Lending people your knife

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So I was recently fishing and someone asked if they could borrow my knife to cut up some bait. Thinking nothing of it I handed him my Manix 2. A few minutes later he returned my knife after apparently using the cement for a cutting board. I'm curious how many people are hesitant to lend their knives to someone (as I now am).
 
Nope, only a select few people that have earned my trust over the years are allowed to borrow my knives. I do however keep spares in my truck or at the hunting lodge that are designated "loaner" knives that have either been retired from my arsenal or I refuse to use do to my knife snobbery. :)
 
Never a good idea, unless you know the friend is a skilled knife user.

Offer to cut what needs cutting yourself.

When hunting or fishing I usually carry spare knives that I might loan out or even give away.

I'm very protective of my primary knives.



Big Mike
 
If he doesn't have a knife of his own, he won't know how to use yours properly, either.
 
I think every knife guy has had to learn the hard way. I'm at that stage now where I don't even let my friends touch my knives much less use it. People do some weird stuff to knives. Back in the days when I first started I had a friend who would make it a ritual to scratch the scales really hard with his finger nails to "feel the texture". When your knife has a brand new sandblasted finish.... that's a problem.
 
I keep a couple inexpensive Kershaws and Bucks in the truck and my pack for "loaners". Borrowers can use my $30.00 knives and I'll use the more expensive ones myself. Smart move if you ask me.

And people wonder why we carry more than one knife at a time. :eek:
 
Big Mike said:
Never a good idea, unless you know the friend is a skilled knife user.

Offer to cut what needs cutting yourself.

When hunting or fishing I usually carry spare knives that I might loan out or even give away.

I'm very protective of my primary knives.


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I'm slowly getting over it. As long as they're planning on actually cutting something with it and not trying to use it as a screwdriver, bottle opener, prybar, etc., there's nothing to worry about. Even if the buffoon uses cement as a cutting board, I enjoy sharpening my blades.
 
I don't lend people my knives without asking a bunch of questions, first is "what do you want to do with it"?

If it is a friend, and one who is knife knowledgeable, I will sometimes let them use it.....especially if it is an important task....but most of the time, I offer to do the task for them.

It also depends upon what I am carrying....if it is my brownlip pearl Don Hanson liner lock....NO!!!!....if it is my Boker Kwaiken Flipper....maybe.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
One time, I had just sharpened my lionsteel sr2 to a mirror, and an "acquaintance" was trying to get a receipt out of a beer bottle.

He asked can I see your knife? I handed it to him, he opened it and started banging the edge on the bottle trying to break the f*****g thing open!

I nearly had a heart attack! I grabbed his arm and said something along the lines of "you lost your knife privileges"!
 
I keep an inexpensive knife in my pocket for just such an occasion.
 
The only time to lend is when...
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I don't let people use my knives anymore. Last time I let someone use my knife, it was my general use Kershaw Needs Work, and he cut himself on it, and a lady friend grabbed same knife without me knowing, opened it and cut herself! CRKT My Tighe another one that a coworker cut himself on. People who don't use knives or how to properly use them either butcher up what their trying to do, hurt themselves or mess the knife up (though it would be hard to do, still is a posibility and does happen).
 
fmendez said:
or what is he doing fishing without a knife?
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We went on a little family fishing trip and I brought a few Moras to hand out. Very welcome! The one brother-in-law had a worn old paring knife with a nice edge, sort of a domestic Mora. All of us were familiar with knives. :)
 
I have known for a long time to not loan a knife unless it is known in advance what they will do with it. We have threads on this subject occasionally and it is amazing what someone will do with someone else's expensive blade and not think anything about it. Some of us even carry a second knife just for the purpose of loaning it out if necessary. Fortunately for me very few people ever ask to borrow my knives.
 
I brought my Halo V to show off at work. I let one fellow handle it and the first thing he does is try to deploy the blade through a box of gloves (work in a restaurant). He says "oh we'll I figured it would just shoot right through it."

Seriously, people are morons.
 
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