Dumbest thing someone else has done with your knife

I almost never lend out knives, and when I do, I always ask the purpose first. The right tool for the right task, I always say.
 
during highschool i carried an ulster boyscout knife that my grandpa had given me when i was a little guy. it was handy during shop class for cutting open the boxes of parts we got bi-daily and trimming mower strings and the like. i lent it to my friend for class one day, assuming he knew what he was doing, and when i got it back i noticed the blade looked horrible. the edge had been taken up about 1/8 of an inch and it was jagged and looked like someone had dragged across cement for a hour or so.

turns out my friend had decided my knife wasn't sharp enough to trim his fingernails and tried to sharpen it on the benchgrinder during class. i was mad but he was genuinely trying to be helpful so i didn't want to explode on him. i decided to show him why the benchgrinder was bad and how to sharpen it on a stone. the little lesson got him into knives and he later bought me a benchmade mini griptilian to make up for the trouble.

the ulster managed to recover and still rides in my left hand pocket on a daily basis.
 
No good deed goes unpunished. Especially true when you lend a knife out. Like some of you others, I carry one in each pocket. When someone needs to borrow one, he does not get the expensive one.
 
Years ago I lent my first SAK to a bloke at a party to open a beer can. He "knew all about knives", so I didn't supervise. Five minutes later he's back, sneering about SAKs and how useless they are. It transpires that he's used the awl and tried to punch the can open. The awl is still slightly loose.

Fast forward ten to fifteen years. I'm at a job where some brain donor has locked himself out of his car. Rather than let me use case tape to pop the lock, he wants to cut the rubber seal around the window. (Details are hazy; it was a long time ago). I hand him the same SAK. Ten seconds later it clatters to the pavement, breaking the scale and losing the toothpick. Does he offer to recompense me? You've never been in the police, have you?

Now I never lend my knives. I either do the job myself or watch 'em struggle.

PS: I recently got round to replacing the scale and renovating that SAK. It still sees daily service.

maximus otter
 
My 85 year old grand uncle was visiting with my mom and dad. Before he left he wanted to do a good turn for them. He sharpened 5-star Heinkels chef's knife that I gave to my mom as a Mother's Day gift almost 20 years ago. His heart was in the right place but he used the curb for a sharpening stone. The damned thing looked like a filet knife. :mad:
 
My brother using the knife blade on my leatherman as a screwdriver.

A friend trying to close the small, surgical blade on a SAK the wrong way, with his thumb on the sharp side - lot's of blood.

Me, cutting foam with an SRK by putting the chunk of foam on the deck, sitting besides it and cutting towards me - a 3cm deep cut into the thigh, 12 stiches on the muscle belly, 10 stitches on the outside, a month on crutches, an impressive scar and a permanently missshapen quadriceps muscle.
 
How about the rudest thing you've ever done with someone else's knife? My buddies, Jim and "Croc" (short for Crockett) and I were walking along a trail. Jim says, "Hey Bill, what's that?", pointing to a coyote t*rd.
I said, "Gee, not sure, Croc let me see your knife."
Croc pulled out his Zippo lock-back, and handed it to me. I bent down and started picking the t*rd apart with it. Oh, the hue and cry! "G**d***it, I eat my lunch with that knife!"
"Golly, Croc, sorry about that," as Jim and I collapse in laughter.

Bill
 
i don't lend my knives out
like maximus otter says, i either do it myself or watch them struggle :D

ming, that has gotta ****ing hurt
 
I collect Balisongs, so its the nature of the beast that my friends think they are badass and cut themselves all the time.
 
I lent a coworker a very cheap beater to remove an oring from a downhole tool. He put the tip in the land vertically and turned the knife 90 degrees to cut the o-ring, chipping the edge out in the process. I thought he would have done what every other person does and slipped the tip under the o-ring, lifting it away from the tool to cut or simply slide out of the land.

Another time, another co-worker-had just gotten on the boat to head offshore, and was still wearing my regular street clothes and carrying my new 806D2 with the BT2 coating. He asks to see it, opens the knife, then proceeds to scrape electrical tape off the side of one of our units on the deck. Had my leatherman in my other pocket and Voyager I used for such tasks in my bag :(
 
My friend cut MEEE with my knife. I don't rem how she got it from me, but I wish she hadn't.

She opened it, and started SWINGING IT AT ME while my back was flat against a wall. She was only a foot or so in front of me, so I was kinda stuck, with friends to the right and left...Best I could do was stop her arm with my hand (saying stop didn't seem to work). The first time. The SECOND TIME I missed and stopped the blade with my palm. Well. deflected it with some deep layer of flesh. At least it was a sharp, serrated knife, so the cut never really hurt.

I'm more tentative about letting anyone borrow knives now, unless I have space to move/path to escape...even friends can cause you harm.
 
So what's the deal with these brainless guys that are jamming everyone's knives into hard objects? They think because the steel is high-carbon, it can cut through anything? It's HIGH- CARBON, not DIAMOND!!!! Some people!! They must have been in the before life when they were handing out brains, but they though it was trains! :mad:
 
Well it was his own knife, but this story amuzes me anyway. For a science fair I had helped my son to build an exploding wire ping pong ball cannon. You charge up a bank of high voltage capacitors and dump the charge through an iron wire which vaporizes and pops a ping pong ball across a room. At one point he wanted to make sure that there was no charge left after launching the ball so he shorted the main capacitor terminals with the edge of his Buck 110. The electric arcs bit out two 3/16-inch chunks from the edge of his blade. Steve has a way of melting things.
 
Nathan S said:
I almost never lend out knives, and when I do, I always ask the purpose first. The right tool for the right task, I always say.
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Amen! I usually only let knife smart people handle my cutlery. Usually, the dumbest thing people have done with my knives is to cut themselves rather wickedly.
 
I'm sitting at a table with a friend when he receives a package. He needs a knife to open it. I have a pride and joy stag handled Ruple in my pocket. I think, nothing can go wrong, after all, he knows I'm fanatic about my knives. And, stupid me, I can't pass on the opportunity to show off. So I offer him the knife. He admires the knife. He opens the knife. He admires it again. He opens the package. He wipes the blade. He closes the knife. Then he TOSSES the knife onto the table. My heart stopped. Fortunately, no damage, but NEVER AGAIN.

- Rob M.
 
If some of this stuff happened to me, I'd be in prison. Swiping a $300+ Seb across a brick wall? What the hell for? :grumpy: Beating would ensue.
 
Meerkat Phantom lock has defeated the ablest engineers at the semiconductor Fab where I work. Only one disgusted EE flipped the open Spydie back at me. He DID leave with a verbal beating that stopped short of physical contact.


Sword and Shield,

Abelated welcome. Good to see you here Oh Resplendent One! :D
 
Java:

Shucks, just thought I'd see what more knowledge I can spread. ;) Still watching for ya over on KF, though. I'd even sponsor you to get into SOSAK! :)
 
Let one of the truck drivers borrow my 730CFHS to cut a blown tire off of the rim of his tractor...I was stupid but I was impressed with the way it held up. Sent it in for lifetime sharp. Good as new now.
 
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