Living nightmare.

Let it go. Think of it as an opportunity to learn to sharpen out nicks. Then you can use the piss out of your knives and never have to worry about "ruining" them.
 
I'very had people ask for a knife as they are prying apart an electrical box, at least then I could refuse. I think you the above advice is best get him into knives and he'll apologize on his own.
 
Since the OP is apparently playing "hide the salami" with the guys daughter, I would not wait with held breath for an apology. :eek: Perhaps after the "wedding"? ;)
 
When I was a kid, my mother's hairdresser told me about his young son taking his $400 scissors and cutting speaker wire with them, effectively destroying them.
Ouch.

And people say that there is no place in our world for $5 WalMart knives...
 
Okay, to the OP; you're the enemy, get that into your head. A daughter is ALWAYS going to be daddies little girl. Any man is coming from far behind and is going to take a long time to "prove" himself worthy of being daddies little girls husband. THats the way if been all the way back to the cave. As a father and grandfather, the girls in the family are always, but always going be a very protected species.

So your future father in law dulled your knife. It may have been on purpose but I doubt it. He's probably just one of the greater masses of humanity that see's any knife as a cutting tool/screw driver/pry bar. He has no idea of what it costs, so he just didn't hunk about it other than as a sort of dollar store screw driver or pliers. JUst a tool to use until it needs to be replaced. Get over it. The rest of the real world sees it this way, and only us obsessed knife nuts see a knife as a cult worship item.

As far as sharpening, if you carry a knife, you should have learned to sharpen it a long time ago. A dull knife is as useless as a gun with no ammo, or a car with no gas. Being old enough to carry a knife means old enough to also learn to take care of it, like in keeping it sharp.

Go get a Norton economy stone and practice on it now that you have a nice dull knife to practice with!:thumb up:

As for your future father in law, be very nice to his little girl. And don't go hunting with him anytime soon!
 
katanas said:
That there last part be so true, and funny. LMAO :thumbup:
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Funny, but too true. Although I'm from Maryland, land of the Chesapeake Bay, it was an old joke among the men, about taking your future son in law fishing. The Bay is a big body of water.

Father to weeping daughter; "I'm so sorry honey, but after that big wave washed him overboard we almost had him back, but there was that shark…"
:D
 
Yeah, I got this.
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To the OP, I would be less than happy with him as well, but as has been already said, he most likely doesn't know any better. Two things; try to gently educate him, and learn to sharpen (it's very satisfying). If you would like to start with a really nice Edge, I would be willing to do a polished Wicked Edge on it for free, as long as you pay shipping both ways. PM me if you are interested.
 
scottabrandeberry said:
To the OP, I would be less than happy with him as well, but as has been already said, he most likely doesn't know any better. Two things; try to gently educate him, and learn to sharpen (it's very satisfying). If you would like to start with a really nice Edge, I would be willing to do a polished Wicked Edge on it for free, as long as you pay shipping both ways. PM me if you are interested.
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+1 Great post. I have really enjoyed this thread and hope the OP returns. I think we have all had an 'expensive to us' 'my precious ' that if even scuffed, we'd of pitched a fit?
 
It's just a piece of metal. The old man and the daughter are much more important. Take it as a teaching moment and learn to sharpen your own knife.
 
Moral of the story illustrated in a conversation I have had:

Friend: "Can I borrow your knife?"
Me: "What happened to your knife?"
F: "Errrr......I kinda broke it..."
Me: "Doing what, exactly?"
F: "I was prying open a steel case of..."
Me: *interrupting* "And that's why you can't borrow my knife"
;)
 
Since there were never any photos of said nightmarish damage, I'm still assuming the damage was minimal, and easily sharpened out once the guy decided to try sharpening.

My father in law is a construction worker - the type that hard uses everything (I watched him drive a lawnmower over a concrete block... Those blades were hard used...). I know better than to let him take any tool that I want to keep looking new. This guy might be the same.
 
Czechmate said:
Nice! The only way an 0560/0561 will cut is with a higher edge angle like yours LOL!
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Yeah, that higher edge grind is 40 degrees inclusive; 70 thousandths behind the edge near the tip and 50 thousandths for the rest!
Had it sent back to ZT for Elmax related edge problems and they ground the edge over 1/16th back at about 60 degrees, then I completely ruined the edge cutting fiberglass and chopping nails in half. It's no slicing geometry but it's the only way it will slice anything.:D
 
And to the OP:
You just have to be careful with who you lend your knives to and not to let them out of your sight.
When I first got into knives my friend asked if he could borrow my Gerber Evo, and I lent it to him not knowing what he would do about it. A few hours later I get it back with 1/4" of the tip gone, edge completely flattened where it wasn't chipped out, huge scratches over the blade and handle, and all covered in grease. I asked him what the hell he did with it and it turned out he used it as the primary tool to tear the engine out of his dirt bike.
 
Happily, this has turned into one of the most entertaining threads in recent memory.
 
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