What is the worst thing that's ever happened to your knife?

KnottyEagle

KnottyEagle

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Have it be something like accidentally dropping it onto concrete tip down or having a whole case of knives stolen from you.
 
Had a whole case of handmade Sheffield knives I'd spent two years developing stolen. Including a 001 model :(
 
lent a spyderco Caly3 to a coworker for 30 minutes. It took hours to fix the damage to what was left of the edge... other than that, I have been quite lucky with my knives
 
The finest machete I have made so far was used to clear overgrowth near a concrete foundation today...it's destroyed. Had a leatherman thrown in the trash...still does not compare to post #2. Not even close. Sorry, Jack.
 
Arakiel said:
The finest machete have made so far was used to clear overgrowth near a concrete foundation today...it's destroyed. Had a leatherman thrown in the trash...still does not compare to post #2. Not even close. Sorry, Jack.
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I agree.
 
KnottyEagle said:
Wouldn't even want to imagine what your coworker did to the blade.
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You know those big staples in cardboard boxes? Cut into those and dense foam signs for a half hour. I love how the guy I lent the knife to thought I was over reacting. When I told him he trashed my knife.
 
I was cutting wood, i stabbed the knife into the wood and the wood fell off the table and the blade snapped off. Lol it was stupid of me
 
nickortizzle1035 said:
You know those big staples in cardboard boxes? Cut into those and dense foam signs for a half hour. I love how the guy I lent the knife to thought I was over reacting. When I told him he trashed my knife.
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Keep some cheap stainless steel butter knives to loan out to anyone who asks to borrow your kife. You can find them at flea markets for almost nothing. Grind a crappy edge on them and let the knuckle draggers borrow them. They will quite asking.
 
Leaned out over the side of a fishing boat when I was a kid so my hand could skim the water, and watched gravity take over as my slip joint knife exited the top pocket of my jacket and plop into the drink.......gone.
 
I got pulled over by some pigs, they checked my pockets and I was carrying a Spyderco Paramilitary 2. The pig said " nice knife, now its mine ".....I was pissed, it was the Para 2 with satin blade and camo handle, I worked hard to buy that knife because at the time I had a crappy paying job.
 
1) I work in a machine shop and was deburring some parts and left my zt 301 on top of the machine when I turned it on and started talking to a co-worker and the knife fell and hit the concrete tip first. Since its a pretty heave knife it did some pretty good damage and took a lot to fix.
2) All ill say is that when you decide to buy your first set of throwing knives make sure that you get a cheap set.
 
Over the years I've lost a few knives (luckily just a couple of easily replaced SAKs, albeit they were not without some sentimental value) and had three knives stolen (two customs and a Falkniven F1). Other than that, when I was in my early teens my mother borrowed my SwissChamp (which I treasured) and used the main blade as a screwdriver, snapping the tip off.

I'm rather picky about who I lend my knives to and what knives I'm willing to lend. Most of my acquaintances are used to this and just ask me to cut stuff for them instead.
 
Nutty Knife Nut said:
I got pulled over by some pigs, they checked my pockets and I was carrying a Spyderco Paramilitary 2. The pig said " nice knife, now its mine ".....I was pissed, it was the Para 2 with satin blade and camo handle, I worked hard to buy that knife because at the time I had a crappy paying job.
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Stuff like this is one of my greatest fears. I work work at the gun counter in a sporting goods store. One time I was getting some cases of shotgun shells for a off duty state trooper. When I pulled out my benchmade Onslaught to cut open the box he said "nice knife" I thanked him for the compliment. Then he said "I'd take that on a traffic stop" I'm pretty sure he was serious. That guy was a D-bag. We have had problems with him trying to buy ammo with only showing us his badge. We check firearms IDs or license to Carrys. He has a LTC, but he wants everyone to know he's a statey or something. I think he gets off on the power trip!
 
Boss borrowed my knife to cut open a box up on a 8 foot high shelf that someone had filled with metal pipes (weighed about 500 pounds, no way to get it down without unloading, cutting the side was the easier option.) Almost through cutting, he leans further out from the ladder, and almost falls - just catches himself in time to see the knife falling towards the concrete floor from 12 feet up.

Thankfully it landed handle down, but that sound was awful :(
 
A couple of years ago I was going through an unhealthy obsession with my Ontario SP-10 Bowie (I was new to knives at the time) and was hacking down a sapling with it near an old abandon house and dropped it tip first in the dirt. It stuck straight up and didn't move an inch. Perplexed I pulled it out of the dirt and notice a funny squeaking noise as I did so. Also the tip was duller and missing a great deal of finish. I had dropped it on a massive, ancient sheet of sheet metal that was buried under the dirt. It penetrated with no problem at all. Dulled my point a bit as previously stated and goofed up the finish still it was a beater anyhow so no harm no fowl. I'm generally pretty safe with my knives and care for them a great deal. So my worst isn't too terribly exciting.
 
The first fixed blade I ever had was this little Western clip point hunting knife I got for Christmas as a teen. Some dirt bag stole it out of my car along with the stereo and some other stuff years later in grad school.
 
Wow. Some real horrors here - nothing I've had happen has come close. But I have had a bad experience that might provide some amusement:

I have a simple Swiss Army knife. I'm not sure which model it is, but it's a common mid-size. Great knife. Love it. I got it when I was 22, and have held on to it for sixteen years now - it's a really dependable, useful thing.

It was the first significant present my future wife ever gave me.

...my now ex-wife.

I'm happily remarried to a really wonderful woman. She certainly wouldn't care, and doesn't know the origins of this knife, but using it now feels a lot like cheating. :(
 
Left a case and a buck at my my dads shop, to teach me a Lesson my dad/ step mom took them to prove I wasn't responsible enough to own knives. In my later years I found them in a drawer full of step moms vibrating arsenal. All those years they really had me fooled..... I wish sombody would have really stole em Christmas is still ackward. :(
 
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