Worst thing that happened to a good knife

I remember reading one of Ray Mears survival books and in the knife chapter he states "Never lend your knife."
That's the first thing I think whenever anyone asks to borrow my knife. In fact whenever anyone asks to borrow my knife or flashlight or multi-tool I always tell them I don't have one on me.
 
I'm still bitter over this...

Catching small sharks in the Gulf when i leaned over the boat to help pull in a little guy. Out slides my Benchmade 710 and my Ray Ban sunglasses from my shirt pocket into the deep blue sea like a bad scene from Titanic. My first instinct was dive in but I lost any opportunity with indecision looking at my 710, sunglasses, shark...

Staying in the boat was probably the right decision.
 
Dorito Monk said:
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 :p)
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my sentiments exactly..

lost an al mar sere 2000 yesterday..

FIRST knife I ever lost since a 3 dollar one years and years ago..

it is seriously the worst feeling ever..
 
Somebody said that they where cursed when it came to Spyderco knives. I think it is the same with me.

Many years ago, I got a small Delica from my father. I lost that one in a river while I was traversing, hanging underneath a rope.

The second Spyderco I lost, was a Police. Lost while drunk. Tought me a lesson, that one did.

The third Spyderco was a Cricket. This was lost at work on an oil rig. I left it in my overalls while having lunch. When I came back, the cleaning personell had mistaken it for dirty laundry, and removed it. I never found the knife again.

And now I am looking seriously at a PM2. Hopefully the curse has ended:-)
 
This is a little off-topic, but I spend WAY too much time thinking about not damaging or losing my knives. I'm trying to be less sensitive to it, but I always think twice b/f using my knife to cut something. And if I'm doing something overly physical or in a wet/sandy/dirty environment, I will plan on bringing a knife I don't mind losing or damaging.
 
my absolute worst top 3 going to the worst:

3. I dropped my new spyderco paramilitary after carrying it for about a day on the tile floor. The tip broke. I was able to repair.


2. I stabbed a teletubbies music thing from my kids to death with my chris reeve umnumzaan. The tip was bent. I was able to repair. thanks Chris for low HRc. (pictures in a thread somewhere, search teletubbies ;))
OH OOOHHHHHH... :D
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1. Total sacrilege my girlfriend used my leatherman charge TTI s30V blade as a screwdriver on our holiday last year... I was able to repair the chips in the belly/point :)


not too bad I guess :)
 
I lost an expensive knife - that was the worst, but frankly also my fault (aside from the douche who took it). Last week I loaned a coworker my ceramic knife I was carrying that day, which was very risky now that I look back at it. She thankfully used it to cut some bread, but man, when the blade came to rest on the counter after making it though the bread, I could almost hear the chips being put into the blade. Lucky me, she wasn't pushing too hard and nothing happened. No more loaning ceramic knives for me; it's too stressful!

- Mark
 
I've lost a few knives, one of which was an Umnumzaan a little bit ago... Losing it, and then thinking of the possibilities of what happened to it made me feel nauseous and it would always pop in my head. Yesteday I ordered a Startac Umnumzaan(been procrastinating on this for quite a while), and today me and my wife are cleaning the house when she pulls it out of the couch asking me if this is the knife I've been bummed out about losing. One of the greatest feelings ever :D
 
Yup, best way to find a lost one is order a new one....

My worst that I learned much on, is not to big a deal now, but looking back, it sure was at the time.

I had a Gerber EZ-Out, that I had put a nice hand sharpened edge on, which was not easy at the time. We were demoing a basement at an old house for the church and a friend asked for my knife. I was proud to let him borrow it as he did not know much about knives, and having a freshly sharpened edge, would surely be impressed. Well yeah, I learned real quick how that works.

After about 13 seconds, I heard him say "this in't real sharp, ya got any more?" He was cutting a ribbon off of a cast iron sewer pipe, edge first, sawing at it.

Nevermore.
 
I dropped it....while pouring a hug concrete floor... and didnt realize until i got home and that floor was as hard as a rock.
 
I had a new Whustof Chef knife, took it to work. My boss grabs my knife to chop open a coconut, my edge is now wavy as hell. Luckily, the owner just gave me the cash to get another.

I have a hard time hearing how stupid people can be, and some are seemingly educated and intelligent otherwise. Stabing someone's knife into the ground, cutting on a brick? I gotta wonder what their own knives look like, if they didn't just get used and thrown away.
 
My cusin who usually has a knife on him and who I thought had a grasp on the proper knifw use asks for my knife. So without thinking twice I whip out my brand new just arriv ed the day befor leatherman charge tti. I look up and he has the blade out prying open a drawer I snatched that sucker back real quick
 
I've been carrying a knife, almost perpetually (see below) since age 7 (over 30 years now.) I have a few.

Found a Gerber folder in the gutter while on my paper route MANY years ago - bad for the previous owner. Lost it myself, somewhere, sometime several years ago.

Had a SAK classic confiscated at the airport leaving SFO shortly after 9-11. Bad.
Several years later, had another one confiscated leaving Maui, on my way back home. Very Bad. Didn't carry anything for 3 years because I was sick of them getting taken.

Now I carry a "Blem" Kershaw Shallot. I've been practicing my sharpening skills, and had a decent (shaving, paper slicing) edge on it. Was preparing the 2500-grit final pass, and dropped it on the concrete garage floor. Big chips between the tip and belly. An hour later, it was completely reprofiled and nearly as sharp. (I don't have a grinder - just water stones and sandpaper/mouse pad.)

A week later, the dog escaped through the rotted-out plywood man-door in my garage door. Trying to clean it up to install a patch, I pulled out the trusty Shallot. Started out well enough, but when I was done the edge was completely rolled over. Reprofiled yet again. It won't shave, but still slices my tomatoes. Looks pleasantly "well used."

Will I ever learn? Nope - I just learned to call the Shallot my Beater Blade, and reserve my Spydies, Benchmades, and Scrapyard for their intended purposes. I don't carry one of the nice ones without the Shallot handy, because I am unwilling (and can't afford) to create a second beater...
 
This may not be that bad but i freaked out when it happend.
I had just goten a brand new delica 4 that day and had it cliped to my pocket and walked by my couch and i cought the pocket clip on the seem it bent the clip at a 50 degree angle from the handle. Then the next day I got my other delica 4 ffg in and i had no problems for about an hour but i was sitting in my chair and it fell out of my pocket. i picked it up and the pocket clip on that one was mangled also. To this day I have to freaking idea what happend to it.
Heres an idea to poeple that have a problem loaning knives: carry a beater with you to loan out. thats what i do
 
Friend at work (years ago) asked to borrow my knife - and he began to use it as a hammer (closed) to bang in one of the metal clips holding the plexiglass cover over a flourescent ceiling fixture.

It was a Vic Trekker - chewed up the scale material at the end he was using - never make that mistake again.

I carry a Vic Climber on me at all times and that is the one I lend out if need be. I can stand to replace that one.
 
I lost a Kershaw leek fully black play edge...

was brand new from my b-day.. (on a snowboarding trip).. =(
 
canadiantrailman said:
Never lost a knife but way back when, I didn't have a clue how to sharpen knives and I put some nasty scratches in one of my SAKs. I can't stand the look of it now but it still works great. Come to think of it, I should strop it with some polishing compound to try and get them out.
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Same thing here, but with several different knives.
 
True story: the old man and I were out fishing in a small boat and it got kinda slow for a while. He sets his pole down and gets out his pocketknife -- might have been a Schrade cattleman type -- to trim his fingernail. When he's done, he puts the fingernail in his pocket and tosses the knife overboard. The look on his face as he saw it settle into the deep -- I'll never forget it. He handled it pretty well.
 
I had an original Gerber Paul knife that I had EDCed forever. I was in PA on business and got stopped and hassled at the front door of a bar. I took the knife back to the rental car and tossed it in the glove box. The next time I thought about it, I was back in CA. :mad:
 
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