So called "Knife People" these days...

mtngoat said:
I have a buddy that keeps going back to his gas station knives for some reason, for years I have given him much better knives than those dollar knives yet he always goes back to them. I ask to borrow his knife last time i saw him just to see what he was carrying, it was a "Damascus" gas station knife where the pattern was printed on the blade. Some people never learn.

As for people at the office asking to borrow my knife I keep a tiny SAK in my desk drawer for just such an occasion.
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Everyone I work with knows not to ask me to borrow my knife. They say, "Hey Dylan, will you cut this please?" or "Hey Dylan, will you sharpen my knife? I'll buy you lunch." We have a few guys working here that are avid outdoorsman, hunters, and fisherman. Almost everyone else carries a decent work knife. When they need their knives sharpened , they bring them to me. Probably one of the reasons the owners keep me here even though the economy sucks. I can just see how that conversation plays out.

Owner: We need to figure out how to shave some overhead around here.

GM: Maybe we have to let someone go. I think we cut expenses everywhere else we can.

Owner: Ok. Who should we let go?

GM: How about Dylan? One less sales guy wouldn't hurt anything.

Owner: Hmmmmmmm. No. Hunting seasons coming up and I need him out at the camp. Fire the HR lady.

GM: But she does payroll, handles all of our insurance, does all the filing and collection...

Owner: hmmmmmmmm. Yep. Fire her.

:D
 
Long while back I was doin' some food shoppin' at the local super market when I noticed a guy settin' up a table and an array of Gynsoo Wunder Knife set, so I watched as he set up and smiled back at him as he confirmed that he was about to put on a show.

He pulled out his props, old work boot, aluminum can, nail/lawn mower blade, (I've seen both, the lawn mower blade always seems to impress more), a 2"X4", various veggies and some huge tomatoes.

People began gatherin' and as they did he would start to chat them up finally he got to me, now lookin' like I do, long hair, pony tailed, biker lookin hippie type he said to me, "...you look like the kinda guy that knows his knives", I smiled and said, "What kinda a guy?"

"You know, outdoorsy, kinda rough neck, ya know the type?" he said. I told him I didn't know what he was talkin' about, he said stick around and you could walk away with a parrin' knife.

After about 10 minutes he had a crowd of about 25 people, he started the show:

He spent endless minutes describing some wonder surgical stainless steel that could withstand a direct hit from a .45 cal bullet and the handles take the equivalent crushin' force of 10 military tanks.

Finally he sawed through the shoe and cut up veggies lickety split, pointin' out how the Precision laser cut micro serrations hold up to the harshest punishment.

He grabs a new knife and starts slicin' a tomato paper thin, thin enough ya could use 1 tomato to feed the whole family, lol, ha, ha, he quickly grabs a lawn mower blade and starts sawin' away over a white sheet of paper to show the filings.

The long and short of the story was that as he showed why his knives were great, I pointed out and educated the consumers that were standin' around.

I also pulled out another now Bankrupt companies Trapper Folder and showed how any quality knife could out perform his knives in every respect except I wouldn't hammer my blade or saw the mower blade, (although I did shave steel from the mower blade and it looked even more impressive).

He sold 2 sets while I was there, he gave me 2 Wunder knives, ( Knife, Fork, Bread Slicer Meat Carver, frozen food saw and bone saw all in a fillet knife :eek:) just to leave.

Later on he caught up with me and we started talkin', he said usually with 25 people he sells 15 sets a demonstration, I said, "ya mean show" :rolleyes: he smiled and gave me a card, told me if I ever wanted to make some extra money sellin' for his company give him a call.

I gave him back his card and said, "When ya start sellin' real knives give me a call".

Sorry for the long reply.:)
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Long while back I was doin' some food shoppin' at the local super market when I noticed a guy settin' up a table and an array of Gynsoo Wunder Knife set, so I watched as he set up and smiled back at him as he confirmed that he was about to put on a show.

He pulled out his props, old work boot, aluminum can, nail/lawn mower blade, (I've seen both, the lawn mower blade always seems to impress more), a 2"X4", various veggies and some huge tomatoes.

People began gatherin' and as they did he would start to chat them up finally he got to me, now lookin' like I do, long hair, pony tailed, biker lookin hippie type he said to me, "...you look like the kinda guy that knows his knives", I smiled and said, "What kinda a guy?"

"You know, outdoorsy, kinda rough neck, ya know the type?" he said. I told him I didn't know what he was talkin' about, he said stick around and you could walk away with a parrin' knife.

After about 10 minutes he had a crowd of about 25 people, he started the show:

He spent endless minutes describing some wonder surgical stainless steel that could withstand a direct hit from a .45 cal bullet and the handles take the equivalent crushin' force of 10 military tanks.

Finally he sawed through the shoe and cut up veggies lickety split, pointin' out how the Precision laser cut micro serrations hold up to the harshest punishment.

He grabs a new knife and starts slicin' a tomato paper thin, thin enough ya could use 1 tomato to feed the whole family, lol, ha, ha, he quickly grabs a lawn mower blade and starts sawin' away over a white sheet of paper to show the filings.

The long and short of the story was that as he showed why his knives were great, I pointed out and educated the consumers that were standin' around.

I also pulled out another now Bankrupt companies Trapper Folder and showed how any quality knife could out perform his knives in every respect except I wouldn't hammer my blade or saw the mower blade, (although I did shave steel from the mower blade and it looked even more impressive).

He sold 2 sets while I was there, he gave me 2 Wunder knives, ( Knife, Fork, Bread Slicer Meat Carver, frozen food saw and bone saw all in a fillet knife :eek:) just to leave.

Later on he caught up with me and we started talkin', he said usually with 25 people he sells 15 sets a demonstration, I said, "ya mean show" :rolleyes: he smiled and gave me a card, told me if I ever wanted to make some extra money sellin' for his company give him a call.

I gave him back his card and said, "When ya start sellin' real knives give me a call".

Sorry for the long reply.:)
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Well worth the read lol. Surprised it took it so well haha.
 
I once had a coworker borrow my GL DREW $65 knife to slice open some thin cardboard packages. Came back about ten minutes later with blood oozing from a towel, and a terrified look on his face. He dropped my knife onto the desk and said "what the hell man? why would you do that to me?" before storming out of the room and going to First Aid. I cleaned off his blood off my knife, sterilized it with alchohol and put it back in my bag.

well, twenty minutes later there is all sorts of chatter amongst the employees, on how i endangered Buddy's life with a knife. (WTF?) So of course I have to go into damage control mode and explain what happened.

Boss calls me into the office and asks what happened. I explained it. Boss said "yep, thats pretty much what the security camera footage showed too, don't worry about it, your in the clear". I asked him to explain it to all the employees, and he said no problem. (he was a knife/hunter/outdoorsy guy like me too). He paused as he walked out of the room, "next time dumbass asks to borrow something to cut with, give him scissors, because he is too much of a dumbass to know how to use a sharp knife properly".

Dumbass tried to file for Compo and the Boss had a little chitchat with him and said "no"

:)
 
A lot of guys don't know how to sharpen, either.

Now let me say, I'm not the best sharpener, I don't usually get knives sharp enough to shave with, don't bother trying.

One day a guy at work was going on and on about his new sharpener and how sharp it got his knife ($5 Chinacorp miniscule folder). Asked if I wanted him to sharpen my knife. At that time, my knife (Ka-Bar Mule) I carried wasn't very sharp, so I figured how bad could it be.

He comes back 20 minutes later. "Man that knife was dull, I had to put a completely new edge on it. Don't know how you could get it that dull." I gave it a shot on a piece of paper, which is sliced through like a spoon through steak :mad:.

I asked what he used, and he pulls out this damned Wal*Mart v-shaped carbide sharpener. Oh God. Yep, my convex edge was gone, and an obtuse, very uneven v-grind was there. Last time I make that mistake.
 
Cpl Punishment said:
A lot of guys don't know how to sharpen, either.

Now let me say, I'm not the best sharpener, I don't usually get knives sharp enough to shave with, don't bother trying.

One day a guy at work was going on and on about his new sharpener and how sharp it got his knife ($5 Chinacorp miniscule folder). Asked if I wanted him to sharpen my knife. At that time, my knife (Ka-Bar Mule) I carried wasn't very sharp, so I figured how bad could it be.

He comes back 20 minutes later. "Man that knife was dull, I had to put a completely new edge on it. Don't know how you could get it that dull." I gave it a shot on a piece of paper, which is sliced through like a spoon through steak :mad:.

I asked what he used, and he pulls out this damned Wal*Mart v-shaped carbide sharpener. Oh God. Yep, my convex edge was gone, and an obtuse, very uneven v-grind was there. Last time I make that mistake.
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Would you be mad if I said I got a good laugh at that?
 
I did exatly the same thing once, only luckily it was just a little gerber that cost me ten bucks. I'll loan out a knife, even if I think it will get abused. They're meant to be used right? I don't mind having to sharpen it later, maybe even throw in a little education, but by God if anybody ever mentions sharpening my knife it's back in my pocket!
 
zippoo said:
hahaha great stories!!! I don't have any stories because I live in Sweden and its illegal to carry knives in public :/ so the guys that have blades on them (like me) tries to be as discreet as possible.
I wish everybody could wake up and see that a knife is a great tool!
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even a mora? I've always heard that they were just everywhere in Sweden. How do you get them home from the store?
 
I never loan out anything. :(

The last time I loaned out a knife was in college to one of my room mates. It was returned in two pieces after he tried to pry open a desk (he thought it was funny that it snapped). :mad::eek::thumbdn:
 
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