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Worst thing that happened to a good knife
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Bigfattyt
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Couple of different things.
Had a boot dagger with nice rosewood handles. Went missing. About 2 years later, my brother finds it in his friends car, minus 2 inches of tip, and with a broken handle. Looked like he had used it for mixing white epoxy.
Brother asked hey, can I use that knife (different knife).......handed it back, oops, minus 1/2 inch of the tip. Tried to use it to pry some part off the vacuum.
Another knife, bought it a few days before. A co worker asked to use it. I handed it to her. She handed it back a few minutes later. The edge looked like a ghetto serrated edge, and all the finish was scratched off. She had used it to open a bunch of silicone carbide sandblasting media bags. It was very large sized grit. Only thing in the world that was is harder is diamond (which is what we used it to blast clean.......diamond drill bits with a carbide substrate).
Really funny one (not my knife thankfully) was a large cutco butcher knife. My father in law tried to chop a ham bone in half. He was shocked that it put a massive roll/dent in the edge. He said "I thought they said these were the strongest knives in the world" to which I replied....."they market them as the "SHARPEST" knives in the world. They never say anything about how strong they are."
It took me hours to try and fix it, but there is still a ding in the edge that will literally take years with normal use to sharpen out unless you have a extra coarse diamond stone.
Had a boot dagger with nice rosewood handles. Went missing. About 2 years later, my brother finds it in his friends car, minus 2 inches of tip, and with a broken handle. Looked like he had used it for mixing white epoxy.
Brother asked hey, can I use that knife (different knife).......handed it back, oops, minus 1/2 inch of the tip. Tried to use it to pry some part off the vacuum.
Another knife, bought it a few days before. A co worker asked to use it. I handed it to her. She handed it back a few minutes later. The edge looked like a ghetto serrated edge, and all the finish was scratched off. She had used it to open a bunch of silicone carbide sandblasting media bags. It was very large sized grit. Only thing in the world that was is harder is diamond (which is what we used it to blast clean.......diamond drill bits with a carbide substrate).
Really funny one (not my knife thankfully) was a large cutco butcher knife. My father in law tried to chop a ham bone in half. He was shocked that it put a massive roll/dent in the edge. He said "I thought they said these were the strongest knives in the world" to which I replied....."they market them as the "SHARPEST" knives in the world. They never say anything about how strong they are."
It took me hours to try and fix it, but there is still a ding in the edge that will literally take years with normal use to sharpen out unless you have a extra coarse diamond stone.
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Insomniac1122
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lost a couple..
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I can't agree more. I've had more than one knife damaged by giving in to "let me borrow your knife a second". I've have a Remington Bullet knife blade arced out on a car battery but I think the worst was when I stupidly handed a co-worker my Sebenza and he chipped the blade. I know... I know... I've learned my lesson!
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make the dope pay for it, i would if i chipped your sebenza.... and id half serious half joking ask for the chipped one hahaha
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Losing a knife is definitely the pits for me :thumbdn:
I'd rather break a knife than lose one (provided no injuries were involved in the breaking
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I'd rather break a knife than lose one (provided no injuries were involved in the breaking
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At the time I thought they were "good" knives, but I destroyed several 1950 era hardware store fixed blades when I was a kid by constantly throwing them. Eventually killed the big Mulberry tree in my parent's back yard, too.
To my dad's credit, he understood being a boy, and never complained when I badly pockmarked the outhouse door by throwing knives at it. Of course, I never threw at it when he was in it.
To my dad's credit, he understood being a boy, and never complained when I badly pockmarked the outhouse door by throwing knives at it. Of course, I never threw at it when he was in it.
I bought a knife, Automatic, looks like on of the Cold steel knives.
Had it for about a week (it was the biggest one I could find, for 25 bucks at a flea market) bought it off a biker (will always remember) Steel Dragon M.C. lost the knife in 2 weeks somewhere in my house....
no idea what happened to it. Wish I knew where it was.
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At the time I thought they were "good" knives, but I destroyed several 1950 era hardware store fixed blades when I was a kid by constantly throwing them. Eventually killed the big Mulberry tree in my parent's back yard, too.
To my dad's credit, he understood being a boy, and never complained when I badly pockmarked the outhouse door by throwing knives at it. Of course, I never threw at it when he was in it.
Best thing I have read today!
I can relate to this.
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