Whats the Stupidest thing someone has ever done to/with your knife?

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One time, one of my friends asked to see one of my knives, looked at it, and then threw it into the ground to see how deep it would stick in the mud. The blade ended up sticking pretty deep and was noticably scratched by a rock. I guess I was lucky that the blade didn't break upon contact with the ground.

After that incident, I have stopped letting my friends handle my knives without close supervision. Anyone else have stories about what a ignorant or reckless person might have done to your favorite blade?
 
I'm pretty good on the people touching my knives front but one of the stupidest things I've ever done was slice my left finger using the large blade of my SAK opening a box containing a Buck Knife. Isn't that the definition of stupid? Cutting your finger with a knife opening a box with a knife?
 
handed over a knife to help fix a situation where it had to be done at the time and that person was in the right position to get it done and had we altered positions we'd have to start all over again....so a long story shorter...

person was used to only dull knives and i keep mine sharp....and instead of doing a nice controlled pull cut they swung it like a machete and went right through the material as expected and hit a steel bar and folded the edge right over. the shock of it actually cutting made him drop his side of the gate we were holding and the knife, and we ended up having to start over anyways. go figure. one time a sharp edge actually backfired........
 
I bought a new small sebenza 21, carbon fiber inlay, and showed it to a friend.
I just took it out of the box and wanted to show it off a bit.
I handed it over to him, he then proceeded to open it about a 1/4 of the way with the thumb stud, then snapped it open like he was throwing a 95mph fast ball.
In his defense, he's not a knife guy and I usually have hard use flippers.
He knew he did something wrong by the way my eyes nearly popped out of my head.
No damage done, but it turned my stomach.
 
I saw one of my friends loan a knife a while back. The borrower then cut an aluminum can in half to make an ash tray. It was only a chineese Gerber, but I was annoyed non-the-less. After seeing that I told myself I would ask "what for?" before I loaned a knife, if I do at all.
 
BladeCommander said:
I saw one of my friends loan a knife a while back. The borrower then cut an aluminum can in half to make an ash tray. It was only a chineese Gerber, but I was annoyed non-the-less. After seeing that I told myself I would ask "what for?" before I loaned a knife, if I do at all.
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I am fussy but I cut aluminum cans apart like that with a good knife all the time. Use them to put acetone in...can't do that with a plastic dixie cup!!!
 
HoosierQ said:
I am fussy but I cut aluminum cans apart like that with a good knife all the time. Use them to put acetone in...can't do that with a plastic dixie cup!!!
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Yeah, I will once in a while cut up a can with my knife to make a drip can for the grill or something like that. Granted, I wouldn't use a show piece knife to do it but I've done it with my Native 4 several times, no damage to the knife other than having to sharpen it a little sooner.
 
My friend, former army, and I were sitting out back on the deck drinking a few hoppy beers. I show my friend my brand-spaking-new Benchmade 940. I hand him the 940 in its closed, pristine condition. He examines and flicks it a few times.

Without so much as a word of warning, he grasps the blade, cutting himself in the process, and throws it at the wood fence like a circus performer. The handle bounced off the fence, and the blade lodged itself into the ground. I retrieved the blade while offering him a few unkind words .

I proceeded to lecture him on the correct use of knives as we finished our beers and he nursed his wounds.

The End.
 
You need to be on alert: a dude like that can secretly nurse a grudge against you for years, and some unrelated stressor can trigger his rage against you. At least that was the plot of this movie I saw :)

Oakengroves said:
My friend, former army, and I were sitting out back on the deck drinking a few hoppy beers. I show my friend my brand-spaking-new Benchmade 940. I hand him the 940 in its closed, pristine condition. He examines and flicks it a few times.

Without so much as a word of warning, he grasps the blade, cutting himself in the process, and throws it at the wood fence like a circus performer. The handle bounced off the fence, and the blade lodged itself into the ground. I retrieved the blade while offering him a few unkind words .

I proceeded to lecture him on the correct use of knives as we finished our beers and he nursed his wounds.

The End.
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Let a friend use my gerber profile... watched him stab it into a tree "for fun", then he proceeded to cut his hand while chopping at a stick on the tree.
One of my ex's friends was over, and she wanted to open a can of beans to make chili. Didnt "like" our can opener, so proceeded to use my brand new paring knife to open it. Without asking.
 
People, and I say people because it's happened more then once, they ask to see your knife and you hand it over and they immediately grab the blade with one hand and the handle with the other and start to torque the blade side to side and up and down with all their strength as if checking for blade play, but instead more like what it will take to break the blade off? Then act surprised that it bothers me when I yell at them to stop doing that...

I got to the point where I would say, you can see my knife but do not touch the blade for any reason unless I'm selling it and you plan on buying it, and still people have grabbed the blade and start bending it back and forth right after I've said please don't touch the blade.

Now, I generally don't allow people to "see" my knife unless I know them well and they are fellow knife folks.
 
A friend of mine eyeballed the crap out of my Striders. He has seen many knives by many different makers in my hands through the years, but the Striders gave him a gleam in his eyes. Everytime I carried one he wanted to fondle it. I'm not a gentleman of leisure and I am most certainly not well off, but I get a kick out of giving expensive things to friends. One day I was putting the finishing touches on the edge of an SMF. He ofcourse wanted to see it, when he was done I told him to just slip that sucker in his pocket, it was his now. The look on his face was priceless!!

Cut to a week later, I notice the SMF isn't in his pocket. I asked him what was up. I've never seen a head hang so low. He goes out to his truck and hands me the remains of a once great folding knife. It looked like someone ran a tank over it, threw it down on the highway from an overpass, and then insulted its momma.

To this day he won't tell me what he did to it, but boy it had to of been a whole succession of stupid events.
 
Allowing my buddy to use my Leatherman MUT to 'break-down' a kids pack and play that was stuck. Well, my buddy uses the brass scraper as a pry bar and it snaps. Luckily, the brass carbon scraper was replaceable.
 
I brought some throwing knives out to afghanistan and my friends decided they would rather throw them at the hesco barriers rather than the wood target I had set up.

For those that don't know, hesco barriers are basically giant bags filled with dirt, sand, rocks, etc. held together with a wire mesh that's about the thickness of a chain link fence.

Needless to say I came back to find the blades were bent, chipped, pretty much just all around destroyed.
 
My friend asked for my knife (a douk-douk), at first she wanted to make a stick for marshmallow, so i gave him without asking questions, after a while she asks me a second time the knife, and she pushes the blade on the rock to fully open it and start trying cutting a cheap chinese magnesium bar with the blade.. but this knife is easy to sharpen so it was ok.. :rolleyes:
 
I intentionally carry a few knives on me that I consider "loaners" or "abusers" for the dirty jobs and friends who don't carry their own. So one day I'm at work and this newer guy asks if anyone has a knife he can use for a minute. Says he needs to open and break down some stuff in the stock area and of course everyone turns toward me and says, "ask Shrub, he always has a knife". I hand him one of my loaners without much of a thought. A few minutes later him, and another guy come running out of the stock room. They're both laughing hysterically and the other guy is yelling "You cut me a$$hole! What I do to you?"
Turns out he didn't know that I keep my knifes, even my loaners, sharp. And like someone else mentioned, went to swing a hard slice at the plastic he was cutting. Went right through and cut the outer skin right off the other guys middle knuckle on his left hand. Thankfully it was a smallish cut, not deep and no real damage. Just some bleeding. But it makes me think, if the guy who got cut had been holding his hand at a different angle...
Now I always mention that my knives are very sharp, and only loan them to certain people. Or I'll just cut it for them.
 
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