Wrong side of the knife!

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Did you ever have one of your friends look at your knife and try to but it in the sheath backwards?

Its simple, orient the knife to match the shape of the sheath! You did this excersie in kindergrden!

This has happened to me a couple of times that I remember.

Here's what sparked the memory...

Last night my mother was over and was using one of our kitchen knives, complaining that it wouldn't cut...Mom, turn the knife around! She was holding a sheeps foot shaped knife with the sharp edge up.

Happy Holidays,
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Oh ya, I've had that happen to! How do you close this thing?.....Press the lock on the back!

Some people just make you laugh!

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as long as they dont hold the knife blade side.. everything else is just details lol :)
 
A friend of mine put my Gerber in its ballistic nylon sheath the wrong way so now the bottom isn't shaped as nice and snug. Nothing major, glad it was just the free nylon one and not a leather one.
 
I just love the people who can't figure out linerlocks. How hard is it to figure out that something is in the path of the blade, so you need to move it first!?
 
here in Poland we believe that a first encounter with a liner lock is a great IQ test. the faster someone disengages the lock the smarter he is :) . im not sure if the test is just because women tend to deactivate it significantly slower due to the lack of technical imagination or something... they just don`t use gizmos intuitively. anyway one of my frinds (a girl) failed to figure out the lock within 10 minutes, and she`s not that stupid...
 
It's an ugly thing when someone puts a fixed blade knife back in a leather sheath backwards. I believe things like this are a part of the reason Gary Graley doesnt make fixed blade sheaths.
 
Not quite as bad as turning on the burner on a gas stove on High to boil 1 cup of water and not making sure the burner actually lit. Then walking away to watch TV for 10 minutes. My 18 year old little brother did this. Then I turned it off and called him in to smell the kitchen. What does he immediately try to do? He tries to turn it on correctly, with the kitchen smelling of gas. I should have just gone to the next room to grab the fire extinguisher and let him learn the hard way.

Sorry for hijacking the "People are Stupid with Knives" thread into a "People are Stupid" thread. I've had plenty of those run-ins with knives, too.

I think one of the problems of people not figuring out liner locks (and it is a good mechanical-IQ test) is that they don't see it, so it's not as obvious. I've seen several people figure out AXIS locks easily, though. Even my dad... right after borrowing it to cut through some packing tape with the edge angled toward the adhesive side of the tape, making it cut like it was dull when I got it back.

Then there's my other brother, 20, who opened his liner lock while using it open gifts, but kept setting it back on his lap in the open position. Sorry, but I'm not setting any sharp objects near my family jewels, thank you.

I must educate these people.
 
Sad to confess...
In my first encounter with linerlock, I haven't noticed it (it was my first encounter with lockable folder).
Then I tried to move the liner in wrong direction.
Third attempt was sucessful.
Hope this is not bad result...
BTW, Spyderco front lock was "hacked" after first attempt.
 
What about the poor misguided ones who try to force the blade closed when they can't figure out the linerlock mechanism? :eek: Friggin monkeys! :rolleyes:

Maybe the next time I borrow their pen I'll try to retract it by slamming the tip into the table. :p

- Mark
 
what about people trying to force the blade closed and in the same moment accidently disactivating the lock :D
 
Originally posted by Mark J
What about the poor misguided ones who try to force the blade closed when they can't figure out the linerlock mechanism? :eek: Friggin monkeys! :rolleyes:

Maybe the next time I borrow their pen I'll try to retract it by slamming the tip into the table. :p

- Mark
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Back when I was in the service, I had to lend out a very expensive and sophisticated (at the time) secure mobile telephone unit to another command. It came in a heavy duty briefcase setup and the handset locked into a cradle in there. There was a quite noticeable button release on that cradle. But some Naval rocket scientist couldn't solve the tricky mechanism and figured that pulling as hard as you could until you broke it loose was the way to handle that (probably $10,000+) device. :D
 
Originally posted by narcyz
here in Poland we believe that a first encounter with a liner lock is a great IQ test. the faster someone disengages the lock the smarter he is :) . im not sure if the test is just because women tend to deactivate it significantly slower due to the lack of technical imagination or something... they just don`t use gizmos intuitively. anyway one of my frinds (a girl) failed to figure out the lock within 10 minutes, and she`s not that stupid...
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I think it's got less to do with gender and more to do with familiarity with knives to begin with. My father couldn't figure out my framelock the first time he handled it and this is a man who can put a computer together from spare parts, fix cars, refrigerators, you name it. He's into guns. Knives confuse him. :D
 
THAT is natural selection!
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I think it's got less to do with gender and more to do with familiarity with knives to begin with. My father couldn't figure out my framelock the first time he handled it and this is a man who can put a computer together from spare parts, fix cars, refrigerators, you name it. He's into guns. Knives confuse him.
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oh yeah? so what was your time with the lock? ;)
 
at christmas, i handed my dad my bm730bt to open a box with.
he couldn't even figure out how to open it!

it's not like he's a stupid guy or anything, he's really one of the most versatile and intellegent people i've met, and it isn't like he's a non-mechanical guy, he can do everything from pluming to wiring to carpentry to landscaping...he just couldn't figure out how to open a folder! :p
 
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