$510 dollars is what my ZT 0561 cost me.

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I bought a 0560 last summer. Easily my favourite folding knife in my collection. I took it everywhere, it was sharp, strong, large, light and hella quick! Because of that beauty, I could never justify spending any money on any other large knives such as the Spyderco Military.

But then I lost it. :( Not sure how. In march, only a week before my birthday it somehow left my pocket at work and never turned up. I made a thread to remember it.

So recently, after coming back from graduating my Infantry course with the Canadian reserves this summer, I was feeling that my pocket was really missing a large folder so I went to the local knife shop (Warriors and Wonders- they are a paying dealer here) to finally pull the trigger on a Spyderco Military. It was a nice knife, but I remember the reason I never pulled the trigger. Fortunately they had a 0561 in stock, and I got to looking at it.... and then I really remembered the reason I never pulled the trigger. Hefty, yet light and swift.

So I bought it.

Even though the first one cost me $250, and the second one cost me $260, I think it was worth spending the years knife budget on this work of art. I hope I get more opportunities to take it as many places as I took the first one. :) Here it is pictured below.
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What a beauty!


R.I.P 0560
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You'll be in my heart forever.

Any other stories of lost and replaced knives here?
 
reason i don't carry my 0561, is the pocket clip. just has no grip to keep the knife in my pocket other than standing upright and gravity. guess i got to take the clip off and bend 'er, til it's tight enough it won't fall out. til then it stays out of my pocket carry. shame too as a really great knife, i just don't trust that weak pocket clip on mine.
 
jbmonkey said:
reason i don't carry my 0561, is the pocket clip. just has no grip to keep the knife in my pocket other than standing upright and gravity. guess i got to take the clip off and bend 'er, til it's tight enough it won't fall out. til then it stays out of my pocket carry. shame too as a really great knife, i just don't trust that weak pocket clip on mine.
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I wouldn't be afraid to blame losing my 0560 on the pocket clip... But I don't do too much hanging upside down so I don't worry about it too much.

I wouldn't bring to the field on an exercise though.
 
that picture alone and the fact that you were able to be in such a beautiful place should help you forget about that lost knife real quick. in the grand scheme of things, that knife is nothing, plus you have a new one.
 
I had my 0561 for exactly 6 hours before it was stolen. im in my second week of mourning. i will likely buy another one but that will really be salt in the wound
 
I agree, once you bond with a ZT product it is difficult to break that bond.

My ZT's rule the roost when it comes to serious use folders.




Big Mike
 
Very nice picture of beautiful and lush British Columbia.

$510 and it's still worth it! :thumbup:

Another ZT I have is the 0801 and under $200 is a heck of a value: Elmax blade with titanium handles and frame lock and great flipper action.
 
I had a Ritter Grip disappear on me. I lost it one day and then a week later when I went to clean the rabbit pen I saw it hanging from the chain link fence of the enclosure. The pocket clip got caught as I brushed passed it I guess. Dang pocket clips. :mad:Glad you got your replacement. Life's too short not to have your favorite cutter with you.
 
I've been EDCing a 560cbcf since the moment I got it. I can't say enough for how awesome all of the 560 varieties are- especially for their price and availability. They look great, the flip great, the are durable and exceptional cutting tools. There isn't much else you could want out of a knife. The pictures are great and definitely befitting.
 
NjHart said:
I've been EDCing a 560cbcf since the moment I got it. I can't say enough for how awesome all of the 560 varieties are- especially for their price and availability. They look great, the flip great, the are durable and exceptional cutting tools. There isn't much else you could want out of a knife. The pictures are great and definitely befitting.
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:O jelly!!
 
My bank account would be in serious trouble if my local knife shop was W & W.
 
I had an OLD Lagioule folder I found in a car working at an Audi dealership about 10 years ago (new car from the factory, I wouldn't ever steal from a customer). Now it was no hard use knife and it wouldn't have been worth much for self defense but that is probably one of the most appealing knives I have ever touched. From the hand filed scrollwork on the spring with the Napoleonic bee on the end to the curve of the scales/bolsters to the shape of the blade with the hand filed jimps. Nothing I have seen to this day has ever moved me like that old folder does.
Well about 5 years later I went to Basic and moved all my stuff I didn't throw out up to my parents. What a disaster that was. First off the FIRST box I loaded so it would be the last out and go right inside to my old room with my shaving kit Sonicare toothbrush (all my daily use stuff) etc etc disappeared, gone without a trace. The other item was my box I had filled with all my Zippos, knives and other lighters. THAT box disappeared as well. Finally 3 years after I got back my parents retired and moved so I had to go clear out all my stuff (Nope, still no sign of that first box, even after the entire property had been emptied) I eventually found my box of knives and lighters had been stuffed behind one of my toolchests in the garage. Once I opened it up and realized what the box was I started digging for that old Lagioule. I found it! :D
Yeah, that delight soon turned to puzzlement as I saw the blade just hanging from the pivot. No problem, probably just seized up a bit sitting there, some Kroil will free everything right up. I turned it up and my hope turned to horror. Rust had formed in a fault in the spring and it had broken right in two and the end with that Napoleonic bee fell right into my hand.
I still have that knife wrapped up in a box in the hopes that someday I will find someone who can do something with it. Whether it be making a replacement spring or pinning it into a fixed blade I still hold onto the hope that I will someday be able to use it again. I may replace my EDC Pentagon Elite II with a Griptilian, but I don't think anything will ever replace that old Lagioule.
 
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