better to have loved and lost....

My new PB&J Case sowbelly is gone. It jumped out of my pocket somewhere.

They don't exactly make the sowbelly in lots of cool varieties like they do with the trapper and the stockman so I was really excited to get a hold of this one.

It's certainly not a chore to switch back to the black micarta sowbelly, because it's just awesome.... But man that purple bone was pretty.
 
hornetguy said:
Yes, this is about lost knives.
I'm sure nearly all of us have lost knives in one way or another.... dropped it out of a boat, fell out of a pocket on the tilt-a-whirl.... many ways.
It's nearly always really irritating, but we get over it and move on...

As many of you know, I carry and use most of my knives... I have a few that have not been used, but I could count them on one hand.

One of my favorites has been the Forum Bunny knife. It just checks ALL the boxes for me... size, balance, nail nicks on the same side, clip and pen blades... and ebony.

I lost it at work. Last Friday, I was using it to cut tie-wraps off equipment cords so I could actually do my job of equipment maintenance. Our management, in their infinite wisdom, decided to have someone come through and tie all the cords to the table legs/uprights, etc... to make it look "neater". While it looks neater it makes it impossible to move any printers/dispensers/whatever, if maintenance or repair is needed.... as it always is. My response is to cut any tie wraps that hinder me from doing my job.
Enter the Bunny.... I used it to do the tie wrap removal, then got sidetracked working on the equipment... thought I had put it back in my pocket. Then the weekend came... transferred all my stuff to my "church pants"... no Bunny. Hmmmm. Did the "search" at home, no joy.

Got to work Monday, couldn't find it. I backtracked as best as my old memory prompted, still didn't find it.
I had resigned myself to the fact that it was gone. I was going to search for another one, and willingly pay a premium for it.... I like it that much.

Got to work today, and made one last sweep of possible locations.... and found it. Apparently right where I left it.... many of you know the feeling of finding something that you had given up for "gone".... it's difficult to describe. I know we shouldn't get attached to "things"... but.... it happens.

Anyway..... long story not shortened at all..... the Bunny is back where it belongs... in my pocket. It's a good day....

Where I found it.... notice the dead tie wraps on the floor, thanks to the Bunny... 😁
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Boy would I be sad if lost my bunny knife; that is one of my all time favorites. Glad your story has a happy ending.
 
I had a red bone S&M scout knife I bought from Clarence Risner and carried new at my wedding in 08. It was a 2006 scout knife. Carried it daily until a day at the ballpark peeling apples and oranges for kids. Laid it down on the picnic table to go wash my hands, got distracted and forgot to go get it. Realized it after I got home. Never found it it’s been at least 12 years. I could buy a replacement but it wouldn’t be that knife. A purple Vic pioneer rides with me now.
 
mrknife said:
Amen, i had a 14 ebony clip slip out of the tiny watch pocket of my jeans in a cab once. Good thing i was able to realize before, closing that cab door. It has gone back in the tube ever since as it was one of the few I kept from that run. Luckily I was able to score an S ebony clip 14 some rendezvous ago to have one to carry.
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That’s why I use a pocket slip with my smaller knives. Less likely to fall out, and won’t slip in the cracks if it does.
 
Last knife I lost was 2019 and I still feel disgruntled about it. It’s somewhere in the suburbs of Cincinnati in a parking lot, or in the back seat of my boss’s car…several cars ago now. But he swears it wasn’t in there. It was a Case slimline trapper that I re-dyed myself, and it was pretty.


Funny how I can lose $100 at a casino and accept it philosophically but if I lose a knife I liked, that I had all of $50 in (including the dye) I feel it keenly for years.
 
About a year ago I lost my "literal EDC" Evo Grip 14; couldn't find it anywhere, didn't even know when or where I lost it.

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Since I liked it so much, and used it so much, I had to find another one, but it was a nine year old release. Finally found one on the bay and snapped it up. Of course, a couple weeks later I found the first one. At least now I can rest easy with a backup!
 
When I was a kid, my main (usually only) pocket knife was a Schrade Old Timer Minuteman - a small pen knife less than 3” long - that my grandpa gave me. Being a kid, I lost at least two of those (maybe three). In my defense, though, they are so small that they are easy to lose in, say, a grassy lawn. They are also so rounded that they are almost as bad as Fisher Space Pens at slipping out of pockets.
 
About 10 or so years ago, out bear hunting with my dad, I was fiddling with my Buck 110 while sitting on a treestump. I somehow ended up setting the knife there beside me and "lost" it, not realizing it was missing until the next day. I had thought maybe it fell out of my pocket somehow, and didn't even think about the fact I had it out while sitting on that stump. Since the stump was about 3 mile uphill hike from our hunting camp, I had a long route of retracing my steps planned out in my mind.

A week later when deer season came in, dad and I made the journey of walking the same meandering hike through the forest, as close as we could remember, all the way back into the woods, eyes to the ground the whole time scanning for my knife. When we got to that stump, there it was, sitting right where I had left it. I was glad to have it back.
 
I lost a Buck 503 recently to airport security. Like a dumbass, I had left it in the coin pocket of my jeans and had to surrender it. I am so used to having a knife there that I completely forgot about it during my self-check for prohibited items. Thank god it was not a hard-to-replace knife, like the 39 Bunny Knife.
 
Lost a Case Trapper deer hunting in the fall. Was turkey hunting the same place in the spring and found it.
Took a little cleaning up as it was carbon and was out for the winter. Still got it.
 
This Tale doesn't have a happy ending- so far.... April 2023 took this GEC 83 to my country house with a few other knives, only days later it seemed to be MIA as I had used a few knives and not missed it. Searched the house the car everywhere but to no avail and it's not been seen since.

I'm certainly not a materialistic person nor possessive over objects, life is really too short to torture yourself with that but I do miss this knife as it gave me a lot of pleasure using it. Replacing it will be next to impossible as it's a GEC and the Stag lottery smiled on me. However, a very decent Stag French knife went MIA in a pair of old jeans lost in a cupboard for SIX years :D and another Fontenille-Pataud in Horn had lodged itself behind a bed-head for about 4 years too, the knife gods smiled, I hope they can smile again😻 Your power of thought and sacrifices are most welcome.

Dickens' Christmas Carol is about change, change from a twisted grasping miser to an altruistic contented man of self-respect, let us not get too attached to things or habits but let's hope a change comes over missing knives and they return to their rightful place / owners :)

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Will Power said:
This Tale doesn't have a happy ending- so far.... April 2023 took this GEC 83 to my country house with a few other knives, only days later it seemed to be MIA as I had used a few knives and not missed it. Searched the house the car everywhere but to no avail and it's not been seen since.

I'm certainly not a materialistic person nor possessive over objects, life is really too short to torture yourself with that but I do miss this knife as it gave me a lot of pleasure using it. Replacing it will be next to impossible as it's a GEC and the Stag lottery smiled on me. However, a very decent Stag French knife went MIA in a pair of old jeans lost in a cupboard for SIX years :D and another Fontenille-Pataud in Horn had lodged itself behind a bed-head for about 4 years too, the knife gods smiled, I hope they can smile again😻 Your power of thought and sacrifices are most welcome.

Dickens' Christmas Carol is about change, change from a twisted grasping miser to an altruistic contented man of self-respect, let us not get too attached to things or habits but let's hope a change comes over missing knives and they return to their rightful place / owners :)

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And it had a shield too!
 
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