Best knife you ever found

I'd say the best one is a broken Buck 110 because I love those - a Buck 110 was my first knife.

I found the old broken-tip Buck 110 at an old abandoned truck stop while mountain biking, found an old Camillus Sportsman fixed blade in the back yard ten years ago at our at-the-time new house, and found a Gerber Flik also in our property woods, probably a poacher's because it was sittin in a tree.
 
I got a Lg Sebenza 21 laying around somewhere out there. I'll make a guy very happy one day.
 
I found a kershaw blackout, stuck in the mud, with a broken tip. Gave it to my dad, this must have been at least 10 years ago. he cleaned it up, fixed the tip, and was carrying it the other day! I never even knew it was A/O. I also found a leatherman supertool at a car wash. It was a little stiff, and the blade was messed up, so i cleaned and oiled all the pivots, carry it in my toolbag at work all the time.
 
Only 2 knives I have ever found are a Gerber tiny money-clip knife and a Spyderco H1 Salt. Don't know if this counts but my buddy "found" a yardsale by a recently widowed lady whose husband apparantly collected knives. She had no ideas about values, so he picked up 2 AFCK's for 3 bucks apiece!
 
"Found" an Officer's model Victorinox in the center console of our car. It was my wife's. She had left in the console in the summer, along with various liquids that accumulate in those over time. The plastic grip on the side had become stuck to the console/liquids. I pried it out and the plastic handle was literally soft/mushy and sticky. She was going to throw it away (WTF!?!). I saved it, let the knife dry and ended up lightly sanding the handle until it looked somewhat normal. Still have it, part of my everyday carry stuff, all the various tools still work and function great.
 
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Heck, you guys are finding treasure! The best knife I ever found was a lousy Pakistani knife out on a commercial job site. It was patterned after a PUMA game warden, but it was an awful knife. I sharpened it on a belt sander and gave it to a guy that just loved it.

The only other knives I have found are broken junk.

Robert
 
I was scubadiving one time and saw something shiny sticking out of the sand; went deeper and it was one of those chunky swiss army multitools!!! had the lupe and everything; send it to SA for service and refurbish and came back as NEW
Gave it to my dad :-)
 
I never found a knife in my entire life.
Guess i need to get out more.
 
I found a Spyderco Native in the grass at the park. The tip was slightly broken off. I reground it with the dremel and it's my around the house edc.
 
I've never found anything high end in the way of knives, but I have found other things that I've returned.

By far, the best knives I've found would have to be two Victorinox Huntsmans. The first I found in a neighborhood street in the early 90's, with one red scale missing; I worked at a cabinet shop at the time, and I put wood scales on it. I Carried it for 15+ years.

Then in 2007, I decided to retire it and get a new SAK. It had been a faithful little companion for years, and I'd tightened it up twice, and it was getting to a point that I didn't want to lose it. I had started researching what SAK model I wanted to replace it with when . . .

. . . I find another Victorinox Huntsman in the road on the way home one day. :eek: To this day, the 'coincidence' of finding the second one still amazes me. I didn't just find another SAK, I found another Huntsman. For general cutting use, they are about the longest & widest I'd carry, so to my mind, they're perfect.

~Chris
 
I kind of see a correlation between people who lose their knives and people who break the tips? It seems that about half of these 'found' knives have a broken tip on them... I wonder if a broken tip means rough use of mis-use.
 
In the house I lived in at the time, there was a place in the yard where the grass wouldn't grow for some reason and when I started digging around, I found it was a junk pile from when the house was built in 1969 (this was about 1986-7). In with the scrap nails, broken up concrete and wall board was an Edge brand Solingen stockman that would have been nearly perfect if it hadn't been in the ground for 17 years. The edges and brass liner joints cleaned up nice although the pitting made it look like an artifact. I slaughtered two elk with it before retiring it to my gardening tools. The blades take and hold a really fine edge.
 
never actually found any knives however, i did find a ruger 6 shot, single action, western replica live revolver in mint condition in the bathroom of my old high school behind the toilet...
 
I found a leatherman supertool at the docks in Washington when out fishing with my dad at age 11. I was so excited I could have wet myself lol. I still have it in my car, however both tips have since been broken (I was young! it was the first time I had broken the tip on any knife, happened twice).
 
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