Dumbest thing someone else has done with your knife

Holy assault with a deadly weapon Blackheart! If thats what your friends do to you...

Worst thing anyone ever did with one of my knives was try and see what kind of balance a Cold Steel Recon 1 tanto has for throwing. So after asking if he can see the knife, he promptly tosses it blade first into the dirt. Took just about all the edge off of the front angle of the blade, and the teflon finisf looks like a zebra.

The 1nd worst was when one of my friends up at airsoft had hog tied an escaping prisoner using electrical tape. he asks is he can use my near NIB Endura to cut the guy loose. After walking over to the guy on the ground and giving him the, "Don't you move while this guys cuts you loose or you'll loose a leg." speach. My friend goes about cutting the tape off. On the last piece of tape, the "hog" thinks hes free and trys to spread his legs. Sending the tradmark scary sharp edge into my COs hand. The cut wasn't very bad. But his $50 HellStorm gloves were toast.

And as far as running a Sebenza down a brick wall... Shoot, that guy would have gotten a very detailed talking to as far as how he's going to pay for the damage he did to the knife. Course being a Sebenza, the price would be negligible. Atleast I hope it was, you could do some damage if you worked at it. QUALITY RULES!
 
Keith Mayton said:
Year 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:
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I was showing a friend of mine my Applegate-Fairburn Covert when a friend of his (note the difference) opened it and proceeded to throw it straight up in the air pretty hard and yell 'Incoming!'

This one is technically about someone else's knife but...I sold a Gerber Gator to someone who after I proceeded to show him how to open & lock it shoved it in that same position into his pocket and sit down. Luckily it cut up and out of his jeans rather than down and into his...important parts.
 
And the answer is:

"What do you need cut? Here, I don't want you to get all dirty, let me do that for you..."


Never fails.



Larry
 
When I was a kid probably around 12 a friend and I decided to make some spears to go spear fishing.I cut my spear and since I was the only one with a knife( wenger backpacker),he asked me to use it to cut his.I looked over in amazement to see him trying to cut it with the BACK!! of the blade :eek: I don't know how he didn't close it on himself.I proceeded to ask him if he knew what he was doing and asked him if he knew what side was the cutting edge and he said yeah and pointed to the wrong side.To top off this mind blowing event after showing him the right edge he determined with his wealth of knife knowledge that it was too dull and proceeded to sharpen it on a ROCK!! :mad: I promptly took it away and never let him touch one of my knives again.
 
"How do you close this thing?" :confused:

"Not on your hand" :rolleyes:

and
"This things not sharp... sh*t I'm bleeding" :eek:
 
When I was about 18 I had a all-stainless Eagle Cutlery lockback (I think they were a part of Parker Cutlery. I got it at Sears. Wish I still had it - lost about 10 years ago). While out to a clam bar, a friend asked to use it. I didn't ask why, I found out when it was returned full of nicks - he used it to shuck the clams. Clamshells are mighty hard on a sharp blade, let me tell you.
 
If one of my knives costs more than $30, then the only one using it will be me. I have this bug about keeping all my knives with a fine polish on their edges to shave hair without pressing down on my skin. Needless to say, one of my SAK edges didn't hold up too well when I let my brother in law cut some sausage using a rock as a cutting board.
 
I just thought of another. I'd lent my Leatherman Wave to a coworker who was using it to fix something outside the store. He set it down, came back inside to fetch something, and when he returned, it was gone. I felt kinda bad that he had to buy me a new one.
 
I seldom loan knives out after my dad showing me his old victrinox 'swiss champ'.

While camping he lent the knife to my mother to open a bottle of beer (I'm sure you can all guess what's coming).
Rather than using the bottle opener she attempted to pry the beer top off using the large blade, snapping it at the base and rendering the knife bladeless.

As I say I rarley loan knives or tools out unless to trusted individuals, and even then I ask there intented use first.
Just recently when my friend asked to borrow my hatchet and was challenged as to his intentions I was astonished to hear he 'needed it to dig up this patch of hard ground' !!!


Knives for knife-people, plastic scissors for everyone else :rolleyes:
 
Well my wife decided to use a brand new Henckel boning knife to pry apart some frozen hot dogs.........you know the rest of the story....then she hid the knife in another drawer which I stumbled across....oh i forgot to tell you abou that....LOL
The worst part is the fact that I am in the Knife business and she knows better!

Oh well.......she also uses a small paring knife to try to cut everything from salami to chicken and vegetables.....can't seem to change her after all these years

Kap
 
Last week a co-worker came in from out in the field wearing a homemade back brace, made from small hand towels taped together with duct tape. I saw it and said, "what in the heck is that?" to which he replied, "a back brace." "Here, cut if off of me." I said, " no way!!" "Here, let me use your knife then." He came back out of the bathroom with a cut in his shirt about eight inches long and blood running out of it. He mentioned how sharp it was. Funny thing is the knife wasn't even that sharp. If it was he would have gutted himself.
 
re: I just thought of another. I'd lent my Leatherman Wave to a coworker who was using it to fix something outside the store. He set it down, came back inside to fetch something, and when he returned, it was gone. I felt kinda bad that he had to buy me a new one.


Did you upgrade? :D
 
The mind really swims at the possibilities here.
One of the dumbest things was something I did, and it didnt hurt the knife a bit, my hand required 9 stitches. This particular event involved training (at a very marginal skill level :rolleyes: ) with a live blade.

Also pretty lame, letting a guy "sharpen" my sebbie with some little mini steel get-up that he carried with his knife. Fortunately it didnt take me long to fix it later on.

Generally I dont let people handle my knives, any more than I would expect them to let me handle their wife or girlfriend...

Get your own.
 
The dumbest thing that someone ever did with one of my knives was to try to cut a coat hanger with the blade. He ended up sliping and giving himself a nasty cut.
 
My backpacking buddy used my $90 fixed blade to dig up a large cactus so he could take it home with him. No, he did not ask permission. Recreational drug use may have been involved with this incident. There's no other explanation for that kind of numbskullery. The edge was never the same.
 
Ok I almost never loan my knife to anyone at the firestation, or anyplace else, but at least I ask what they are going to do with it, and 99% of the time I use my knife to do the cutting task for them.
On one occasion while camping with a friend. I was cooling off in a lake. He pulled my razor sharp folder out of my jeans without asking, and started slicing a tomato in the palm of his hand. Took a second or two to realize that the tomato juice in his hand was his own blood.
 
I had a Buck Diamondback which a friend borrowed it for a hiking trip. Let's just say he wasn't a very good sharpener.
 
sevenedges said:
Last week a co-worker came in from out in the field wearing a homemade back brace, made from small hand towels taped together with duct tape. I saw it and said, "what in the heck is that?" to which he replied, "a back brace." ...
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At this point, you probably knew you were dealing with Homer Simpson, and...


He came back out of the bathroom with a cut in his shirt about eight inches long and blood running out of it.
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... this outcome probably came as no surprise. :D
 
I cannot remember the last time I lent out a knife. I might lend out a Gerber Multi-Tool with the right blade open, but I'd never let a friend borrow one of my knives.
 
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