A knife I wish I had not lost . . .What about YOU?

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IWhen I was a Boy Scout and about 14 years old (1963 or so) I had an Olsen knife I really liked.; a four inch carbon blade with a little fuller and faux stag in a nice leather sheath. Olsen knives were assembled near my hometown in Michigan, from blade blanks marked "Solingen Germany" at that time. Olsen has been closed down for many years now.

Our troop went on a long hike-in overnight camping trip . . .ten miles in on Friday night, two nightas out and walking it all home on Sunday afternoon. So opn the way back, cold, wet and tired, we stopped for a break. I used that knife to open and cut up "something" (ut was 55 years go). I stuck it between the rolled up sleeping bag and the backpack for a minute to keep it off the ground while deling with whatever it was. The call cme to ruck-up and go . . .and I did.



Wish I had not lost it. What about YOU?
 
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I know y'all are going to run me out of here, but for me it's a ganzo. I don't remember the model number or name, but it was basically a PM2 with a cross bar lock. That thing was super heavy, and I even drilled out some of the liner to lighten it up a little bit. I was leaving work one day and had to pull over on the side of the road and for some reason I put it on top of my vehicle, never saw it again.
Edit: Ganzo 729, and I didn't lighten it up, it must have been another one.
 
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My grandfathers leather stack handled western hunting knife. He gave it to me for Christmas when I was 16. I have absolutely no idea what happened to it.
I’ve always wondered if one of my little brothers had something to do with it…
 
Kettleman said:
My grandfathers leather stack handled western hunting knife. He gave it to me for Christmas when I was 16. I have absolutely no idea what happened to it.
I’ve always wondered if one of my little brothers had something to do with it…
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I hope you find that. That would be reason to celebrate.
 
Brawny said:
I hope you find that. That would be reason to celebrate.
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It’s went missing almost 40 years ago and my little brothers are just too old to beat on until they tell me the truth!
 
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I had one of the original Spyderco Police folders. Fully serrated with the stainless-steel handle. I took it on a camping trip to Glacier National Park with some friends and lost it there somehow. I was really upset as I liked that knife a lot. 😢
 
When I was a kid I found a old knife at my great grandfather’s house and begged to have it and surprisingly he let me have it. The crazy part is, it was a german nazi knife with swastikas all over it and fairly ornate. Thinking about it now, it was probably an officer’s knife from ww2.

I never got the story of how he got it. A few years later when I was around 14, one of my best friends got cancer and he was big into knives so I gave it to him and never saw it again. He passed but I didn’t have the nerve to ask for it back.

I’m no nazi and not in the least racist but it’s just one of those things that you will never see again much less own one. And I don’t even particularly want it but I’ve always wondered what the story was behind it.
 
Michael D'Auben said:
I had one of the original Spyderco Police folders. Fully serrated with the stainless-steel handle. I took it on a camping trip to Glacier National Park with some friends and lost it there somehow. I was really upset as I liked that knife a lot. 😢
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I lost my Police model that I carried throughout my time as a server. Took it squirrel hunting like a total idiot and when I got home it was gone. I looked and looked every time I went back to hunt but no luck.

That land was sold by my relatives and turned into more cornfields. I like to think that the Police is in the creek I had to cross all the time, waiting like the One Ring to be discovered by some lucky kid someday. That stainless steel should be just fine.

So every Police I have bought since then is me trying to get that knife back and I miss it terribly to this very day.

Back then it was the only knife I carried. When I got my serving job, I noticed right away that one of my managers carried a Police model. I figured if he did, I could get away with it too, and living on Capitol Hill in Denver, I felt a lot better after I went to the SFO and got a Police of my very own. Lots of stories with that knife in it, that's for sure.
 
I had an early model Manix II I bought from some gunshop easily a decade ago that I miss. It was some special model, fully serrated, had the "kinda lockbar" thing going on, with that clear plastic button you pulled back? Had tan (or very light grey) scales over steel liners. It was such a nice knife, I still to this day have no idea what happened to it. Never seen one of those again, and sadly, I don't even recall what steel the blade was.
 
I’ve lost two that had sentimental value. I lost a Case ’lil Devil hunting knife that had belonged to my Dad while out hunting one evening. Learned the hard way that you can lose a fixed blade in its sheath carrying it in your back pocket.
I lost an early 70’s Case 3318 that my Grandad gave me when I was a kid. Thats the one I wish I had back the most. I’ve replaced it with one from the same time period. It’s nice too but just not the same as the original somehow.
 
My Kizer River Cat, it was one of the first hollow grinds to strike my fancy and I loved the large turret-style studs, and the titanium milling and ano was beautiful, and it was just a really flamboyantly great knife while somehow also being pretty unassuming.
 
I once made the mistake of leaving a back window open, and someone got in during the day and grabbed a few things, including several knives. The only one that still bugs me was a Lone Wolf Harsey T1 special edition with French walnut handle scales.
 
Brand spanking new Leatherman in 1996 didn't even get to use it but it fell out of the car door I think I had it in the tiny space in the sheath must of fell out when I got out to pump gas somewhere in North Carolina sigh that was a bummer.
 
The boy scout edition SAK my dad gave me when I made Eagle went missing during a move. I keep hoping it will turn up, but it's it been several years. Recently TSA confiscated my Triple Black that had been my EDC for many years. I was late for the flight and would have missed it if I had gone back through security. I pulled $300 out of a slot machine in Vegas on the layover, so it only hurt emotionally 😁
 
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Well I didn't lose it, but while I was in the hospital a family member borrowed the Wenger Nomad my great uncle gave me for my 7th birthday. I had that thing until I was 39. My mother probably borrowed it. She is the queen of shoving things in drawers or outright throwing things out without asking or looking to see if its valuable. Same thing happened with my 1977 Star Wars poster. Came home from the hospital, gone, along with my Raiders of the Lost Ark. I can't wait for spring/summer 2024 when I will be moving back out now that I'm healthy enough.
 
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For ever: back in the late '70s a Victorinox "Camper" - the main blade was fully bread-knife-serrated, the small blade a hawkbill. Loved that knife. One day it was just gone.

For 24 hours: 1999 Large Regular Sebenza. Four hours after leaving a hotel in Denmark, I noticed it was gone. Damn, was I ever angry. Called the hotel next day on a Hail Mary (not that I'm Catholic, but under the circumstances...I was sure He would understand), and they had found it in the front courtyard. Sent it back to me. Gave to the Salvation Army come Christmas.
 
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