What's the craziest thing someone said to you about one of your knives?

6leafdom said:
i have always wonder why no one is sacred of a 8" kitchen chef knife while they go apeshit over a 4" folder
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The idiots probably associate the kitchen knives with what they have in THEIR kitchen - knives too blunt to hurt anyone (or any food). If they were familiar with MY kitchen knives they'd probably be scared of them too. I often have a kitchen knife or two in my room that I've been sharpening, whenever a knife from the drawer doesn't feel sharp enough I go swap it with one from my room, using the REALLY sharp knife in the kitchen and sharpening the duller one later. Often the duller knife can still shave arm hair, but with a bit of stropping I can get it properly sharp again.

I do warn house guests to be careful when using any knives because I keep them sharp, if they ignore my warning then hopefully they are good enough to wipe up the blood and not leave a mess.
 
During the course of responsible use, my SAK has been referred to as a weapon by other people multiple times. Yeah, you better watch out or else I'll open a bottle of wine and file my fingernails.

On another occasion, my Vic Spirit multitool was referred to as a weapon.
 
I've posted this before, but one time I was in the break room at a previous job and I used a Case Peanut to poke holes in a microwave lunch before nuking it. A colleague said "Oh my God - you're like Norman Bates in "Psycho!"

If I hadn't been so flabbergasted, I would have made some sarcastic comment about the giant chef's knife sitting on the counter which didn't seem to bother her.
 
kozak6 said:
During the course of responsible use, my SAK has been referred to as a weapon by other people multiple times. Yeah, you better watch out or else I'll open a bottle of wine and file my fingernails.

On another occasion, my Vic Spirit multitool was referred to as a weapon.
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My Classic was referred to as a weapon by a woman who borrowed it at work, to dig out some paper that was stuck in the shredder teeth.

Her: "Here's your weapon back."
Me: "Thanks, you never know when the Liliputians might attack. Have to be ready."
 
I was at my girlfriends house and I took my sage 2 out to cut somthing and left it on the table, she then precedded to pick it up and look at it, as soon as she saw the spyderco logo she dropped it and screamed that there was a spider on it... women... haha
 
I was at a corporate function so I decided to pack the smallest folder I have, a little evo jr. that my daughter bought me.
When the event was over one of the VP's walks up to me and asks me if I a pin to pop the balloons (why would I carry a pin).
I had him the knife and he said "wow that is some hunting knife you have there" I replied I could bring one of my hunting knives in tomorrow if he wanted.
I then had to show him how to open the knife.
He pops a bunch of balloons and brings it back, I close it for him because he can't figure it out.
5 minutes later he borrows it again to pop the rest of the ballons.
When he hands it back he said "that is something the safety guy carrying around an un-safe knife like that", I replied I keep it sharp so it is safe.
He didn't understand and walked away.
For the next 3 weeks I carried my military at work
 
Couple weeks back I was in Physical Therapy doing stretches on the table when my Vic Classic fell out of my pocket to the floor. The PT picked it up and said that I should go put it back in my car so it won't "alarm any of the other patients or make them feel uncomfortable".
I slipped back in my pocket and gave him an odd look.
 
coyotebc said:
(why would I carry a pin)
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I thought this was funny, because I do EDC a pin. Mine is a stainless steel pin and it lives on my Victorinox Cybertool between the liner & scales in behind the corkscrew. Basically I have been carrying this pin every day for almost 11 years. I've used it a few times too - good for popping a blister (I like to clean it with rubbing alcohol before & after using it for something like that).
 
Folderguy said:
"Man, you could dig someone's liver out with this." I wonder where he came up with that idea; don't really want to know.
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Maybe he was a surgeon :p.


I have been asked if I was violent by a guy that saw my Utily-Key in my keychain :confused:
I wonder what he would have thought if he saw one of my large fixed blades.

For the ones that don't know here is what the utilikey looks like, far from violent:
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Gadgetaholic-

I'm glad that I'm not the only one carrying a pin. Mine is a safety pin that lives on my key ring. Well, it's actually a blue ducky diaper pin.

I started keeping a pin on my key ring in high school when I worked as a carpenter's apprentice in the summers because it was great for removing splinters.
 
The dark fascination with violence that comes out of people when they see a tool or weapon is interesting. Yes, sometimes I carry a large folding knife, yes it could be used as a weapon. But it's non-knife people who always jump to liver removal, stabbing, murdering, gutting, slicing, etc. Same with my guns. I get asked if this or that rifle would blow a man's arm off, etc.
 
"You know what it means if you have this? It means you're going to jail."

- A policeman after noticing a Ka-Bar in my back seat during a routine traffic stop.
 
Yep, the Ka-Bar was partially underneath a shirt, so he charged me with "concealed weapons". I spent the night in a holding cell before I was bailed out. Later the charge was dismissed but I never got the Ka-Bar back.
 
Jail ain't too bad... longest I ever did was 3 months... consecutive.
 
arrests always stay on your record... usually with no indication of conviction or dropped charges.
 
Here's something else though, concealed weapons is a misdemeanor punishable by more than one year in jail, as such, being convicted of "concealed weapons" will not allow you to legally purchase or own firearms. You will not pass the NICS check.

So - you could be carrying a 3 1/2 inch folder in your pocket, in a county which sets the law at 3 inches for concealed knives. If you are then frisked by a policemen (which can happen to anyone) and he charges you, you have now lost your right to ever legally own firearms.
 
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