Best knife you have lost!!!

Buck model 105 pathfinder and my first knife, a Boy scout knife. Lost them both at the same time. (It was a bad day.) I was using them for whittling and laid them both down on the back of my older sisters car while I went to do something else. I returned to find the car gone. I rode my bike as far as I could but never found either one. This was before cell phones, they were gone when she got back home.

Grizz
 
In the 70's I was a Barlow slipjoint fan. It took losing 5 (!) of them over 5 years to carry something different. :) I carry more modern knives now.

Lost? My ex-wife lost a CS Spike, 1 Microtech UDT, Kershaw Boa, a Kershaw Folding Sportsman, Buck 110 and others. I finally started giving her United and Talon knives. :)
 
Busse Meaner Streets in a Krein kydex sheath... I think it was last in the car door pocket and slipped out in a parking lot. This was two years ago... in between the garage & mancave, all of the backpacks, etc., I've searched for that thing over & over & over. Often it will be late at night, wife and kids asleep, and I'll think: "Hey?! Did I ever look in the fill in blank." Off I go searching again. I've lost hours and hours of my life looking for that thing.

If I die tomorrow, I know what my ghost will be haunting: looking for that danged knife.
 
I've lost a Kershaw Starkey Ridge XXL several years ago and have seemed to recently misplaced one of my Emerson Commanders.
 
My buddy Droppoint1110 lost his Case sodbuster out of his pocket one day when we were doing an indoor airsoft exercise. Nothing like running around in the dark clearing rooms using S.W.A.T. tactics to lose a tiny ass knife by! haha. Could have been worse, that same day when we met up, he brought a mini griptilian and CRKT Hissatsu I had him order for me, we could have carried those while we played! :D
 
Delica and Random Task to weak clips. Powerlock at some unknown time. Leatherman Wave during space-A travel. Turned a dragonfly and micra in at AIT, and they mysteriously disappeared from the orderly room. Lost a pair of profiles, a DC4, and a Gerber diamond sharpening pen on a field exercise.
 
lost a kershaw leek found it and then managed to lose it again a few weeks later, the knife was just not meant to be mine..replaced it with a buck ghostrider that I lost at a party whilst heavily drinking. I use to keep my knives unclipped in my back left pocket. The morning after the party it was the first thing i realized so i went out and bought a sog trident ( i wasnt really into knives back then) but i did start caring more so rfp it went since then i havent lost a knife (Knock on wood) a few close calls/misplaces but nothing gone for more than a day.
 
I have lost 4 knives that i cared for over the years. The first one was a very early Spyderco Delica. The one with a molded clip. This was a present from my father, and I lost it while I was traversing a river on a rope. I just fell out off my pocket, and the river took it. The second was a Spyderco Cricket. This was lost at work. I was working on an oil rig, and I had the knife in my boiler suit. When we left for lunch, I had to leave my boiler suit on the floor in the locker room because there where no lockers available. When I came back, the cleaning crew had sent all the boiler suits lying on the floor to the cleaners.The third was a Spyderco Police. This was lost at a party involving skinny dipping late at night. I went back to the park the next day, but it was gone. The knife i miss the most was a simple Victorinox Climber. I used it for my three month climbing road trip across USA. That one just went missing.

Maybe we should start a self help group for knifenuts with missing "family members":rolleyes:

Stig
 
Still crying over the Knifeart limited edition, 1 of 25, BG42/Redwood Burl Mnandi that came up "Missing" from my collection. Still not sure what happened to it, but I suspect it was stolen.
 
The only knife I've ever lost was a SS pry-bar style dive knife (cannot remember manufacturer as it was in '83) diving off San Miguel,
Luzon, Philippines. Had it on a leg sheathe but somehow the the retain which held it had come undone in approx 45 feet of water. Tried to locate but SOL.
 
I haven't lost a knife in years since I stopped sticking them in the ground where I might be field dressing an animal. I misplace them a fair amount, but they turn up again. For example, I'm not sure where my EDC Delica is at the moment. Yesterday's pants? Dresser? Bathroom? Desk? Vehicle?
 
Spyderco Police G-10. Flew out of my pocket at a concert and when i noticed and went back to look someone had snagged it. I only hope that it went to someone that knows at least a bit about quality and will appreciate it instead of someone who will use it as a baton or throwing knife.
 
The only knife I ever lost was my Gerber mini para frame when i was in Florida one summer. Not the most expensive knife but was one of the first knives I got. still bummed about it a few years later...
 
A vintage Gerber Paul knife that I EDC'd for years was left in the glove box of a rental car. I was in another state when I realized what had happened.
 
Lost my Bark River mini-Northstar the other day AND the homemade sheath. My daughter and I were out shooting and I was wearing insulated overalls. Since there is no belt, I placed the knife in one of the side lower leg pockets. It's gone.

Here she used to be. That isn;t my sheath I lost, though....
Mini-Northstar-02.jpg
 
Lost a Boker stag handled toothpick when I went to get a copy of my social security card. Hid it in the bushes and someone snatched it. I've since started going to the barbeque joint across the street if i forget to leave them in the truck.
 
Also had a Ka-Bar neck knife that disappeared from the counter while i was counting a drawer at work.
 
Wasn't really lost but taken before getting on a plane, way pre 9-11. In 1999 I was catching a last minute flight to go do a job in Maine and I carried a custom handled Spyderco Police(had stone inlay)beautiful freaking knife for a spyderco. Totally forgot it was in my pocket went back to try and stash it in my checked bags, couldn't put in carry on they found it of course, told me they'd call the house or mail it back, yeah right my 250 dollar Spyderco I'm sure lives on with some one else. Loved that knife, was my edc through the 90's.
 
When I was a young Marine I was going thru the Amphibious Recon School in VA. We were conducting a land navigation course out in the mountains and I had my sog SEAL knife with a homemade sheath that also contained a gerber multi tool (not sure the model) also clped to the side of the sheath was my emerson SOCFK. Well about 0300 in the morning dead tired and having moved all day thru rough terrain I decided to start making strait lines to my points. One of these strait lines took me thru the thickest pine forrest I have ever seen. Is must have been a clear cut patch just a year or two before. It was all sapplings about 3" in diamiter and no taller then 7', but there was no more than 7"-18" between any of them. After about and hour of crawling thru this patch I was making my way across a river and felt down and no more knife sheath, or knives. It completely ripped off my belt. I can only assume it is still somewhere on that god for saken land navigation course, if some other poor sole has not found it yet.

The funny part about the story is if you lost any of your required safety gear to include your fixed blade knife you failed the course. So before I got back to the start/finish point I found a stick and carved a handle with the spyderco I did manage to retain and wraped it in 550 cord. This made it look like the handle of a knife. I had it sticking out of my gear so you could see just the handle. When they did a gear check I simply leaned to one side and presented what I hoped would pass as a knife. They saw what looked like a knife handle and just waved me on. I finished the course with a ka-Bar I bought fromt he exchange the next morning.

Needless to say I have a bit better rentention on my knives now.
 
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