Knife handling wisdom and advice

Not really a common saying but:
"There is a reason "they" need to borrow your knife."

I keep a knife I don't mind getting messed up on the truck for anyone that needs to borrow my knife.
The people that ask to borrow my knife at work tend to tear knives up quickly and easily no matter the cost or quality.
 
slyraven said:
Post here wise sayings and advice for handling knives. Getting stuck or sliced happens to the best of us, and maybe we can save some fingers here. Plus, I am not the best so I could definitely use some sound advice to use and pass on to generations to come.

The biggest one I remember is: Never catch a falling knife if you drop it. Obviously, you may catch the blade and cut yer fingers off. I cringe just thinking about it.


Please feel free to add.
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Many, many years ago, my Aunt handed me a knife. But she wouldn't let go of it. She explained that I had to acknowledge that I had it, with a "thank you". No "Here you go." She worked with a Girl Scout troop and that was the way they did it. Some things you never forget.
 
An old gray beard man say, he who uses knife as fidget toy, gets blood on everything touched.
 
You can’t blame a tool for doing what it is designed to do. If you injure yourself it’s user error.

n2s
 
A dull knfe is a dangerous knife. Another one is use the proper tool for the right job. A knife is for cutting not prying or hammering. Mostly folders I think for the last one, but good advice for fixed blades too. I am not one to baton with my fixed blade knives, others can, but I do not.
 
Kiteman72 said:
As you go through your life
Two rules will never bend
Do not whittle toward yourself
Or pee against the wind.

I heard this somewhere when I was a youngster...

I actually whittle toward myself all the time so I look at it as more poetic than instructional.
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I cut as I need to direction-wise, but generally speaking, always try to cut away from your body. And don't pee on electric fences.

Good advice in the posts as usual.
 
The Tao Te Ching says:
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

A proverb:
Do not unfold me without reason; do not fold me without honor
 
Whenever you use sharp and pointy things, be totally focused on using them right. Never use a knife casually, or worse absentminded. A knife or an axe, a machete, a woodchisel, hey even a screwdriver can do bad damage if you mess up.
 
Don’t close your serrated Leatherman blade on your finger; it may look safe with its hook end but it’ll still slice you.
I now have a silly plaster on the cut.

Oops.
 
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