What's the dumbest question you've got about a knife?

Aquaholicc said:
My wife always ask:
"What's in the box dear"
It's gotten to a point where I just ignore her..
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Hahaha. Awesome. One of my ex girlfriends constantly had the idea in the back of her paranoid mind that I was having an affair, being on my phone late at night. Which I was...with Blade Forums ;)

Per the topic: I live in Wyoming and a carrying a knife is vastly overshadowed by toting a handgun so blades aren't exactly eyebrow raisers. I pulled out the Sebenza I was carrying during a family gathering one time and my stepdad's father asked me "if it was a Kershaw. Kershaw makes a hell of a knife". Not dumb, but funny. The greatest generation is so cute.
 
Some Damn funny entries so far. Never get tired of these type of threads.
The best I've gotten was "do you like it?....cause mine has a seatbelt cutter, glass breaker and it opens really fast" this was a response a young man gave me upon inspecting my zt 0561 (with customizations might I add) after which he whipped out some cheap assisted opener with two screws already loose and nameless steel. ( which I didn't tell him any if that of course, I just smiled and said I like it quite a bit, but your knife does have a lot going on)
 
My father is a price conscious (insert expletive). It's ok for him to spend tons of money but not anyone else. Working in the family business made things tough, because he somehow notices everything new or different, and then rants about money.

Well, he has probably $15k in fishing equipment, not to mention gore-tex clothing and other related items. He sold his boat six years ago, and hires a charter four or five times per year, yet he still buys fishing stuff.

Then at least $1500 if not double in vaping stuff. Everytime I turn around he has another new unit. He probably has 20 of them, all customized.

When my liver started failing, I had to move back home for the first time in twenty years. He's always asking me questions about my knives. How much did that cost. Very stressful, and hampering my buying of anything. I get disability now, and am home most of the day so I can at least intercept packages.

Other than my father, I've only been asked once or twice in my life. One person asked at a birthday party for my nephew if one of my flippers was a switchblade. The other time was someone asking me why I carried such a large knife, are you crocodile Dundee? It was a ZT 0561.

What's funny is nowadays most of my folders are around 3" blade length. Largest is 3.5." When you're carrying an insulin pump, weight savings is nicem

I have however considered picking a used 0562 or 0808, despite the weight.
 
evilgreg said:
Stabbing folks, clearly. That's way more likely than using it as a tool to cut things.



Yeah, the "OMG a knife" people maybe have an excuse when you whip out a Contego or Adamas or whatever, but I'm always entertained by the "why do you need something dangerous like that" when it's for a CS Mini Tuff Lite with a 1.25" straight blade, and I'm literally using it to open a box that the idiot asking the question wanted open.
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I would take my knife back, tell them it was so they didn't hurt themselves or anyone else, and to chew the box open like a rat. Luckily the people I work with are better armed than I am and a 3" blade isn't going to have them thinking about calling Homeland Security. I really don't understand how a lot of you have the patience to deal with the nonsense.
 
The most common I hear are: What do you use that for? and How sharp is that thing?

I'm usually cutting something with ease at the time I get these questions, which really answers both questions ;)
 
dryflytrout said:
I would take my knife back, tell them it was so they didn't hurt themselves or anyone else, and to chew the box open like a rat. Luckily the people I work with are better armed than I am and a 3" blade isn't going to have them thinking about calling Homeland Security. I really don't understand how a lot of you have the patience to deal with the nonsense.
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I'm in the suburbs of Chicago, and Chicago proper had a stupid blade length law. 2.5," yet with a permit I can walk around with my Steyr M9-A1 concealed. Makes a whole lot of sense.
 
TheEdge01 said:
Does it usually work???
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The first night it usually pretty rough..but after that it's like I never even bought a new knife

stuff_things said:
Hahaha. Awesome. One of my ex girlfriends constantly had the idea in the back of her paranoid mind that I was having an affair, being on my phone late at night. Which I was...with Blade Forums ;)

Per the topic: I live in Wyoming and a carrying a knife is vastly overshadowed by toting a handgun so blades aren't exactly eyebrow raisers. I pulled out the Sebenza I was carrying during a family gathering one time and my stepdad's father asked me "if it was a Kershaw. Kershaw makes a hell of a knife". Not dumb, but funny. The greatest generation is so cute.
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That's awesome dude lol. My old lady gets so butt hurt when I get a new knife and I have to spend an hour and a half just correcting all the issue with the factory edge lol.
 
When I was 12 my dad took me to a knife show in search of a nice folder preferably in stag. One in particular caught my eye. I leaned over the case, felt the husband and wife sellers staring at me, and I nervously--not ignorantly--asked, "What kind of tang does it have?" :poop:

He kindly replied, "It's a folder. It doesn't have a tang."
 
Well this isn't a dumb question in its self and the joke is on me because of the way I am and I don't want to word it so it sounds egotistical on my part we all know there is plenty of that without creating any more . . .
The question is usually "Can you sharpen this for me?" It being anything from a pair of scissors to a drill bit (or a knife).
We will reword it to "WILL you sharpen this for me ?".
At which point I start salivating, get all nervous like a dog who has just been asked if he wants to go for walkies . . . I stand there and stamp my foot really fast until they get the "it" to me . . . then I disappear for a while to my land of sharpening ecstasy . . . sometimes I think I just have edge tools so I can grind and polish metal. Then I return with the said object and wait for pets . . . more often than not they take the "it" and go off with it with not so much as a thank you.

Will I sharpen something ? Dumb question. LOL
 
Here's how these exchanges typically go:
Them: "You paid how much for that thing?"
Me: I answer with an apparently obscene figure.
Them: "But it's half plastic!"
Me: "No, it's G10. There's a substantial difference."
Them: "I can still get a knife from wally-world at one-hundredth the cost."
Me: "I'm sure you can." OR "But that knife won't be around for your grandkids to mess with."
 
The only truly stupid question I'm ever asked isn't even a question, it's more of a command and the exchange usually goes like this:

Them, "...let me use your knife for a minute."

My answer is always, "No you can't use my knife but I do have a knife I keep for people to borrow if they forgot theirs. Did you forget yours?"

Them. "No, why would I carry a knife?"

Me, "In case I'm not here to cut stuff for you with my knife."

Them sarcastically, "Ok, you got me there, now let me use your knife."

I hand them one of my Colonials or one of my CRKTs or even a Rough Rider depending on what they need it for and they always come back with, "...let me see that nice one you just got. "

Me, "...aahh, no! You know what, here's a Stanley razor knife, have at it and next time bring your own knife or ask someone else to borrow theirs."


OOh here's another one...

"Why is your knife so sharp and mine so dull?"

Me, "OMG! Where do I start? Do you have a couple of hours?"
 
On last fishing trip I watch my friend how he struggles with his knife to cut bread ...... When we come home , I'll sharpen you that knife , I said. Why, he asks me ? It s sharp .......... I can open a can of sweet corn :eek:
 
Plastic and metal = a car. What'd you pay for that?

My dad, 80 yo this year, stopped asking me if my thumbstud one hand opener was a switchblade after I bought him a Bucklite Max Large. He loves it. He still asks, though, every single time I fly in for a visit and have a knife, "You didn't carry that on the plane, did you?!" The other one is, "You know you're gonna have to check that, right?" Love you, Dad!

Zieg
 
Has anyone ever showed you their new USA made knife, and it turns out to be an Mtech USA...ect knife which is actually a Chinese gas station special ?
 
Hickory n steel said:
Has anyone ever showed you their new USA made knife, and it turns out to be an Mtech USA...ect knife which is actually a Chinese gas station special ?
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Yes, though I was able to convince him to buy a spyderco eventually.

Thread legal: Why does it need to be so sharp?
 
Fortunately I've never had what I would consider a "dumb" question about a knife. Questions? Yeah a few but not what I would characterize as dumb.
 
"Why is your knife so sharp?"

Easily the dumbest followed by.....

"Can I borrow your knife"
 
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