And this is why you can't have nice things

I will not lend a knife. I might or not do the task for you.
But no, you are a grown butt man, why don't you have knife on you? And what kind of feral upbringing did you have not to know better than to do that to knife.

Lots of things I wont loan. Guns, knives, cameras, binoculars just to name a few

I have a better class of friends than you guys. I'll lend anything to any of them, get it back in the same or better condition than when it went out. For example, loaned chainsaw on a stick to a friend. Came back with sharp chain and a new chain.

Somebody hand me back a knife looking like that they wouldn’t be my friend for long.

Honestly a Civivi Elementum is exactly the kind of knife that I would loan out if for some reason I lost my mind and started lending knives to people likely to abuse them. I keep a few <$75 folders around to give away if I think a person needs a decent knife but wouldn't know the difference between an Ontario RAT 2 and a CRK Sebenza.

Some people place no value on anything and of course will not therefore spend the money to get anything nice. They have never had anything nice therefore and treat everything like their usual junk including your nice knife which they place no value on. Which is why they are never likely to have anything, neither a knife or the money, to purchase their own. Who does not have a knife such that they need to borrow one?

This sort of situation works both ways. IF you borrow something, and wreck it, just replace it. I always help somebody out, if I borrow an item, because I want to be able to use it, the next time, and I wouldn't dream of handing a knife back to somebody, like that.

I have my own EDC knife, but we borrow out tractors, dump-trailers, track hoes, chain-saws, diskers, bush-hawgs and the like. But whoever breaks it fixes it.

Dibbs said:

But whoever breaks it fixes it.

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He did fix it, I think that is the problem . In his mind, it is perfectly good to go and heck, he even sharpened it up for the OP, cannot beat that with a stick!

"That's a pretty ugly knife you now own. Now, where's my new one?"

that might explain why the used Benchmade I just bought got re-profiled.

rust collector said:

If they need to borrow a knife, they are not likely to understand how knives work and are likely to abuse. I do have some low quality knives I will usually give to someone in need rather than lend and expect it back. Most of us started with low quality knives, and graduated after we learned the hard way.

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I never heard of lending and borrowing knives, before this. When a worker or somebody really needs a knife, at the spur of the moment, I give them a 10 dollar POS. This saves me 150$ worth of aggravation, up front. But who just goes around borrowing other folks knives, all the time?

I see something like that.... I figure a fella needs a random piss-test.

Looks like *tweaker* leavings to me.

Todd.

If someone is borrowing a knife from me, they are getting one I spent less than $4 on. That rule includes the wife. If they don't like it, then they can get their own knife.

So nice that he sharpened it for you.

I loaned a knife to a guy once. He broke the tip trying to replace a battery in a wrist watch.

Lesson learned. Not happening again

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SumDude loaned his knife and his buddy tried to fix it after chipping the edge.

Tell me again why I won't loan knives to knuckleheads?

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He must like recurves better?

bikerdoc said:

I will not lend a knife. I might or not do the task for you.
But no, you are a grown butt man, why don't you have knife on you? And what kind of feral upbringing did you have not to know better than to do that to knife.

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..... Feral upbringing... that made me chuckle. You're a kind man.

A sane friend would immediately purchase a brand new replacement and return both the ruined knife and the new one. If it is a knife that also has sentimental value to owner...then a new replacement, the ruined one, and a really generous gift certificate to a top local restaurant.

wow. That's downright abusive. I can't understand that kind of "I can fix this" mentality. A man's GOT to know his limitations.

Holy crap. Got me curious on what he used to try to "fix" it. And exactly what was he using the knife for in the first place, to cause such damage.

Blue Jays said:

A sane friend would immediately purchase a brand new replacement and return both the ruined knife and the new one.

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I'm not sure that guy would still be considered a friend... A good friend never messes with a man's knives, guns, bike or woman.

I wouldn’t loan a knife to anyone who doesn’t have the good sense to have his own knife in the first place

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I wouldn’t loan a knife to anyone who doesn’t have the good sense to have his own knife in the first place

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Yep, that says it all.

I cannot grasp the situation in which someone borrows a knife?
Every man should own and have on him his personal knife whenever he leaves his residence. I'm pretty easy going when some needs to borrow something, but a knife? NO........go get your own!