better to have loved and lost....

[Old Hunter]

I started my career selling wallboard products in 1983; part of the job is going out on complaints and determining whether it is valid (manufacturer issue) or customer error. Also sampling, which is taking pieces of our product from the field and sending them into the lab for analysis - a part of the quality control process. Soon after starting I bought two Schrade penknives, a 108OT and a 808UH, I’d use the Sheepfoot to score and snap wallboard and the end of the Clip to bore into plaster and joint compounds. I lost the Uncle Henry in the first ten years, but managed to hold onto the 108OT until 2005 when I left it on a job site in Fayetteville NC. Went back 20 minutes later but it was gone. Stopped into a hardware store and learned Schrade USA was no more - that led me to looking for the USA made knives that were still in stock, and that led me to hoarding the Schrade USA knives. That was a very expensive loss! OH
Ps, the Uncle Henry was an 807UH, not an 808UH.

 

[hsherzfeld]

I started my career selling wallboard products in 1983; part of the job is going out on complaints and determining whether it is valid (manufacturer issue) or customer error. Also sampling, which is taking pieces of our product from the field and sending them into the lab for analysis - a part of the quality control process. Soon after starting I bought two Schrade penknives, a 108OT and a 808UH, I’d use the Sheepfoot to score and snap wallboard and the end of the Clip to bore into plaster and joint compounds. I lost the Uncle Henry in the first ten years, but managed to hold onto the 108OT until 2005 when I left it on a job site in Fayetteville NC. Went back 20 minutes later but it was gone. Stopped into a hardware store and learned Schrade USA was no more - that led me to looking for the USA made knives that were still in stock, and that led me to hoarding the Schrade USA knives. That was a very expensive loss! OH

Same here. I’ve over-compensated for the Schrades that I lost as a child by purchasing far too many 108OTs and 104OTs. Not that there really is such a thing as too many.

 

[Rookie82]

Carl, what condition was it in after a week in the wild?

The brass had started to fade just slightly. Otherwise, perfect. Buck makes a hearty knife.

 

[CelloDan]

"better to have loved and lost ... and found "

I lost my treasured Medium Case Stockman this past January when it fell out of my pocket in the snow on my driveway.
I found it 3 days later when the snow had melted on a warmer day.
A very fortunate event as another snowstorm buried us that evening.

A few years ago when new

Over the yeas the bone discolored a bit

FOUND

A bit of rust and dirt to show for it's reckless adventure

Nothing that a good cleaning and some Flitz could not handle.
The bone discolored a bit more after exposure to the elements and the driveway salt.
It don't matter, I am so happy is back with me

 

[kamagong]

"better to have loved and lost ... and found "

I found a long lost knife recently as well.

My sister bought a new couch. In prepping the space for the new addition, my brother-in-law heard something rattling underneath the old one. As it was going to be thrown away, he cut open the bottom liner and found this inside.

There were some pepper spots on the blade, but luckily the edge was still clean.

 

[ISKRA]

Since I posted this one in the Totting thread today ....

This 66 slim was a gift from our good Will Power a few years ago. It was my first GEC and the only one I kept. One summer day it went missing and I couldn't find it anywhere. The shorts I was wearing had pockets made for stuff falling out and I guess while I was shifting gears the movement of the leg was enough for it to slip out. I found it in the car seat after almost a year. Something told me check once again and I pushed my hand in deeper. Survived quite well, no rust formed. Now I take better care of minding all my knives, not just this one.