Canadian Soldier,

Glad to hear the situation ended OK for both you, your friend and your seal pup.

I have a brief very off-topic question for you; what is the machine seen in your avatar, it looks like a tank with space ship on top?

Thanks,

Mike

True, I don't mind touching up an edge for a fellow once in a while, but it gets old really fast when you are doing it constantly for the same people. Usually when I offer to show someone how to do it they usually turn me down. They probably know how to do it just fine but would rather watch me do it. LOL Maybe I am the dumb one. Along with a knife I always carry a sharpener. Therein may lie my problem, as I should keep that a secret. As for kitchen knives, they are a bird of a different colour. I enjoy sharpening them for other people because they usually use them to cook me something tasty right after.

It is an Armoured bridge layer that I drove during my time With the combat Engineers. Actually a modified leopard 1 MBT with the turret removed. The space ship above is actually the same as the bridge that I am driving over, in its launched state.

CS,

Very cool!

SD

I laughed at the "it's sharp" warnings. I keep my EDC knife sharp enough that OTHER folks who know me warn folks "Be careful, it's REALLY sharp" if I hand someone a knife.

Instead of loaning knives I just give them out at Christmas to people who need them.

Heh, problem (mostly) solved.

Good idea cedfire,

I think giving a gift of a knife can creat a bond between people, on hunting trips I still carry the custom made drop point knife that my lifetime hunting partner gave me for Christmas in 1981, I have many other knives but none with the sentiment of this one.

As a youth I was told by my mother that when you give a person a knife as a gift you were to also give them a silver coin "so as to not cut the friendship between you", has anyone else ever heard of this custom?

Mike

Yea, I've heard something similar. Superstition says you're not supposed to give someone a knife, as that is symbolic of cutting the friendship. Instead, they're supposed to trade you for it (buy it from you). Usually the trade/price is a coin (like a penny, quarter, silver dollar, ect).

Interesting,

So I had the custom backwards, the reciever of the knife is to give (trade) the gifter the coin to maintain the friendship.

Thanks,

Mike

Yea, that's how I've heard it anyway.