Letting people borrow knife?

My SAK is a loaner. After one of my friends dragged my Military over a concrete floor...never again.

I see pics of people who EDC blades for a few years and the only wear is on the clip. The Mili has been with me 6 months and the whole blade is scratched up.
 
philwar said:
Me neither. If they're good friends, I'll give them a good knife. Otherwise, I will give them advice on what to get and where to get it. :D
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+1:thumbup:
With well over 50 knives sitting around, I find that giving them away is one of the best I can do with them.
 
I loan my knives to no one except those that know how to use them...

Guess what, they have their own in their pocket.
 
I loan out my Opinel. And people usually cut themselves because they get the odd fascination with thumbing the edge. You see, they know I carry razor sharp knives. But when they see this little, traditional looking knife, with a "rusty" looking patina, they think it must be dull-SLICE goes the finger... :|

So now, I mostly just don't loan them out. My spydies will get handed to a couple coworkers for quick tasks, I usually stand there and supervise though :P
 
I always have a dozen or more cheap knives handy that I got almost free. I usually carry one or two around as decoys, sharpened up okay but you know they won't hold an edge.

Then if some non-knifenut asks to borrow a knife, I sell them the decoy for 10 bucks, and say, "When it gets dull, I'll sharpen it for 2 bucks".

This way if they cut themselves, it's with their own knife, and they get to pay to go to knife school.

Nobody gets to use my good knives but me (well, and LOML, who's become a pretty good knife-handler her own self). Sometimes I'll show one off to another knife nut and let them fondle it, but if they have anything to cut they can use their own.

Parker
 
Just yesterday I was shown a coworkers brand new Leatherman. he had lent it to another coworker who returned it with the leather punch and the small screw drivers tips chipped off. What did he need it for? To unscrew phillips head screws with. Why didn't he just use the phillips head screwdriver blade? He didn't think it would work because he was told by someone else "The screwdrivers in those things never work!"

A while back I lent my leatherman to a coworker, and he climbed to the top of a 33 foot mast, cut some zip ties, and then threw the knife down without closing the blade. The blade snapped. When I asked him if he was going to replace it, he said "No, you should not have lent it to me in the first place."

My crew chief asks others to borrow their leathermen often. I asked him why he does not get his own. "Well, I can't see spending money on something that I am going to break or lose and the company won't pay me back." When I refused to lend him mine, he told me to do the job since I was so selfish. I walked the 300 feet to the tool box and returned with the proper company tool, and he got upset because it needed to be done right away. I told him I thought his earlier answer about not wasting money on using my own tools was the best way to do things. Bosses look funny when you use their own logic against them.

Also, the company policy is you cannot use your own tools. That can mean I am legally responsible if someone gets injured while using my knife.

No, I don't lend out my knives anymore.
 
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Bumppo said:
Just yesterday I was shown a coworkers brand new Leatherman. he had lent it to another coworker who returned it with the leather punch and the small screw drivers tips chipped off. What did he need it for? To unscrew phillips head screws with. Why didn't he just use the phillips head screwdriver blade? He didn't think it would work because he was told by someone else "The screwdrivers in those things never work!"

A while back I lent my leatherman to a coworker, and he climbed to the top of a 33 foot mast, cut some zip ties, and then threw the knife down without closing the blade. The blade snapped. When I asked him if he was going to replace it, he said "No, you should not have lent it to me in the first place."

My crew chief asks others to borrow their leathermen often. I asked him why he does not get his own. "Well, I can't see spending money on something that I am going to break or lose and the company won't pay me back." When I refused to lend him mine, he told me to do the job since I was so selfish. I walked the 300 feet to the tool box and returned with the proper company tool, and he got upset because it needed to be done right away. I told him I thought his earlier answer about not wasting money on using my own tools was the best way to do things. Bosses look funny when you use their own logic against them.

Also, the company policy is you cannot use your own tools. That can mean I am legally responsible if someone gets injured while using my knife.

No, I don't lend out my knives anymore.
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Geez, if I work with boneheads like them I would not lend out any of my stuff either.
 
I carry a spydie persistence as a back up everyday. NO ONE gets to use my good stuff unless they are family. I spend to much time and money on my knives to allow anything stupid to happen.
 
There are only a few people that i would let use my knife. The people that know i carry a knife know that it is sharp and that i do not like to let people use it. Others do not know that i carry a knife and i don't advertise it. Some people are funny and think it is a bad weapon and don't understand why i would feel the need to carry a knife.
 
if they are able to handle a knife i will give them my SAK to borrow, if they have no idea i will do the job myself.
 
Bumppo said:
A while back I lent my leatherman to a coworker, and he climbed to the top of a 33 foot mast, cut some zip ties, and then threw the knife down without closing the blade. The blade snapped. When I asked him if he was going to replace it, he said "No, you should not have lent it to me in the first place."
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He isn't wrong! In fact you should never lend him anything ever again, refuse to talk to him, refuse to help him with anything if you don't have to and basically have as little to do with him as you can. People like that have no honour and do not make good friends - you can't do much to force him to pay you what he owes you (or even to acknowledge that he owes you anything) but clearly he is the sort of person you should avoid as much as possible.
 
This reminds me of an old Puma, I have to send back to the factory after loaning it to someone.
My current policy, is that I'll loan them one of my second tier knives providing them give me their wife and a substantial cash deposit. And the wife had better be attractive.:D
 
I usually have some extra knives nearby like a Leatherman tool or SAK that I would be willing to lend out. I won't let my good EDC knives out of my possession in most cases. I offer to make the cut for them.
 
I ask what they are trying to accomplish and how I can assist them. I have on occasions, carried a loaner knife, or razor knife for people who do not carry one. Then I see if they want to buy my loaner so they no longer need to borrow one. :)
 
I don't carry knives for other people, I only carry them for myself.

So if someone asks for a knife, I respond with a question: "What do you need to cut?" And I do it for them. If they wanted to use it for a non-knife task I tell them to f*** off.
 
i'm sick of lending out knives only to have them returned damaged, chipped and beaten up. that's if they are returned at all.

i'll shortly be getting a spare Mora Clipper 860 for the sole purpose of being a loner blade. currently, if someone asks to borrow my knife, i either give them a basic craft knife out of my desk or i go with them and use my blade to cut whatever it is they need cutting.

i will NEVER again lend my good blades to anyone except my mother (she knows how to use and care for a blade).

if people get offended by this, that's their problem, not mine.
 
I hardly ever lend out my knives to anyone except family, and sometimes not even then.
If they ask to borrow my knife I ask them what for and then determine if that's something that my knife should be used for and if that person is capable of doing that task without damaging my knife or themselves. If either one of those is a no, then I either do it for them or say no.

If it's a family member that I've said no to, then they get a little annoyed but it's no big deal.
If it's someone else I say no to, they usually ask why and sometimes keep bugging me about it to try to make me change my mind. Then they usually get upset with me because they don't understand why I even have a knife if I don't want it to be used, but it's not that I don't want to use my knife, I just don't want to use it for something it shouldn't be used for.

They never seem to understand and they always think they can handle a knife just fine.:rolleyes:
 
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