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

a friend asked too use a knife , so i handed him a knife i made out of a planer blade, i turned my back for a second, turned backed and he had decided to test how sharp it was by running it over his thumb nail, well, the edge grabbed and slide right through his nail cutting it edge to edge, dummy.
i lent my brother a schrade little finger i had since i was 14, while skinning out a grizzly bear at kwatna, he dropped it in the swamp the bear had died in, in the dark. never got that one back but he had this one made for me afterward, good trade if you ask me
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nc527 said:
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.
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why do people do this. i have had a few idiots take there thumb to my knives.
me : hey watch out its sharp.
them : oh yeah? slice.
Me :Yeah it is.

i never understood that school of thought.
 
I learned early on to ask, "What do you need it for?" Usually, it was to scrape something or to use the edge as a screwdriver.

Once, someone asked to see my knife and I gave it to him. He said, "This edge isn't very shar-OW!"
 
ive used my thumb nail to feel the edge but i dont think sliding my finger down the sharp edge of a knife to find out if it sharp or not is smart. maybe its just me hehe. darwin candidates for sure
 
Long time ago I was camping with an old " aquaintance" . We were sitting by the fire having some drinks ; he needed some more ice from my cooler. I had purchased earlier a solid block of ice, so he used my Buck 110 to chip away before I stopped him. Total 7 big holes inside my (new) cooler. This is the same guy that wasted a family of ducks with a Ruger 10/22,dropped his $250 fishing rig in the lake,stranded us on the lake with his flooded motor, forgot the tent ( his turn), broke my exercise machine, left/lost the Delica a week after I sold it to him, etc. After all that, peels his thumb wide open with my folder one hour after setting up camp, so I had to do all the work the rest of the weekend. Moral : This usedto be my best friend. Imagine how I feel lending sharp tools to strangers ! One in 100 will give it back to you undamaged.
 
Yeah, you all have had pretty similar experiences to my own.

I don't lend out my knife, anymore, for some 15 years now....

I too offer to do any cutting that needs be done.

Marion
 
Hmmmmm, I am a stick in the mud!!!

A list of things I don't share ....

1 - My Wife
2 - My guns
3 - My knives
4 - My Land Rovers

Never have and never will lend out any of the above ;D
 
The only good "lend" happened when I lent a really nice Rapala filet knife ( still got it ) ,to my friends dad. He returned it cleaned , oiled, and back in it's case.

Now listen-up, you knife borrowing clowns, (probably nobody here)........... if your gonna borrow someones knife, give it back in the same condition you got it. If not, I'll borrow something special of yours, and use it as my baton, then hand it back and to you and say "sorry".
 
My own brother has ruined my edge a few times - not sure if this is laziness on his part, or some sort of hard-knocks training. Of course, he won't use his own knife to break a metal packing strap, but somehow it's okay with mine.

Now I've started carrying two knives. One, a decent folder that never gets loaned out. The other, a used SAK Spartan with a shaving-sharp main blade. Got it off eBay for $8 shipped. That's the one I loan out. It's easy to resharpen, and not an issue of it gets lost or broken. There's half a chance they wanted a screwdriver, anyway. Everybody wins. If I like the guy, he can keep the knife. I've got a few more.
 
Wildewinds said:
I don't have a "loan" story, but I have a good story from when I bought a knife for someone. I bought a client of mine a Shun carving knife. She was an older lady and never had a knife so sharp. Well, apparently, she was using it and accidentally cut her finger. There was so much blood that the sight of it made her pass out. She hit her head on the floor and ended up going to the hospital with a concussion.
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Absolutely nuts. Lol, I can't imagine what she said to you after that whole ordeal.
 
I don't lend my personal knives out anymore unless it is my dad or brother. I have had several friends ruin the edge on one of my knivse because they cut something they were not supposed to. One of the funniest events was when I let a friend who is a mechanic borrow my swiss army adventurer that I had in my pocket at the time. He asked if he could borrow my knife to cut a string. The next thing I knew we were headed to get stitches in his thumb. Well, he cut the string, but he also needed to cut a battery cable. The knife cut through the battery cable and his thumb. He ended up with 5 stitches.
 
While camping I see a former co-worker & his girlfriend attempting to split wood with a rock and a really tiny hatchet - to this day I have never seen such a small hatchet!

Anyway I offer to let him borrow a 12" Ontario machete that I had convexed and made crazy sharp. I quickly show them how to baton and tell them I will come back for the machete in 4 days (when we were going back home)

4 days pass and I go up to their campsite with nobody around I see my machete on the ground - so I get it and throw it in the back of my car - not even looking at it.

I head back to home and during the hour drive I get pulled over. The officer is looking at my car's contents very oddly. He then asks me to get out and put my hands on the car. My wife is freaking out - I am also at this point - so I think I know I have not done anything so I just comply. He pulls out the machete and it had been sliding around a bit in the back of my hatchback on top of my cooler white lid.

It turns out the machete had blood all over it so I am driving around with a bloody machete and I say "I have no idea how that blood got on that" "I loaned it to a friend and got it back like that" The officer not believing my story - which by this time - I have to admit it does sound fishy - he asks me to call the "friend" - I get them on the phone - and they are at the emergency room -

Apparently the girlfriend had chopped her index finger off and then dropped the machete - bled all over it and went to the hospital. I never noticed the blood because it was only on one side of the blade!

The officer let us go but not until he had spoken with the hospital and and called 2 other cars for backup. So I was along the highway for what seemed to be an eternity for about 35 mins.

Moral of the story - don't lend out machetes unless you have a good alibi!
 
geek said:
While camping I see a former co-worker & his girlfriend attempting to split wood with a rock and a really tiny hatchet - to this day I have never seen such a small hatchet!

Anyway I offer to let him borrow a 12" Ontario machete that I had convexed and made crazy sharp. I quickly show them how to baton and tell them I will come back for the machete in 4 days (when we were going back home)

4 days pass and I go up to their campsite with nobody around I see my machete on the ground - so I get it and throw it in the back of my car - not even looking at it.

I head back to home and during the hour drive I get pulled over. The officer is looking at my car's contents very oddly. He then asks me to get out and put my hands on the car. My wife is freaking out - I am also at this point - so I think I know I have not done anything so I just comply. He pulls out the machete and it had been sliding around a bit in the back of my hatchback on top of my cooler white lid.

It turns out the machete had blood all over it so I am driving around with a bloody machete and I say "I have no idea how that blood got on that" "I loaned it to a friend and got it back like that" The officer not believing my story - which by this time - I have to admit it does sound fishy - he asks me to call the "friend" - I get them on the phone - and they are at the emergency room -

Apparently the girlfriend had chopped her index finger off and then dropped the machete - bled all over it and went to the hospital. I never noticed the blood because it was only on one side of the blade!

The officer let us go but not until he had spoken with the hospital and and called 2 other cars for backup. So I was along the highway for what seemed to be an eternity for about 35 mins.

Moral of the story - don't lend out machetes unless you have a good alibi!
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How about "check you machetes after lending them out?"

Damn, sounds like one hell of a scary moment!
 
A one time roommate met this cool chick at work and she used to come around and we would all hang out together, go get a bite to eat, come back and watch a movie - whatever. She came by one day and our mutual friend asked me if I had a knife I could loan her because she was going to drive back to rural Illinois for a visit...by herself. So, the reason she wanted a knife was obvious, rest stops suck for women traveling alone... I handed her a Cold Steel Terminator push dagger and told her, "You can cut and slash with it, but what you want to do is keep that close and not let them see it until it is too late and then punch holes in their face, neck and chest with it until they are not standing in front of you." Or, something like that. I just told her, "I don't want any B.S. stories about how your brother or uncle loved it or you left it some place or it was stolen, bring it back."

A week and a half later, she brought it back.

We went out to dinner, she wanted to go shooting, we went shooting...

We've been married 14 years this October. :)
 
Don Rearic said:
A one time roommate met this cool chick at work and she used to come around and we would all hang out together, go get a bite to eat, come back and watch a movie - whatever. She came by one day and our mutual friend asked me if I had a knife I could loan her because she was going to drive back to rural Illinois for a visit...by herself. So, the reason she wanted a knife was obvious, rest stops suck for women traveling alone... I handed her a Cold Steel Terminator push dagger and told her, "You can cut and slash with it, but what you want to do is keep that close and not let them see it until it is too late and then punch holes in their face, neck and chest with it until they are not standing in front of you." Or, something like that. I just told her, "I don't want any B.S. stories about how your brother or uncle loved it or you left it some place or it was stolen, bring it back."

A week and a half later, she brought it back.

We went out to dinner, she wanted to go shooting, we went shooting...

We've been married 14 years this October. :)
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Lol, lucky man! I guess you never got the dagger back, though you have one hell of a story to tell people.
 
I lent my mom my navtive one time, I left the room when she said it wasn't cutting really well. She was sawing cristmas ortament wire with it! Not even the awesome edge holding powers of spyderco s30v were any match for the metal wire. Sharpened up in a few minutes though, so not much of a big deal.

I lend it out to responsible family members and friends only and ask what for.

That's all I can think of though. The wire cutter story made my stomach sink. Just horrible.
 
I had a "friend" borrow a cold steel true flight thrower to use on a camping trip as a main knife . I figured he couldn't bust it. I got it back and he had obviously used it to prod a fire..... He also lost the pots that I gave him on that trip. A year later he asked to borrow some more camping gear and I promptly told him where he could place that request.
 
My sister almost used the blade on my SAK as philips head screw, good thing i was there to show her the philips screw driver a little to the left of the knife...:confused:
 
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