What is the dumbest thing you have seen a non-knife person do with a blade?

i saw someone pick up a knife and tap themself on the back of their forearm with the blade to test the sharpness... apparently theyve never heard of the thumbnail test or arm hair shave methods that would have resulted in no blood loss
 
Before I was a knife person I used the serrations on my Smith & Wesson Swat knife to cut sheet metal to make a shed
It actually faired pretty well but I would never do it again
 
I have a Kershaw Blur (with assisted opening technology), when people ask to borrow it and I either tell them it has a spring to open it, or I open it for them. Anyways, almost anybody who's a few screws short of a hardware store doesn't like to believe me, so they usually open it with two hands (instead of using the thumb tab), and nearly every time a nice clean cut along their palm or on their finger shows up. I've decided to not loan out my knife unless I'm sure the user can handle it.
 
Everyone involved in this story is no longer alive. My father-in-law was from a large family, farmers, all born roughly 100 years ago. If I remember correctly there were 8 or 9 boys. One day they were playing chicken with a hatchet. You hold a finger out the other guy "tries" to cut it off before you get your finger out of the way. You guessed right: eventually someone didn't get their finger out in time. Lost the end of a finger at the last knuckle. I'm sure their mother got it bandaged up soon enough. I'm also pretty sure she had little enough sympathy for the unfortunate lad that he didn't get out of doing his assigned chores.

Before you think how stupid they were, remember they survived the depression and won a World War (II). I don't recommend that game, but it does illustrate how much more protective we are today. Probably too protective.
 
I asked my father-in-law what had happened to one of his double bit axes. One side was grossly flattened and split. He told me he had loaned it to a relative. That relative was using the axe to split wood. He had got the blade stuck in a log and used a maul to drive it like a wedge. Needless to say that relative was quite drunk when he did that.

The sight of that axe was very disturbing to me--that someone would do that to a useful tool like an axe. I'm pretty sure my father in law never loaned him a tool again. The offender in this story lived to his 90's.
 
without a single doubt the dumbest thing I ever saw someone do with a knife was try to cut through a concrete cinder block. He had a spyderco something or other at the time that was just destroyed. It was a fully serrated model yet the serrations were all but gone. He aske me if I could sharpen it and I informed him that I could but it would no longer be a serrated blade and I wasnt about to hand profile 150 different nooks and crannys for a guy I know wouldnt pay me a dime to do the job. I had a 1990's spydero police model with full serrations and I said I wont fix your original knife but I will sell you this one. He paid my asking price and then when I saw him a week after that he wanted his money back. He said the knife failed him. I asked to see it and he handed it to me and it looked identical to his last spyderco. I said what the heck did you try and do cut through a brick? "No a cinder block". I literally couldnt believe it. I cant remember why he said he thought this was a good idea but some years later I asked him about it again and he claims that he had seen one of those infomercials selling serrated kitchen knives where they sawed into concrete then show them cutting a tomato. He felt that since those knives were $29.95 and he payed $50 or so that the knife should have been able to do that.
 
Bringing this thread back because I just spent forever getting the point back on my beloved SnG...

To answer the thread title's question... Poke my SnG into a metal desk just hard enough to blunt the tip enough to make me angry because "it should be able to handle it."

Lesson learned, it'll never leave my person/hands again.
 
orixa said:
The title says the dumbest thing a "NON-Knife" person did with a blade.
Having said that the dumbest thing a non knife can do is to use a knife in front of a knife person so they can then go on a forum and make fun of you.
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You should know better than to scrape gum off of a concrete floor...when it's not your knife.
Some basic knowledge should be innate.
 
Resurrecting this thread. The dumbest thing I have done was buy a "Spyderco".
Turns out, it was not a Spyderco rescue at all, but instead a cheap knock off. If I had looked closer at the knife for sale, problem would have been solved.
 
Prying with a folding knife until the blade broke

Although it was on Youtube so it's probably cheating

EDIT: it was a Recon 1, not a Spartan
 
gmorel1916 said:
Bringing this thread back because I just spent forever getting the point back on my beloved SnG...

To answer the thread title's question... Poke my SnG into a metal desk just hard enough to blunt the tip enough to make me angry because "it should be able to handle it."

Lesson learned, it'll never leave my person/hands again.
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Dumbest thing I've ever heard before.
 
I was at work and there was supplies on a pallet strapped down by these metal straps. So I was doing something else and my friend asks for my s30v blur. With no hesitation to show it off, I hand it over. A few minutes later I wall over to him trying to cut through this metal strap. I took It from him and explained its not for that and he rolled the edge really badly. Needless to say I never lent my knife to him again. It was funny how he tried telling me my knife sucked because including cut through metal. Thes straps had the look and feel of sheet metal.
 
This isn't as dumb as some of the others, but it certainly bugs me to no end. So many people I know use their kitchen knives on hard surfaces (granite counter tops, glass cutting boards, ceramic plates and dishes) and then complain that their knives are always dull... I even know people who replace them when they get really dull because they think the knife is worn out or poor quality; In reality the knife is not the problem, it's the user :rolleyes:
 
A couple weeks ago a coworker saw me using my crkt keychain pull through sharpener ( I know I know...a pull through??-- I only use it on my construction dedicated Kershaw cryo ii--keeps a working edge after I abuse it and it fits well on my keychain)... He asked if he can borrow it...I lent him the pull through sharpener and he pulls out his 1995 Gerber fixed blade. The thing has no edge on it at all.. He starts grinding his blade in there then tries to sharpen the serated edge on it!! I asked him what the heck he was doing. ... He said what? I'm just sharpening my knife. He hands it back and says it doesn't work anyway. Now it's useless other than the bottle opener...
 
I was with a co-worker. The guy had been just showing off his brand new, do it all Swiss Army knife. He decided to cut up some boxes, in a flash. No body asked or told him to do it. I started doing something else.
A minute later he walks up and asked me where is the first aide kit? I then notice that he is holding his thumb, dripping blood. It was a long and deep cut (no stiches needed). I came to find out that the guy put his open knife down and then proceed to pick it up, back ward. So when he went to cut the box. He pressed his thumb in to the sharp side of the blade. I wouldn't of trusted him with a box cutter after that.

After reading all of the posted knife stories. I remembered more:D
I always ask. When asked for my knife.
What are you cutting???
 
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