At last: With the aid of a ferret, I found the missing knife!

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Until a few days ago, I hadn't seen my Cold Steel Mini-California Drop Point for a couple of years.

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I thought it lost permanently, most likely because I'd put it in "a safe place", which one has to do with things that smell and taste of rubber, like the handles on some knives. Otherwise, most ferrets will assume it's a toy.

Last week, I let one of them explore a high bookshelf, and there she found the knife for me. Should have thought of that way to find it long ago!

Before I got ferrets, this used to be one of my most carried knifes, now it's impractical.

It's very similar to the CS Mini Tanto, but I've a feeling it's not the same steel. Is it 440A instead of 440C in this perhaps?

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Urban Fredriksson
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"Smooth and serrated blades cut in two entirely different fashions."
- The Teeth of the Tyrannosaurs, Scientific American, Sep 1999


 
"safe places", my wife has a load of those. Stuff is always turning up years later.
"since getting the ferrets caring this knife is impractical"? What kind of sheath do you carry the ferrets in?
 
It doesn't matter how I carry the ferrets: If there's rubber (or in this case kraton) around, they'll try to reach for it. All the time.
 
I lost a kershaw/onion mini task that I was particularly fond of. MIA for about three months.
It showed up last Saturday on the floor of my pickup after smucking a deer at 75mph. apparently was just lurking in or under the seat somewhere until dislodged.
Maybe ferrets would have been a better way to find it.
Then again, wouldn't I have to hit a bunch of ferrets all at once to have the same effect? Just kidding
 
So the knife was lost because you had the ferrets, and then the knife was found because you had the ferrets?

It seems as if having the ferret is a double-edged sword.
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I'm glad to hear you were able to "ferret out" your lost knifes location!
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Jim March and other ferret owners should love this one.
 
JW,
what a great word! (smucking)Never heard it this side of the pond, but it's sheer poetry. I'm interested in etymology; could it be a mixture of smack and possibly another word I can't think of at the moment?
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Iain

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"I'm arm'd with more than complete steel - The justice of my quarrel." Christopher Marlowe
 
Out worst "ferret and the elastomer" incident was when one of our critters chewed on the padding of a house guest's orthopedic appliance (leg brace). You couldn't conceive of a more expensive chew toy. I'm just glad the little girl wasn't wearing it at the time.

More commonly Princess and Kitty would practise their hunting skills by pouncing on stuffed toys and dragging them under the bed.


[This message has been edited by Jeff Clark (edited 23 November 1999).]
 
I'm trying to train my goldfish to find that custom Sebanza I've got sitting around here somewhere.
needless to say I don't own a sebanza, but the fish doesn't need to know that.

If he finds it, I promise to change his water. And buy him a friend.

chizpuf
 
Two items. One, "Smuck!" is indeed the sound made when you impact a deer at 75 mph, but I don't know whether it's the deer exploding (yech!) or your hood crumpling. Two, what steel did Cold Steel use in its first issue tanto and the nice California drop-point. Both hold a pretty good edge but what 400-grade stainless is, I have no idea.
 
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