Some people NEED to stick with $5 knives

this is exactly why I never let anyone borrow my knifes. I've given people knifes but i have never let anyone borrow one of mines no matter how cheap!


The Logical One said:
I made a huge mistake tonight of letting one of my friends hold my Strider, he's one of those guys who thinks it's ridonkulous that I would pay $500 for a knife. He carries $5 swap-meet knives and thinks they're just fine.

He was trying to close it and I saw him struggling with it a bit and I was like... "whoa whoa let me do it". I got home and noticed there's a nice fresh scratch on the frame lock bar from his finger slipping and scratching it with his nail....... #*#(*$*)%$$%!@!!!!

I carry all of my knives.... knives that are expensive and rare. I play with them often and I use them sometimes, but they are all in pristine condition. I let this guy touch it for 10 seconds and he manages to scratch a stonewashed finish enough for it to be very noticeable. I am quite pissed.... that is the last time I'm letting anybody touch my knives.

:mad::mad::mad::mad:
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bryant R said:
wow his fingernails are awesome if we all had fingernails like that there would be no need for knives
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there could have been a peice of dirt or what ever under they guys nails which did it. If he says its scratched, its probally scratched. I mean why would he lie? either way, I have seen weirder things happen.
 
If you really use any knife, it will get little surface scratches, and as you say, you use your knives. Also, my Chriss reeves have lots of small scratches on them, couldn't care less that they $500 or $50 I actually use my knives.
 
I have one of those titanium USB drives by Sandisk. It lived on my keyring for a year bumping against keys and all kinds of crap. I see not a single scratch.

If your $500 Strider is really scratched by fingernails, you should complain to them. Maybe they'll listen.
 
Sep said:
I have one of those titanium USB drives by Sandisk. It lived on my keyring for a year bumping against keys and all kinds of crap. I see not a single scratch.

If your $500 Strider is really scratched by fingernails, you should complain to them. Maybe they'll listen.
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I'd love to hear that conversation and the laughter that would be sure to follow.
 
This could be one of the most ridiculous posts I've seen, though I do not have any safe queens either. I use my SMF to cut people out of cars, hunt, camp. I think you came to the wrong place for sympathy for getting a scratch on a knife. If your that worried about a knife being scratched maybe you shouldn't let someone else hold them. Unless it was a Starlingear collaboration I really can't sympathize.
 
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M_G, I've known people like that. Time for new friends no matter how much you like the guy.
 
Well look at the bright side. Now that your Strider has a scratch, you can tell all your other friends that you got that scratch because you actually "use" your knives and anyone who appreciates something nice and would like to keep it pristine is beneath you and deserves to have your nose turned up at them.

Maybe you should go buy a brand new Escalade and run it through the woods and go 4 wheeling. So your paint job gets scratched up and you get a few dings... It's a truck, right? Aren't they made to be...."used?"

There is nothing wrong with spending money on a high dollar knife or anything else for that matter...and wanting to keep it as nice as you possibly can. Some of these so called "users" are probably just as bad or worse than your friend. Keep that in mind. Now if you happen to have other knives that are are just as pristine as your Strider "used" to be...maybe you cut a thread off your slacks or maybe open a box once in a while with them. At least you can say you "use" your knives so you can fit in a little more around here.

I mean...how dare you buy a Strider for anything other than to baton wood or to use as a pry bar. Maybe you should hammer it into a rock just for general purposes.
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a scratch; on the frame lock bar...on a Strider, designed for HARD use...that got you upset...hmmm

do you EVER plan on using that Strider for anything more than showing off?
 
Well a Escalade isn't a a truck, it wasn't made to be off road or made for heavy use, the proper comparison would be buying a real Humvee that was built for hard use and complaining that you got some mud on the OD paint job. Me personally I don't understand buying a tool for 500 bucks just to look it at. The joy is in the functionality, the appreciation comes from looking at the scuffs and scratches from the work it has done. I've never had a knife that just went onto a shelf just to look at though. So that's where I'm coming from. If your going to cry about a little scratch "that could most likely be rubbed off " then keep it on the shelf where it belongs .
 
As a fellow knife nut I accept all knife nuts that fit into the "collector" niche & those who beat the cr*p out theirs. The OP appreciates the beauty of his Strider and I'm sure wouldn' feel this way if HE put the ding in his folder and not some ignoramus. But that's a two-edged blade. If you collect really nice (expensive) blades and wish to keep them pristine, you shouldn't allow people to use them. ;)

I had brand new Italian leverlock switchblade about 5 years ago that was just a few days newly delivered. I was very excited about it and allowed a non knife buddy to play around with it - my bad!

I was looking at something on his PC's screen and turned around to witness the horror of him jacking my new lever lock sideways, in an attempt to close it. I mean he was hunched over top of it and really cranking on it. I yelped "stop!" and told him to hand it to me and closed it quickly. I pointed out again, the hinge in the lever and asked wtf he was trying to do - "rip it off sideways?" He just laughed and said he thought he must have been doing something wrong. I was really pissed since the lever was flopping around and nothing I knew how to do could make it track properly and stop flopping around.

I ended up getting rid of it and now I don't allow anyone to play with knives. I don't even mention that I'm carrying one. It's not their fault though - it's ours. :o
 
If the knife was scratched from actual use, I wouldn't be making a big deal out of it. I can understand why so many of you are busting my chops over this thread, it's because I am insinuating that all of you guys who use your knives and get it all scratched up from use NEED a $5 knife. If I came off that way, I apologize.

I just wanted to vent a little because I had the knife for about a week. Whether the scratch came from his fingernails or not, I can't say I'm sure of it. But I know for a fact it wasn't there before, so of course I'm going to be upset. I'm over it now, but I just can't believe the responses I'm getting from some of the respectable members.

I'll be the bigger man and apologize and admit that I'm the bad guy here. I always believe that if more than one person are busting my chops, there must be a good reason for it. I'm very sorry everybody, for being a little p*ssy and whining and crying about a small little scratch on my knife that is built for hard use. I'm very sorry.
 
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