I regret allowing someone to hold my knife when...........

That was my wife, too.
She just doesn't have enough power to unlock the frame lock.
 
brandoak said:
It only takes a few times letting someone barrow your knife only for you to have to go and track it down after they say "Oh, I think I left it over there.."

Dude, thats a $500 dollar knife and you just left it on a box in the middle of the warehouse!!!

Its a bit awkward now when I tell people "no" when they can clearly see a clip in my pocket...but oh well..
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Oh man!!!! That would have definitely raised my blood pressure.
 
Never regret letting someone borrow mine! I hand them the Stanley razor :D when they say they need something longer I hand them my crappy dull duct knife... "sorry that's all I carry as an AC man :)"

Don't get me wrong...y'all already know what I'm really using at work :p
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But "the knifeless" will never know...;)
 
I never let anyone borrow my knives. Spent to much money on them to hand them over to a non knife person. If they want something cut I will gladly do that, but they are not getting my knife.
 
cashville said:
Better to happen on a Benchmade than another company that doesn’t stock replacement parts. Someone did this to one of my PM2’s a couple times and I wasn’t super happy. Really hard wrist flick. Regardless, it’s pretty cringy.

“Did you know it could do that?” Like he just did a magic trick...
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People dont get it. It like letting someone drive your car. Ok drive it, dont power brake it spin the tires and drift it around corners.
 
I sometimes carry a "loaner," usually a tiny old wobbly-bladed peanut. Works well in situations where someone may not be prepared with their own but may need to help cut shrink wrap, rope, etc.
I do this with pens, too, but keep the cap...no one walks off "accidentally" with a pen without a cap.

Still can't believe people can function without at least one knife or pen on them and would need to borrow mine.
 
I don't baby my knives. They're tools, not pieces of art. I bought them to use, not put in a glass case and admire. (I don't have any knives that cost over $180.)

I take care of them and sharpen them, but I don't care if someone flicks one of my Benchmade knives open or closed. It's not going to break it or harm it. And if it does ever break, I'll send it in to Benchmade for them to fix.
 
I regret allowing someone to hold my knife when..... I am breathing.

Therefore, I don't do it.

There are a (very) few exceptions. Trusted friends who have demonstrated that they have common sense and knowledge of the correct way to handle and use sharp tools.
 
When I had someone who is generally otherwise responsible a knife to check out, tell them "Be careful, it's sharp." and they proceed to run their thumb across the blade. Today my neighbor (older dude, somewhat into knives) asked to see what I was carrying (a beater Kershaw Emerson) with that warning, and he did the thumb test. He immediately said "I better give this back to you, I might cut myself" Later this evening he gave me a box of six or seven random old knives (70's-80's) of...questionable quality, and asked me to sharpen them up for him. I'll get to it in the morning.
 
I hate it when I let them hold my knife...

When they make me explain why I handed them the Wenger Esquire, instead of whatever else I’m carrying that day.
 
. . . the discussion about it is not opened in whine and cheese. (oh, and just try to hold my wife in an objectionable manner - good luck with that.) ;) My knife? Not so much but . . . still might get bit. (by my wife) :D
 
Boy, can I relate! One time, I loaned a knife; the edge was perfect. It came back looking like a cross-cut saw. The guy cut up stainless steel wire.

Another time I loaned out a knife with the understanding that the borrower would return the knife to me and no one else. I later had to chase down the knife because he loaned it to a co-worker.

I can see myself becoming less willing to loan out my knives. Especially now, because I am downsizing my knife collection. Guess I need to keep a couple of gas station knives as loaners. Maybe Nick Shabazz has a couple of extra Z Hunters!:)
 
This is easy for me. When someone asks, "hey, can I see/borrow your knife?", then the answer is a simple "no".

On the other hand, I have had so many in my regular circle of folks nick, cut, or really deeply cut themselves when handling or using my knives, they no longer ask. For any of them. Some won't even look at a new knife when I get it out.

I just catered a small BBQ benefit picnic on Memorial Day, and sure enough, one of the really experienced kitchen guys doing vegetable prep cut the living daylights out of himself. So badly he had to leave the event for medical attention.

His excuse? "I had no idea that knife was that sharp. All I know is I was flying through the onions and suddenly a little sting, then blood. I barely felt it...."

Robert
 
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