Most disgusting thing people have done with the knife they borrowed from you.

We were out fishing up in the Uintahs. My wife, wanting to clear a spot for her and her friends to sit, asked me for my Anaconda II Bowie from Blackjack. I pulled it out, and handed it to her. A few seconds later I hear a loud "clink"! I whip around, in time to see my wife raising the blade with a shocked expression on her face. The flat of the blade glanced against a concrete ditchbank hidden within the brush. She stared at me with fear in her eyes. I said "that's okay sweetie, just don't do it again". She nodded her head, took another big swing and I heard the sound of steel meeting concrete. I dropped my pole, and ran over. This time, the edge of the knife met directly with the edge of the concrete. To this day, there's a 1/16 of an inch nick in the blade.

It's a good thing my wife's so pretty and such a good cook. . .

Zog

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For reality as we have it is only one of many possible realities; it is not inevitable, not arbitrary, it bears within itself other possibilities.
-M. Bakhtin
 
One of the most important lessons I learned as a kid, was that there are some things written in stone. Here is just ONE!

1.Never loan tools

a.Guns
b.Knives
c.all other tools including lawn,wrenches,hammers,etc.
d.Fishing tackle
e.Boats,Planes, and so on and so forth.

lbwheat
 
When I was a teen I lent an ivory handled folder that used to be my dead grandpas to a kid to clear a fishing reel snarl. The kid (I didn't know him) dropped it and it disappeared off the Gandy bridge in Tampa. I've missed that knife for 25 years.

Snickersnee, it turned me into a real sourpuss.

[This message has been edited by stray (edited 05 August 1999).]
 
My opinion is that if somebody doesn't have a knife of their own, they are not qualified to use a knife of mine.

Would you loan a gun to someone who doesn't shoot? Or your car to someone that rarely drives? Same thing with knives though on a much smaller scale. -Brian
 
I was working on a farm and a coworker/supervisor asked if he could borrow my knife. I handed him my SAK and watched him scrape the battery posts and the matching clamps on the tractor we were working on. The knife wasn't ruined but the edge took quite a bit of work to get it back to where it was. The only time I ever saw this coworker have his own knife with him it was dull as a butterknife and covered in paint! Now whenever someone asks to borrow a knife I ask them what they intend to do with it and then I usually offer to cut it for them.
 
Try this one for size. I went to a barbecue with my gerber A-F single grind blade for cutting food. While i was half way through it, this guy (which i hardly know) borrowed it to get a splinter out from his foot (DIRT)! What an A*****E! After that, everyone asked me to put it away cause no one will eat any of the food i was ABOUT to cut!
 
This is for Paul????

Aren't SAK supposed to be used for mundane, utilitarian stuff like cleaning LEAD battery terminals??? C'mon I give'm as gifts so people don't ask to use MY knives. Hell I even sharpen before I give'm away and on demand if they bring'm back.

I also sprinkle them liberally throughout my vehicle toolkits, though all of those have Leatherman Waves at this point.

Frankly, I sharpen them with a DMY Coarse stone to get that toothy, sawlike edge that works so well on stuff like batteru cables. I do put a hair poppin' sharp edge on the smaller clip blade on mine though for when they need to slice something.

I didn't ask - was your SAK a Wenger or a Victorinox, that might be the source of the problem. I prefer Wengers myself, if only for their serrated scissors and their no questions asked guarantee.

I had a bunch of them made up for my business and clients warmed up quite a bit that Christmas but not as much as when we gace the leathermen away.....oh well that's a differnt story.
 
I fellow employee asked to borrow my knife, (a quality balisong I carried at the time). I thought he was going to cut a plastic strap as that is what it is usually borrowed for. After a minute or so, I looked over and he was using it to open a can of boiled peanuts. Immediately stopped that and havent loaned one to him since.
 
Had a friend use my AFCK to open up a dead bloated bull on his ranch, didn't even wipe it off before he closed it and gave it back to me. Oui!!! The stench!!!

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The spirit grows, strength is restored by wounding
 
Use it to cut open a can so he could have a spit cup. Needless to say, he doesn't ask to borrow, or even see a knife I have.

 
Lent out my Leatherman PST II while cleaning C7's (Canadian version of M16..well, sorta) and took off. Came back in an hour to find buddy scraping off carbon with the little knife. I cringed, and proceeded to scold. Knife has no edge now. I learned my lesson.

Nowadays, if someone asks to borrow one of my knives, I watch them very carefully. It gets interesting when a person doesn't have the slightest clue how to close a lockback, esp. when they think that applying large amounts of pressure to the blade in a downwards motion will somehow do it. ??

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Shawn
"Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless."

 
My knife is just that MY KNIFE. Its one of those things that I just don't loan out to folks. Guess I'm just too damn stingy.
As for the rest of you guys.....Do you want some cheese to go with that wine? LOL Just kidding.
 
Last time I loaned my razor sharp SAK to a guy he stabbed himself in the hand and went off to the emergency room for stitches. I saw him yesterday and he said the cut was so clean he can't even see a scar. A guy asked to borrow my knife for the same purpose (cutting nylon cable ties) today. I said, "here, let me do it". This time there was no blood on the floor.
 
Ispann,

Did you mean to say "Do you want some cheese to go with that whine?"

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"A knifeless man is a lifeless man"
-Nordic proverb

 
Once loaned a guy at work my Cold Steel Voyager. It's usually used to cut plastic tie wraps off of bins or sizing down cardboard so I thought sure. After getting it back and cleaning it off at home I see the serrations are totally messed up. Still haven't seen him to yell at him yet but it seriously looks like he tried to cut concrete with it.

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Cut themselves. Pretty badly, from what I hear.

I did not witness the event as I was out driving the company truck earlier today when someone borrowed the M2 AFCK out of my toolbag. I just sharpened it wed. night (it needs a good how's your father about twice a month if not every week). I keep a nice course edge on it for cutting rope. Not knuckles.

The cause of the accident; the borrower did not know how to close the blade after he had opened it. I am told that he had the knife in both hands trying to force it shut when it "suddenly" closed on his fingers.

Some one told me not to worry, that it’s “not your fault.”

This I knew.


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James
 
I never leave the house in the mourning without two (at least) knives on me. One that I will loan, (and perhaps misuse myself) and one that never gets loaned. (or misused.)
 
I once lent my Al Mar Hawk to a truck driver. When I got it back the tip was broken off and the edge was as dull as a butter knife. I asked him what he did with the knife and he stated that he stripped some wires for his cb radio and used the tip as a screwdriver to connect everything.
 
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