One Of The Worst Things That Can Happen As A YouTube Knife Reviewer... (True Story) - TKG 188
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- A story about an incident with a viewer's knife a few years back.
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@@bulldogsv2 look in my description bud
You've always treated my knives well. I think over the years it has been over 20. I've always appreciated that.
I live with this every day of my life as a detailer. People give me the keys to six figure cars and say see you in a few days. Many years ago, I would be so nervous with some cars, I would literally sleep at the shop until it left. I’ve gotten over that over the years, but it’s a different kind of stress when something rare and loved and owned by someone other than you is in your care.
People of honor and integrity (I like to count myself among them) have trouble with things not going as they intended, and it DOES eat at them. You're a good man Charlie Brown. Thanks for sharing
Great video MC. Everyone who has ever borrowed anything and damaged it in one way or another can relate. Some people live their lives never borrowing for this very reason.
I sent my knives to the apostle P, at the time he was selling knives for people and doing work on others, I had both knives for sale and work for him in the package. So what he did not sell and the knives he worked on got sent back to me. When I got the box it was open and there wasn’t a knife in it. I called him to let him know what had happened and he called me a liar. Watch who you deal with in the knife world. He lost all of his godliness when I told him what happened, he went from Apostle to sailor. Last time I ever dealt with him, just a warning y’all.
Happens all the time it’s most usually someone at the post doing it.
Wow ,,,, I recently bought a Spartan Pallas from him and it was sent in a small priority box. All good right? Ehhhh not so much!! Those usps priority boxes need tape around them to secure them from opening up from just handling, not to mention detouring would be thieves.
Feedback is key though, communication with each other should help prevent situations like this.
Sorry about your knife, that's B.S that he called you a liar. I do not trust the postal service at all, when ever I buy a knife I'll just pay a little extra to have it sent UPS or Fed Ex and luckily have never had an issue
People who blast their Christianity with a megaphone immediately rub me the wrong way. It's like they're compensating for the fact that they're assholes
@@chiefelephanttuskbong8081 good call. I was just buying insurance through USPS. Then I found out they don't like actually paying out claims.
I'm currently listening to this while digging through the underside of my recliner trying to find a zirc haptic coin 😂
what coin? fellow zirc haptic nerd just wondering if there is something new I want.
My wife lost a heretic manticore s I got her for our anniversary. She felt so bad already I didn't want 2 make it worse.. don't know how, but we were never able 2 find it.
@@michaelbristow5224 nothing new or exciting, it's actually a slider. Just the zirc shield slider from big white EDC. Don't know much about them this is my first one. But not bad for 70 bucks
It’s funny because I wear a zirc wedding band with wood liner. I feel like this ring looks even better after seeing so much wear and tear. But that’s a ring, not a show piece. I’m in metal fan so it makes contact with steel and aluminum constantly. It also sees a lot of wear and tear from the bars at the gym.
Take away MC: you never lose, you can either succeed or you learn. Mistakes are sometimes a going to happen b probably necessary to grow and evolve.
Great story - always great to hear there are more conscientious people out there! I had a little old lady run over my motorcycle (my ONLY means of transportation at the time) while I was inside a store late one evening. When I came outside, and was freaking out at the sight of it on its side, broken case cover leaking oil (etc.) - I saw a tiny slip of paper under my fuel filler key-flap - it was a note, with her number. I called her and she said she went in the store trying to find me, and felt awful that she didn't and had to leave. She paid for all the damages and then some!
Been watching for a few years now. Our tastes have diverged greatly since back then and I don't really relate much anymore. Timascus and chonkers aren't for me. But I still love this series. They are always fun and relatable in some way. The knife journey is wild. Lol🤷 Keep having fun Complex!
Happy new year MC thanks for the amazing content and we appreciate last years. 2023 will be a great year!
I can relate to you and the feeling you got after you noticed what happened. This chapter was very entertaining! 👍
I can only imagine that moment of realization on the couch 😆 just thinking about it turned my stomach. I hope that guy or his friend (the subscriber) are currently watching.
I'm a furniture repair technician for 30 years and I've done that with my own knife it got caught in the mechanism and I closed the mechanism not only messing up my knife but bent the mechanism and had to change the mech
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and totally understood where you came from. Sharing this shows that you both have flaws and don't run from your responsibilities. Much respect as always 🙏
Guilt is a sign that you care. Sucks to feel, but glad your integrity makes you feel it. 👍
I love these story time videos. I try to not miss them when they come out. I think most of us have been in this same situation with our own knives
Happy new Year. Review some of the new Condor stuff. I fell in love with their machete and camping knives this year!
Oh man, that story made me cringe lol! I had the exact same couch that your talking about, and the metal guts in that couch are horrific to the human hand! I dropped my remote in the same place as your describing, and it took me FOREVER to get the remote back, and cuts all over my hand! I feel your pain! Thanks for sharing your story :) have a great new year MC and family!!!
Hey MC i posted a comment on your last video you may be interested in if you hadn't seen it. The Blade Forems thing just reminded me. Great video i had a similar instance happen to me a few years ago. I felt terrible and it was a custom that i couldn't fix or buy him another. So i politely asked him what his dream knife was and then spent the next three days on the phone trying to locate one. $3000 and a plane ticket later i had the knife he dreamed about but i still felt terrible for dropping his custom. It's been probably 6 or 7 years ago now and to this day i still apologize to him everytime i see him. Lol
Friend met me at his apartment parking lot to show off his new knife. handed me his brand new ProTech Mordax in the box. He must have handed it to me upside down, it was already out of the pouch. I opened the box. The knife jumped out (thanks gravity!) and straight onto the asphalt. Dings and dents aplenty. 20 minutes later I was the proud owner of an effed up mordax at full retail price.
I find the the funny voices to be absolutely hilarious and spot in the context in which you use them , you could easily be a simpsons character
That sounds awful! I’d be mortified! It sucks when I scratch up my own blades or scales etc but damaging someone else’s knife would make me feel soooooo bad
A true horror story, thank you for warning against putting my knives on the arm of my chair! :P
You know what the other one is that drives me nuts...on BF or Knifeswap when someone is flipping their knife in a video...while standing OVER THEIR PET.
I've seen how that can go. It's ugly.
yeah that's not a good idea, I typically try to use gun range rules while flipping don't do it near anything you're not willing to lose.
@@icesuzerain4179 good idea i do the same
Oh my goodness! AVGN and Metal Complex. Two seemingly separate circles of my world just collided and became a Venn diagram.
I can imagine the creeping sense of dread. Damaging someone else's stuff sucks. Damaging something more or less irreplaceable... I'd have been a mess.
That moment when reality sets in and you sit there in stunned silence. Been there.
“What do we do with knives we love; we take them to the couch, right?” *Watching this while playing with the M3 Tactical Tech MR1 I just received* 😂
Do hope whom ever this gentleman is sees this an contacts u putting ur mind at ease. But fully can understand the worry and stress something like this can cause. Unfortunately not many in todays world believe in respect and honor to those around u and ur word is actually good for something. It’s a sign of maturity and growth to be how u are rt now upset on this story. I don’t know u personally but from what have seen in the knife community that I only watch thru but no one has had a bad word to say about you and it def seems with as many videos u put out a lot of people trust you with their many hundred to thousands of dollars worth of stuff. As they say don’t go off what people tell you but what they show u and it obvious that u have shown u are trust worthy. So like say hopefully that sees this video and puts ur mind at ease that all is truly good and he didn’t feel that way or if he did think that way u we’re trying to get one on him that things can no be hashed.
No matter how hard we try to do the rt things or be the best we can unfortunately one can not. We all make mistakes and screw up time to time. It’s how u handle that adversity in life that makes u a better person or worse as time goes on.
Richard that really is a rough one. I understand what you mean about it haunting you for years after. I had a similar issue with 2 of Lou’s (Long Island Knife Guy) Chavez’s. I was in a hurry to ship them back because he had sold them while I had them. He had been waiting for days and I was tied up with work and couldn’t make it to the PO 3 days in a row before they closed. 4th attempt, I made it literally Right As the lady was walking to lock the door. She allowed me in and asked me to please make it fast because she had to pick up her daughter. So I hurriedly packaged them up and slip them into the small priority box. I was gifting him a couple of hanks as well and so I put them in as well and off they went ……..😮. I was relatively new to the knife shipping world at the time (4-5 years ago) and I didn’t think about how violent they are to these packages. Well when the knives arrived I got a less than enthusiastic call from my buddy Lou telling me that the knives had slipped out of my crappy packaging job and the thumb stud on one knife had severely damaged the ano on the frame of the other. I was mortified 🤦🏼♂️ I felt like such an idiot. I told him I would do anything he wanted to fix the issue and save our friendship. I will buy them both for whatever your number is. I will pay to have them repaired. Anything. He opted to send them off to be polished and a new anodizing done. I paid to have it done and everyone was happy. We are still buddy’s , I learned my lesson and now Lou and I have a story to tell at the dinner table at Blade Show every year. Lol. Which we do.
Happy new year MC!
I tagged you in an insta reel.
I got a F3NS for table.
Thats always a terrifying experience, my buddy and I swap knives all the time and I'm terrified of marking or chipping one of his blades at work. Even when he tells me they're users
I bought my first new car in 2020. I was polishing the rims with qtips and keeping it pristine. I was in a parking lot like you said in your video, and someone backed in to me and took off like you said. I've never felt the need to find someone and do physical harm before in my life!
That sucks!!! I’m not a car guy and my car basically just gets me from a to b but it still sucks when ppl do that type of stuff. Someone keyed it a while back, then someone backed into the rear door while trying to illegally park on the grass verge next to where we were parked and just drove off. And then most recently some asshole stole the front wheel and left the car propped up on a big rock/boulder thing…. But yeah at least my car isn’t something I ever treasured like yours
A few years ago when I got my truck (2001 ram) within the first month of it being on the road it was hit twice in a parking lot. One of them put a nice crease in the drivers side fender. The other one hit my rear bumper so hard the mounts for it bent into the bottom of my bed denting it. While it is a 20yo pickup its body was in damn good shape (especially for being in NY) and looking at it the previous 2 owners to me probably put about $10k of work into it (and I put $2k)
What’s the silver one all the way to the left with the nice milled lines running through it?
We all make mistakes. I’ve always found that sharing a mistake I’ve made that haunts me does help. Hope it does the same for you.
I keep looking at that Strider performance SMF up there in the corner 😦🤤 DAYUM SON!
Have you reviewed the spyderco persistence and if so what do you think of it, I just ordered mine and it gets here on the 6th, also happy new year and keep up the great work bro
The flipper tab has never been done better!
What is the name of the black knife on the bottom right?
Great story MC, anyway would you take $2000 for the SBD?
Love the story! You should have two categories of loaners for the channel. The it’s perfect please return it that way. Then the please use, abuse, and help break it in and sign the box.
The worst thing?
Probably intentionally buying an Opinel
Making a whole video explaining something that happened that only you and a handful of other people even remember. Were the same in that aspect. A stone thought to be left unturned will eat at me forever until I do something about it. Even if it is irrelevant. Selling knives on Facebook, I can't believe the things people will do to sleeze their way into something. Facebook knife groups, minus a couple, have deterred me away from a few different ways I handle knife etiquette I shall call it. Just the other day I had a guy try to Weasel the price down on a brand new, BRAND NEW CRK, that I was already selling at the price I bought it for brand new. I bought it, decided I didn't need it as I already have a user of that knife. I tried to cancel the order, but it was already shipped. I don't sell knives for profit. Even if they are brand new i would sell them for cheaper than i bought it. Not this certain CRK though. Then he wanted me to ship it and withhold the money until he got it, because "He didn't know me". He had "vouches" though so i should trust him, but so did I. His vouchers though did not have his name on them anywhere, where mine was a clear conversation, name and all, of previous sales i had. Just like you said about asking someone to sell their knife and they say No, they mean No. If I set a price and you try to lower it, and I say No, don't ask again. I always offer to talk, send pics, videos, phone chat, or video call, to talk about the knife and sale as well. I don't care to do that. I want people to feel at ease with a sale as I would want. I want them to know, or turn around after the sale and think "Hey, I can trust this guy. Yeah he's good to go. He's a cool dude". Because that's what we're all here for. For our love of knives. Not to screw people over and then have your named dragged through the shit water. That's not what I'm here for anyways. I know there are people out there that will do anything for a quick buck. Karma will get them. Can't escape karma.
I've had things happen like that. You try to do the right thing in a delicate situation and it comes off as being weird or contrived. It won't do any good to stir the pile. Just gotta move along and do better.
You are a good guy. Happy New YEAR 2023 !
As far as confession goes, Tristate EDC runs Knife Church every Sunday at 11:00 A.M.
Well shit happens, and sometimes that’s the case no matter how careful you are. That’s why I don’t like holding other people’s babies. Lol I am a perfectly functioning, responsible adult at 39, and the universe still has ways of making me look completely inadequate. And I have also always felt bad about things I did or said, or just generally screwed up, in most cases. Its obvious that you have a lot of respect and integrity, and I’m sure I’m speaking for a lot of viewers when I say that. If the guy forgives you, maybe he’ll design a knife one day and call it the lender, or the integrity. If he’s still pissed about it, we might be seeing a carbon fiber magnacut edition of the Trust Issues flipper real soon. (Just f’ing) with you. Lol). Thank you for the video.
So when you're handling a package from Scott, it probably looks like a scene from The Hurt Locker. 🤣
I am looking forward to the new MC video series, "Confession Box."
You should have arranged and paid for him to send it off for bead blasting or whatever finish was on it . That would have made things much better in my opinion.
Actually this was discussed. Payment for general damage. The guy just didn't want anything
@@metal_complex That is an important detail. I was thinking the same thing. If you offered to pay for repairs or give him a knife for compensation, it should have showed him that you didn't have an evil plan to buy it from him.
@@ericblue9647 I was just lucky he was an understanding person. This detail wasnt left out on purpose or fabricated after the fact. I just got caught up telling the story.
As someone who does some sharpening work for people, I totally understand the stress of being responsible for someone else's expensive knives ( especially when I had a damasteel norseman in for sharpening ). Because of that, I always take before and after pictures, pictures of my packaging, and the shipping receipt, just for my own peace of mind
The mark of a true man is extreme ownership. Yes that's from Jocko. But anyone who does not abdicate their responsibilities and makes things right takes part in that kind of ownership. It's not easy but it's right. More often than not people will accept and forgive when you're brutally honest with them. Deceiving and misdirecting only put salt in those wounds.
Having said that, at the end of the day it's just stuff. Even priceless, irreplaceable things are just stuff. When you die, it becomes someone else's stuff. It no longer has the same value it did because that value was sentimental. Impossible to replicate within someone else. So never get too attached to things and be more attached to how you treat one another!
Also, AVN is the best! I'm so amused you were watching him, of all people, when this happened 🤣 Definitely brings some levity to such a dreadful happening.
I was asked to house/pet-sit for my friend's aunt so she could go out of town to see her newest grandchild for the first time. She had two dogs, one of which had heart problems. I went to the lady's house the day before so she could show me where the meds were and kinda go over the schedule. I followed all of her instructions, had a few beers, made a pizza, and watched an LSU baseball game. The next morning I woke up to a dead dog splayed out on the living room rug. That was a hard phone call to make. But, like your guy, she was understanding. She was more worried about me and kept apologizing to have put me in that position. I offered to bury the dog, and she told me where she wanted her buried; she just asked that I remove her collar and leave it on the kitchen island. I see Ms. Candy every now and again at the grocery store or gas station, and every time I do I'm reminded of the concept of grace and compassion.
I'm with you MC. i would feel awful and it would gnaw at me forever too.
My wife (who already thinks my newfound love and ultra-focus on knives is strange) is wondering why I'm giggling while we're laying in bed and trying to go to sleep. If I explain this story, she will just think I'm even more weird than before. But yes, I got a few good laughs out of this story! 🤣
Got a Spyderco Kapara awhile back. First time carrying it, I was at work finger flicking it and it flew out of my hands onto the desk. Chipped the blade. Oops. My bad. Oh well, I paid for it, I gotta live with it. Can't imagine doing that to someone else's knife. Props to you, MC, for being an awesome human being.
Accidents happen for example, the knife could’ve been lost or stolen in the mail. If you have a knife that you absolutely 100% cannot have anything ever happened to it simple just don’t let other people borrow/use it.
Ooof I can feel your pain on this one!
If I did something like that, I'd be mortified too. The owner would never know because I'd die of shame on the spot.
That was a big deal... enjoyed the video, man!
Or how about the tip of the rock stead when you were picking at the wood with it and the tip broke😮
Well that was my own knife.
What Spyderco is that?
Real knife guys are 100% cool with each other. The best people you can meet. That being said...there is a lot of money in play. So it attracts vermin.
Being OVERLY cool and honest is how you show you are in the club and know someone else is.
Accidents happen.. I’m glad it wasn’t worse. Sounds like the other guy was a good guy too
this Socom Bravo is looking fantastic
Could anyone name the knife in the middle of bottom row, looks like a dark gunmetal grey ? Thanks
21:35 TKG confession: new series! 😂
Oh man I have one of those electric recliner couches and I’ve dropped so many knives down there. Cleaning that area out I’ve found a hot dog, hot wheels, underwear, and other random objects 🤣
My last name is Nadeau so I really want a Sharp By Design knife. They are beautiful but make my pockets sad.
Do you want to review the Gaintmouse Nazca I have one you could review.
You're right, manual recliners >> powered recliners. Especially when standing up.
Power recliners suck especially when you lose power. The Christmas storm of 22 found me stuck with the leg rest stuck in the up position. What a pain in the a$$ trying to get in and out of that danged chair for almost 24 hrs.
We all make mistakes haha. I accidentally sharpened my sebenza 21 thumb studs this morning. That’s nice
I know how it feels to damage my own knives, so I would never be able to borrow someone else's.
Therapy doesn't only happen in a sterile office with a noise machine. Let's destigmatize processing negative thoughts.
Great story, I really enjoyed it up until I fell asleep.
My man MC having those 3 am thoughts bro😭
That blackout knife is that a Microtech on the middle of the photo ??
Sure is they started making the socom bravo all dlc and carbon fiber and they are sexy as hell.
“Ngl, I though things we’re about to take a really dirty turn when you said “I want you to keep this in a glass jar filled with c-“ my dirty mind took that in a whole different direction right before you finished saying “cotton balls”
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Well its Sunday and time for knife confessions 101 you will be forgiven for your knife sins and the knife God will look down on you and you will achieve grateness as a knife reviewer you are forgiven MC!
Seems like you shot in SLOG2 without color grading 🤨
On today’s episode of Knife Church - Confession is Good for the Soul 😂 Happy 2023 everyone.
meh. since im awake. and working.
I run a retail store and I'm not anticipating anyone coming in this morning.
Also, thank you for the explanation. I was racking my brain during the live when you brought it up.
I too remember the smock incident. 😂.
James was mad about something….wow that narrows it down 😂
Man, you have no idea how angry I get when I see your CKF FIF20 with the moku-ti bolsters. I saved up for a month and sold one of my Seiko Monsters in order to purchase that knife just to have it gone when I got the money together for it. since then I've only came across 1 (was about 2 months after 1 I wanted sold) and the goofy dude wanted $1800 for it. no way in hell am I paying $1800 for a knife that was less than $900 new.
What about that exo I’d love to buy that from you !!!
I’m trying to start a channel. Any advice ?
Considering that I expected this to be a video about slicing yourself up and needing stitches, this ain’t so bad. 🙃
I remember the smock incident
WHAT WERE THEY THINKIIIIING?!
Ugggggh my skin is crawling for you lol. I would be absolutely horrified 🤣
Hey MC, you did nothing wrong. Forgive yourself and move on. It is doing damage to your stomach wall. 😀
It was interesting, but I didn't find anything to laugh at.
Did you just send the knife back to the owner? If you felt that bad, you could have added some money, or a gift knife or something, to show that you are sorry about it. This is not a solution to the problem, but at least it would have shown your attitude to the story.
We actually discussed that and he wasnt interested. Super nice guy.
And now 2022 is officially purged from the record! 👍 😃
Lmao i can sooooo relate and it would still bug me as well . Thanks for sharing story.
When you where telling the story I was getting the feeling this would be a good scam to get people to sell their knives lol
Like if I sent my blade and you sent me a pic of it broken
I'd just ask for the knives worth
I had a really bad experience with a TH-camr. (Not saying the name) it was my first nice knife. The hinderer xm18 3" .I thought I for the 3 ½". I was talking to this dude and he wanted 2 trade the new mini adamas and a para3 lw. I made the mistake of thinking it was a TH-camr so he would screw me. I sent mine. A week after I sent him mine he keeps saying he needs 2 wait to get paid to sent the knives he owed me. A week or 2 later he sends me a message saying the mini adamas got stolen out of his truck. I remember instantly being suspicious. I said said just send the para3 and I'll take the loss. He kept offering other things with it. I finally said just send whatever you want , I don't care at this point. I ended up getting a para3 that was so Fu cked up, the blade was rubbing the right scale and had so much blade play it wasn't safe 2 use. What else was on the box? Well,.. some other junk that looked like it got dug out of his couch. I sucked it up and took the loss. It comes down 2 an expensive learning experience.
Ya for real. The guy got a hinderer xm 18 and you got a jacked up para. Is something else missing of the story. This guy screwed you and we need to make sure he isn't screwing anyone else
That is truly terrible... I would also like to know who it was
That was painful to listen to, funny as hell but painful lmao at least the guy was nice about it.
We forgive you metal complex
Say 10 hail Mary’s and sell me your TAD Dauntless. Only then will you be forgiven my son. That is your penance 😂