Knife abuse by friends and family members

Yep best rule of thumb when someone asks to borrow is a firm NO!!! Ya know they will abuse it and use for something stupid. Tell em "Buy Your Own"
 
Unless she is also a "Knife Person": does she have the knowledge to pick out a really good knife for you?

If I wanted to buy something for someone, I think it would be a simple matter to do some covert basic research and find out what is appropriate.
 
If I wanted to buy something for someone, I think it would be a simple matter to do some covert basic research and find out what is appropriate.
True... but what research?
What makes a knife high quality; or even desirable?
The Origin of the knife, and it's history...
The Maker's reputation...
How about the knife itself:
Blade steel and shape?
Action type?
The scales?
The embellishments?
How about the personal tastes and desires of the person receiving it?
Are they looking for something in particular?
 
Try to look at it this way. Unless she is also a "Knife Person": does she have the knowledge to pick out a really good knife for you?

She could buy me an M Tech and I would still cherish it like it was a Sebenza! My daughter bought me a knife this Christmas- it’s a Copper Kershaw. It’s engraved. It is my favorite knife! It will probably never get used. None the less loaned out!!
 
My wife irks me when she chops veggies. For some reason, she uses a porcelain plate as a cutting board, and the knife blade makes that metallic ding as if it’s screaming in pain. Needless to say, she has no expensive food prep cutlery in her torture chamber (kitchen)
 
True... but what research?
What makes a knife high quality; or even desirable?
The Origin of the knife, and it's history...
The Maker's reputation...
How about the knife itself:
Blade steel and shape?
Action type?
The scales?
The embellishments?
How about the personal tastes and desires of the person receiving it?
Are they looking for something in particular?

She could go down to my desk. Write down some brand names of knives in boxes then ask. Most of my stuff comes from White Mountain Knives- she knows the name. Most shops would be more than happy to help!
 
Recently my brother (not a knife guy) asks me to borrow my knife for a second at a job we were both doing. The only knife I had on me that day was my LW little native 5. I reached in my pocket handed it to him and said be careful. He grabs it and walks away. A couple of minutes later he returns to hand me my knife with the tip broken off! He used it to pry open a can of polyurethane!!! I was livid!! Thankfully he gave me the money so I can buy myself a replacement. Bottom line is.. if someone that’s not a knife guy or girl ask to borrow your knife say no or ask what they need it for!!
 
I have a thing for single-action autos, and have a small collection of them. My brother has been really fascinated by them. Because they're mostly not made anymore and hard to find, I really didn't want to gift most of them... I ended up giving him a Halo VI I picked up here.

He promptly lost it.

This Christmas he got thermal underwear.
 
True... but what research?
What makes a knife high quality; or even desirable?
The Origin of the knife, and it's history...
The Maker's reputation...
How about the knife itself:
Blade steel and shape?
Action type?
The scales?
The embellishments?
How about the personal tastes and desires of the person receiving it?
Are they looking for something in particular?
First birthday I was with my girlfriend, she gave me a set of three throwing daggers, before I was even really a knife person. Now we've been together five years, I have run with the hobby, and she just asked me straight-out, she wants to get something good, what is it that I like? I gave her some information. Ended up getting my first Opinel for my birthday last year, and some really nice Mora from her this Christmas. Then she surprises me Christmas day with a ton of new tools!

This girl is gearing up to be my fiancee.
EDIT: I've also given her an Opinel no. 8 Mushroom knife engraved with "____'s Shroom Slicer" and a Higonokami for her EDC, and cleaned up her grandfather's Frost doctor's knife and Colt skinner. She's into the hobby just a little bit 😁😁 Likes to cook and forage and we intend to get even more outdoorsy in the future, so she is going to need fixed blades and that.
 
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Not technically abuse, but neglect: Bought a Leatherman Wave for a friend for Christmas once, then a few years later, went to help him build a workbench in his garage and found it in a box of trash/random parts/etc still unopened. Needless to say, he doesn't get Christmas presents from me anymore.
WHAT?!

There's so many things about this that I don't like. It'd be one thing if he was using it as a truly beat-around tool and had it lying in a bottom of crud ready to be picked up and do some work, that is how I was reading it at first, until I saw "unopened". The dude didn't even have the grace to OPEN the damn thing, man, I cannot think of a gift I have received in my life or could receive that I would be that callous towards not even trying to like, appreciate, look at...anything.

That dude didn't deserve that Wave, oh mane.
 
Oh, and another story: Coworker asked me if I had a knife (of course), so I handed him my EDC of the day. He proceeded to cut open a pus-filled blister. Even though there wasn't any damage and thankfully this was a cheapo EDC that I was planning on getting rid of anyway, but still... Who puts their own bodily fluids on a borrowed knife? Disgusting. You can keep the knife now, pal. I'll just buy another one.
 
Oh, and another story: Coworker asked me if I had a knife (of course), so I handed him my EDC of the day. He proceeded to cut open a pus-filled blister. Even though there wasn't any damage and thankfully this was a cheapo EDC that I was planning on getting rid of anyway, but still... Who puts their own bodily fluids on a borrowed knife? Disgusting. You can keep the knife now, pal. I'll just buy another one.
They say a knife is never truly yours until it bites you. Way I see it, he was just taking a pro-active step to get a knife, while also poppin' his zit. Two birds, one stone.

😁
That is truly disgusting though lol
 
First birthday I was with my girlfriend, she gave me a set of three throwing daggers, before I was even really a knife person. Now we've been together five years, I have run with the hobby, and she just asked me straight-out, she wants to get something good, what is it that I like? I gave her some information. Ended up getting my first Opinel for my birthday last year, and some really nice Mora from her this Christmas. Then she surprises me Christmas day with a ton of new tools!

This girl is gearing up to be my fiancee.
Congratulations! She sure sounds like a keeper!
 
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