Dumbest thing someone else has done with your knife

Shoalie said:
Dumbest thing was MEEEEE >_< demonstrating how I could flip open the knife (gerber folder) just by flicking your wrist the right way and the knife slips out of my hands and buries its point in my leg
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I did almost the same thing; I used to live in a very rough area* and there was a noise at the door like someone was trying to get in, so I grab an 8inch fixed blade and figure, right, I'll put it in my pocket and answer the door; if it turns nasty I'm prepared.

I still have a crescent shaped scar on my leg where the tip went straight through my jeans. God I'm a muppet. :D

*(like, someone was murdered at our local shop on the day we came to look around the flat for the first time)

EDIT: I can't remember what the noise actually was; whatever it was it was perfectly innocent.
And no, I've no idea why I didn't sheath it first :jerkit:
 
When I was about 8 I was cutting some ridiculously tough brownies (my mother is a notorious overcooker) and the knife slipped and I cut my thumb. I still have a scar, 17 years later.

Other than that... nothing.
 
i have done some pretty stupid things with knives myself, though none of them very serious. like once i cut a little crescent into outside of the base of my index finger on my right hand trying to punch a hole into a tennis ball for something or other. i was using a SAK ripoff and it was the most rediculous thing i can think i can think of right now. that moment was when i swore that i would never do that again without a locking knife.

i always keep a cheapie beater around just in case someone wants a knife for something, like last weekend when i was helping my uncle and he wants a knife. i say what for, and he says to cut something. i pull out the beater anyways and he proceeds to strip wire with it. not too terrible for the blade, but i am sure he would have messed up the edge somehow on the wire.

i have never had too many bad things that other people have done with my knife, except for a few people that have run their fingers along the edge trying to test for sharpness (luckily the most recent was a long time ago and i didn't even know what sharp actually was) i yelled at them for their stupidity and showed them the safe way to test for sharpness (tap the edge on your finger nail, if it sticks it is sharp, if it slides it is dull. or, rub the pad of your thumb very lightly across the edge, not along it. this one can be dangerous too though...)

also, a freind was showing me his gerber folder with a gut hook, and telling me about how he uses it to cut sheet rock and who knows what else. the edge was all chipped and everything. i fixed the edge up with a file, and told him that he should get a sheetrock saw instead of the knife.
 
What I find funny is how some of you freak the hell out over things I do with my knives on a damn near daily basis. "OMG WIRE STRIPPING! RUUUUUUUN!"

If someone screws up a knife stripping a wire... either you knife is SAD or they're a total moron.
 
My roommate in college asked to borrow my Case folder to make a spatula on a camping trip. He was experienced with my knives and knew how sharp they were and as an Eagle Scout knew his way around a campground. Unfortunately, he decided that the spatula needed a lanyard hole in the handle so we could hang it from a branch. He used the long blade to start boring a hole and pushed down while moving the blade backwards and succeeded in folding the blade across the second knuckle of his index finger.

We were two days into the BWCAW and he decided that he could make the rest of the trip without stitches. A little duct tape and a twig splint and the gash held until we stopped at the Grand Marais emergency room on the way home for his tetnus booster.

J-
 
Slight amendment... I've had a couple of close calls with my Leatherman's knife. Those don't count, mainly because I hurt myself more with the friggin' screwdrivers than I ever have the knife (non-locking tools RULE!).
 
My friend just asked me to use my Manix. While he was using it, I told him not the chip the edge and only cut with it. He gave it back with the tip chipped off- he was prying with it. I don't even think he knows how pissed off I was at him.
 
Me and a friend hiked into the high country here in Wa state A high land lake to fish for trout, The night before leaving I made sure my Buck lite was razor sharp for the trip (the knife would shave hair) I like to keep my knives that way, when you are 14 miles in the back country it is nice to know you have a sharp knife, we were setting up camp when my friend asked to use my knife to cut a string, thinking he knew what he was doing I handed him my trusty Buck telling him to watch it that it was very sharp, he cut the string and then plunged the knife into the ground, needless to say I was sick.
 
I know a friend. When he was about 30 he had this knife his father gave him when he was about 7. He let a guy use it to dig an arrowhead out of a piece of wood and the guy broke the tip off his knife.

That's 23 years he had been carrying this knife. He was in tears when he told me. I offered to reprofile it and build him a new tip, which I could have done and made it a little better for him, but he refused. I don't know why. He just wanted to mourn this knife. I guess I can kind of understand.

My grandfather's knives stay in the safe. I never lend anyone something I can't replace.

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:grumpy: Had a beautiful tanto folder that I carried for years. Out hunting by the river one day and my buddy asks to borrow my knife. Without thinking to ask "what do you want it for" I just handed it over. I then then turned back to loading my shotgun, when I heard "oops" and looked over to see my buddy with a dumbass grin on his face. Apparently, a shell got stuck and he used the tip of the knife to pry it out. Snapped off about a 1/2 inch of the tip. Holding the broken knife in his hand, he said "well this is no good now," and actually THREW the knife into the river before I could stop him! Not a good thing to do when I am holding a loaded problem solver. Damn I was pissed! This was a custom job that I had paid $250.00 of my hard earned money on! When I explained this to him through an amazing feat of self control, he did not miss a beat, and said "I guess you are now the proud owner of this shotgun." He then handed over his brand new Browning Auto. The gun was worth more than the knife, but I would rather have my folder. I did come back the next day with a heavy magnet and tried to retrieve the knife, but never did find it.
 
a few weeks ago I finished a knife and put a serious edge to it.when I handed it to a friend who wanted to see it,I warned him,"be careful,that thing is really sharp!"so the first thing he does is pull it out,and you guessed it-pressed his thumb to the blade-seriously,why would someone do that?then he says"I didn't know you meant "sharp",sharp" as I drove him to the emergency room to get several stitches.
 
Ooooh I've got one!

I had my CRK Mountaineer I on me at my friend's roommate's house. This guy is a jerk to begin with. We first got into an argument about whether it was legal to carry. Of course he was acting like a know it all and didn't know crap. Then he wanted to look at the knife and I should have never let him. He tried to hand it back to me and dropped it tip down on a glass table. Of course, tip destroyed. Then instead of saying sorry he called it a piece of shit knife and I was stupid to spend $200 on it. Then he goes on to tell me how he works for Cutco and his "surgical steel" kitchen knives were far better. My response was "I don't care if you think it's a POS, but you drop any knife on it's tip and it's going to break." He wouldn't even concede that!

I don't think I've ever been more frustrated with someone. Ignorance is amazing...
 
This concerns a "long knife" but I'll include it. I have a WW2 Japanese officer's sword, many years ago I was showing it to a friend, she's holding it by the handle, and says "its not sharp is it?" while simultaneously running her hand right up the blade. My "yes!" was about simultaneous with the start of the bleeding.

Perhaps we both learned a lesson that day...

; )
 
I have multiple horror stories , lots of fellas have dragged their thumbs along a stropped edge . The average fella thinks burr=sharpness ! Now the only thing I'll lend out is my backup prybaby . Then there is the fella who threw one of my knives - he stopped a palm heel in the face !

Chris
 
Would you let someone sleep with your wife? Well? If she ever leaves me I will still have my knives. Never loan a knife to someone who will not buy or carry one himself. (and never let anyone sleep with your wife) They are both off the market for others. MV out!
 
When I last loaned someone a knife, 22 years ago, we "returned" it to me by placing it on the bumper of my car -- which he alerted me about twenty miles down the road. :( :mad:
 
I bought my parents a good spyderco kitchen chef style knife a few years back. Before that they only had dull dollar store junk. Anyway a time later my sister comes to me with a sheepish look on her face and the pieces (two) of the knife resting in her hand. Apparently she decided to use it to pry apart some frozen hamburger patties. Snapped an inch and half off the tip! D'oh!
Also along the same lines the brother of a friend of mine also decide to use a chefs knife as a frozen hamburger prybay. 10 inch bladed chef knife popped the patties apart well enough and then continued through his palm with an inch of the blade tip sticking out the other side of his hand! He turned white as a sheet, we wrapped up his hand and quickly made our way to the emergency room.
 
First thing... A buddy threw my Becker Brute to see if it would crack a cinderblock in the woods at 20 feet. He missed it, and we spent about 30 minutes combing the forest floow trying to find it. When we did, it had a small crack in the handle from hitting a rock on the ground.

A close second... My wife used my Gerber EZ-Out to try to pry the apartment window open. It broke the tip off, and the window still didn't open.

Almost every time I get a new knife, somebody just has to run their finger along the edge to "test" it, and invariably winds up recieving a cut.
 
I had a very good condition Microtech Vector, and A co-worker asked to borrow it for a second. I didnt think twice about it, as he normally had a knife on him. He proceeded to cut a bundle of live 12V wires with it! Took some pretty decent chunks out of the blade. I briefly contemplated testing the remaining edge out on him, but restrained.
I have also had people cut themselves testing an edge. The frightening thing is, until recently, I thought shaving sharp was good enough. Now I have figured out how to get my EDC's to scary sharp (and I am looking for stropping materials to reach the next level) You people have ruined me!
These days only people that have proven themselves to me get to touch the goodies.
David
 
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