(Scenario) What would you do?

FortyTwoBlades said:
This. When people ask to borrow a knife I always ask "what do you need it for?" If it's for something reasonable...I do it FOR them. :p
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Precisely.

Just today, my apprentice asks me if I had a knife and could he borrow it.

My beater "work" knife is an Ontario Rat 1... so it isn't the most expensive blade... but to me, being a knife nut, it matters. I asked him "what do you need it for?" He looked at me kind of strange and said he just needed to sharpen his pencil. Something like that, I don't have a problem with so I handed him my knife.

I learned my lesson after another co-worker several years earlier broke the tip off my AFCK when he was trying to use it as a pry bar.

I really don't care what other people think. If they ask to use my knife, they get the question.


To answer your question...if the knife in my pocket was a Sebenza, I wouldn't have let him touch it...much less use it.
 
As most others said, I wouldn't have even let him touch it much less use it. Now I'm even iffy about letting someone TOUCH any of my knives.

One time a friend of mine (who also likes knives) was checking out my brand new para 2 with black blade.... he took his finger tips and tapped on the blade really hard with his nails and said, "Oh wow the s30v is really hard". I about had a heart attack. Luckily the finish wasn't damaged or else I would've been pissed.

A lot of people see knives as tools, and most of all people don't respect knives. You'll have people cutting themselves, dropping it, scratching it up.... better to just tell them you don't have one; or they can't use it :D
 
I'll loan my knife out to my co-worker, and my wife. Both of whom know that I'm a knife knut and respect that. Others can go buy their own knife :D
 
I was taught my knife is like my testicles , always with me , and only ever put in hands of someone I really really trust .
 
FireAnt said:
You have a special knife on you, like a sebenza or something, and a stranger asks to borrow it and for this scenario, you said yes, and he came back and the he broke 2/8 of the blade, on the tip, off. What would you do or say? lol, this never happened, just wondering what you guys would ever do haha :)
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You just have to develop that instinct to ask "what for?".

The only people that I would lend an expensive knife to would be my friends, and if they broke half an inch off my best folder I would use it as an excuse to replace it with something better.:D

(Remember if you break a large piece off the tip always grind the spine down to the edge. If you grind the edge up to the spine you end up with the tip being exposed when the knife is closed.)
 
Just say no, drunk or not. Why carry a cheap knife for someone else to borrow, someone who didn't bother to carry a cheap knife himself?
 
I was always told, "Don't loan out what you can't afford to lose", and never would a stranger borrow my knife. Only if it was an emergency, like a person trapped in a car, the car is on fire, and someone is asking for a knife. I could sacrifice my knife in that situation. I would still file a claim with their insurance, if it were a Sebenza, or equally expensive knife.
 
Joshua J. said:
The only people that I would lend an expensive knife to would be my friends
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Same here, I would also just want to know that they that were wanting it for an appropriate task (just cutting for most of my knives.) If it were dropped or accidentally damaged, no problem..stuff happens.

Drunk, with a Sebenza some stranger broke stabbing a fridge? I would be upset, but hopefully mostly with myself.
 
If the person is an honest and upright person they will offer to pay for repairs or replace of the knife, but you should ask what he or she will be using the knife for to make sure that it is appropriate, I think you share responsibility, and if the person knew it was so expensive they likely would not have wanted to borrow it in the first place, you should have warned them that it is very expensive.
 
What if they tell you they are only going to use the first 2/8 of the blade?

The people I work with know the value of my knives, and the few I allow to borrow my knives would offer to pay for it. I will let them use my Benchmades and Spydercos, but when I owned Sebenzas, they didn't get loaned out.
 
Slider817 said:
If the person is an honest and upright person they will offer to pay for repairs or replace of the knife, but you should ask what he or she will be using the knife for to make sure that it is appropriate, I think you share responsibility, and if the person knew it was so expensive they likely would not have wanted to borrow it in the first place, you should have warned them that it is very expensive.
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I don't think you share responsibility (unless they say they're going to pry with it and you give it to them anyway). Do you share responsibility if somebody borrows your car and crashes it? No, because it is an understood assumption that they will use it properly.
 
For the sake of this discussion:
Step 1: "WTF DID YOU DO?!"
Step 2: Punch the person in the face.
Step 3: Steal Wallet and buy me another knife, let him keep the broken one.
 
What if it was just a little like 1/4 of the blade? Or maybe a lot like 4/16?



The Logical One said:
As most others said, I wouldn't have even let him touch it much less use it. Now I'm even iffy about letting someone TOUCH any of my knives.

One time a friend of mine (who also likes knives) was checking out my brand new para 2 with black blade.... he took his finger tips and tapped on the blade really hard with his nails and said, "Oh wow the s30v is really hard". I about had a heart attack. Luckily the finish wasn't damaged or else I would've been pissed.

A lot of people see knives as tools, and most of all people don't respect knives. You'll have people cutting themselves, dropping it, scratching it up.... better to just tell them you don't have one; or they can't use it :D
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Seriously? You were worried someone was going to scratch the blade finish with their fingernails by tapping on the blade? That isn't very logical.
 
Needless to say, like most guys here, I don't loan knives out , especially to a stranger. What I want to know is what is " 2/8 of the blade" ? Are you talking about 1/4 inch or 1/4 of the blade or what?
 
FireAnt said:
You have a special knife on you, like a sebenza or something, and a stranger asks to borrow it and for this scenario, you said yes, and he came back and the he broke 2/8 of the blade, on the tip, off. What would you do or say? lol, this never happened, just wondering what you guys would ever do haha :)
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Never going to happen;).
 
I don't give my knife to anyone, especially those who wonder why I have one in the first place. I would lend my knife for another knife-person in case she lost it or couldn't use one.
Sounds like being asshole, but that's the only way of even trying to make people learn.. and they don't.
 
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