What was he thinking?

Mark J

Mark J

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I recently learned that an acquaintance of mine also appreciates knives, although not to the extent we do (like I had to say that :p). I've shown him a knife or two in the past, so today we started talking knives and I showed him the day's carry. It happened to be a WH Limited Edition Lancet. So he's admiring it, and then tries to close it. Well, you guessed it, he couldn't figure out how to make the pointy part go bye-bye into the handle. Rather than ask me, he starts pushing on the blade to forcibly close my limited edition $500 knife! Arrgh! What's up with that?! :rolleyes:

Ask, and ye shall be enlightened. It's a liner lock, Sherlock. Why didn't he just ask? I guess I just expected more, since he appreciated knives and had always been very careful with my knives in the past. OK, I feel better now. Thanks for listening. This place is great therapy :).

- Mark

P.S. Yeah, I know. I can hear the "I told you so" chant already. Bring it on :).
 
My question is did he harm your LE Lancet.
And yes, We told you so!
 
Whenever I let someone check out my knife I am always ready to take it back and close it for them. What I hate is when they pass it back to me blade first, like I want to get jabbed in the palm. It's partially my fault, since I always have to have the newest most powerful lock.
 
I just let someone borrow my S&W FL1, and the first thing they did was drop it when trying to open it!
 
It happens all the time, and yes I hate it.

A little different experience with the same moral issue:

A couple of days ago, I had a Turkish friend visited me. It was his first visit to my home. When he saw my antique wakizashi, he asked me if he could see it. As a good host, I let him hand my wakizashi after telling him that it's a very valuable investment and scary sharp. I don't know if he heard my warning or not, but he grabbed it, unsheathed it, and started swinging it around, throwing it up in the air and caught it while talking how good of a sword it was.

I was speechless, couldn't say anything at all because of his action. I mean, if you let someone hand your knife, does it mean that you allow him to swing it like a nut ? :D

To make long story short, while trying to catch the wakizashi, he caught the blade. The sharp edge ! Needless to say, blood couldn't stop flowing, and hospital was in order.

The moral issue is: always handle edged tools with respect, especially if it's someone else's.
 
Glad to hear I'm not the only one! And Calyth, no he didn't mess up the knife (thankfully).

- Mark

Edited to add: My wife thinks he didn't ask because of that certain part of the male brain that also won't ask for directions when lost. I made no comment (15 years of marriage DOES teach you something).
 
May be this is what they call ego...

Men are egoistic bastids.... :D

BTW, which LE Lancet do you have ? The Ripple ?
 
A long time ago, when showing a knife to a person that I know isn't a knife nut I got in the habit of showing the knife,closing it,then opening it before handing it. Just showing how it works.
It became a habit.
I've introduced quite a few people to knives.
I've also gave away a lot of knives in the process.
It's not the persons fault they do dumb things. I think it's just
a bit of human nature.
 
My favorite story like this is when my mechanical engineer freind couldn't figure out how to close my Camillus EDC.

Its a frame lock, just look at it and its pretty obvious how the thing folds.
 
It continually amazes me how people will open a linerlock, look at the lock, and then try to close it with the look engaged.:confused: :rolleyes:

I'm with HotSwat, as I'm always ready to take it back and close it.
 
ooooouch!!! close call!!!

I have to say Mark if someone wants to handle one of my handmades I tell them to laet me close it, or I show them how first. I hate to be that way, but if Im going to spend anywhere from 16-18hours of labor, or more, Im not goint to let anything happen to it that quick!!

Even with my other knives though, I still try to be cautious. I usually ask myself, "am I willing to let this one get messed up?"

I remember once I let my dad see one of my scallions when I first got it. He opened it, and preceded to close it applying pressure the wrong way. well you can imagine what happened!! the lock got wedged the opposite way, and when it was all over my lock...well wasnt as tight as it use to be!!!

Then of course dad wanted me to make him a knife so I did for his b-day!!! I made him a linerlock witha clip, stainless bolsters, and chocolate bone handles ( was suppose to be black, but after polishing was chocolate colored, the people at kovals said I must of gotten hold of a bad dye lot, they did offer to replace it, but that would mean two more hours of work) with a brass shield with his initials. I "coached" him on the operation and maintainence of his new knife. I hope I wasnt too harsh as he doesnt use it very often?? he did like the chocolate color better though!!!!!

I think we just need to be cautious of those were not sure of!!!:)
 
Yeah, I finally took it back and closed it for him too, showing him how it worked. Maybe I will start doing a demonstration before I hand it to them...can't hurt.

Beluga -- it's the T10 Monaco (2001 LE)

- Mark
 
I recently got a scale release auto, and was going to impress my brothers with it. I handed it over and told them it was a "Magic" knife, and each one of them figured out how to open it:eek:! Of course my brothers are not dummies, but I thought I had them for sure this time. I guess I shouldn't have showed off my LCC D/A bolster release so much.

Now, I don't normally hand out my expensive knives to just anyone, and I trust my brothers more than just about anybody. My usual MO is to demonstrate opening and closing before handing it over, especially if it is a "trick" auto or lock.

DD
 
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