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

SURVIVAL&WEAPONS said:
That is very stupid, throwing a knife to break it in. Wonder how the rest of his problem solving techniques go. I would have been pretty mad about the victorinox, and i would have been super pissed about ther hinderer.
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Let's just say his problem solving techniques are just as bad if not worse. That is based on what I saw on other occasions of locking his keys in his truck a few times and in a locker without a lock on it before he was fired. Top it off he argued with me about the various steels used for knives, and told me cast iron would make a superior material to make a knife blade than anything else.
 
countryguy07 said:
Let's just say his problem solving techniques are just as bad if not worse. That is based on what I saw on other occasions of locking his keys in his truck a few times and in a locker without a lock on it before he was fired. Top it off he argued with me about the various steels used for knives, and told me cast iron would make a superior material to make a knife blade than anything else.
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Cast iron, huh? Someone should have given him a blade made of it. Would have made his day!
 
It only rolled very slightly not bad enough to stop to sharpen was still doing fine I was cutting out carpet with it.
 
countryguy07 said:
Let's just say his problem solving techniques are just as bad if not worse. That is based on what I saw on other occasions of locking his keys in his truck a few times and in a locker without a lock on it before he was fired. Top it off he argued with me about the various steels used for knives, and told me cast iron would make a superior material to make a knife blade than anything else.
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Cast iron, thats funny. If theres a thread for stupidest things non-knife people said, that should be in there. As-well as the delica-bayonet statement.
 
Co-worker sharpened a pocket knife on a grinding wheel.

My uncle scraped a gasket of on his truck with his pocket knife.

So long ago, can't recall the brands of those knives.

Gave my Dad a Benchmade 1 of 1000 for Christmas and he got bored, decided the unused factory edge wasn't sharp enough and tried to sharpen it.

The result was he scratched the piss out of one side of the blade.
 
JohnC76 said:
Co-worker sharpened a pocket knife on a grinding wheel.

My uncle scraped a gasket of on his truck with his pocket knife.

So long ago, can't recall the brands of those knives.

Gave my Dad a Benchmade 1 of 1000 for Christmas and he got bored, decided the unused factory edge wasn't sharp enough and tried to sharpen it.

The result was he scratched the piss out of one side of the blade.
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.....That's bad. That's all bad.
 
countryguy07 said:
Let's just say his problem solving techniques are just as bad if not worse. That is based on what I saw on other occasions of locking his keys in his truck a few times and in a locker without a lock on it before he was fired. Top it off he argued with me about the various steels used for knives, and told me cast iron would make a superior material to make a knife blade than anything else.
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Must have a skull made of cast iron to have survived to his age with ideas like that.
 
Most people aren't used to pocket knives being dangerously sharp. If they're used to knives at all it's a cheap walmart autozone $10 folder that comes dull enough that you could in fact rub your thumb across the blade with pressure and have no issue. So they just think every knife is like that unless it's an actual "razor"

I carry a beater knife to work just so I can use it to cut really thin wire or unscrew shit. I keep it sharp though. I actually havnt been using it as a screwdriver lately as I started carrying a keychain gerber dime multitool that I can use for that. Still need to cut through wire though, I try to use the serrations but it definitely chews up the blade. Don't think i can get the top 1/6th of the blade sharp until I get some coarse stones to wear it down a little. I use a sharp maker and the medium stones just won't do it, or at least take wayyyy too long. The rest of the blade I get razor sharp though.

My coworker once was using a nice blue kershaw leek to pick out grout in between bathroom floor tiles we were redoing. Killed the tip.

I've also done fairly dumb things, although none recently. Last one was about 3 years ago when I bought my first knife that was better then your standard $15 walmart folder. It was a boker Kalashnikov ak74 serrated blade. Playing around with it and closed it way too fast right down onto the end of my thumb. Took off a good chunk. Had to use quick clot to stop the bleeding, man that stuff burns!
 
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Batoning a 4" log with a folder, then whine when it breaks; of course, batoning any folder is about as dumb as it gets:rolleyes:
 
Alnamvet68 said:
Batoning a 4" log with a folder, then whine when it breaks; of course, batoning any folder is about as dumb as it gets:rolleyes:
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Yep. I don't even think that should be in a destruction test. There is no "what if" scenario where I would ever risk my cutting tool in that manner.
 
When I was a kid, I saw someone flipping a cheap butterfly knife in front of someone's face when they were trying to sleep on a couch. The person sleeping told the guy to leave him alone several times before punching the hand flipping the knife. Only, he didn't hit the hand... the tip of the knife buried itself about an inch and a half in between the guys knuckles. Stupidity at its finest on both parts.

I worked at a farm supply store, and one of my coworkers asked to borrow my Kershaw Leek. I let people borrow it all the time without thinking about it, and handed it to him. I look away back to what I was doing, and then hear this blood curdling screech... this guy was attempting to slice through steel banding that was holding stall mats to a pallet. I was mortified. He very unknowingly handed it back to be, and very innocently said "I guess I'll have to go find the tin snips". The edge was absolutely wrecked.

And that's the day I started carrying a box cutter as well for all of the idiots.
 
None of my folders will get that close to a log. I only use my BK9 to baton, and then with logs only 3" or less, or so
 
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