"Lemme borrow yer knife"

a superintendant asked his foreman for his knife, the super started digging into asphalt and screwed it up real good he was checking density with it.. the look on that guys face.

no your not borrowing my knife.
fried
 
love4steel said:
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:
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Did you? Punch him, that is? It seems like a fair trade-off...broken knife = broken face. ;)
 
It depends on who it is & what it's for, but if it's at work, I do keep a razor knife in my bag & hand them that.

As a rule I tend not to let an "acquaintance" borrow anything. If I know them, I always ask what for & usually will just do whatever task they need myself.

If a knife's going to get abused, it'll be by me, maybe. At least I'll have no one to blame.

Some of the stories about loaning there knife out & the abuse some people put them through are humorous, although I'm sure it wasn't at the time.
 
me being a huge knife freak everyone knows i have one. when i worked construction i was on a crew with about 11 other guys and they were always asking to borrow my knife(some of these guys are just not trustworthy) finally i got tired of having to lend them my knife even though i gave each and every one of them a knife as a gift they would still ask to borrow my knife so one day i went to the hardware store and bought a couple of those really cheap plastic razor knives that you break a section off on when they go dull one was pink and shortly thereafter the problem was remedied.
 
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There are very few people that I would "lend" my Sebenza to -- even for a moment. If the Lendee isn't one of those people (basically, brother, Dad, & best bud), then I give them the Leatherman multi that I keep in my bag (I also have a multi in my car and in my desk at work, so there's usually one nearby).
 
I lent out my Kershaw Cyclone a couple weekds ago...I had just sharpened it to a face-shaving sharp edge and a friend of mine wanted to cut an orange with it. He didn't have it for a minute before he was bleeding all over the place. :eek: I guess the orange fought back or something and he was wounded in the fray.

He handed the knife back to me and said "Woah, that thing is AMAZINGLY sharp! I didn't even feel it cut."

Great success! :D

A lot of my friends don't expect a knife to be sharp whatsoever, and it just doesn't occur to them that mine...well...are. This isn't the first time someone's injured themselves like that...
 
Bought a new sectional couch and loveseat the other day. They delivered the loveseat and only HALF the sectional! Yeah, I was torqued! The salesman delivered the other half later that day. He was removing the plastic wrap and asked if I had my knife on me. I whipped out my OD-1 and slit off the wrap. A minute later, he turned around and noticed my collection of 50-odd folding hunters on the display shelf behind him. I just smiled and said,"yeah, I've got a knife!"
 
My experience that ruined this for me was a family member took one of my knives without permission and used it to cut 1/8" copper wire.

Now no one touches my knives, plain and simple, I don't care if it is my $12 Smith and Wesson folder or my CRKT Fixed Blades, if you need to cut something, if I deem it safe I'll do it for you, if not, go get your own knife.
 
Dorito Monk said:
Did you? Punch him, that is? It seems like a fair trade-off...broken knife = broken face. ;)
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After that I would punch that guy and never more consider him a friend, its like lending him a car, which he smashes to a tree and gives it back like nothing happened, you just dont do that.
Most people that dont carry knives consider them to be nothing more than a small sharpened crowbar.
 
Rather than borrowing, Im often asked to cut things. In work, pretty much weekly basis. I can't believe how people still cannot seem to understand the concept of carrying TOOL.
 
People usually start with the question, do you have a knife, to which my response is always yes. The second question is can I use it, to which my answer is always, what are you going to do with it. I am not trying to be funny but sometimes other people have different opinion than I do on what knives are used for. And since it is my knife I get to decide if I agree. I generally don’t mind letting someone use a knife, but it has always amused me when they almost always say WOW your knife is sharp. It’s kind of a sad commentary that some folks expect a knife to be dull.
 
I had a roommate who wanted to borrow one of my knife to carve something into his keys.


I just barely managed to swallow 'f-off'.
 
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