Etiquette

Mike45ACP said:
It's not a matter of whether or not the knife can take it. Most any decent knife can take being flicked open. It's a matter of etiquette, manners, and respect. If someone let's you borrow their car do you do burnouts and drive a hundred miles an hour around town? Why, I'm sure the car can handle it.

Mike
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That's why no one drives my cars but me. If you have the same feelings for knives don't let anyone touch them.
 
I play TONS of pool and have a few gorgeous custom cues with shafts made to my particular bridge and stroke. The only other person who has hit with them is the custom maker.....pretty sure he can fix anything he breaks!
im pretty much the same way with my air rifles. Not handing over a $1700 air rifle with a $500 scope over.
If I have a beater blade on me when someone asks to see it fine.....not the Sukhoi 2.0 with Josh's mirror polished edge......no friggin way.
Joe
 
My knives aren't expensive enough for me to worry about people flicking them.
I DO worry about them hurting themselves or dinging up my edge...

Last camping trip we thought we forgot to bring a can opener and my friend goes,
"Welp, guess we'll have to do it the old way." he had my esee4 in hand from making kindling and started towards the can..
Luckily I was quick enough and said "I'd rather not with that one."
He knows how much time I spend maintaining my tools so he obliged without a word, but that was scary son! He had the tip just inches from it. At worse, he could have hurt himself, at best I'd have some work to do on the stones.:(

Sure I would do it if there was nothing else but luckily we had a souvenir multi-tool with a can opener on it.
 
Always reminds me of the time I was so fortunate to be in a local knife shop when two Bevis' (Bevi?) walked in who, it became obvious within five minutes, couldn't have been checked out of the state prison for more than 48 hours. They'd likely paid property tax on the prison address for some time. Quite an experience, these two browsing knives for thirty minutes. 'Nother story....

Last idiot who did Jack Sparrow with my Sebenza had his car door sprung just enough not to match the back panel via my boot upon my demonstration of what wrist whipping a knife can do to an alignment. Thought I knew the guy, ya know? Was years ago.

Usually when someone requests a knife from me I hand it over properly, already opened. If they return it to me closed I think nothing of it. If they are stumped as to how to close it I take it back and return it to my pocket. If they hand it over pointed at me I move out of its line then accept it and never play knives with them again.

I wouldn't think twice about opening a knife someone offered me for inspection. I do it all the time. Never had a complaint or a cast eye. But I open it slowly and correctly, being more careful with it than I would my own. Usually over a table too.
 
Thanks, all. Hopefully this thread got us thinking.
We knuts have to set a good example.
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Don't expect people who don't share a passion to understand the etiquette of that interest.
 
You can always give them this disclaimer before handing them your knife:

You wrist-flick my knife, I stab you.
 
I don't worry about people flicking my knives, because I don't show or hand my knives to anyone (anymore). I learned my lesson a long time ago.

Back in 1999, a guy I knew who is a cop asked to see a knife I was carrying; he was off-duty at the time. I figured since he's a cop, a fellow knife carrier, and a year older than I was, that it would be cool. He opened that knife (which was a BM mini-Stryker), twirled it around in his fingers like some people twirl a pen, then half-assedly jabbed it into a wooden post. He didn't stab hard enough, and he let it go as it dropped onto the hard cement floor. He just smiled and shrugged his shoulders. This entire sequence took about 2 seconds. Luckily the knife fell sideways onto the floor and not tip-first.

That incident (and one other with someone else prior) convinced me never to hand my knife to someone else. Knives seem to bring out the idiot in some otherwise apparently mature and intelligent people.

Jim
 
Man, that^ was lame!
I have had knuts do the hard-flick also. No limits, I guess.
 
Guess this is a topic for the Christmas holiday as well.

Plenty of family and friends will undoubtedly ask me to hand over my knife to open some Sponge Bob Square Pants toy with 10 plastic ties strapped to more plastic and a thin piece of cardboard.

You know what I'm going to hand over? My Leatherman. I also carry my Charge no matter what. Somebody wants to use it, no hesitation. My Rockstead stays in my pocket for me. Nobody else. That's just how I do it.
 
All my knives can 'take it' if they couldn't, I wouldn't. Having said that I like seeing the special kind of moron I'm dealing with. The worst is the 'half open, than stupid hard wrist flip'. I think they like the thwack noise....

Nother great topic, thanks.
 
To OP regarding "Etiquette" unfortunately they no longer teach etiquette, manners or common sense in America's public schools.:thumbdn:
Only in Ivy League and private prep schools they still teach it!:thumbup:

So don't expect average Joe Shmo to treat your tools/weapons/property with respect it deserves,
most of them don't treat that way their own stuff! Youtube is full of idiots mistreating their stuff!

Rule #1 Don't ever give anyone your knife/gun!
Dare, Do & Keep Silent.

Rule #2 Don't ever leave your DNA/fingerprints on other people knives/guns!
If you really "need" to handle someone else's knife/gun ALWAYS use gloves or handkerchief!
Trust NO ONE, snitches are everywhere!

If you really must brag about you knife than say this "You can look, BUT can't touch this!"

Now my personal peeve, rude, loud mouthed obnoxious people who yell across room full of strangers to ask "Why you carry knives?" in very unfriendly tone of voice!!!! No manners!
This has happened to me 2-3 times someone seen knife clips not even actual knives!
I wasn't even using them, they were still in my pockets!
After that I stopped using clips and only carry inside pockets!

In situation like this I ignore this fool, cover up or un-clip and hide knives in pockets, and walk away to other side of room!

If I see someone wearing knife clipped to pocket,
I would approach them to respectful but safe distance and in quite polite and friendly tone of voice with smile
inquire "Were you ever in boy scouts, you seem well prepared!"
and point with my eyes NOT finger toward their knife!

If that pearson responds in friendly manner than I would ask them
"Are you aware of the fact that it's illegal to open carry pocket clipped folders in our jurisdiction and they should hide it to avoid getting hassled or arrested by cops!"

If they want to discuss knives great if not that's ok too!
But I still would never handover someone else my knives!
 
craytab said:
I had to show one buddy of mine how to unlock my 0562cf. The guy is not stupid. Just didn't know. We usually talk firearms together.
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Shortly after I picked up my Spec Bump I went to visit my parents and left it on a counter. My dad isn't a knife guy, but he's always carried a folder and usually has no problems operating whatever knives I wander into the house with and has an appreciation for the design ingenuity behind them. The stud-lock on the Spec Bump, however, apparently stumped him for about 30 minutes. He later told me he almost brought the knife to me to close the damn thing, but he was too embarrassed to admit he couldn't figure it out so he kept messing with it until he got it closed. It made me laugh quite a bit.
 
As far as flicking goes and especially by someone looking at your knife.... depends on the environment and social considerations mostly. If you go into a knife store, do you flick their knives open? I figure that is what it is designed to do. Everything is a matter of degree for me.

Cutting stuff is another matter.....
 
I'm confused. If this would be something that bothers you, why not just tell them to not open it like that? Or show them how to do it properly. Expecting non knife guys to understand this without instruction is ridiculous.
 
If I hand my knife over to somebody for them to look at, I'm not going to be concerned if they flick it open. I flick my knives open. My only real concern is if they hurt themselves with my knife or drop my knife.
 
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