Knife Loaning Horror Stories

I have only had a couple incidents with lending knives. The last one was the final staw. I was showing a friend my CS Voyager, when he decided to throw it across the room and stick it in the wooded door. :eek: The knife was fine exept it just doesn't open as smooth as it used to. Now I carry a Sears Craftsman superknife when I'm at work. I use it to cut tape off boxes so that I don't get adisive on my SAK or locking blade knife (which ever one it is for that day) If someone needs it, out comes the Craftsman. I tell them it has a new razor in it weather is does or not. and if they break it, it a Craftsman. I'll just go back to Sears and get another.
 
some really bad stories here.

People ask me if they can borrow my knife and I just look and say "no"
they ask why and I say "cause this f&^%en thing cost me $600" (I'm a butcher I can swear and not sound rude) then I offer to cut for them.

Once I bought a cutthroat razor, it didn't cost me much but I loved it.

I took it to my cousins and one of his friends asked to have a look after a few beers.
I agreed and gave it to him. He gave it back with a huge chip out of the blade.
He cut halfway through a beer can before it gave way.

wanker
 
wuzisname said:
After coming back to Ft Leonard wood after a 7 month tour in afghanistan with my trusted and tested Imperial Schrade Extreme, I was ordered by my First Sergeant to have my weapon secured in the company's arms vault.
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This reminds me of the liquor locker on my old ship. If you buy some hard-to-find liquor in another country, you have to put in in the "locker". They put the Chiefs in charge of it for God's sake. A few people would actually get some of their liquor back at the end of the patrol.
 
Gunfucius said:
Just today, I met one of my friend's friends. Seeing the knife clipped to his pocket and the leatherman multitool pouch on his belt, I thought, "hey cool another knife guy just like me." So I handed him my Buck 110 and said, "hey cool, you're into knives too." The first thing he did was to open it and put it to my friend's throat. I grabbed the blade with my left hand, putting my right hand between the tip and said friend's throat thinking that I'd rather have my hand "killed" than my friend killed and told him to let go of the knife NOW. So what does this yahoo do now? HE JAMS THE KNIFE INTO MY HAND:eek: !!! I used my left hand to slam his hand into the wall behind him, which made him let go of the knife, which then dropped out of my palm. I asked him WTF did he think he was doing, and he replied, "I was just joking dude, sheesh, relax." I showed him my hand and what he did to it. He then proceeds to tell me that it isn't that bad!!! I REALLLLY felt like punching him for that.:mad: After wiping the blood off of my knife and stopping the bleeding. I asked to see his knife and multitool just out of curiosity. It turns out the knife was a POS with a loose blade and no edge (figures:jerkit: ), and the multitool was given to him. (What the h*ll were they thinking giving a multitool to HIM, anyways?) I made it very clear to him that you DO NOT threaten someone with a knife in a "joking" manner. Its NOT funny:grumpy:. Sheesh, am I the only teenager with any common sense...
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No your not!

A few weeks ago I go to a friends house to hang out.
We walk up to his room and there are about 3 other guys in there. One of them asks to see the griptilian cliped to my back pocket. I kindly hand it to him and sit on the bed. He drops the blade after fliping it open hard without using the axis lock. Then he throws it back(still open! because the dip didnt know how to close it). Latter in the afternoon I come in from being outside with a friendlyier friend of mine. I walk into the kitchen to find the dumbarses standing there, they pull out kitchen knives and asks if I "wana have a knife fight". They procide to "sharpen" their knives by running the edges against each other and run around chasing each other while holding the knives.:jerkit: I promptly disarmed one or them and forced him to drop the knife on the home owners nice hardwood floor. This got me kicked out of their house. I'm just glad they werent serious and no one got hurt.

Other teens are idiots
 
I hate the fact that I can add to this!:grumpy:

Here goes:
My uncle says "gime ur knife" I would do anything for him so I didn’t even blink, and hand him my BM 910HS. He then proceeds to cut coax with it!!:mad: And in the process of cutting, it get’s really hard to cut, (GEE COULD IT BE THE SOLID COPPER CORE OF THE WIRE) so while he is destroying the edge he grunts, "not much of a knife":foot: Then he hands it back to me with a nice 1/8in chip in the blade. *crys*
 
I was asked at work if I had a knife. "Sure" I replied, and handed my CRK Sebenza away. No more than ten seconds later I look over to see it being used to tighten a screw. Needless to say, there was a long drawn out speech about how knives are for cutting, and are not screw drivers, let alone almost $400 screwdrivers.
 
About a month ago pizza guy and a different pizza guys son showed up with a computer they wanted me to fix for them
Different pizza guys son found my LMF II and tried to get it out of the sheath.
For some reason, I dont understand, the knife sits so extremely hard so usually you dont have any control over where it ends up when it come out.
Anyway, the pizza guy wanted to help and managed to get his hand in front of the just released knife.
Pizza guy recieved a cut across his right index finger, down to the bone.
I patched him up and sent him and the chocked different pizza guys son to hospital where the finger recieved five stitches.
Afterwards I got credit from the medics for patching him up that well.

Anyway. three days later an almost accident occured with that knife so I think it is hexed. It would be interesting to see how many soldiers that cut themselves on their LMF II.
 
i dont know why people tend to destroy the knife you hand to them, but it always happens.
Is it just disrespect for others valuables/tools, stupidity, ignorance, i have no ideea, but my knives stay with me
ive seen them drag the edge on concrete seconds after they got the knife in hand, trying to cut big hard wooden tables to check how sharp it is, sticking it in the ground...im never lending not one of my knives again
 
mpc12 said:
I was asked at work if I had a knife. "Sure" I replied, and handed my CRK Sebenza away. No more than ten seconds later I look over to see it being used to tighten a screw. Needless to say, there was a long drawn out speech about how knives are for cutting, and are not screw drivers, let alone almost $400 screwdrivers.
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I shutter at the thought of even letting anyone TOUCH my one of my sebenzas. I don't care who they are!
 
Planterz said:
I lent a knife to a friend who used it to cut grip tape. So not only was it chipped and dull, it was covered in glue residue. From then on, I always ask why they need it, and 99% of the time I do the cutting myself, or hand them the proper tool (like scissors or a screwdriver).
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I really don't see the problem with cutting tape...
 
Anytime someone asks to borrow my knife I immediately ask them what they plan to do with it. I have saved myself a couple broken blades. One time the answer I got was tighten this screw, another time it was to use the tip to pry someone out of a tight spot. I always ask and dont hesitate to say no.
 
i'm glad my friends aren't a bunch of idiots. my best friend is a knife nut, so he already knows what he is doing. one of my other friends, i will let "hold" my knives. not use them.

i will always show them how it opens, closes, and how sharp (lost alot of arm hair that way lol).

its this other friend's girlfriend that i wont let touch my knives. i trust her, but not with something that will prolly take her finger off with little effort.
 
Dayum, what is it with all the thread necromancy lately. This is the third thread that has been lifted from the grave!
 
In the years I was never without my stiletto there did occur some accidents. It was very blunt as they all are virtually but of course the point was keen.

Everybody had to take a look or see it open and only the once did anyone think to ask the truly interesting question of how they function.

Of course cutting attempts were made, this includes one fool who ran it several times across his arm, yes, across it with the edge. The very worst was the occasion when the aforementioned mental incompetent jammed it in his crotch, can't have been an inch from his balls.
 
These threads are like watching a train wreck in progress, you know something terrible is going to happen but you watch with morbid curiosity anyway. My stories aren't nearly as bad as some of yours though.

I picked up a cheap Smith And Wesson fixed blade one time, my sister asked to use it so i handed it to her without a second thought (she's my big sis afterall) so she promptly started using it as a screwdriver. It was a beater though, so it didn't bother me, but i gave her the "knives are for cutting" speach anyway.

A freind of mine asked to borrow a knife (i was carrying a CUDA EDC) to open a bottle of wine... yes, a bottle of wine (he wanted to pry the cork out). I told him it wouldn't work, to which he responded something to the effect of "If you spend so much money on a knife you shouldn't have to worry about it breaking, it should be made well enough that it wont break when you use it"

I agreed, but that doesn't mean it will work as a corkscrew.

He's a little smarter about knives now though. Now he only asks to borrow a knife to cut twine, cardboard, plastic etc...you know, tasks where a knife will actually work well.
 
Not really a horror story, more of a close call...

A co-worker asked me if I had an knife, and if he could borrow it. Sure I said, and handed him my Benchmade 350, but as I was passing it to him I asked what he needed it for. He told me he needed to remove a bunch of staples from some stacks of paper. I said I don't think so, and put the knife away. He was surprised that I put it away and told me it must not be a very good knife. :grumpy:
 
A friend of mine tried opening a wine bottle with my Ritter. Completely rolled the edge.
 
A buddy of mine wanted to use my knife to pry off the childproofing piece of a lighter. I gave him the speech and he said that I was the only person he knows that baby his knives. Then again, his prized knife is a Smith and Wesson.
 
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