers. One of the guys asked to borrow it. He proceeded to use the small blade as a screwdriver. Needless to say, he mutilated the edge near the tip. :mad:
 
Damn...this is one of the easiest posts I've ever gotten to answer....


I was working as a Laborer with an excavation company. The foreman needed to cut a tarp or something like that... and I was the only one there with a knife...which was my pride and joy at the time....a Sebenza.

The guy cut the tarp and ran my edge STRAIGHT DOWN a brick wall. Then started making jokes calling me an idiot for owning a $345 knife.

Did I give him the what fer? kick his ass? Nope. I kept my mouth shut. It was the only job I'd ever had making around 6K a month, and I wanted to keep it. Oddly enough, it was a decision I still feel good about.


A second runner up was when my buddy was trying to be sneaky about looking at my Dalton Cupid while at his work place and hid it in his hands while pushing the button. Evidently he'd tuned out the part where I'd told him it was an OTF auto, and put the blade right into his hand. It was kinda funny watching his face turn six shades of pale at once. He probably coulda used a stitch or two, but he made due with my Super Glue and Duck Tape since he didn't have health insurance at the time.
 
I was in a store to swap out a display. One of the young employees was trying to be helpful. A cable was secured with a nylon table tie. I got out my Victorinox Adventurer SAK with razor sharp locking 3.25" blade and said "let me cut it". He asked for the knife so that he could cut it.

I expected him to turn the blade edge-up, slip it in the loop of the cable tie, and lever it upwards (the way that I would have done it). Instead he reversed the knife and started to pull the blade into the loop with the edge and point towards his body. I was trying to moan "no!!" when the blade popped through the tie and into his left hand. He bled all over the place and went off to the emergency room.
 
The guy cut the tarp and ran my edge STRAIGHT DOWN a brick wall. Then started making jokes calling me an idiot for owning a $345 knife.
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WTH!!?? What a jerk! I would of the given the guy a good beating and told him to take his filthy money. Some people just don't have clue.

But oh well, we all have our opinions.
:) :mad:
 
Tough call. No serious damage, and no major injuries but lots of foreheadslappng.
Explaining how to close any locking knife can be interesting. I always cringe when they grab the handle in one hand and blade in the other and try to force it, they seem to instantly forget how sharp they were saying it was 2 seconds earlier :rolleyes:
One guy bent the pocket clip on my framelock trying to close it. Pulled it out away from the side of the knife like some kind of lever.
Another tried to push the tab on a framelock IN while pushing down on the back of the blade.

Loaned someone a fixed blade with a kydex sheath to trim that expanding foam insulation from around a door frame. They didn't let it dry all the way nd didn't clean the knife off. It was glued into the sheath when I got it back.
 
Well, this is one of those posts I probably made several years ago right here at BFC:

I was working as a consultant on a three-man team sharing a cube that was probably big enough for one small person when one of my teammates noticed my brand new Spyderco Native clip and asked to see my knife. I, of course, showed it to him, he checked the edge with his thumb, proclaimed it very sharp, and then chucked it into the floor so the blade penetrated the carpet, pad, and subfloor. The knife stuck fast and he proclaimed it a well-balanced knife and then, while prying it from the floor, snapped the tip off.

As if it wasn't bad enough to have my knife broken by this clown, he then reported me to my supervisor for carrying a knife that made him feel uncomfortable. I got called in and asked to refrain from every carrying a knife again while on the clock. :rolleyes:

Who was the dummy THAT day?!
 
I let my wife carry my Endura in her purse for protection. She used it to cut open a can of soup for a friend. The Endura took the abuse better than I did. :mad:
 
Fortunately I don't have any experience like that. One incident close was a time when a bouncer was checking my fountain pen at a club's entrance and by gosh he wanted to touch the nib with his finger. Stopped him at the last second. Later he was saying to his co-workers that he thought that thing (the pen) was something from the past... or whatever.. :barf: The club, while boasting as a high-end establishment, has staff which doesn't even know how to handle a fountain pen. Never go there again.
 
My mom busted my knife collection, opened my spyderco calypso jr, got horrified, tried closing it, didn't work. Got my grandpas homecare attenedent to try and close it, still couldn't. My mom tried again, slipped and cut her self
 
It wasn't my own knife, but my shop foreman bought a Severtech Magnum from me and in the first week , on my day off, he somehow left one of his fingers in the blade arc as he closed the knife on his leg. He removed about 1/4 inch of the tip of, you guessed it, his middle finger. It was stitched up at the ER and wrapped heavily with a bandage..
The next day I arrived with a new Spyderco Sharpmaker he had asked me to pick up for him from our local purveyor of fine blades. The other boys got a real laugh out of that and i guess he got "what for" from the Mrs. She seemed to think the knife needed no sharpening.
 
Once a coworker asked me for my SAK for open a can. When he gives me back the knife, I realize that he open the can with the blade! Obviously, it was chipped and dull :mad:

A few days later, he ask me again the SAK to open another can. I gave it to him, but with the can-opener ready to use. A few minutes later, he came back and ask me to open the can for him, because he could not use that thing :rolleyes:

I think he is a hopeless case...


BETO

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Sorry for my english :o
 
Back in the 70s, I was showing a friend my Buck 110. He took it and shoved it straight into a cinder block wall. I had to regrind the tip.

Nowadays I frequently carry a cheap beater so when someone wants to borrow a knife, I don't worry so much. I absolutely do not loan out my good ones.
 
lambertiana - Exactly! People think I'm crazy 'cause they see I carry two knives (beater and better). A co-worker wanted to borrow my knife one day, but I asked "what for?"
"So, what, you won't let me use your knife?"
"Maybe. What do you want it for?"
"To cut this wire" 18 AWG bus wire!
"Here, use these wire cutters. You're less likely to hurt yourself with them."

MPotter
 
I did it, not someone else.

I severed a live ac power line with a German Paratrooper knife. The short blew an inch off the tip of the knife.
 
I loaned a Case boot knife to a guy one time and he used it to pry with breaking the tip. Then he used the nickel silver butcap as a hammer. So I got my knife back with the tip broke and the butcap with dings. :mad: Now I always find out what they are needing to cut or pry and give them the right tool for the job.
 
Wow after reading these posts I will never ever never never let anyone use my knife. I do not know how some of you guys managed to retain your self control. If I had the experiences some of you had I'd probably be sitting in jail. The dumbest thing someone did with my knife, a spyderco police with fully serrated edge clipped to my front pocket, was to pull it out and flick it open in front of my female boss who kinda freaked and told me not to bring it to work anymore. This peanut brain was a NRA life member who should've known better around sheeple. Acted like he did something really clever, but at least he apologized later.
 
"Hey Aaron, let me borrow your knife."

"OK"

Five minutes later...

Looking at my chipped, absurdly dull, seriously gunked up knife...

"What the f$%& did you cut with this?"

"Skateboard tape."

That was the last time I lent my knife to someone. It was my cousin and best friend so I couldn't be too angry, but still...
Now if someone needs something cut, I do it for them. Or hand them my Leatherman Micra/Squirt with scissors, which is usually more appropriate for their job anyway.
 
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