Yea, it could only happen to me.   :rolleyes:  

Since I cant seem to hang on to one of my own knives, I carry one made by a fellow bladesmith, Ray Kirk. My reasoning is that I will sell one that I made, but would never sell someone elses.  :D  Thus I will always have a knife. Anyway, I have a lot of confidence in Ray's knives and use it every day.

This past week I was working on a house in Little Rock and must have dropped the knife from the sheath in the neighbors drive. I still cant figure that one out. I walked over to their driveway to get a better look at our handywork and kicked something on the ground and there was my knife. It had been run over by the lady very recently. I looked it over good and all it did was scar it up a little. The handle material was still holding up great and it barely put a nick in the cutting edge, which will sharpen out, I'm sure.

 

The handle is Buckeye burl that has been stabilized, so I guess that's explain the white coloring of the scratches. The drive way was Washed Aggregate and pretty rough, so I'm really impressed with the strength of this little knife.  
                                  Lin  

Cool knife, now you have a interesting story and some battle scars to go with it!

wow. talk about some quality work. do i see a hamon?

A Timex knife! LOL

A re-finished handle and she'll look good as new...the tire on the other hand    tippit

Now thats a knife....bowdoc

I bet you know someone who can fix that handle if the scratches aren't too deep!
That blade has a nice patina.
Dan

That's funny Lin.  Ray builds a great knife, there's the proof!

OUCH!!!
I bet your neighbor follows you around more just looking for things you drop!