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Lending out a knife.... Any good stories?

siguy said:
I used sand paper...to...get it screaming sharp.



...I watched him take it out and proceed to toss is a few feet in the air several times, each time catching it loosely in his hand.

Right there in the kitchen, no less, with people standing around!...
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Simon I was waiting for the part about loosing digits and squirting blood. :eek: :grumpy: :eek:




Big Mike

”Scaring the tree huggers.”

Forest & Stream
 
I've had someone borrow my leatherman (I assumed for the bottle opener, he was quite drunk) and then attempt to give someone an impromtu castration :eek:

last time I lend a knife to a scout leader. or anyone for that matter.
 
Once while I was at work I loaned out my buck 110, and I got it back snapped in half... last time I ever loan a knife that I care about to someone who I don't know very well.
 
let my uncle see my buck strider, and he didnt think it was that sharp, even though I told him it was. He found out, when running his thumb along the blade, giving him a nice clean slice.
 
I lent my saw to my best friend and as he was sawing I could tell he was using too much force. I told him to let the saw do the work and he did for a few strokes and then went back to forcing it. End result was a bent saw blade. He doesn't use any of my stuff anymore. Luckily it was only a 10 dollar pruning saw.

The only time I lend my knife out is at Christmas time to my family so they can cut the blister packs off toys. Not anymore though. My brother in law got a Griptilian as a present and my other brother in law wanted to show him how to flick the knife open one handed. What he didn't realize is that it has a tension screw that was tight. He proceed to try and flick the knife harder and harder to open. He finally got it to work but in his back swing he put the now open blade right into his leg. Nothing like spending Christmas in the emergency room.:rolleyes: Now I don't loan knives to anyone. I don't want blood on MY knives.:D
 
I had a RAT-7 that a guy I lent it to sharpened with a bastard file. It was looking very.. interesting by the time I got it. Luckily I was able to convex it enough to be rid of the file marks. But I wasn't too pleased.
 
I had just bought my first Benchmade folder and I was so proud of it. So when a co worker asked to borrow it for a minute, naturally I jumped at the chance to show off what was at the time my nicest knife. He said he had to cut a piece of insualtion with it. So I went to the bathroom and when I came back, he had this strange look on his face. He handed me back my knife and said that he had dropped it and broke the tip off. He appologized, and although I was pissed off, I tried not to show it too much. About ten minutes later another co worker came and told me that he didnt drop it.

:eek:Actually he cut the tip off with a pair of wire cutters.:eek:

I couldnt believe it. So I asked him again and he told me the same story that he dropped it. I told him that I knew what really happened and he was a lying SOB. His apology no longer meant anything to me and from then on his word meant nothing to me. When I asked him why he did it, his response was that he wanted to see what would happen. He thought the knife steel would be harder than the wire cutters. Dumba$$!!!!!!!!

I learned the hard way not to lend my knives (or anything else that means anything to me) to anyone that I dont 100% trust. And that aint too many people.

Now I have an old rusty knife with a very blunt edge that I lend to people at work. When they bring it back to me and complain about how dull it is, I tell them that if they have to borrow something then maybe they need to go buy themselves one.
 
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I have three standard answers to the usual questions...

A) bring it to me and I'll cut it for you.

B) bring me your knife and I'll sharpen it free and show you how... once.

C) I have a couple for sale that you might like.
 
Loaned a Police Recruit to my Sis in law to peel spuds with..she's still got it 10 years later. (She's my Sis and I cant beat her up! :D ) loaned a Nimravus to a lil blonde with a huge stalking ex BF..she's still got it.( she's 4' 4'' 105 lbs blonde,cute so I cant beat her up! :D ) Best one: bought a MormonBrother at work a Spydie cause he kept borrowing mine..30 seconds later he laid his left palm open to the bone! He's still got the knife tho. Loves it, wont even let me touch it!
 
Several years ago I lent a fellow firefighter and US Army National Guardsman my CRK Shadow IV. He was getting deployed to Iraq in 2004 for 18 months and I asked him if he had a good knife to carry while he was over there. His answer was less than satisfying to me and on our next shift I made it a point of getting up to his firehouse to see him. He was leaving the following week and this was my only chance to see him before he left. I pulled him aside and handed him a CRK box. I told him that every soldier needs a good knife and this is the best I had in my collection that would serve him well. It was sitting in the safe for years so I had no problems parting with it. He was honored that I would lend him one of my best knives. I had him promise me that he would stay safe and use it in whichever manner he saw fit. With that he was off to Iraq.

After 18 months he returned home. He had some leave time from the dept. before he returned to work and came down to my firehouse to see us all. In his hands he had a CRK box. He handed it back to me and said thanks for lending him the knife. He told me it came in handy on several occasions. The most notable story he told me about it's use was when a vehicle rushed the checkpoint he was guarding and slammed into several barriers before exploding. After coming to his senses he realized that the car had exploded about 10 feet from the Hum-Vee next to the guard shack. His buddy was inside, alive but seriously wounded. He then used my knife to cut his buddy out of the vehicle and remove several hunks of shrapnel embedded in his left shoulder, arms and neck. The largest piece of shrapnel lodged between his helmet and left ear leaving a gaping wound from the corner of his left eye back around behind his ear. His friend lived.

While he was telling me this I knew right then that this knife, with all of it's nicks, and dings, and dirt and grime all over it had indeed earned it's place in my friends gear bag. I handed the knife back to him and told him to keep it and that should the need arise to go back his knife will go back with him.

That is my best story of ever lending a knife to someone.
 
Ken C. said:
Several years ago I lent a fellow firefighter and US Army National Guardsman my CRK Shadow IV. He was getting deployed to Iraq in 2004 for 18 months and I asked him if he had a good knife to carry while he was over there. His answer was less than satisfying to me and on our next shift I made it a point of getting up to his firehouse to see him. He was leaving the following week and this was my only chance to see him before he left. I pulled him aside and handed him a CRK box. I told him that every soldier needs a good knife and this is the best I had in my collection that would serve him well. It was sitting in the safe for years so I had no problems parting with it. He was honored that I would lend him one of my best knives. I had him promise me that he would stay safe and use it in whichever manner he saw fit. With that he was off to Iraq.

After 18 months he returned home. He had some leave time from the dept. before he returned to work and came down to my firehouse to see us all. In his hands he had a CRK box. He handed it back to me and said thanks for lending him the knife. He told me it came in handy on several occasions. The most notable story he told me about it's use was when a vehicle rushed the checkpoint he was guarding and slammed into several barriers before exploding. After coming to his senses he realized that the car had exploded about 10 feet from the Hum-Vee next to the guard shack. His buddy was inside, alive but seriously wounded. He then used my knife to cut his buddy out of the vehicle and remove several hunks of shrapnel embedded in his left shoulder, arms and neck. The largest piece of shrapnel lodged between his helmet and left ear leaving a gaping wound from the corner of his left eye back around behind his ear. His friend lived.

While he was telling me this I knew right then that this knife, with all of it's nicks, and dings, and dirt and grime all over it had indeed earned it's place in my friends gear bag. I handed the knife back to him and told him to keep it and that should the need arise to go back his knife will go back with him.

That is my best story of ever lending a knife to someone.
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Awesome story. :thumbup:
 
I find Americans very rarely ask to borrow my knife, they use their own.

I have learned with Brazilians to carry a multi-function utility blade that won't matter if it gets destroyed.

I had a friend there ask to borrow my knife and all I had was my Endura. He's a cabinet maker so he knows tools. I handed him the knife and he picked up something he was trying to fix and went to use it to turn out a phillips head screw. I stopped him just in time.

I normally ask, "What do you need cut?"

We were at a BBQ and I handed my Mora 2000 to a friend cutting meat. He worked with it for a few minutes and stopped. "I can't work with this knife," he said handing it back. "It's too sharp, This thing is scaring me to death."

I was in a rural village once and some friends invited me to kill a pig for them. i had a few mora's in my pack and loaned them out for the butchering. To say they were popular that day is an understatement. One even got "lost" and I had to go chase it down at another neighbor's house. If he had asked me for it I would have given it to him but since he stole it I couldn't let that stand.

Mac
 
Sent a Busse HOG ASH to a SERE Instructor, with his Combat Rescue unit in Afghanistan for him (them) to use...

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They're back (safe!), and am waiting to hear how it was uses/abused...!!

For all who serve(d):Thank You!!

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I lent a knife I made of O1 and micarta that I loved to use. It wasn't a show knife but it cut like nobodies business. Well a buddy of mine went camping for a week and I thought I wouldlend him the knife so he could report how it performed. He went camping on monday and came home thursday night. He started to drink afew beers with his brother. Well his brother was going on about how much he liked the knife. So my friend gave it to his brother. He was embarrassed to ask for it back , and he offered to pay for it. I miss my knife, and I will make another one someday out of A2 so maybe it happened for a reason.
 
Just this weekend i went out camping for a quick overnighter with a couple of buddies that like the outdoors (from a cottage dock or fine fishing boat) and we got out into the middle of nowhere together. i brought all the steel and lent each of them a fine blade (both bushcrafters from gents on this forum) we sat around the fire made fuzz sticks and figure 4s together after a tutorial on proper knife use. i wouldn't trade this kind of sharing and learning for any number of bent knives. thankfully it occured under circumstances where i was in direct contact with how they used the knives. they had them on their belts though and i was proud to share what i knew. it was a great experience and i look forward to my next moment like this.
i'll never forget it.
 
My only regret is not having a camera on hand to watch these fully grown me holding these knife life a 4 year holds up a fish by the tail at arms length haha...they wanted to learn though and they did...but for a guy who grew up in the bush it did get a giggle out of me to see them handle it at first before i helped them out...
 
Like many of you I've learned to ask "What for?" whenever I'm asked for a knife.

Interestingly, this is also the proper responce whenever a child asks for anything.

Because they more often than not they are planning something pointless and ill conceived.


I can't remember exactly how it went, but once someone asked me for some basic tool, so i casualy handed them my SAK without stopping what I was doing. I looked over a moment later and saw him doing something completely insane like trying to use the main blade as a screwdriver.
 
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