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I just had this guy come up to me whilst I was cutting my apple and he had noticed me using my Victorinox GAK and just had to bust out with,
"Dude, you need a better knife than that old thing. Check this out."
He proceeded to pull out a 4 foot 9 pound ripoff of a popular Benchmade design. He handed it to me with a proud grin. I barely opened the blade... "Pakistan", nice.
"Now that's a good pocketknife." he said.
I couldn't resist.
I said, "wow, that looks like some kind of Navy Seal knife or something. looks tough enough to take a 12g slug to the face. Is it sharp?"
He said, "hell yeah. I just sharpened it"
I reached in my office and snatched a piece of legal paper off my desk.
I said, "will it cut this paper?
He looked at me like I had a boob tattooed on my forehead.
He said, "Of course it will. Not exactly a big challenge there."
I think at this point he knew I was getting cocky and obviously just playing the dummy.
I handed him the paper and he proceeded to tear it to shreds, almost cutting himself more than once.
"I said cut the paper, not tear it up." Then, I held up the paper and sliced it over and over in front of him with the grossly inferior GAK.
He said, "ok. so it's sharp now, but I bet that cheap little thing dudn't hold an edge worth s@#t."
I said, "well, let's find out who's knife holds an edge better. cut the edge of my desk with your knife."
I have a cheap crap wooden desk in my office. It's nicely decorated with stab marks and cuts from cutting cardboard, opening boxed, and just general fun. The guy hacked at the edge of the desk a few times, trying to use his folder as a chopper, very humorous by the way. I could see the rolled up portion of the blade gleaming in the light, almost as if it were crying and it's tears were catching the glare.
I said, "still sharp?"
He checked it by running his thumb down the edge of the blade (first clue there!). "Yep."
I asked if I could see it and then pointed out to him how badly what might have once been called an edge was rolled and useless. Then, I sat the blade of my knife on the edge of the desk and batonned it in about an inch or so with a brake lever I have sitting in here. Then pulled it back out. I said, "Now notice I'm not going to run my finger down the edge. Reason being, because I know it's still this sharp." and I picked up another piece of paper and the blade flew through it like a laser.
I said, "Do we need to do anymore comparisons or are you sufficiently convinced that my knife is better than the dull lead weight you have in your hand?"
I bet he would have crapped his pants if I had taken out the RC-4. I actually though about cutting his 420 blade in half with the RAT. Now THAT would have been a good comparison. Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to see the look on someone's face whilst you pounded your RAT knife through their pride and joy gunshow pot-metal special?
I thought to myself, "nah. That's being too much of a sh@thead."
First I explained to him how stupid it was to run his thumb down the edge of his knife, along with some other tips. Then, I fished a CRKT out of my desk and wrote down the web address to this forum and gave both to him. He seemed like an impressionable guy. Hopefully, this is just the push he needs to dive head first into the knowledgeable side of the knife world and spend all of his money on a healthy new addiction.
"Dude, you need a better knife than that old thing. Check this out."
He proceeded to pull out a 4 foot 9 pound ripoff of a popular Benchmade design. He handed it to me with a proud grin. I barely opened the blade... "Pakistan", nice.
"Now that's a good pocketknife." he said.
I couldn't resist.
I said, "wow, that looks like some kind of Navy Seal knife or something. looks tough enough to take a 12g slug to the face. Is it sharp?"
He said, "hell yeah. I just sharpened it"
I reached in my office and snatched a piece of legal paper off my desk.
I said, "will it cut this paper?
He looked at me like I had a boob tattooed on my forehead.
He said, "Of course it will. Not exactly a big challenge there."
I think at this point he knew I was getting cocky and obviously just playing the dummy.
I handed him the paper and he proceeded to tear it to shreds, almost cutting himself more than once.
"I said cut the paper, not tear it up." Then, I held up the paper and sliced it over and over in front of him with the grossly inferior GAK.
He said, "ok. so it's sharp now, but I bet that cheap little thing dudn't hold an edge worth s@#t."
I said, "well, let's find out who's knife holds an edge better. cut the edge of my desk with your knife."
I have a cheap crap wooden desk in my office. It's nicely decorated with stab marks and cuts from cutting cardboard, opening boxed, and just general fun. The guy hacked at the edge of the desk a few times, trying to use his folder as a chopper, very humorous by the way. I could see the rolled up portion of the blade gleaming in the light, almost as if it were crying and it's tears were catching the glare.
I said, "still sharp?"
He checked it by running his thumb down the edge of the blade (first clue there!). "Yep."
I asked if I could see it and then pointed out to him how badly what might have once been called an edge was rolled and useless. Then, I sat the blade of my knife on the edge of the desk and batonned it in about an inch or so with a brake lever I have sitting in here. Then pulled it back out. I said, "Now notice I'm not going to run my finger down the edge. Reason being, because I know it's still this sharp." and I picked up another piece of paper and the blade flew through it like a laser.
I said, "Do we need to do anymore comparisons or are you sufficiently convinced that my knife is better than the dull lead weight you have in your hand?"
I bet he would have crapped his pants if I had taken out the RC-4. I actually though about cutting his 420 blade in half with the RAT. Now THAT would have been a good comparison. Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to see the look on someone's face whilst you pounded your RAT knife through their pride and joy gunshow pot-metal special?
I thought to myself, "nah. That's being too much of a sh@thead."First I explained to him how stupid it was to run his thumb down the edge of his knife, along with some other tips. Then, I fished a CRKT out of my desk and wrote down the web address to this forum and gave both to him. He seemed like an impressionable guy. Hopefully, this is just the push he needs to dive head first into the knowledgeable side of the knife world and spend all of his money on a healthy new addiction.
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