worst thing someone has done to your knife...? any horror stories?

CynicalFascist

CynicalFascist

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i had a co-worker use my perrin PPT to cut a hole in cardboard in the compactor, and proceed to smash the edge into the metal door of the compactor, chipped the whole edge off. had a different co-worker tip my slysz bowie. EEKKK! my favorite one was me and my girlfriend bought her brother a Ontario rat 1, and he proceeded to flick it open, not thumb or wrist flick it mind you, but use his whole damn arm to slam it open, getting some funny looks from the people in the restaurant. he was pretty embarassed when my girlfriend had to show him how to open it lol. what are your stories?
 
I've done worse things to my own knives than anyone else ever has. I wont lend an expensive knfe to anyone.
 
Was at work one afternoon and my coworker asked if he could use my knife for a second. Handed him my Sebenza 21 CF knifeart. He then walked out of the locker room to the pop machine and started prying his stuck quarter out of the machine. Scratched the tip up a Lil bit but mostly my nerves were the ones who took the most abuse. Never again. Mind you that was my first sebenza ever and it was practically new. Ugh.
 
Stolen them:), but that probably wasn't where you were going with this thread
So I would say dropped them-this has happened a few times. I think they are trying to be cautious, but in doing so they don't keep control.
 
Someone needs to have a damn good reason before I lend them an expensive knife. That's why I keep a cheaper knife (BM Mini Grip) in my bag. If someone needs to borrow a knife, I lend them that. The worst thing I've done myself is to lose a knife :(
 
There was a co worker i had at my first job who was a jerk off and always trying to give me a hard time. One day he asked about my knife (my first knife-spyderco harpy) and i was telling him about it, the steel, the company, etc. Then he grabbed it from me and said it was crap and started slashing at the steel table we had in front of us. Completely took the point off of course, and i lost it. I grabbed his head and kneed him in the nads then the gut til he hit the floor. Best part is the supervisor was there and he was still the only one to get in trouble for ruining the table since it was meant for food processing. And that everyone knew he was a punk anyway.
 
Since my collection consists entirely of inexpensive S&Ws, Sanrenmus and Enlans that never cost more than $15, I am generally not too concerned about any damage to the blade; 8Cr13MoV and 7Cr17 tend to require minimal effort to sharpen, and minor chips can usually be sharpened away without more than a couple hours of unskilled labor (yours truly). I only lose it when I see my knife being used in a way that it ends up damaging more than just the blade in question.

Case in point: my senior colleague was once having trouble popping off the lid of a rackmounted server and wanted to use my knife for some leverage to push the damn thing off. I don't know how he managed it, but he somehow managed to end up slipping and leaving a nice little cut on the Windows Certificate of Authenticity affixed on the server chassis' lid. If that wasn't bad enough, he later proceeded to pry the processor up from its socket with the knife's tip, and that was where I almost had a heart attack. Had he ended up accidentally bending just a single socket pin, we'd be talking about a five-digit fee for replacing the entire server board.
 
I have junkers and clunkers that I may allow others to use. If someone wants to borrow a knife of mine I ask, "What would you like for me to cut?"

When i was a very young man I used a buck 110 to baton some kindling while camping. In know .. I know!!

I broke the knife and sent it to Buck with an honest account of how i broke it and offered to pay for the repair. My grandfather gave me the knife and I didn't want to simply replace it. Buck repaired the knife and sent it back to me looking as good as new - far better than it was before I broke it. They didn't charge me a cent and I've been a loyal Buck fan ever since.

Other than that, the worse thing I have done is to allow very good and capable knives to sit in the safe without getting them out in the field.
 
from now on, coworkers get to use my little case copperlock, and i always ask what they're doing first, to see if i can do it for them, not to be a jerk, but i regally don't want my hinderer or whatever I'm carrying to get screwed up. i always tell them "you break it you buy it" now lol
 
I gave a coworker my Spyderco Paramilitary 2, I was only 18 at the time, and that was my most expensive knife. Anyways, after a few minutes with no return, I went looking for my coworker outside to see he was trying to cut through these black metal straps that were securing this commercial grade oven go a pallet outside. He told me the knife sucked and i explained to him that a knife isn't made to cut metal. Had to use carpenter pliers to get through them. And even that wasn't easy. The blade was covered in scratch edc the tip chipped, and billions of nicks in the blade.

I have replaced that pm2 since then with another and now I carry my Ontario rat 1 or kabar dozier if someone asks for my knife
 
Lost multiple switchblades and balisongs to Fresno PD over a span of years.
 
every now and again i bring in my sharpening stuff and touchup everyones knives at work, you know hit them with a coarse bench stone, then the sharp maker and a loaded strop, 10 minute quick sharp edge. well my one co-worker claimed i was wasting my time, that she has a pull through sharpener that can give her a better edge then i was putting on their knives. i wish i had a pull through like that ;) it would save me hours at the bench.
 
I had a Co Worker adopt my Chris Boye Dendridic Cobalt folder when I wasn't looking!.
I sure have missed that knife......:grumpy:
 
Got a buddy a Spyderco Dragonfly because he only had cheap junk, not a decent small EDC. I saw it a few months later and the edge was beat up pretty bad. I don't know if he tried to cut through metal staples or what. Chipped out edge. I fixed it for him and put a nice sharp edge on it. Another six months later I saw it and it was worse than after the first time. I fixed the edge damage and sharpened it again over the next couple of days (there were other things going on at the time). After that he showed me couple of other of his knives & asked if I could sharpen them for him. I made up an excuse and declined. I regret I spent $50 on a knife for him that he abuses. Lesson learned. The only knives to get for non knife knuts are Moras.
 
"sharpening" two knives by rubbing them edge to edge because that's what she saw on movies.

Thankfully no major damage.
 
Showed a close friend a "Safe Queen" Knife and when I turned for a second I caught them cutting something with it :D
 
Charlie Mike said:
Lost multiple switchblades and balisongs to Fresno PD over a span of years.
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Uh.... what? lol. Sounds like a a personal war with the local fuzz, haha.

I had a Benchmade Emerson War model. My first expensive knife! I bought it at a gunshow and I thought I was nuts for paying $95.00 for the thing. Anyway, my co-worker taught me a lesson about loaning out knives.

We were working in a building and he asks to borrow my knife for a second. He came back five minutes later, hands me my open knife that is caked with drywall / sheetrock. He used my new knife to cut a thermostat hole. Took ten minutes in a sink to get the crap off of my knife. He was laughing about it all day.

I was carrying my DPX Hest a few months ago, and sold a guy a pair of iron cylinder heads at a jobsite. They were a little rusty and he wants to check between valve seats for cracks and asked me if I had a knife. I said "For what?". He says" I need to scrape this spot to check for a crack". I said" Not with my knife , you can use yours!". Jackass goes and rummages in his truck . Pulls out some junk folder and starts scratching around with it.

I do not hand my knife to anybody unless I know EXACTLY what is about to happen. Then, they will drop it on the tip for you.
 
The worst thing someone else did with one of my knives is drop it, the worst thing I've done is loose them 2 of them actually. The one wasn't all that expensive it was my beater knife for work I dropped it than we poured an 8inch concrete floor over it, the second was a ZT 350 I think not terribly expensive but at the time it was my pride and joy lol lost it on walk along the shore by my parents.
 
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