Loaner knife.

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FOURLEAFCLEAVER

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Do any of you carry what I have started to call my loaner knife? I am sure like me many of you are"THE KNIFE GUY" at work. Well,I dont like letting everyone use my favrite EDC(A KERSHAW RANDOM TASK:)). So now I carry a loaner a kershaw vaporII. At $20 if it gets tore up no big loss.
 
I have stopped carrying my sebenza because of that reason, also I use my knives for a lot of other things besides cutting. I now carry a cold steel x2 with 6" blade at work. Even though it gets used at least a dozen times a day people still just can't beleive how big it is.:D
 
I tend to carry a PE FRN Delica for that purpose when I think I might need to "lend" if I can't watch them use it (and I'll only lend to a close circle of people anyway).

However my EDC as of late has been a Millie and a Mini-UDT. But I did carry the Delica today when I helped out with some stuff.
 
I usually EDC my Spyderco Military CE and Buck 110 for work....with the Buck being my loaner.

I figure that if anything were to happen to the 110(which I doubt), being out only $30 would be easier on my pocketbook than if anything happened to my favorite Spydie.
 
I used to carry a loaner, and sometimes I used this loaner myself to cut sloppy, wet or muddy things. One year ago this loaner would probably be a 3-inch Opinel OP-84. For awhile this year, I carried a SuperKnife. My attitude now is "go buy your own knife."

I got tired of answering stupid questions, that is, until some sheeple needed something cut and then I was their buddy. I had loaned razor sharp Microtech USSOCOM Tantos to self-styled 'experts' who did the usual 'omigawd, do you have a bandage' idiocy. I even carried bandages for a while.

Now I carry a Strider for MY use. I keep it razor sharp on an Edge Pro for my use.

I flatly state the truth to people. I say, "Go get a box cutter, this Strider is worth more than your car payment."

Too many idiots, too much damage, too many times looking for an oily rag to clean 'the expert's' blood off of my knife.
 
1 - Welcome to the Forums.

2 - In answer to your question, NO! If I trust you, you may use my 'real' knife, if I don't I won't give you ANY knife.

3 - Sweet Avatar!!! I beleive that was from one of the 'Order of Battle' series in the late 80's. Snake Eyes alway was my favorite Joe!

-John
 
I just don't trust other people with my knife because they'll probably end up doing something stupid like drop it, cut themselves (at which point my knife gets dropped anyway), or use the very tip as a screwdriver.

Either I do the cutting, or it doesn't get cut. Don't like it? Get your own knife.
 
Not to be repetitious, but our brothers are right. If your fellow workers don't have knives of their own, they probably don't know how to use them safely anyway.

Just wait till one of them exclaims "Wow! What a sharp knife! Will it stick into this concrete floor! [SNAP] Oops?"
 
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Originally posted by SarcoBlaster
Either I do the cutting, or it doesn't get cut. Don't like it? Get your own knife.


Same here!
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The bastards.

Rubbin their smeary fingerprints all over my finishes. Trying to hacksaw brick. :barf:

My cousin asked to use my SAK one time and used it as a SCREWDRIVER!!!!!!!!

He managed to chip off the tip AND while putting pressure the wrong way managed to clamped it on his finger. Of course instead of calmly picking up the blade with the other hand, he freaked and yanked his finger out, sliding it the full length of the blade!

Idiot cousin: 1
My SAK: 1

The smile on my face when I saw blood. Priceless.
 
Anyone who uses the blade of a knife as a screwdriver when the knife already HAS a screwdriver deserves a sound thrashing!!! It's a SWISS ARMY KNIFE for Pete's sake!!!!!

-John
 
Anyone who uses the blade of a knife as a screwdriver when the knife already HAS a screwdriver deserves a sound thrashing!!! It's a SWISS ARMY KNIFE for Pete's sake!!!!!
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Amen! :rolleyes:
 
I usually just cut what they need cut for them at work. I can't go anywhere while they've got my knife, so I end up standing there looking silly. I save them (and myself) some time and effort.
 
SC_Steel,

You have more patience than I do. What gripes me about this issue is that for months most knuts have to endure the "why do you carry a weapon" crap until the sheeple needthe benefit of your EDC tool. Then they try to prosper from your readiness.

Heck, I'm the same guy. I went from 'killer' to 'tool-man' in the time it took for them to get a UPS package.

I didn't buy a truck to move their stuff and I don't go to a grocery store to feed their kids. You can get a really serviceable knife for 50 bucks.
 
Originally posted by Esav Benyamin
Not to be repetitious, but our brothers are right. If your fellow workers don't have knives of their own, they probably don't know how to use them safely anyway.

Just wait till one of them exclaims "Wow! What a sharp knife! Will it stick into this concrete floor! [SNAP] Oops?"
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One way to combat the knife abuse is to carry a knife that will take the abuse. My Strider AR is not the sharpest knife but, it has a tough servicable edge. A splinter picker it ain't but, if you want to use it to do stupid things, it will take an unreasonable amount of abuse before failure. While it is too thick and obtuse to stick in concrete, it would still probably take a big chunk out of your average concrete floor.

In my own case at work, a lady pulled out her folding KISS and proceeded to do an ice pick stab into a can of soup and tried to amputate her fingers in one smooth movement. Ignoring the fact that I had a Leatherman Supertool and a Swiss Army Knife on my person at the time, the Strider AR is capable of safely doing this stupid act. Of course, she could have used the can opener I kept in my desk too. In the end, she went hungry as she squirted blood all over the place and went off the doctor for stitches. On a brighter note, she didn't loose any fingers and, apparently has good use and function out of her hand now.
 
Ya know, I used to, till it occurred to me, "Hey dummy, what're you carrying around a second knife for, just to hand out to dummies that will cut themselves with it and then look accusingly at you..."

My attitude is now: The sebenza in my pocket is for me alone. And so's the SAK:o
 
Sid Post,

Isn't it odd that the usual meaning for KISS is 'keep it simple stupid.'

A woman like that would have amputated her fingers had she used your Strider AR. About the third time my AR went down the Edge-Pro it graduated to 'spooky.'

It was my own fault. I slowly stoned a perfect edge, I had the time, the 4000 series polishing tape came out, I polished out one imperfection, then another, then another...

So, I bleed and Mick chuckles. Then I buy another Strider, and, of course, I thank him for things like this.:D
 
I keep a cheap pakistani lockback in the top of my tool box just as a loaner. Its no big loss if its "lost" or whatever. and those who borrow it know they WILL replace it if its damaged or "lost"if they expect to ever borrow anything again.
 
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