How to serrate a any knife blade.

One of my co-workers got it right, he carries two knives. One for himself and one for everybody else. I generally don't lend mine out.
 
Nobody dulls my gerber frame dagger but me. They want something cut, they get me to do it, or they get their own.
 
I just picked up a Sanrenmu 710 to use as a loaner for just such occasions. I wouldn't even let someone that stupid use my lovingly honed Tenacious, much less my more expensive knives.
 
If they were knife people, they would have their own knives. If they don't, they won't know how to respect your property, either.

Either keep a beater handy or tell them to buy their own.
 
I always carry an old beater, like a SE Delica, just to lend to non knife people...

Regards,

Andre Tiba - Brazil
 
Not a knife but a "chisel" story. I kept a set of very fine wood handle screwdrivers at my bench (in another life), found a shop mate one day beating on one with a steel head hammer trying to use it as a chisel. Needless to say it required a lot of hammering to cut a pocket into a piece of wood with a screwdriver. The tip was fine. Same guy later stole 3 of my actual chisels. Should have shown him another use for a long screwdriver when I first had reason :grumpy:

No, I do not let people borrow my knives. If they don't carry their own ... :thumbdn:
 
There is a really short list of people I will give one of my knives to. If someone is not on that list, I ask "why?" or "for what". If it's for a good reason, I will cut it for them. If it's not a good reason or If I know them "too well", I just say "No, get your own".
 
-Lucky- said:
Conversation with a buddy I lent a knife to...(paraphrased)

Me, "WTF did you do!?"
Friend, "Dude you said your knife was nice it cost you like 300 bucks I thought it could handle it"

And the body was never found....kidding.

Never loan out knives!
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No one touches my knives but me. No one. I will not let some lunk head use a custom 700 dollar DDR.

It's called protecting my investment.

A guy once asked me to use my knife. I said, "Why? You have scissors laying right there." The guy just shrugged. He had no answer to that.
 
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every once in a while someone will ask to use my knife, i tell them "let me see what you want to cut", then i offer to cut it for them. im not going to have someone wreck the edge or break the tip off of my knife.
 
I handed over a Subcom to an electrician for what I thought would be a quick cut. He returned it with a big rolled edge. Learned my lesson.
 
Nifelheim said:
I do carry a Tenacious as a beater/loaner knife. Not that it's especially cheap in here (it goes for a bit more than 60$), but better than giving someone my Al Mar or Spydie P'kal or something.
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I do the same thing! :)

I carry a delica as a back up to a larger knife (emerson or zt) and lend it out to people who ask me if they could borrow a knife.
I also have a leatherman with me so that goes when the person needs a tool to do something more than cutting (i.e. prying stuff open)
 
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