your worst\best knife experience

worst;dropping my cqc-8 whici i edc'd for 4 years in the parking lot for some teenager too find.
being about seven and cutting a perfect circle off of the tip of my thumb when butchering moose meat at the table.
best;when i learned how too put an edge on my buck vangaurd, that was my 14th b-day present from my dad. i even remember that is was on his old oil stone.
 
Best Experience: relatively recent--my brother and his gf (my best friend) got me a Busse BWM for xmas..super awesome knife and is really special to me.

Worst: Honestly can't really think of any, knives have always been good to me:)
 
After a Dentist appointment I went to start up my pick up and nothing, dead battery. This was pre cell phone (the wife and kids had ones but I refused because it's just an other way for the wife to keep tabs on me) and I hate to ask for help anyway (I just hate feeling beholden) The terminals were on really tight (guess who makes sure they are) but I got out my super Tinker and my Leatherman and managed to loosen the bolts. If only I could say the 8 mile roundtrip walk carrying a battery was as easy.
 
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...I think the best for me is finding out some of the knives I bought at the BX while in the ANG in the 90's were such a good deal.

Worse, probably not being able to find my Spyderco (that I loved) and coming to the conclusion it was in my bike bag of my stolen - never ridden bike that was stolen by some dirt-bag from my storage area under my deck nearly two years ago. Very costly as I F...cked up and left the door unlocked. Cost me a $600 bike, knife $50, Air compressor $350, and a saw $100. Figures it was a cold night in May so my windows were closed, dogs didn't hear it and they are lucky as they may have ended up full of holes.

I'm actually glad I didn't hear them. It's just stuff, and as much as people are dirt-bags, I really don't want to take out anyone over stuff. Threaten me or my family, well, now that's entirely different :)
 
The Best: using my pocket knife to fix a radiator hose on a friends car so we could back on the road. It was a SAK tinker. The screwdriver loosened the hose clamp and the blade cut off the damaged end of the hose.
The worst: having a sheeple supervisor at my office pitch a hissy fit(he is a self described metrosexual) because I left some knife magazines in the lobby area for our clients to enjoy while waiting. You would have thought I left loaded guns and drugs in lobby the way he got his panties in a bunch.
 
I bought one of Salem Straub's great knives. We spoke several times before he shipped the knife. We were working out the details of the sheath. He built the sheath exactly as I asked. Plus he included a hand written letter thanking me for my purchase. And outlining his lifetime warranty.

I will buy from this nice young knifemaker again.
 
Worst: I was checking out the fully serrated folder in my wifes EMT kit when one of my Marine friends jumped on me grabbed my hand with the knife in it and pretended (very convincingly) that he was going to stab me in the eye with it. As I was trying to push him off with my left hand he suddenly let go and jumped off and I slashed the knife accross the back of my had with full force. I severed four tendons, the radial nerve, radial artery, a big vein and the blade went between two bones in my thumb opening the joint. As the blood sprayed accross the room he grabbed and squeezed my wrist to slow the bleeding and my wife drove me to the hospital (luckily as an ambulance driver she knew the quickest way. After four hours of sergury, a month in a cast and three months of physical therapy I was pretty much back to normal except for no feeling in the back of my hand and a fused joint in my thumb. He felt real bad about what he did but that didn't stop me from punching him in the face twice as hard as I could!

Best: Every knife experience where that didn't happen!
 
The back of my hand feels like I'm always wearing a rubber glove. Sort of numb all the time. I have less range of motion because the middle of the three thumb joints doesn't work. And it aches constantly when my hands are cold. I also have a giant masty scar accross my hand that people always ask about. It really freaks out the non knife types.
 
best: marrying a woman who know only isn't weirded out by my collection, but encourages me to add to it.

worst: three way tie between being forced to sell a knife I love occasionally, realizing how much money I spent on low quality knives, and forgetting not to read prac tac.
 
best: My uncle buying me this for my 10th birthday.

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worst: Cutting my thumb to the bone. Yeowch!
 
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