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mcg4248

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Today I was at my girlfriends childhood home and I was helping her set up some furniture. I had my zt0450cf and 0452cf hanging out on the table. Her dad grabbed it (without asking me, and then never mentioned after the fact) he had used it to cut cable (as in for a TV) and scrape metal of the heating system in one of the rooms. Well now the edge in my 450cf is completely dull wkth nicks in the blade. I use my knives, but not like that and not with a knife like that. Pretty mad about it honestly.
 
You should be ! But some will never know any better . Put it past you but don't put the knife down again !
 
And I'm really br all that great at sharpening either so that's another reason I'm miffed about it. Better off sending it away to get sharpened than doing it myself.
 
Resharpen, use, and forget about it. You keep this grudge, it will spill into your relationship with your GF. Just don't permit it to happen again.

Zieg
 
Yep it was on purpose, lol. He knows what your doing do his daughter lol.

Luckily yours was just a knife my father in law when I first met him took my car... Ended with guns being pulled and a pissed off drunk father in law threatening to bite my nipple off.
 
That sucks. On one hand it's very disrespectful to touch/take/use another persons property without asking first, not to mention using it in a way that will damage it, but on the other hand, many people look upon a knife laying around the same way they would look at a pencil lying around, and they think nothing of picking it up and using it. To such people, a knife is just a piece of metal that probably only cost a few bucks.

Although I generally don't believe in carrying around a cheap loaner to hand out to other people, I'd recommend that you do just that when you're around your GF's dad. You never know when he might ask you to borrow your knife. And since he's your GF's dad, you might not want to flat-out refuse him, or risk offending him by asking "What do you want it for?", or by lecturing him on how to properly use a knife. Dealing with a GF's dad can be a tricky and sensitive matter, and it never hurts to keep your GF's dad as a friend.

My girlfriend's dad carries his own knives, so I don't have to worry about such things. But If I were in your situation, with a "dad" like that, I'd carry a cheap loaner around him.
 
Well I'm 23 and hopefully about to get accepted into the academy for the sheriffs department, and I've been dating his daughter for a while. She's certainly the one I'll marry and he likes me. But never use another mans tool without asking (at least that's what I think). If I could sharpen I wouldn't care as much
 
I'd be furious. Although putting it behind you is probably the best route, I know that'd probably be impossible for me to do. I mean I'd still be pretty disappointed with dulling up one of my blades, but nicks in the edge is another story completely.
 
Well you if you plan on joining the family you better shine a positive face on this.

Could be he's teaching you a quiet lesson about not leaving your gear unsecured.
 
Spartan00 said:
Yep it was on purpose, lol. He knows what your doing do his daughter lol.

Luckily yours was just a knife my father in law when I first met him took my car... Ended with guns being pulled and a pissed off drunk father in law threatening to bite my nipple off.
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Lmao omg I'm almost in tears over here! This sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy joke! Hahaha!

Now to address the OP issue, yea it sucks that he did that, and it was totally wrong, but I learned from almost 20 years of working in the trades that if you leave your tools laying out in the open, someone will use/abuse/steal them..... Hands down every time.... I would just stay quiet this time I n the interest of keeping the peace, but keep that in the back of your mind when you have something of value around other people
 
My incident happened before the Jeff Foxworthy and the beaver!

Or OP maybe he thought yall were close enough he didn't haft to ask and it was an honest mistake. Best to let this go lol.
 
I would just laugh-off the situation and explain my interest in knives to him. I'd educate him a bit about my high-end knives and probably gift him a good knife.
 
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