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Repeat after me... 'What do you want to cut? Show me and I will cut it' :pok:
The people who can use my knives can use my pistols or my toothbrush.Pistols get lent to nobody. Even friends don’t get them. A knife, yes, guns, no.
Things like this is is why.
I always love seeing knifeless folks try to chew trough blisterpacks, or use their keys to hack open some packaging.:rofl: :rofl:
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Pistols get lent to nobody. Even friends don’t get them. A knife, yes, guns, no.
There is no reason to lend your quality knife to people who don't have a knife at all. These people don't have knives because they are very sure they don't need them. So if they need one they should buy one. Or I will do the job for them with my knife, but only if I wish to.
Ive learned this lesson a few times... :(
There are people I will lend knives to, and people I won't. There's also knives I will lend, and others I won't. It's people of unknown knife sense where it gets interesting. The last two I lent a knife to, bled all over it.
In 1968 I learned a hard lesson; I haven't lent my knives since. I have gifted a few over the years.
There are people I will lend knives to, and people I won't. There's also knives I will lend, and others I won't. It's people of unknown knife sense where it gets interesting. The last two I lent a knife to, bled all over it.
:rofl: :rofl:In 1968 I learned a hard lesson; I haven't lent my knives since. I have gifted a few over the years.
What happened DE? :pok:
I was in the Navy serving aboard an aircraft carrier during a major overhaul in the shipyards, and lent my knife to a yardworker to save him a long walk to his toolbox. He returned my knife to me with a large chip out of the cutting edge; he had obviously used it as pry bar. It took many hours on the stone to get it back to shape. I'll never let that happen again.
As I mentioned before, I keep a junk knife on me for people to borrow, but I also do another thing sometimes. To give some people a hint, I will gift them a $3.88 knife from Walmart, and if they ask me to borrow my knife after that, I ask them where the knife I gave them went to. I enjoy giving my buddies who won't keep the $3.88 knife in their pocket a hard time. :rofl:
Some of the things I say to them (if I already gave them a $3.88 knife) are; "Need me to buy you another one, since you make more money than me?", "What's the matter? Did you give the knife to someone who won't carry it?", "Can't find the knife I gave you? Did you check my back, where you left it?". Etc.....
I'm probably a smurfhole for saying that stuff, but dang, I expect people to carry/use something I gave them. I don't have time to do their work by cutting stuff for them or reaching for my junk knife time after time. I am too nice about the subject and should probably learn to just say no. :ahhh
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Sounds pretty reasonable to me, especially when they clearly need it and are just being careless or lazy.
It's even worse when the knife is a lot more expensive :poh:
:cheers:Show contentSounds pretty reasonable to me, especially when they clearly need it and are just being careless or lazy.
It's even worse when the knife is a lot more expensive :poh:
It seems if you loan out a junk knife, it comes back without damage. Loan out a good knife, and inevitably, it comes back chipped, scratched, and/or messed up. :ahhh
I do not leave my knife for two reasons. The first is that I do not want to be damaged. The second is that usually the one who asks for it is the first one who mocks you because you carry a knife. With a little luck the next time he will carry his own knife.
I do not leave my knife for two reasons. The first is that I do not want to be damaged. The second is that usually the one who asks for it is the first one who mocks you because you carry a knife. With a little luck the next time he will carry his own knife.
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Most people do not seem to know how to open or close pocket knives. I just will not loan anything.
In a gimcrack & gewgaw shop a few years back There happened to be a Vic Farmer on the shelf in a locked case. I asked to see it. The shop woman was curious about what it was, and started opening up all the tools and blades. She split nails and drew blood, and could not handle the back spring on the Farmer main blade. It is very snappy. The flathead was stuck she was certain. The saw was wicked and unuseable. I gave a quick demo, especially on closing the blade. Now in the shop they just unlock the case and let me check out the knives on my own.
So many people are sure that a little slip joint is child's play.
They also tend to want your knife to scrape or to pry. Wives and mothers can be a test. And they never understand why you care about a missing knife tip, or a couple of drops of super glue on the blade.
aaah, the neverending stories of lending others your tools and knives with disastrous results... :D
I am not a veteran in life like many of you, but I've learned quickly in that regard:
If you don't have your own tool, to me you're the fool, ::)
to get hold of my pliers, you'll have to be Mike Myers, :angel:
you will never use my knife, unless you are my wife, :think:
only will you have my Vic, if I happen to be sick, :P
and you can handle my tool, if I find you kind of cool :tu:
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my Leatherman tool is not for you, if some nonsense you wanna do :ahhh
seeing you abuse my nice SOG, it truly makes all my arteries clog, :o
when you pry and beat my Gerber, I just freeze like a faulty server, :dunno:
and that my gear is highly prized, I don't think you've realised ???
My old tools are loved, to the point that I call them "honey",
if you want your own, then you'll have to spend your money :hatsoff:
:iagree:I agree with you there.
I may be too nice for loaning knives, but the fastest way to get on my 'not lending you a damn thing side', is to say an MT or knife is a "weapon." :rant:
That doesn't happen where I live now, but when I lived in NYC, I would get those 'looks' and 'gasps' when I flicked out the pinchy pliers or pulled out the SAK Explorer. >:D
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Most people do not seem to know how to open or close pocket knives. I just will not loan anything.
In a gimcrack & gewgaw shop a few years back There happened to be a Vic Farmer on the shelf in a locked case. I asked to see it. The shop woman was curious about what it was, and started opening up all the tools and blades. She split nails and drew blood, and could not handle the back spring on the Farmer main blade. It is very snappy. The flathead was stuck she was certain. The saw was wicked and unuseable. I gave a quick demo, especially on closing the blade. Now in the shop they just unlock the case and let me check out the knives on my own.
So many people are sure that a little slip joint is child's play.
They also tend to want your knife to scrape or to pry. Wives and mothers can be a test. And they never understand why you care about a missing knife tip, or a couple of drops of super glue on the blade.
I once handed my Spirit to my mother with the scissors extended to do some small cutting task, and left her in the car with it while I made a quick trip into a store. I came back to her having stabbed herself in the hand somehow while trying to close the scissors. :facepalm:
Another time my grandmother asked to use my Champion and wouldn't say what it was for. She then went to use the main blade to scrape gunk off the blades of her paper shredder. Luckily I was watching and stopped her before damage was done. She didn't agree it was an improper use for the blade and couldn't understand my negative reaction.
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Most people do not seem to know how to open or close pocket knives. I just will not loan anything.
In a gimcrack & gewgaw shop a few years back There happened to be a Vic Farmer on the shelf in a locked case. I asked to see it. The shop woman was curious about what it was, and started opening up all the tools and blades. She split nails and drew blood, and could not handle the back spring on the Farmer main blade. It is very snappy. The flathead was stuck she was certain. The saw was wicked and unuseable. I gave a quick demo, especially on closing the blade. Now in the shop they just unlock the case and let me check out the knives on my own.
So many people are sure that a little slip joint is child's play.
They also tend to want your knife to scrape or to pry. Wives and mothers can be a test. And they never understand why you care about a missing knife tip, or a couple of drops of super glue on the blade.
I once handed my Spirit to my mother with the scissors extended to do some small cutting task, and left her in the car with it while I made a quick trip into a store. I came back to her having stabbed herself in the hand somehow while trying to close the scissors. :facepalm:
Another time my grandmother asked to use my Champion and wouldn't say what it was for. She then went to use the main blade to scrape gunk off the blades of her paper shredder. Luckily I was watching and stopped her before damage was done. She didn't agree it was an improper use for the blade and couldn't understand my negative reaction.
She didn't think there could be a lock and tried to force them?