Hey man, got a knife? Just say no.

I do both of those, in a pinch. Then I feverishly resharpen. The lesson here is, don't bring a knife you aren't prepared to use. I don't find either of those tasks out of the scope of a pocket knife. Of course I also carry a Leatherman Wave so I'd pull it out before my pocket knife.

Edit: I'd have no problem chipping ice out either. Seriously, why are you carrying a knife if you're afraid to use it? It isn't built to be a toy. And obviously yiu shouldn't be carrying your LE's or midtechs around if all you're going to do is cut paper and open letters out of fear of hurting them. I guess I just can't grasp the logic of not using a tool as a tool.

Strig, I saw you usually carry a powerlock. I feel ya on the edge being used as a driver, but then I also consider that Contego a hard work knife and I'd probably be mean to one. I've been pretty rough on my PM2, to the point that it has become naturally convexed, but it has never once chipped out on me or balked at a task.
 
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The sooner you learn not to let other people play with/use your "good" knives the better. If a friend really needs a knife, they can borrow the cheap little Winchester knife I found in a park. Old beater knives are great too when it comes to borrowing them to friends.
 
I carry a hinderer spanto and could care less if people use it as a pry bar, a throwing knife, or a screw driver.

It comes back asking for more every time.
 
Along with my regular use knife I carry a vic pioneer for myself because it's useful and for the stupids that think they need a knife. If they're dumb enough to use the blade instead of the screwdriver on the other side then they deserve to have that blade fold on them if not using it to cut.
 
Put a sign up or have business cards printed up that say tools rented here $250.00 nonrefundable deposit required
 
RemyKaze said:
I do both of those, in a pinch. Then I feverishly resharpen. The lesson here is, don't bring a knife you aren't prepared to use. I don't find either of those tasks out of the scope of a pocket knife. Of course I also carry a Leatherman Wave so I'd pull it out before my pocket knife.

Edit: I'd have no problem chipping ice out either. Seriously, why are you carrying a knife if you're afraid to use it? It isn't built to be a toy. And obviously yiu shouldn't be carrying your LE's or midtechs around if all you're going to do is cut paper and open letters out of fear of hurting them. I guess I just can't grasp the logic of not using a tool as a tool.

Strig, I saw you usually carry a powerlock. I feel ya on the edge being used as a driver, but then I also consider that Contego a hard work knife and I'd probably be mean to one. I've been pretty rough on my PM2, to the point that it has become naturally convexed, but it has never once chipped out on me or balked at a task.
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But the point here is that it's not the other person's knife to use for such tasks. If the owner wants to use his knife for these tasks, fine. If I want to use/abuse my knife, that should be up to me, not someone who's not the owner. The fact is, there are a lot of stupid people out there who don't think or care about, much less know how to use, other people's property they want to borrow. That's the whole point.

Jim
 
James Y said:
But the point here is that it's not the other person's knife to use for such tasks. If the owner wants to use his knife for these tasks, fine. If I want to use/abuse my knife, that should be up to me, not someone who's not the owner. The fact is, there are a lot of stupid people out there who don't think or care about, much less know how to use, other people's property they want to borrow. That's the whole point.

Jim
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Absolutely. If I want to use MY knife to perform a task that benefits ME, and if there's a chance it might get damaged, that's MY choice. But I didn't spend MY hard-earned money to buy a knife for someone else to damage while using it for THEIR needs.

On a related note- I just can't comprehend buying and carrying a knife just to lend to other people who won't buy and carry one for themselves. And I also can't comprehend the idea of buying and carrying a CHEAP knife for the purpose of letting other people destroy it. And although I have no difficulty sharpening a knife, I don't agree with any policy of "Here, go ahead, by all means destroy the edge of my knife that I spent hours and worked so hard to re-profile and get shaving sharp. I won't mind at all doing all that work over again just so you can use my knife for something it was never intended for". Nope, not my policy.
 
James Y said:
But the point here is that it's not the other person's knife to use for such tasks. If the owner wants to use his knife for these tasks, fine. If I want to use/abuse my knife, that should be up to me, not someone who's not the owner. The fact is, there are a lot of stupid people out there who don't think or care about, much less know how to use, other people's property they want to borrow. That's the whole point.

Jim
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I naturally assumed that common sense would dictate asking what the person wanted your knife for. I may be wrong in doing so. I also assume people aren't that bright in general, and anyone not carrying a knife doesn't know how to handle one without either getting hurt or screwing up the knife. :p
 
RemyKaze said:
I do both of those, in a pinch. Then I feverishly resharpen. The lesson here is, don't bring a knife you aren't prepared to use. I don't find either of those tasks out of the scope of a pocket knife. Of course I also carry a Leatherman Wave so I'd pull it out before my pocket knife.

Edit: I'd have no problem chipping ice out either. Seriously, why are you carrying a knife if you're afraid to use it? It isn't built to be a toy. And obviously yiu shouldn't be carrying your LE's or midtechs around if all you're going to do is cut paper and open letters out of fear of hurting them. I guess I just can't grasp the logic of not using a tool as a tool.

Strig, I saw you usually carry a powerlock. I feel ya on the edge being used as a driver, but then I also consider that Contego a hard work knife and I'd probably be mean to one. I've been pretty rough on my PM2, to the point that it has become naturally convexed, but it has never once chipped out on me or balked at a task.
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Remmy, that's a reasonable point of view.

The Contego may have held up just fine in the factory configuration. Unfortunately for my, now chipped, blade, I sharpen my knives to where I feel it's acute enough to cut things, not to be used as a do-all tool.

I also stripped my low chromium blade of its Cerakote (just didn't like it) and can see someone leaving my knife wet.

You guys make some good points. I'm changing up my habits right away!
 
Years ago, my boss asked to use my knife and he cut plastic wrap on top of concrete. He just beat the heck out of my knife and this was my working knife. Right then and there, I learned my lesson.
rolf
 
I guess we should all learn to respond with the question:
"Do you need to CUT something, or do you need some sort of tool?"
 
I've never had anyone ask me for a knife. If I were asked, I'd ask what they needed it for and depending on the answer I'd either offer to do whatever it was for them, or at least offer the proper tool and then stand over them while they used it.
 
I let them use my multi tool blade that I never use. That way if what they need done could be better accomplished with a different tool, they have the means to do it.
 
Imean, did it hurt the knife? It's a contego... It should be pretty tough. But I would be irritated too.
 
TotalDbag said:
I let them use my multi tool blade that I never use. That way if what they need done could be better accomplished with a different tool, they have the means to do it.
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Agreed. I always carry a Leatherman on my belt to serve as a secondary beater or loaner knife.
 
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