Giving a knife from your collection to somebody who has none makes you warm inside.

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The other day I was talking across the fence to my next door neighbor. We are not close friends or anything but we are neighbors. Anyway he mentioned that he was going
camping soon with some friends.So I asked him what knife he was going carry with him and he said just some kitchen knives and that was that.Back at the house I got to
thinking about what he said and it just didn't feel right to me.I went to my knife cabinet and dug out a pristine Schrade 470T USA Old Timer Pocket Beast with the original
sheath.I have about 15 of them from when I used to collect Schrade folders made in the USA.I took it over to his house and gave it to him with a little history about the
Schrade. He reacted as if I had given him the Holy Grail! On the walk home I noticed that I had a good warm feeling in my gut. Have any of you guys had a similar experience
from just giving one of your knives to someone who doesn't even collect knives?
 
Its always a good feeling giving a knife away. I've given a few away, mostly as birthday presents. A few to friends who had a bad excuse for a knife and needed an upgrade.

Excellent second post!
 
I have a friend at work who had a cheezy gas station knife that the TSA took. She asked me for suggestions for something under $30 and I told her I'd get her a list. Last night I was looking at my collection and I noticed a bunch of SRM originals that I bought when I was unemployed, which I don't have much interest in anymore, so I picked out the 3 I liked the most and gave them to her today. She was quite surprised, and I had to reassure her that it wasn't a big deal for me, that I have plenty of knives. It was a nice feeling to spread the gift of decent-knife ownership.
 
I gave my brother in law my Kershaw Breakout auto about 4 years ago. It felt good at the time, but now that they're hard to come by these days, that warm feeling is closer to lukewarm. I have given friends some very nice knives over the years, and that always feels good. It has resulted in them taking an interest in quality knifes.
 
I have a cousin who always took interest in my knife collection. Last year he was going through EMT school and I told him I would have a surprise for him at the completion of the course.

Gifted him a Spyderco Rescue. After showing him how it sliced paper like nobodies business his smile was enough of a thank you. Happy to report he is using it on duty and has come to the aid for a number of patients.
 
I was talking to a grand daughter the other day about college and asked if she carried a knife. Can't always have a gun with you. She said 'no' and I grabbed my SOG Twitch II lying on my desk to show her what an assisted opening knife was like. Her eyes lit up. Decided to give her the blade since I never use it. That's what happens when you have a dozen knives lying on your desk. I carried the SOG a number of years ago as a second EDC but out grew it.

Added: Gave my wife a Vic Alox Classic for her key chain the other day too. I was surprised she even wanted it. Hope she doesn't loose it. :)
 
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I gave my father my Kershaw Crown. Uses it all the time and carries it all the time, he really likes it. Unfortunately he snapped the tip when scraping something, so I'm going to gift him something better and stronger like the Cold Steel Lone Star Hunter.

Now, after carrying his Crown, he told me how he never knew how useful a good knife can be!
 
My best friend is fighting in afghanistan as we speak, this is his second deployment, and I asked what he had for his first and it was some gerber, not sure the model. But I said screw that and gave him a benchmade 375 adamas that I had just bought. I figure he's gonna use the piss out if it and its better off in his hands. He was beyond stoked!!! God bless Phil!
 
I've been giving knives to people for almost as long as I've been collecting, about 40 years.

I do get a good feeling when I give a knife away, it's even better when I give one to someone who really enjoys and uses it.

I'm not trying to make the entire world knife friendly ask at once, just one person at a time...
 
I ought to give this buddy his overdue credit-
One Bladeforum member had pulled me out from a very sticky situation and helped me along the way.
When we finally met and had a chat , out of nowhere he took out a CS pocket Bushman,handed it to me and said:

"It's been a lonesome road for a hobby like this. Welcome to the club."

That gentleman is Cotherion and i hope to continue his legacy by giving to someone who needs and knows how to use it properly.
 
I gave my friend my sebenza 21 after he mentioned he liked the carbon fiber scale on it. We aren't friends anymore, i miss that knife... Anyways, just kidding. But i gave a past friend a buck bucktool and he always has it on him. I told him the only stipulation to owning it was that it had to be used. I've given my brother a griptilian, swisschamp and a few others out of my collection.
 
Awesome. I keep my collection lean by giving away the least-liked, non-sentimental knives.
We might be crazy knife-nuts but we are pretty generous. :)

Now I just need to gift a Sharpmaker to those same knife recipients...
 
Gave my wife, who never carried a knife previously, a purple Kerahaw Leek. A friend of hers cut himself with it the next day, she continues to use it almost daily and doesn't know how she got along without one.
 
I recently gave my zt 550 to my brother in law and gave a buddy heading to the air force a zt 350. I was happy to do it since I have plenty of knives and they didn't have anything better than a walmart gerber.
 
Yeah last year I ran a contest on youtube to give away a Kershaw Ener-g2. This kid emailed me about two days after and asked how to enter, I felt so bad that he didn't have any good knives I emailed back and offered to buy him an endura or recon 1. He picked the cold steel and I said my only request is in the future pass the favor along
 
The AT&T guy came to my house to figure out why my Internet wasn't working.
He said my wires needed to be up dated and it was going to cost $150.
I told him to go for it so he ran new wires from the pole and through out the attic and got us on line again.
When I asked him how he would like to be paid he said not to worry about it, the install went well and this one is on the house.
As he was on his way out I chased him down with a leather case full of folders and told him he was not leaving without one of these.
When I opened it up his eyes grew large and he was very excited. I gave him a few to choose from and he picked a Rat-1.
He told me it has been a long time since he had a decent knife and could not thank me enough.
 
I wish I could share the same sentiment as the lot of you good folks here have, but that's simply not possible in the place where I live. The amount of knife fear here is through the roof. One of my friends was almost scared to death by a ZT shroud cutter. :rolleyes:
 
I'm from the San Francisco bay area in California so knife carry is pretty much non existent. I've given a knife to friends as graduation gifts/first job gifts (I think its kind of symbolic I guess... get skills AND tools for life). Also just because people have shown some interest in knives. They have all gotten into knives and some have even become advocates for knife ownership to their other groups of friends.
 
Last weekend I asked my brother in law if he had a knife with him, he said no, so I pulled out a knife a gave it to him. It was a huge surprise to him.
 
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