Never lend your knife to a co-worker.

[ms3902]

Yesterday I let one of my co workers borrow my B&T/EDC knife only later to find that he is an idiot. When he gave it back to me it was in it's sheath so I just figured all was fine. Then I went to open the mail with it last night. He had used the tip as a screwdriver and gnarled it up pretty bad. So after some time on my norton stones it now has somewhat of a drop point shape to it. I will post pics tonight when I get home. I just can't believe that he didn't tell me about it. I wanted to kill him when I got to the office this morning.:grumpy:

Here is a pic of the end result. It does not look bad at all. It is also very pointy, not rounded like in my blurry pic

 

[Alberta Ed]

Don't ever loan your good knife to anyone. Keep a rusty, dull file on hand to loan to idiots like your co-worker.

 

[ms3902]

Don't ever loan your good knife to anyone. Keep a rusty, dull file on hand to loan to idiots like your co-worker.

The sad part of this is I have lent him other knives and he always seemed to show some amount of knowledge on using them.

 

[pitdog]

I learned the hard way as well. Before I'd learnt how to sharpen knives I gave mine to one of my mates who said he could do them. Anyway he only went and tried to do it on a big industrial bench grinder. The knife had clattered around on the wheel for long enough to make a real mess of it before he gave up and admitted defeat !!!!!

 

[Shotgun]

Sorry to hear. No one uses my good knives even my best buddy. People are just knife stupid.

 

[danc]

My brother came up for a week end recently and we began to carve things. Feather stcks, figure four traps, you name it we took a wack at it. I let him use my Kepheart while I used My Hiker. He knows how to use a knife! He treated it well, and in fact, so well, it decided it wanted to go home with him!!! ( by permission, it was a gift) So I miss my Kepheart, but I find great joy in knowing my brother is using it and caring for it.

As for your situation, I would not be thrilled to say the least. I am not sure what I would say, but I know he wouldn't be using any knife of mine again! Hang in there!

 

[culpritish]

Don't ever loan your good knife to anyone. Keep a rusty, dull file on hand to loan to idiots like your co-worker.

I wouldn't even loan-out a rusty dull file to a co-worker. Non-tool people are dangerous with anything.
Remember; there is a reason they don't have a sharp implement to begin with.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Remember; there is a reason they don't have a sharp implement to begin with.

Bingo!

There's a simple rule about that.
If they have a knife, they don't need yours.
If they don't have a knife, they don't know how to use yours properly.

And if you tell them or show them how, they'll still do it wrong.
They are Non Knife People. It's in their genes, like a predisposition towards Darwin Award status.

 

[fixer]

a $7 Mora is too nice of a knife for retards like that.

go to the thrift store, find a Ginsu for 25¢ and let them beat on that.

these are the same people that if they borrow your good tools won't realize that there's a warranty on Craftsman, Snap-On, etc... they'll throw the broken one away and *might* replace it with junk from Harbor Freight.


you need one of these!

 

[Redsnake1997]

That does sux!!! I'm w/others here. I don't loan my knives out to anyone. Most of my friends and wives friends know I'm a knife guy and they always ask to borrow my knife. I decline and normally just do the cutting for them. I get this 'deer in the headlights' look when I tell them I don't loan my knives out. I'm sure if they knew my daily carry blade (Krein PSK) cost me $240 they would be in more shock. Most of them have likely never used anything more valuable in a knife than a $2 Wal-Mart special... :jerkit:

 

[Rockywolf]

I would have chewed him out. The heck with lending my knife to anyone and this story reinforces my philosophy!

 

[coaldigger]

That does sux!!! I'm w/others here. I don't loan my knives out to anyone. Most of my friends and wives friends know I'm a knife guy and they always ask to borrow my knife. I decline and normally just do the cutting for them. I get this 'deer in the headlights' look when I tell them I don't loan my knives out. I'm sure if they knew my daily carry blade (Krein PSK) cost me $240 they would be in more shock. Most of them have likely never used anything more valuable in a knife than a $2 Wal-Mart special... :jerkit:

LOL...This is what I was gonna say, This is me to a "T"

 

[antonio_luiz]

I had a $2 slipjoint at my old, old work I was happy to loan out - the scales had fallen off at some stage but the blade kept a reasonable edge - but it was the corkscrew that the office girls were always wanting to use for birthday celebrations and such - for some strange reason no-one else ever thought of bringing in a corkscrew (yes - most of my jobs were cool with alcohol and several bosses even provided beer in the fridge for the workers who stayed back after 5pm).

 

[rooikat]

Bingo!

There's a simple rule about that.
If they have a knife, they don't need yours.
If they don't have a knife, they don't know how to use yours properly.

And if you tell them or show them how, they'll still do it wrong.
They are Non Knife People. It's in their genes, like a predisposition towards Darwin Award status.

I second this thought.