Frustrated handing friends/family your knives

sgt1372 said:
I don't have any family or friends. So, it's not a problem for me. LOL! ;)

Besides, like everything else that I collect, they are for ME and I do not share them w/anyone else and don't care what anyone else thinks about them.
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Brilliant!
 
John_B said:
Brothers friend was "let me see your knife" I was hesitant but handed to him and watched him use it to cut a hose and then drop it on the flagstone path. I just stood motionless as he picked it up and handed it back. I was looking at the bent tip and he noticed and said "here I can fix that" and I let him take it from me and he dragged the tip over the flagstone trying to bend the tip back.

Was all my fault see, I let an imbecile handle my knife. I learned a valuable lesson that afternoon.
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I can count on one hand the number of people that I hand one of my "good" knives to. Everyone else gets a "No."
 
I just gave up. Even offering sharpening to family who laboured around with butter knife dull kitchen knives. First comment : "Oh, it's too sharp, I cut my finger !".
On another note, I have a nephew who is a talented professional photographer. He has a very keen and tasteful eye for beautiful objects, including knives. But he is such a careless ass... He gave me recently an heirloom grade knife (inherited from his dad) to restore because he had almost ruined it with neglect. I got it back into shape but I had to tell him this was probably the last time he could submit this small folder to such bad treatment before it was beyond repair. And that he was a total ass. Way to stay popular in the family. So, yeah, short version : when the "Unchosen" talk about knives, I keep shut.
 
I keep my knives to myself unless it’s my son or sons in laws. They have a good appreciation of knives and know how to use them and carry their own. They might not have the same level of appreciation for really nice knives as I do but they might come around to it after a few more years of gaining some wisdom. Lol. I was kind of like that in my younger days until I was given a good one from a good friend and vendor. After that I learned there was a difference in quality.

As for the general public I’m guessing that maybe one out of a couple hundred have any interest in knives and some of them wouldn’t know a good knife from a very poor knife. Most of the people I’ve run across that use a knife usually get the cheapest one they can find because they figure that they will probably lose it or get stolen anyway and they figure one is as good as any other. Lol.
It’s a sad and disappointing world we live in some times but I can take pleasure to have learned it’s much better with a good knife in my pocket and on my belt.
 
John_B said:
Brothers friend was "let me see your knife" I was hesitant but handed to him and watched him use it to cut a hose and then drop it on the flagstone path. I just stood motionless as he picked it up and handed it back. I was looking at the bent tip and he noticed and said "here I can fix that" and I let him take it from me and he dragged the tip over the flagstone trying to bend the tip back.

Was all my fault see, I let an imbecile handle my knife. I learned a valuable lesson that afternoon.
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Ok, knife as tool is one thing, but disrespecting and abusing tool is another.
Go on construction sites, borrow a tool then misuse it, you can feel the fury in the air.
 
Try to say "sharpening knives" :D in a new job/training/professional development introduction where everybody in the group tell something about themselves. Next time I will share something more expected, for example reading, gardening, knitting, spending time with family, or traveling.
 
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