The incident that caused you to end lending a knife.

I think we all have had incidents kind of like those above. I am not quite there yet but I now understand why some of you carry loaner knives. I still will lend a knife from from time to time but not very often.

Here is one from when I was in uniform. We had a guy from the Commo Section ask if anyone had a knife they could borrow. I loaned him my knife and stated the normal warnings, "Take care, it's sharp, etc." When my knife was returned, the edge looked like a cross cut saw. I was not happy. When I ask what they were cutting I was told "Just commo wire." It ends up that the wire they cut is made out of stainless steel. I have heard that it is covered with Teflon but I don't know if that is true or not.

One time I watched a close friend use a Tanto knife as a screwdriver. He had proper tools within five feet of where we were. I just don't get it.
 
I am commonly know as "the one with a knife" around my fraternity and basically any time theres any need for a blade for any purpose they ask me for one. Now thats fine when i carry my old buck 110, but ive recently started carrying a little bit nicer blades. I am a firm believer that knives are tools, but the thing that has made me stop lending mine out is that the person generally wants to use it to open a locked door(as the frat house has many doors, and few keys). This consists of jamming my knife into the gap and prying the knob tab. Otherwise most people dont use safe cutting techniques and as a result i hesitate to give it out. Especially to my girlfriend, forbid that she accidently cut herself with my knife...
 
as i mentioned before, some men become complete idiots when they hold a knife. and that's during mixed company. seen it happen many times, twice involving my knife.
 
Sounds like me.

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I was farmed out to the receiving dept at work and a friend picked up a knife I had laying on a cart and proceeded to try to throw it into said cart as if to "stick" it. Cart was metal with a thin mat on it.

I gave him a bunch of crap for it of course. I only tell the story though, because he is one of the nicer people there and a very intelligent man otherwise.

Our society has gone to throwaway tools which people use till dull(er) and toss. A knife to most is a semi-sharp hunk of metal on a stick to be used for whatever. Most have not had the pleasure of using a sharp tool made of decent steel and would have no idea how to put an edge back on said tool.

That's why folks abuse our knives. They aren't used to one which isn't disposable.
 
As an unwritten rule, I don't loan out my own knives, because I have seen the condition of knives belonging to my non-enthusiast/maker buddies. I DO however, get feedback whenever I repair or make/sell a blade for somebody. 9 of every 10 people who I repair or make for will end up cutting one of their fingers within 2 days of having it. The most recent one I heard was from a guy I just sold a 1084 seax knife to. He said he was driving home with it (just minutes after we parted ways) and had it out on the passenger seat. Unaware of just how keen the edge was, of course the edge was where he grabbed it and cut his thumb.

Davek, I think you're onto something about knife use and value to the general masses. I'm sure that's why there are so many stories and incidents about things like this.
 
I pretty much never loan out knives. When I was young I went on a multi-family camping trip and watched my dad loan out is Buck 110 to a friend. The friend proceeded to break up a solid block of ice that was in our ice chest. The result was not only a broken tip on the Buck but stab holes in OUR ice chest. My dad was not too happy......
 
I don't loan out knives, except something really cheap like a Mora. - I loaned a Leatherman to a buddy for a few minutes. He used the pliers in such a way that he messed up the wirecutter portion of the knife. Took some work to fix it. - I gave a new Spyderco to a friend so he would have at least one decent knife. I paid about $60 for it. A month later I saw that the tip was broken off and the edged was chewed up. I dont know what he'd been doing with it. I had planned to touch up the edge for him, but after seeing that I didnt want to put out the effort.
 
Blues Bender said:
I got stabbed in the hand for lending my knife out...
It went kind of like this:

Friend:"Hey bro, got your knife?"

Me:Yep... Here ya go! *tosses closed Manix 2 to friend*

Friend:"Here man, I'm done with it" *tosses me opened Manix 2*

Me:Oh noes!!!!!!

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Great post. :)
 
Never ever have I loaned out a Knife to anybody unless he or she is like a Brother or Sister to me and I have been around when they have used a Knife and know how to use it ~~ not abuse it.! They may get made when I say "NO" but at least my Knife has not cut anybody and it sure is not abused if not loaned out.**
 
Lent my pocketknife to my friend at Scout camp when I was younger. He was quietly sharpening it by a tree and some other Scouts approached him and started making fun of his less-than-masculine hairstyle.

I thought he could handle being told he looked like Justin Bieber without losing it. Apparently not, because next thing I knew he had thrown the knife at on of the guys who was teasing him.

So now I don't lend my knives or make fun of people.
 
farmboy said:
I've shared this story before, but here goes:

There was a young man that graduated from high school with my daughter, and he just seemed like a lost puppy. His family was broken, he had no real future, and had nowhere to turn. We liked the kid, had him here often for family gatherings, BBQ's, etc. We wanted to at least make him feel like he could come here if he needed, for any reason.

One day, he came down, and proudly announced he was joining the Navy. He'd spent some time in some kind of preliminary training, and he was accepted to try for one of the special forces. He was ecstatic, and we were both proud and happy for him.

He had his bag packed, and he stopped here to say goodbye, and to wish him luck. I gave him my Sebenza, and told him that it would take care of him, if he took care of it. He proudly slipped it into his pocket, and he was gone.
He walked straight into the airport, and tried to board the plane. The TSA pulled him aside, asked him a volley of questions, pulled the Sebenza from his pocket, and threw it in the trash bin where they throw those sorts of pointy things.

I still like the kid, but I'll never give away an expensive knife again.
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I'm actually tearing up right now:(

I don't know why, but this made me seriously emotional
 
I finally had my "I won't lend knives again"epiphany. Got a brand new spyderco tenacious a week and a half ago. My first knife (in conjunction with an izula) that I've bought since returning from Iraq 8 years ago. My other folder that I had in Iraq is nowhere to be found. I let someone that I didn't know well use it and they took off with it yesterday. I know it's not an overly expensive knife, but it's disheartening. Time to save up for a new one :/ but I won't let people borrow anymore knives after that.
 
I never lend a knife... I'll gift one before I let someone use any of my knives unsupervised by me.
I'm at the point where I don't even like showing my knives to others when they ask since there have been a few people (who most would call "knife guys") insist on trying to speed open every knife they touch. These are the same guys that hold down an axis lock and violently wrist flick as if it's necessary.

Not that I've never thumb flicked open a strider or a sebenza on occasion but I've never put all my arm strength into opening a pocket knife and what they do hyperextends the locking mechanism and could damage the blade, lock bar, pivot, etc... Anyways, I'll keep my knives to myself from here on out lol.
 
I only let people I trust borrow my knives: The mailman, hooded strangers in dark alleys, people offering me rides, and my fiancé
 
Pointshoot777 said:
A month later I saw that the tip was broken off and the edged was chewed up.
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I have yet to see any knife that someone has shown me that WASN'T in this condition. This is the main reason I don't sharpen knives. I don't want to spend a half hour or more to fix an edge when I know it's going to be obliterated the first time they use it. I even had a guy insist on talking to me about knives. I imagine because he wanted me to compliment him on a mod he did to his Griptilian. The mod was that he took a dremel and made his plain edge "serrated." I said "Uh huh, cool." And went back to work.
drrickso said:
I never lend a knife... I'll gift one before I let someone use any of my knives unsupervised by me.
I'm at the point where I don't even like showing my knives to others when they ask since there have been a few people (who most would call "knife guys") insist on trying to speed open every knife they touch. These are the same guys that hold down an axis lock and violently wrist flick as if it's necessary.

Not that I've never thumb flicked open a strider or a sebenza on occasion but I've never put all my arm strength into opening a pocket knife and what they do hyperextends the locking mechanism and could damage the blade, lock bar, pivot, etc... Anyways, I'll keep my knives to myself from here on out lol.
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This is actually my story. One brother in law opened a Christmas present and it was a griptilian. Other brother in law says you can flick them open. Grabs the knife and starts to try and flick it. Violently trying to flick it open, surrounded by people and kids mind you, he loses his grip. Luckily for everyone he lost his grip on the return stroke. He buried that knife scale deep into his lower leg. Ah...Christmas morning in the emergency room.

Half of me doesn't want my knife screwed up. The other half doesn't want anyone to get hurt. Davek is spot on. Most people have no experience with knives except for dull kitchen knives and disposable razor blades. They're just simply ignorant on how to use a good knife.
 
I had a friend want to try one of my autos. I obliged, he had a CWP - at the time, in my state, you had to have one for an auto - but he tried to close it by grabbing the blade. Then he dropped it in his GF's foot as he screamed from the blood. Then she was screaming, blood was everywhere, and trying to convince her to not take the knife out until we got to the hospital was a task. It was my first year of working in the ER for my internship and no one let it go. To the day, Brian Adams' song "Cuts Like a Knife" irks me, because just about everyday someone sang the chorus around me or passing by.
 
Some of you guys need to get smarter friends :D.

Stupid friends might be good for a few laughs, but destroyed property, and trips to the emergency room, just aren't worth it. :D

I have a simple rule when it comes to loaning things to people- I won't loan anything unless I'm willing to accept it getting destroyed. Therefore, I don't loan things.

Of course if I know for certain that someone can ABSOLUTELY be trusted to use my belongings with the same level of care and responsibility that I do, then I might make an exception.
 
I let my father borrow a freshly sharpened Kershaw One Ton. He was cutting rubber hose, with his thumb on the hose and the blade cutting toward his thumb. I told him he shouldn't cut like that, because he will slice his finger open. Next thing I know... Blood everywhere.
 
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