"Lemme borrow yer knife"

I'll find out Thurs.
 
New here, used to be "sure, here you go."

but after a fellow soldier used it to scrape carbon off of the gas tube of his rifle I tend to give more thoughts now a days when I hear that question.
 
Maybe carry a Vic Soldier/Pioneer to lend? If someone wants to pry, there's the large screwdriver. Scrape, you have the awl. Cut, you have the main blade...
 
Over at my Army ROTC program, senior cadets made a move to ban carrying more than 1 knife.

Simple, I'm not going to lend anyone anything - because I won't have any spares to lend on me! If anyone has to chew through MRE packaging during FTX or cut 550 cord, they're on their own.
 
I will asked what's they gonna use it for. If it's an OK thing, then I will give them my Opinel No. 6.
 
ioerror said:
last time that i've left my knife on the desk, a colleague tried to use it as a screw driver...i stopped him on time , saying that i'll kill him with what has left of the knife :-). He never touched my knives again :P
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I know where you're coming from...

It might be more productive if we then told these Nearly Kontemptible Peons that knives are too hard and brittle to survive that kind of tool abuse--"they aren't screwdrivers [you ignoramus]".
 
That's one of the many reasons I neck carry an Izula. No problem letting someone borrow it as opposed to my pocket folder.
 
I prefer to ingore that kind of question. If the person repeats it though, I offer to cut/help him. I dont like other people to touch my blades, in general. If my GF CAN respect that, everyone else HAS to.

Once a fellow guy tried to wrist snap my SS police pointing it against a lake surface, to his fortune, he did not managed to throw it in there, otherwise he would be a good diver nowadays. Would not leave him another choice.
 
if it is one of my friends i give it to them if not i let them use it but i am always following them and i tell if you break it you have to buy me a new leatherman because i don';t carry any thing else and leatherman are expensive
 
Most of the time I'll carry multiples and have a RR second or a user SAK in my pocket. I'll loan someone that, and if they like it, they can keep it. Now they have a knife.
 
To make things simple for them:

"NO, sorry, my friend. This one don't leave my hands. But I can do that for you."
 
true story.. my best friend asked to borrow my knife once.. happened to be a new delica at the time.. without question I give it to him.. he jamms it in between a metal door and door jam and wiggles it around in all the metal mechanics of the lock trying to "pop" the lock? he must have seen this done in a movie. what an idiot huh? and yes, when he gave it back to me the tip was broken off. when i show him how he broke my new knife he suggests my knife is a p.o.s. I never wanted to punch him quite as bad as that time. :grumpy:
 
My carry knife is always under $40 or so. That's the one I let people borrow. I just make sure I know what they are doing with it, and there's always the "you break it you buy it" stipulation. To date, no damage has been done to my knives on loan. But I guess my friends are just not idiots haha.
 
Next time someone asks to borrow a knife, I'm handing them a scewdriver and some scissors.:cool:
 
Am I just really lucky or other people hang around too much with idiots who have no respect for borrowed property? I mean, I don't care for pens, but even I know enough not to borrow a nice pen and return it all bent and scratched.
 
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