What is the dumbest comment someone has made about your knife?

i'm in south Georgia also.

About a month ago, a few of us were camping when my buddy pulled out some cheap assisted open knife. He was showing it to me, so I showed him my Case sodbuster jr. He proceeded to say "aw thats cute". Kinda pissed me off
 
goodeyesniper said:
haha, not that dumb, but kinda funny yesterday. Guy at work asks to see my knife, as I had it visibly clipped to my pocket, instead of the usual IWB setup where it's unseen. Was my Spyderco Centofante 4. He looked at it and said, "wow this is a nice knife, I've never heard of this brand before."As he's looking at the obvious spyderco on the handle. Me, "Oh, that's a Spyderco." Him, "Are they any good? This one is too light, though..." and hands it back to me...

heh.

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Some people just don't like light knives. He'd probably be all over a ZT...
 
On one occasion I needed a knife to open a large cardboard box while at college.

I pulled out a Kershaw Skyline with a damascus blade just as my welding instructor came walking up from behind.
After opening the box, I started to put away my knife.

Before I could clip it back in my pocket, my instructor said, "Wow. Thats a cool looking knife." I said, "yep, I like it alot." He asked how much it cost me. I said about $45. His eyes got really big and he replied, "You spent $45 on a knife! What a waste of money!" "Check out my knife."

He proudly pulled out a semi-sharp piece of "stainless" attached to a red piece of hollow plastic. It was a crappy POS liner lock. Or I should say was a liner lock. There was a liner, only it didn't lock. The brand name was "CHINA".

He proudly declared, "I got this knife for $10 at the flea market.:D" "It will cut anything your knife will cut, but at a fraction of the price.:jerkit:"

I just smiled and bit my tongue. At least he's happy with his knife.
 
After reading through this thread I appreciate my general area so much more, I have yet to run into someone who's knife shy.

As a matter of fact the other day I used my RC6 to cut a burger in half inside Mc. Donalds, no one care, my friend just looked over and laughed.
 
Th3B3Ar said:
After reading through this thread I appreciate my general area so much more, I have yet to run into someone who's knife shy.

As a matter of fact the other day I used my RC6 to cut a burger in half inside Mc. Donalds, no one care, my friend just looked over and laughed.
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Overkill much? X_X.

I haven't encountered anyone who is particularly knife shy either, which is odd considering I'm in Canada. One would assume with stricter laws on weapons all around, people would be more wary of 'deadly' knives...
 
Lethal Overdose said:
He asked how much it cost me. I said about $45. His eyes got really big and he replied, "You spent $45 on a knife! What a waste of money!"
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This is so very common!

I told my flatmate that I spotted a really nice knife on the internet, but I wouldn't consider buying it because it was $1300 - he said paying that sort of money for a knife was just ridiculous. He also said that he wouldn't even consider paying $20 for a knife. He needs to cut cardboard at work all the time and he is happy to do so with a box cutter that cost no more than $2.

How can you argue? If someone's cutting needs are met by a $2 box cutter then how can you convince them that they SHOULD be willing to spend $20? If they don't feel a need for a dearer knife then there is no point in them spending their money on one.

He proudly pulled out a semi-sharp piece of "stainless" attached to a red piece of hollow plastic. It was a crappy POS liner lock. Or I should say was a liner lock. There was a liner, only it didn't lock. The brand name was "CHINA".

He proudly declared, "I got this knife for $10 at the flea market.:D" "It will cut anything your knife will cut, but at a fraction of the price.:jerkit:"
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Why he was proud, who could say? But for $10 he could have bought a Mora fixed blade and had a MUCH better cutting tool, especially if kept sharp.
 
So, three Boy Scout troops are heading from my town in Central Illinois to Canada for a week of wilderness camp. We have stoped at a quicky mart to streatch our legs and grab a Coke and are standing around in our Scout uniforms when this woman comes up to us and asks, "excuse me, do any of you have a knife I could use for a minute?" You never saw so much finely honed steel appear out of so many pockets so fast in your life!

Do Boy Scouts have knives? We still laugh about it. I just hope we didn't scare her too much.
 
Haha that story.

Scouts on a hike...one man asks for a knife, 5 SAKs, 1 Spyderco Military pop out (guess who :D)

Later another gentleman asks for a lighter for a cigarette...same thing. With pocket blow torches!
 
wongKI said:
Haha that story.

Scouts on a hike...one man asks for a knife, 5 SAKs, 1 Spyderco Military pop out (guess who :D)

Later another gentleman asks for a lighter for a cigarette...same thing. With pocket blow torches!
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That sounds like my old troop :D

We were big on butane lighters (pocket blow torches...you could probably cut through iron with those things :eek:).

I had a recent one at work (retail store):

Co-worker: can you tape up this box for me?
JK-N-M: Sure, let me get the tape...
I proceed to tape up the box and then pull out my 552 ritter grip to cut the tape for a nice clean finish.
Co-worker: Wow, that's a big knife
JK-N-M: the better to cut things with my dear (with a big grin on my face :p)
Co-worker's eyes glaze over and she lets out a forced laugh while watching me put my knife away :)
 
"...$100?! It's not even that sharp."

or, in reference to my Kershaw Chive: "That better not be a switchblade." Yea, lookout -- man with a miniature letter opener on the loose.
 
is there any practical purpose to that knife? - at a knife show when i 1st exhibited my Sharks a few years back ['04]
 
going through this thread, I guess we can all agree that there are some DUUUUMBBB people living among us!
 
I had just sharpened a SOG BG-42 tanto-bladed folder for a friend. I put a perfect, mirror polished, screaming sharp convex edge on the plain portion of the blade, and touched the serrations up a bit, as well. It would scare the hair off my arm, and as slow as you wanted, would part fax paper like it was water. Did it for free. He comes by to pick it up, feels the edge with his thumb, and says " 'S-not that sharp."

A few weeks later, he tells me that he asked a guy in a truck outside the hardware store to sharpen it up for him, spent money on it, and the guy wrecked it. It is no longer straight, no longer polished, and no longer cuts. But, he doesn't want me to fix it for him. AAAARGGGHH!
 
Going through customs in Sydney with a BM Snody 110 activator they walked away with my knife and I started getting pissed off by this point cause they WERE trying to make an excuse to seize it. The customs officer comes back with a federal police officer and says "ok sir, which gang are you a member of? what other purpose could you have for a small knife like this?" to which i replied "thats none of your business, i dont take kindly to insinuations of criminal activity and there are no restrictions on a fixed blade knife...so unless you have banned kitchen cutlery in the past month put my knife down, and let me get to my next flight" in a smug pissed off voice.

He said something back that i didn't hear properly but it sounded like he was telling the customs officer that i was likely a gang member and i laughed a bit. I hate Sydney customs!!! never have a problem in Brisbane...too many dumb asses working for customs in Sydney i guess.
 
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