"Lemme borrow yer knife"

last time a buddy of mine asked me that, my Izula ended up in the camp fire... Next time my answer will be "nope, sorry. Have you ever heard of a Mora??"
 
I give them the cheap SAK knock off that I got for free with a CDNN order and let em figure it out----nobody touches my good knives.
 
I get real nervous letting people use any of my daily carry pieces. There are alot of people out there that don't even know how to use a knife. Given a laser sharp death blade, they hold onto it like its got AIDS or something. Next thing you know your precious knife is eating concrete or spilling sheep's blood.

I guess it depends on the person.
 
I ask the person what they want to cut and/or tell them I will cut it for them. Otherwise, it's a simple no.
 
If it's for cutting, I'll do it for them. If not for cutting, I suggest an appropriate tool. But the knife stays in my possession.
 
kzooglock23 said:
I get real nervous letting people use any of my daily carry pieces. There are alot of people out there that don't even know how to use a knife. Given a laser sharp death blade, they hold onto it like its got AIDS or something. Next thing you know your precious knife is eating concrete or spilling sheep's blood.

I guess it depends on the person.
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LMAO!!! I know the feeling. A coworker picked up my NIB Emerson A100 off my desk, deployed the blade after almost slicing his Jugular twice...The end result was, "Whoa, this is an awesome knife man!" The next thing I know I see it falling out of their hand onto a carpeted floor tip down. :eek:
I asked the person nicely to get out of my office and never lay another finger on anything on my desk that they were not willing to leave there. ;)
He ended up cutting himself too when I told him how to close the blade...:mad:
 
I have noticed no one asks for a knife when they need to cut something. It's always prying or twisting.

I will hand over a pliers-based multi-tool, but even then they invariably open the blade most of the time.

At the range, people have asked for a knife to remove staples jammed in a staple gun, or to adjust the front post on an M16.
 
Ankerson said:
I will loan mine out usually, but then I don't carry anything with really thin blades most of the time either so I am not worried about getting it back with a broken tip. ;)

Yes I have loaned out my Striders too so cost really doesn't have much to do with it.

The way I look at it if a person is afraid to loan out their knife because it might get damaged then the knife really isn't strong enough to begin with.

I always refer back to the Woman's toolkit joke. :D

Think about that before loaning out your knife. :D
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I don't think my knives will break I just don't want to fix a screwed up blade from someone misusing it. I usually loan it out to people I know and I know what they're using it for. I like the "Where's yours?" reply though. I'm going to start using that one.:D
 
The only thing I've gotten from loaning my knives out is people cut themselves. I prefer to keep my knives with a single malt of DNA.
 
I usually just do it for them. I try to block thier view of me opening and closing the knife because too many people freak out if the blade is more than 1 1/2 "
 
A number of years ago a sous chef asked to borrow my paring knife. I naively said sure and handed it to him. When he returned it the tip was bent at a 45 degree angle. I asked him what happened and he said he used it to pick a cheap padlock. After that I got a cheapie throwaway for lending.

When somebody asks to borrow my EDC, I either decline or let them use hand them a SAK.
 
I let an old friend borrow the CS Urban Shiv in my avatar because he had to stay in a motel in a seedy area for a week while waiting for his new apartment to be ready. I let him borrow that knife because it is the least expensive knife I own that would make a serviceable weapon. I'm getting it back on Thursday but he says he lost the sheath. Last time I let somebody borrow a knife. Shoulda gave him a cheap kitchen knife.

Now I'm gonna have to make a new sheath for it, which won't be too hard.
 
Charlie Mike said:
I'm getting it back on Thursday but he says he lost the sheath. Last time I let somebody borrow a knife. Shoulda gave him a cheap kitchen knife.
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I gotta think that someone that doesn't have their own knife that they carry every day without losing or breaking it really can't be trusted with my knife.

I also gotta think that someone that DOES have their own knife that they carry every day without losing or breaking it really doesn't need to borrow my knife.

However you look at it the person asking to borrow your knife probably can't be trusted to not damage the knife or themselves (or both) and explaining your strict policy of not lending your tools would be a bloody good idea.
 
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