how the hell

Im still using it until it breaks. oh well. now i have a reason to show people why i wont let them use my knives. i got a chuckle out of it. not to upset. its a very replaceable knife. but hey they steel is flexible i guess.
 
I can say I'll hand my knives to people living here without no worry,
but not to those does not know knives very well.

The difficult thing is, to me, to tell whether he/she knows how to use a knife.
The hardened steel is quite a tough material but there are many things
harder than knife steel and can ruin the edge.
But I think this is not always very well known.
 
I'm like Koyote. I keep some loaner knives for the purpose of handing out to folks without. Simple reality is most people don't have a knife and if you want to stick with the I won't lend my knives rule, you will be walking a solo path much of the time. It would be nice to live in a world where people respect the same tools that we do, that they have the same values and love of outdoors and bushcraft. Unfortunately, we are the fringe group of this society we live in.

Lend out those loners I say. Better to recruit ten people to our way of thinking even if that means 3 knives return buggered up. In the end, the person who buggered up your knife will learn something. If you act pretty cool about it, try to figure out what they did and correct them, then you'll have both learned something.

I remember I was working with my boss on a net, pulling fish from it. He isn't used to knives and I had my Buck 119 on my belt (this was my main goto knife back then). I was pretty proud of the edge I had just learned to put on it. Anyhow, he asks me for my knife to cut part of the fish's spine off that was so wrapped up in the net. After he is done he turns and throws the knife point first into the sand. Rather than bonking him in the head with a huge carp, I just calmly picked up my knife and calmly said, 'now driving an edge into sand like that really buggers up the edge and this type of knife isn't made for throwing.' He then asked me what made a throwing knife and we got into a discussion about it. In the end, he learned something and later bought himself some Gibbon throwers. I ended up with a dull knife, but recruited a guy to the knife world.
 
Hard to say who's dummer, your buddy for bending the tip, or you for loaning your knife. Pound the sucker flat (the Mora, I mean). Maybe your buddy too. Moral: DON'T LOAN YOUR KNIVES. If someone doesn't have one, they shouldn't be trusted with yours. If they don't wreck the blade, they could damage themselves (thereby fulfilling Darwin's theory).:D
 
im a nice guy. im not going to say no to a friend. if i need something he would help me out
 
Be aware that once metal is bent and bent back, it's permanently weak. No getting around it. You can use it until it breaks, but always be aware that if it's used hard, it WILL break. Make sure you position yourself to anticipate this so you don't get hurt.
 
I would have let him keep it. It's why I started buying cheap blades anyway. That way the borrower gets to learn about knives with their own blade. I always carry an extra folder or something, even when at work. When someone asks to borrow I simply tell them no. If they are not a tool, I look at them as a potential convert and have a blade to help facilitate the change to a knut...
 
It’s very rare that anyone asks to borrow a knife from me, if it happens it’s at work, never for an over night. I do have a couple of sheath knives that I would lend out. I’ve made sheaths for two models of Old Hickory and one model of Green River Knife, any of these I could stand to loose. They are replaceable for a couple of bucks, the Old Hickory I can get at my local hardware store.

None of the knives I carry would I lend without being able to supervise its use. Mostly I just hand them my box cutter. I keep a P-38 on a magnet attached to my tool box at work for the few guys in the shop that used to ask me for my SAK to open a can at lunch.

About 7 years ago I bought a bunch of Opinels and gave them to the guys at work who would ask to borrow my knife occasionally.
 
Mine Mora 2000 has bendet like that when I tryed to cross-grain baton with it.I've straightened it a good bit and now it's hard to notice that it's slightly bendet.
 
mate of mine put it like this , ya knife is like your wife , you dont loan it out unless youre expecting it to come back.. well he used a really common and colorful word that ends in k , but this is a family friendly forum ... lets leave it at "used"

I have knives Ill *give* to people as in they keep it , and Ill gladly use my knife to cut stuff for other people , but its not very often that Ill let someone else use my knife .
 
Exactly that.

I don't have a problem dishing out my knives, just not ones I use. I handed out two in the last couple of months. I saw the state of the one the guy took the other day. It has two big dings up near the tip. Cool. He can't get them out and I wont. He can keep that knife. He deserves a knife in that state. Live with it. The woman I lent one to wanted to give it back to be sharpened. I was amazed considering what I'd seen her use it on, and I could only wonder at what I hadn't seen. It was immaculate. In fact it was so pristine it made for a great photo shoot amongst her hemp flowers. She can keep it. She deserves to have a knife like that.
 
I have fixed bends like that before by using a ball peen hammer and the top of a bench vise. Just tap lightly and you should be able to strighten it.
 
yeah i never lend out my knives... i know others wont take care of them the way that I do, so I just dont even give people the chance to screw them up...

lucky it was a mora and not something else like a Busse... granted, a Busse probably wouldnt have bent in the first place, but man if it had... i would break it off in his arse!
 
Rockywolf said:
I have no suggestions other than have your buddy replace the knife. "You break it, you buy it" motto. Another reason not to lend my stuff to anyone. I have a hard time even letting someone I'm camping with use one of my knives.
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Add another echo to your sentiments.
 
It would be interesting to know if your friend replaces it even though you told him to not worry about it.
 
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