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

i was hiking with my friends in PA and a park ranger who was very rude to my friend the day before asked me why i need such a big knife, i had a spyderco rocksalt on my belt. i didn't respond because he obviously was just looking to break chops he then quickly stated theres enough of you a bear wouldnt bother you.


what an anus.
 
I took my Bravo 1 out while working about a week ago, and another contractor started saying it was a concealed weapon. I told him it was under 5", which is the legal requirement for a knife to be concealed legally, and he started going on about how he'd been arrested while hunting for carrying a 3.5" blade.

Pretty fishy. Either he was full of it, or was arrested for some other reason. The law is very clear about the 5" blade.

That's about it, I guess. Unless you count the knife salesman at Sportsman's Warehouse telling me If I wanted one of my full convex knives to be sharp, I needed to buy a lansky system and put an edge bevel on it. I tried to explain what a convex edge was to him, but I'm not sure he understood. Or cared.
 
"That thing is terrifying!" Said my mom about my h1 SE spyderco Ladybug.

A few months later she complained when I gave my dad a bug I got when ordering other stuff, so I gave her the ladybug which I replaced with my then new tasman.

Suddenly after two months of use, "I just love this little thing, its so cute"

My dad recently was cutting down 3/4"-1" branches off a maple for marshmellow sticks with that bug.
 
I love these sorts of threads.

I still haven't murdered anyone with my 1 1/2" bladed SAK. I've just been too busy lately. You know how it is.:(
 
There was one time I was slicing up cardboard at a warehouse job for a foot pad and, refferring to my Kershaw Needs Work, this guy says "Was all that really necessary?" I politely told him to worry about his own self.

Other than that I despise the cliches that are constantly regurgitated from strangers when blade conversation is brought up. "Never bring a knife to a gun fight" being #1 most hated.

#2 is guys who think knives OTB sharpness is the sharpest and only edge the knife will ever need, ever.

Next up and #3 is others telling me how my straight knives would be cooler with serrations and sawback spines and recurves, skull crushers etc.... to dismember bad guys better. Please, keep it to yourself.

The Bladeforums has made me somewhat of a knife snob.
 
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"Serrated edges are better for causing more trauma to the area than straight edges. A cut nerve can often be reattached. A shredded one usually cannot, or it will regrow irregularly."
 
Jesse B. said:
"Serrated edges are better for causing more trauma to the area than straight edges. A cut nerve can often be reattached. A shredded one usually cannot, or it will regrow irregularly."
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Hehe, I guess you can put that in your "Conversations with a Mall Ninja" book. :D
 
my friend was over and wanted to se my legendary knife collection. so i told him to open the top dresser drawer in my room. we walked over to it and he opened it slowly.

(i have all my knives set out on their side on a biece of cork pad so it looks like a knife case in a store. i have about 40 knives in the drawer. all crk striders hinderer and various other customs. )

he looks over the knives and comes to my rainbow leek almost hidden in the corner (i forgot i had it in there) and he begins to freak out. telling me its the sickest knife hes ever seen.......
 
EricV said:
"That thing is terrifying!" Said my mom about my h1 SE spyderco Ladybug.

A few months later she complained when I gave my dad a bug I got when ordering other stuff, so I gave her the ladybug which I replaced with my then new tasman.

Suddenly after two months of use, "I just love this little thing, its so cute"

My dad recently was cutting down 3/4"-1" branches off a maple for marshmellow sticks with that bug.
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Sounds like she was asking for you to give her one...
 
Apec said:
"Put that away, there are civilians here."
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I was someplace the other day, and the fellow behind the counter was showing me his fixed blade... it must have been 13 or 14 inches long, dulled, but you know how it is.... A woman was almost entering the store, and he said, quick, a woman... put it away!!

LOL

BTW, the woman was a customer.
 
peter r said:
my friend was over and wanted to se my legendary knife collection. so i told him to open the top dresser drawer in my room. we walked over to it and he opened it slowly.

(i have all my knives set out on their side on a biece of cork pad so it looks like a knife case in a store. i have about 40 knives in the drawer. all crk striders hinderer and various other customs. )

he looks over the knives and comes to my rainbow leek almost hidden in the corner (i forgot i had it in there) and he begins to freak out. telling me its the sickest knife hes ever seen.......
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Goes to show you how important impressions are.
 
Folderguy said:
And your response was?
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Nothing, after he got done with his Psycho scream I was pretty shocked, and couldn't even find the right words to respond, I was caught completely off guard. I should point out that this was SAK that we're talking about.:eek:
 
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Why do you need a knife this sharp?

Ummm..... so it cuts!

The best was from my mom though, she was at work and pulled out her spyderco D'fly to open a bag. Lady next to here says "why do you carry a weapon?"

She said she didn't respond but did give the lady a "your dumb" look.
 
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