"Hey, you got a knife?", and you said:

bladeprince said:
The fellow sitting next to me asked me that when I was playing poker in a casino. I just said "yes, but it's a friendly knife".

I forgot to leave it in my car. I've seen people escorted out of casinos if they catch them with any kind of "observable" knife.
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I was taken aside by a security person in a casino as I was headed for the bathroom, and he asked me to put my knives in my pockets where they weren't visible instead of keeping them clipped at the top. I was carrying a Chinook II on the right and a 551 Griptillian on the left. I complied, he said thanks, and that was all that was said.
 
Planterz said:
My response is always "why?" I learned that after lending my friend a knife which he used to cut skateboard tape with. Not only was the knife dull and chipped, but it was gummed up like you couldn't believe. Took a long time to get an edge back on that one.
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Yar, I put my surgical stainless chinese folders to good use with my skateboards. Nothing like cutting modified sandpaper with strong adhesive backing to keep that edge keen. :thumbup:

What I always like about lending my knives to people is just watching how they handle em. Cutting techniques, how they open and close them....that sort of thing. It can be pretty hilarious.
 
My typical answer is...
"You need to cut something?"

Which usually leads them to say something like this...
"Yeah, this string on my jacket is bothering me" in which I hand them my knife or sometimes cut it for them.

But sometimes they respond with something like this...
"Yeah, this piece of barbed-wire is too long" in which I say "Sorry bro, can't help ya".
 
Unfortunately, where I work, everyone knows I have a knife on me. I don't always carry a lender, so sometimes I feel obligated to hand over one of my quality blades, since I'm such a nice guy.:rolleyes: Once it was to cut up a pan of brownies in a glass dish. That left all sorts of dings on my 154CM LCC, which I'm still trying to sharpen out. Another time I lent a knife to scrape some gunk off of a glass tube on one of our mercury analyzers. No edge damage, but lots of scrapes on the blade side of my Dominator.

I'm getting a little better about keeping a lender blade on me, or just saying no, and finding an appropriate tool elsewhere.

Daniel
 
This past week I was working in the barn at a summer camp. A few of the wranglers didn’t have a knife (mostly the female ones), I took this rare opportunity to bug them about the safety hazards of not carrying a knife around horses.
Whenever anyone asks me for a knife I respond with “What for” or “you need me to cut anything?” It’s a good idea to give them the notion that you will be doing the cutting.
 
at this point my selective deafness kicks in or else i get very interested in something else. just don't make eye contact. later,ahgar
 
So I reply, "Hey, are you that jaggoff from the Wall Street Journal? Why don't you just open a pair of scissors and hold them open by one of the razor-sharp edges (they'll never know the truth)!"

On a serious note,

I try to deny having/carrying a knife whenever anyone asks me. My wife is big on volunteering my knives though. She's like, "Oh, you need a knife, well my husband's got one, I'll go get his!" This is usually followed by a gasp since I don't carry a SAK Classic and usually only have one of my EDCs (the "terrifying" Buck/Mayo 172, or the "faint-worthy" Strider GB). Of course if I think they'll hurt themselves I might give them a fixed blade so they don't have to fumble with opening the knife, but that only gets even more shrieks of terror (and most of my fixed blades are shorter than ANY of my folder blades).
 
"Hey, you got a knife?"

"A gentleman always does. Do YOU need to borrow MINE?"

"Ahhhhh... yeah.... if I could."

"Here you are."

"Wow, that's a nice knife!"

"Yes, it is. It was handmade by Andre' Thorburn in South Africa. Notice the filework on the spine. And that's abalone shell there."

"Gee,... how much does something like that cost?"

"About five hundred dollars."

"Oh. Maybe I'll just give it back to you now. Thank you."
 
After two incidents I don't lend knives out anymore. The first serious one was on a canoe trip hours away from any hospital when buddy asked to use my knife to carve a hotdog stick. I warned him that it was sharp, a few seconds later his finger's bleeding like a stuck pig and he started asking me about "where's that electrical tape you have". Luckily I could stem the bleeding and make his finger look like a temporary wiring job.:D

The second time was when I lent my Shrade Sharpfinger to a friend for a two day camping trip. He liked using the knife, but when I got it back the stitching for the sheath was all cut up, and I ended up with a repair job. No damage to the knife though.:mad:

Now when anyone asks, I will simply do the cutting for them, and if they are not carrying a knife, they are out of luck, and will have to wait until I can cut.
 
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