Ever show a non-knife person your knife?

[BladeScout]

I was at Starbucks with my 4 year old daughter, when she saw my knife on my belt. She lifted my shirt up and began yelling "LOOK daddy has his knife. Hey look!" Everyone in line did look...

:thumbup:
Haha, excellent. Made me smile.
Though I bet your daughter wanted others to enjoy and admire the knife daddy carried on his belt, I guess it didnt achieve quite the same 'ohhhs' and 'ahhhhs' of admiration in others.

 

[Killinumsoftly]

You are still not paying attention.
singularity35 doesn't live in the US.
His behavior has no effect on our laws.

singularity35
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No I understood that, I just ment stupid people in general who act that way. I know he personally doesn't matter and has nothing to do with USA but there are plenty of people who are similarly foolish right here in our wonderful country which do happen to affect us. I was just speaking about morons in general, sorry for the mixup

 

[Hackerverse]

Growing up, I always wanted a Swiss Champ and would stare at one in the display case whenever my family went to the mall. Finally got my hands on one when I was 19, went on a trip with my church youth group and found one for half normal price. We're standing outside the store waiting for our bus and I'm drooling over this thing, and show my girlfriend. Another girl asks to see it so I pass it over like a newborn baby. She opens magnifying glass and peeks through it, then opens the chisel and before I can even register, she starts jamming it into a concrete bench, heavily chipping out the chisel blade within half an hour of me getting it. WHO DOES THAT?!
I tell ya, I was raised to never ever strike a woman, and raised my son the same way, but that moment was the closest I ever came in my life hahaha

 

[vadeed]

my friend, albeit a few drinks down the road, was attempting to carve something out of a bottle cap, when i get my once Flawless Spec Elite II back it has a chipped tip and no less than 3 chips in the blade. Needless to say I was not exactly thrilled......................

 

[Kwon Kwang]

Jesus Christ, this thread.

I never ever EVER let anybody except my eldest sister, my parents, or my fiancée touch my knives. Knife enthusiasts are such a rarity where I live that I don't even factor them into this. Nobody touches my knives unless I'm absolutely sure they know what they're doing.

Once I was washing my CRKT Eat'n Tool at work after using it to chow down on a microwave entrée. A female employee came to the sink to wash her no name kitchen knife. The conversation basically went like this:

Her: "Wow, Kwang. That's an interesting little spoon there. Where'd you get it?
Me: "It's called the Eat'n Tool, and it's by Columbia River Knife and Tool. They make really good knives and tools."
Her: "Yeah, if you wanna stab somebody."
Me: "Well, a knife is just a tool until it's used for violence."

:barf::grumpy:

You cannot believe the inner strength it took to contain my rage at her utter ignorance.

 

[B.F.U]

Jesus Christ, this thread.

I never ever EVER let anybody except my eldest sister, my parents, or my fiancée touch my knives. Knife enthusiasts are such a rarity where I live that I don't even factor them into this. Nobody touches my knives unless I'm absolutely sure they know what they're doing.

Once I was washing my CRKT Eat'n Tool at work after using it to chow down on a microwave entrée. A female employee came to the sink to wash her no name kitchen knife. The conversation basically went like this:

Her: "Wow, Kwang. That's an interesting little spoon there. Where'd you get it?
Me: "It's called the Eat'n Tool, and it's by Columbia River Knife and Tool. They make really good knives and tools."
Her: "Yeah, if you wanna stab somebody."
Me: "Well, a knife is just a tool until it's used for violence."

:barf::grumpy:

You cannot believe the inner strength it took to contain my rage at her utter ignorance.

Societies of fear. Fear is control. It's a bummer (and disgusting) that that's how many (probably a majority of) people view knives (and many other things).

 

[choombak]

Idiots will almost always flick your knife open, too much Hollywood! I quietly carry it in my pocket and show it to no one. Iff I know the person very well, and also know he/she may appreciate the blade, I'll show it occasionally, and carefully.

 

[choombak]

I used to show my new knife purchases to coworkers and relatives, gave that up.
Its kinda like showing an i pad to a monkey,they see it but don't know what the heck its for.

Cracked me up and ended my day so nicely. I do agree - most people do not know what the heck that thing is for.

You can educate, but not always you have the time and willingness.

 

[1robinhood]

This is the response that was needed in this thread.

I'll second that - great post Capolan.

 

[mtangent]

In general, anybody who doesn't carry their own knife, shouldn't be trusted with mine.

 

[kershawTEX]

I often use my knives at work ranging from a kershaw cryo to a zt0561. The majority of my coworkers in my shop carry also, but mainly just gerbers they aquired from fellow co workers, who were issued them in the past. They are not " into" knives other then that. A few weeks ago a new guy joined us and was working with me everyday. I cut a few things in front of him, and talked about my zt and the features. One day he is putting coarse grit tape on metal steps, and asked me how to fix the air bubbles. I said you have to cut them out, and it can be done easily. I then said wait a second and got up from about my workstation about 15 feet from him to get a disposable razor blade. I come back and he has grabbed my ZT0561, and is hacking away. His response after I got real heated, and 3 divots later in the blade was "Its a knife, isnt it used to cut stuff" I replied "A Ferrari is a automobile, why not offroad with it" I try to educate also, but sometimes it goes on deaf ears. I will try to spend a bit more time educating next time, I cant affort such mental trauma again

 

[driemb]

college's of mine where in a thea house in Yemen 30 years ago with some of there divegear, among it a dive knive in its sheath on the table, a couple of locals came in with kalashnikovs and lots of other weapons, after some time one of them took the knife from there table and walked away, the guy who owned it stood up and shouts hey! thats mine! immediatly the guns where pointed in his direction and where loaded through, his hands fly up and he says oke oke while sitting down. they ignore him and leave with his knive.
It really was like a scene from a spaghetti whestern but it is a true story.

on topic;

I visited an old friend some time ago , 3 other Guy's where there to, he asks do you have a knive with you? I am a bit surprised he remembers my hobby but i take out my buck alpha hunter, opens it and hand it over, one of the other guys says; that's a buck isnt it ? i understand why you have a buck it is a great knive can i sea it? so i hand it to him and he says it is sharp right? and cuts a piece of paper lying around then hands it safely back to me.
My friend askes; how do you keep it that sharp? i have several chefs knifes and they are all dull , and he gets his set of knives from the kitchen.
I know exactly how! says the third guy and takes the ceramic sharpener and the biggest knife and starts "sharpening" the knife with angles between 10 and 60 degrees waving it all over the place, we all take a step back to safety, after a minute he begins shredding , not slicing, a paper with a very dull kitchen knife , "see ! it is sharp! I can get it a lot sharper if I have more time!
My own knife was of course back in my pocket, safe!

 

[Moondrop]

Jesus Christ, this thread.

I never ever EVER let anybody except my eldest sister, my parents, or my fiancée touch my knives. Knife enthusiasts are such a rarity where I live that I don't even factor them into this. Nobody touches my knives unless I'm absolutely sure they know what they're doing.

Once I was washing my CRKT Eat'n Tool at work after using it to chow down on a microwave entrée. A female employee came to the sink to wash her no name kitchen knife. The conversation basically went like this:

Her: "Wow, Kwang. That's an interesting little spoon there. Where'd you get it?
Me: "It's called the Eat'n Tool, and it's by Columbia River Knife and Tool. They make really good knives and tools."
Her: "Yeah, if you wanna stab somebody."
Me: "Well, a knife is just a tool until it's used for violence."

:barf::grumpy:

You cannot believe the inner strength it took to contain my rage at her utter ignorance.

What a bizarre leap. She sees a steel spork and immediately goes to "stab somebody"? Don't suppose it ever occurs to some people to wonder why they think about stabbing people so much.

 

[secte]

I willingly lent my Benchmade sequel to a customer today so he could open a box I helped him find. I calmly opened the blade and reached it to him, handle first, he took it and cut off the tape and then he just lets go of the knife and drops it right on the tiles as if it is some sort of worthless crap I wouldn't even want back. The sound of the steel and aluminum sliding on the rock hard surface... *cringe*. I just picked up my knife and walked away from him. Luckily it didn't scratch the blade or the coating on the handles.

 

[singularity35]

No I understood that, I just ment stupid people in general who act that way. I know he personally doesn't matter and has nothing to do with USA but there are plenty of people who are similarly foolish right here in our wonderful country which do happen to affect us. I was just speaking about morons in general, sorry for the mixup

Since you don't understand a mature explanation which has already been provided and you just keep plugging away with your disguised insults, maybe you'll understand childishness.

No, you just jelly because I was able to get my knife back when in the same situation, you coulnd't.

 

[AZ2AK]

Since you don't understand a mature explanation which has already been provided and you just keep plugging away with your disguised insults, maybe you'll understand childishness.

No, you just jelly because I was able to get my knife back when in the same situation, you coulnd't.

Singularity35 - I'm glad it worked out and you got your knife back but I have an honest question for you (not trying to stir the pot - I happen to support your perspective over Softly's).

What would you had done if he still refused to return your knife even with your Glock pointed at him? Were you prepared to shoot him at that point?

 

[singularity35]

Singularity35 - I'm glad it worked out and you got your knife back but I have an honest question for you (not trying to stir the pot - I happen to support your perspective over Softly's).

What would you had done if he still refused to return your knife even with your Glock pointed at him? Were you prepared to shoot him at that point?

Probably I'd have bashed him over the head with something. As someone said, it's not worth killing somebody over a knife, but hurting him is something else again. It wasn't just about a knife. It was a strongarm robbery.

It would have been hard to for me hurt him without being treacherous about it since he was young and strong. That is what made him confident against me. I decided to try intimidation first, and violence only if the intimidation didn't work. I would have needed to pretend to be a good sport and hit him with something when he wasn't looking. I wasn't just about to give up but I didn't want to solve it by being treacherous and possibly injuring him right off.

We have a saying here that roughly translates to "the treachery of the old will outweigh the strength of the young".

 

[Indiana Joe]

People on here seem really uptight and are failing to educate.

If someone wants to see my knife, that means someone told them that I carry something or they are observant and saw the pocket clip. First thing I do is make sure we aren't in some highly visible area. I don't need to start trouble because one person wanted to see ( I learned that lesson a long time ago). Once I see that we have a little privacy, next I pull the knife out and begin educating. I tell them about the blade, if it's sharp (and how sharp), where it was made, and why it is something interesting, and I educate them as to how it works (I carry autos fairly often). point out how I'm holding it, how to be safe etc, Then, I open the knife. This usually gets a "wow" of some sort. I then close the knife (and educate on how that happens). I then hand the knife to the person that wanted to see it and gently guide them through the process.

They now know several things they didn't know before.
1. how it works
2. what it is made of
3. they've physically functioned the knife
4. they probably want one (at this point they ALWAYS ask "how much?")
5. they then will close the knife and perhaps open it a few more times, close it as I showed them - and hand it back to me.
6. They know now who makes it and it is probably better than whatever they know about knives already (so you won't hear - "gerber is great" you'll instead hear "I have a gerber that I like (followed often by) ...how good are those?"

It seems that people on here aren't educating enough and then getting mad when someone doesn't know what they know. If someone were to say "let me see your gun" - would you just hand it to them without educating them? (or, would you hand it to them at all??).

I've NEVER had a bad experience giving someone a knife because I make sure I guard my property and educate someone properly. If you are out camping or whatever and your camping partner says "hey, gimme your knife" you should do two things - 1) trust that they are your camping partner and have some basic knowledge 2) verify their use with a quick "what for?" thrown in their direction.

I've been at a range with a friend and heard "hey, let me have your knife" - I asked "what for?" response was "I need to pry this thing loose". My response - oh, hold on I'll get you a shit one that you can beat on a little.

If you educate people about things - you'll find everything goes much smoother. If you don't educate people and assume they know what you know - you'll always be disappointed in their reactions as well as how they handle your property.

Great post, Capolan! I had missed this earlier.

 

[MEJ]

The only bad incident was when i lent a friend a knife and he jammed it in a coin slot. I didnt notice until like 5 minutes later... it was my para 2 but aside from a largish knick it was fine. I was kinda surprised...

 

[jc57]

I just carry pocket knives as tools, not for show and tell. I take them out, use them, and put them away. I've got a couple of friends who also carry a pocket knife and we've shown them around to each other but they are other knife people and mature adults so no problems have ever arisen.

My wife doesn't seem to get it but she recently commented that she now uses the blade on the small Leatherman Style that I got her so maybe she's at least seeing the utility of them (while still not understanding why I have more than just one or two).