Aaarhhhg!!! - Knife has gone MIA

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pinnah

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It's been years since I've lost a knife.

This one is/was very dear to me, being a gift from my wife who loves me.

Slippery bolsters make for easy pocket carry but also easy self exit. I've check the car seats, couch cushions and other normal places. Just hate it when this happens.

Arrrgggg..



Buck 500 by Pinnah, on Flickr

And, yes, I know... Attachment is the path to pain.
 
Sorry to hear this. Don't give up hope. I found one weeks after I lost it, in the van in which I had looked multiple times -- sometimes they have a way of getting hidden away in very unusual places.
 
I hope you find it soon. It should be in the last place you look.;)
 
My last one was lost for 2 years before my wife found it in my recliner that I had searched multiple times.:o
 
Things happen for a reason even if we ultimately will never know the reason. Don't give up hope. It will probably turn up somewhere you least expect it.
 
C Ben Susrool said:
My last one was lost for 2 years before my wife found it in my recliner that I had searched multiple times.:o
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+1 on the recliner...had an AG Russell funny folder that went missing, it was hung up in a Lazy Boy and didn't reappear till we were moving the chair to another room...I hope your Duke shows up!
 
Things people will ask you that will really irritate you:

Where did you see it last? Did you look there?

Did you look everywhere?

Are you sure you had it in your pocket?
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Buy another one, I've found that whatever you lost always shows up when you buy a replacement.
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Dude, I did that before I posted here! :D

Not my first lost object rodeo!!!!!

Alrighty then... who else can post pictures of their lost beloveds? Happy to turn this into a picture thread. Misery loves company.

Show me your lost knives.
 
clutchcarter said:
Things people will ask you that will really irritate you:

Where did you see it last? Did you look there?

Did you look everywhere?

Are you sure you had it in your pocket?
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Another good one we used as kids was: ( pointing excitedly in some random direction) " there it ISN'T!" :D
 
I've lost quite a few knives behind the seat of my truck, I've only been driving it since last October. I lost one folder, my Case peanut, when I was taking keys out of my pocket to get into the truck. Tore the house, front yard and my old truck apart. Found it in the parking lot when I came into work the next day.

Reminds me of a scene from the movie Permanent Midnight with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Elizabeth Hurley...

Ben has just stolen his dealer's (Owen Wilson) drugs, and they are looking for them because Owen thinks he lost them...

Nicky: If I were Percodan where would I be?
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The only funny scene in the movie, I'm afraid.
 
It's bad enough to lose a knife but when it has sentimental value attached to it then it really hurts! Hope you find it soon.
 
Oh no! :eek: Hope you find it:thumbup:

I've not lost a knife since I was a boy, but had a near miss about 25 years ago. I was house-sitting/cat-feeding for someone for a week, and one morning I got up and couldn't find my small EDC. I spent hours searching for it, found all sorts of things down the back of the sofa, including two sets of car keys, but no knives. I just couldn't understand how it had 'disappeared'. Later, in the afternoon, my girlfriend was looking out of the kitchen window and saw one of the cats behaving oddly, sort of rolling around in a strange way. She went outside to see if it was OK, and found it trying to free itself from my knife, which had got stuck to the magnetic collar all the cats had to open the cat-flap! Who would ever have thought of that?! I can only surmise that while we were asleep, the cat had been noseying around, spotted my knife on the side, and then become attached to it!
 
Stinks to lose the Duke, I know the feel of losing a knife. Imlost my facorite one, a Victorinox Huntsman at a friends house a while back. It was my first knife, and I miss her dearly...
 
After nearly 25 years, the cellidor handles on my Victorinox Fieldmaster were cracked and chipped. So, I decided to replace them with new nylon handles.

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Ten days later I lost it while in Asheville visiting my son. Called the hotel, searched the van, checked the ground where I got out of the van to say goodbye to his girlfriend. Searched the van again.

No luck.

Since I really enjoyed the feel of the nylon handles in the week and a half I had them, I picked up an inexpensive Climber at auction to replace the Fieldmaster.

The day before the Climber arrived in the mail, on the encouragement of a BF member, I searched the van again and found the Fieldmaster.

Here they are together, along with my other nylon handled Vic, the Gardener. I wish you similar success!

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Without fail, I always have one knife MIA. By the time I find it (usually involves giving up hope) I've lost the next one. The longest I lost a knife was 10 years - where was it? The trunk of my best friend's car (during a camping trip, which adds to the story). It found it's way during a downpour during a white water rafting/camping expedition. He didn't know anyone was missing it and put it to good solid use and took good care of it, brought it all over the world (China, Poland, England, Germany, Austria, Czech, Hungary, Spain, Morocco), so I can't complain. He insisted on giving it back to me when we realized it was mine, so I bought him a new one.

I lost my first GEC for a year - my little one thought it belonged with the Christmas decorations, so threw it in a bin with everything else when we wrre tearing down the decorations.

Check your best friend's trunk...or overseas...or the Christmas bin stashed away in the corner of your basement, but only after you've given up on it.
 
Hate losing a knife last one I did is at the bottom of lake Michigan don't think I will be seeing that one soon. Hope yours turns up .
 
pinnah said:
It's been years since I've lost a knife.

This one is/was very dear to me, being a gift from my wife who loves me.

Slippery bolsters make for easy pocket carry but also easy self exit. I've check the car seats, couch cushions and other normal places. Just hate it when this happens.

Arrrgggg..


And, yes, I know... Attachment is the path to pain.
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I feel your pain my friend!:confused:

Dave
 
lost an old style schrade a number of years back. its probly still laying in that swamp in virginia.
one of my co-workers lost a new style schrade for me a couple years ago. it wasnt sentimental or anything but it was my only knife at the time.
found a '1980 georgia bulldogs national champions' commemorative knife laying on the ground in perhaps 1989 or so. carried it off and on for twenty years until it slipped out of my pocket somewhere. easy come easy go.
 
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