So I lent a good friend a knife....

SpookStrickland said:
I would find the knife in your collection that you like the least and let that be your "loaner" knife otherwise pick up something really cheap at wally world or a swap meet for your Friends and Co-workers to abuse.
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My cheapest knife is a blem Kershaw composite JunkYardDog, and it's one of my best cutters. I gave two of them away, but I won't loan this one out.
 
I had a spyderco military with cpm 440v and the first day i had it i took it to work to show it off and a co worker was looking at and tried to flick it open but didnt hang on and it fell straight down and broke the tip off man i was sick , made him buy me luch once a week for a year
 
^^^ I would have made him pay for the knife. They're hard to find and when you do find them they're expensive. He would be paying what I paid lol.
My cheapest knife, well cheapest "good" knife is a Kershaw Tension($10) and I still doubt I'd let anyone use it for anything that I couldn't or wouldn't do myself. I hate getting a knife back and it having rolls in the edge or anything like that.
I'm kind of anal when it comes to my knives. Now if it were me putting the rolls in the edge, it'd be different, it's mine and I have to fix it.
 
I work in a machine shop with 12 other guys that i am dealing with on an everyday basis. For the most part i have seen them carrying gerber crap china knives or some other gas station blade. About a month ago I laid a zt 0550 by the coffee pot with a note indicating i would like them to pass it around, use it, but be sure to bring it back so that someone else could get a chance to try it out. One of the guys came up to me yesterday with the knife in hand, stated to me that he had reprofiled the edge, handed me the knife and walked away. I was terrified to even open the knife. However, when i took a look it was beautiful! I showed it to my boss/father in law at lunch, and he told me that Al (the guy that handed me the knife) had worked in a custom endmill and drill sharpening shop for 10 years before he came to us. That would explain it i suppose. After work i told him that the knife was much improved in my opinion and thanked him. He reached for his pocket, for what i thought was the buck that he had clipped to it. To my surprise he produced a small sebenza from within his pocket that he carries without a clip. I couldnt help but smile a little. lol.
 
I prefer to sell a good friend a knife. Then charge them $5 to sharpen it after they have destroyed the edge, in the hope they might learn something.
 
Never lend anything to anyone that you don't mind losing, breaking, or giving away. Invariably, it will get broken, lost, or never come back. I've learned this the hard way over the years. It's been a costly lesson. From utility trailers, to vehicles, to guns, knives, and everything in between. I can't remember a single time when I loaned something out and it came back in the same or better condition as when I loaned it out. I no longer lone things out. If a friend or family member needs to borrow something I will offer to do the task for them using my equipment. They no longer have the privilege of using my equipment without me.
 
mley1 said:
Never lend anything to anyone that you don't mind losing, breaking, or giving away. Invariably, it will get broken, lost, or never come back. I've learned this the hard way over the years. It's been a costly lesson. From utility trailers, to vehicles, to guns, knives, and everything in between. I can't remember a single time when I loaned something out and it came back in the same or better condition as when I loaned it out. I no longer lone things out. If a friend or family member needs to borrow something I will offer to do the task for them using my equipment. They no longer have the privilege of using my equipment without me.
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Couldn't agree more.
 
I don't know
My friends are welcome to borrow just about anything I own
But I don't have many friends

Oddly there are family members that I wouldn't lend anything

Co-workers get asked what they want to use if for, and if it is a knife task then they get my cheap sak

A friend did borrow a Kershaw outcast from me to go camping with
A few days after he got back he arrived with a brand new knife

He forgot mine up at the campsite and replaced it without comment

I asked him where he bought it at, when he told me I. Told him to take it back and buy one for $30 less at another store.

He left the knife at my house, bought the new one for $30 less, then took the first knife back

My wife has 3 brothers, 1 of whom is welcome to borrow my stuff
 
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