When giving a knife away felt great

blade4sell

blade4sell

Joined
Dec 11, 2012
Messages
2,010
Hey members, just today my gardener came in to trim our massive tree in the front. I saw him worth his teenage son cutting the tree...I'm like...ok, I took out a used but not abuse kershaw compound and a eBay cheapie, I said hey Amigo! For you!!! Consider its your Christmas Gift since I did not see them for some times...they been doing my gardening work for many years.

First I took out the Kershaw Compound which I got on sale for $14. Speed safe flipper! Snap! Open! Both Their eye glows!! Wow... Then I took out my eBay cheapie...they ask, those switchblade? I go, no worry, these are legal...

MAN! The look on their face was priceless! They were so happy....

I felt really good...it's a good feel...

Share you giving stories
 
I've only ever given away cheapo no-name slip joints, when my friends come over to have a bonfire or something and they didn't have a knife.
Cheap knife>no knife i guess.
 
I didn't give it away but one of my friends lost his knife (bear grills folder:barf:) while we where camping his dad gave it to him for his 13th birthday any way next day I found it in the leaves and gave it back to him it made me feel good.

Cheers! And cool thread.
 
I would much rather give away something of quality or emotional attachment. Any knives I let go are part of my collection. A memory. A meaningful gift. Then again, I only give away knives to people where there's a meaning or reason to do so. I love your story OP. Great gesture to someone who works for you.
 
Sent a Gerber MKII to a Marine deployiing to Iraq; another time a grandson of one of our elk party people came to the camp with his dad; he was on his first hunt(deer) and they had him sharpening a small slippie; I gave hime a Buck fixed blade, saying he should have a decent knife; was gratifying.
 
Gave a tenacious to my nephew in law if thats a real thing. He is 12 or so he thought it was the best knife in the world and treats it as such. Im sure his dad will be happy when his son gets the knife bug. It feels great to pass the bug along to a new generation.
 
Years ago I was in Germany when I spotted an automatic Boker. While it was more expensive than I was wanting it to be, I had to have it. I brought it home and just had to show it to my Pops. I could see so much appreciation for the knife that without even thinking about it, I gave it to him on the spot.

I've given him other knives as well as Christmas presents and he always gets all quiet when he first looks at them.
 
My sons usually get knives for a present every year or two..... Always appreciated. One lost one to security when flying a couple years ago. On his birthday he got a replacement from me.... you could tell it touched him.
 
An old buddy of mine was just starting to get into the old bush work. and was in really interested gettin' a good knife, since he been using a Vic Spartan for a time and a half. I went into my truck and pulled out one of those schrade extreme survival knives that I been keeping back there for emergencies and gave it to him. the look on his face was priceless. hes gotten pretty into knives since them, he got himself a small collection now. When i give knives away to some of non knife people i like to think i'm supportin' the community, maybe it will spark an interest and get them buying more :D
 
I recently gave a Kershaw Speed Bump to one of the security guards here at work. He'd been here 3-days a week for about 5 years, so I'd gotten to know him quite well. I need the security guards to know me, as I'm always carrying knives, and most of them are over the 2.5 inch limit. With showing the knives I bring in, it has helped me convert a few of the guards over to quality.

This gentleman was leaving for a different location as he is just about finished with school and needed better hours to start interviews for his real career. He has always been appreciative of my collection, and just a first-class kind of guy. I hated to see him leave, and decided to give him one of the knives he'd liked. It made me feel quite good, and I had to wipe my eyes when we shook hands good-bye.
 
I work with a guy that's not doing so hot financially. He's had a rough life and I always do what I can to help him out. I bought a Kershaw Tremor for him for Christmas and he's been carrying and using it everyday since. It is a good feeling. Probably the nicest knife he's ever had.
 
about 2 months ago i gave my buddy that just got back from boot camp a black on black paramilitary to take to his MOS school. man it was a real booger trying to find another one of those. it did feel good that for sure
 
I've given away hundreds of knives.

Everyone is special, and so are the folks they go to......

Moose
 
Giving them away is the main reason my collection has always stayed fairly small; everybody needs a good, reliable knife. The best feeling giveaway was when I passed a set of Hibben throwers to a buddy who had admired them and was just hitting the road to hitchhike and camp his way across Canada. Felt good to know he would have something to amuse himself with in camp and to reach for in a pinch.
 
Theres so many good stories here :) Unfortunately I've never been gifted a knife, but I have given one. My older brother was always borrowing a blade for work so after a few days I gave him to keep my CRKT M16 that I modified to be a flat grind zero edge where the hollow was. It preformed amazingly. He came home the next morning and thanked me and said it was the best knife he'd ever used. He says it cuts boxes and zip ties better than an actual box cutter and holds an edge longer (not sure I believe that one, if aus 4 is better then his work really needs to buy better utility blades lol). And the auto-lawks makes it practically a fixed blade when open. It's my favorite hard use folder. I need to get more or them. But since I made it like that it meant a lot to me. Me an him hardly ever get along but it was still appreciated greatly.
 
I've only gifted knives to my little brother. He's a knife guy like me, and is the reason I'm into knives.

So for most of his life he's known that he's wanted to join the Marines and since he'll be graduating high school in a year and a half I purchased him a Swamp Rat Ratmandu. Only thing is I still gotta buy him a nice sheath, so no he hasn't got to break 'er in yet!

Oh and me and him share a production XM18 3.5, so I guess that's kinda like giving it to him....right? ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top