blades lost and found

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We have all lost blades and grieved over that loss. I lost a Buck Special fixed blade sheath knife. I had been carrying it in the field for several years and it was an old and trusted tool.

Living in a relatively remote rural area I have also found a certain number of blades. The best were a couple of Buck Cadets and a Buck Ranger.

What have you folks lost and found ?
 
I lost one of my favorite knives on the railroad tracks about two years ago. For the next two days I searched up and down the entire mile-long length of track I had been on, in 90+ degree heat, and found nothing. Then, finally, a week later, I just happened to find it while I was on the tracks again. I wasn't even looking for it, I'd given up by then. But, the next day, I had lost it again! :eek: I figured it must've fallen on the tracks again, so I did the searching routine over again, but never found it. I was still hurting over the loss of that thing until about a month ago when I found it again! And do you know where I found it? In the damn couch. :grumpy:

It fell out of my pocket and under the cussion, not on the tracks. And there it sat, for two years, under the cussion... I don't know if I was more relieved or infuriated when I found it, but I'm glad to have it back.
 
First one lost (four years ago): Cold Steel Medium Tanto plain edge Voyager on a bus while on a business trip in the UK.

Second loss (two years ago): William Henry T-10 CF Lancet in a limo at a trade show in Las Vegas (Ouch!) in a hurry to make a meeting.

Third Loss (4 months ago): Plain Small Sebenza in a cab at the same damn trade show in Las Vegas while taking my wife to a Blue Man Group show, in a hurry.

Fourth Loss (two months ago): The plain edge medium Tanto Cold Steel Voyager I bought to replace the other one I lost in the UK. This one was stolen from my car while Valet parket at the Airport Hilton in Los Angeles.

I've learned two lessons here:

Don't leave knives in the car because valets will steal them

Don't ever reach into your right front pocket to grab your money clip to pay the driver of a hired car in Las Vegas while in a hurry to get to some event, but still sitting in the hired car. What seems to happen is that because you're in Las Vegas you probably have more cash in your money clip than I usually do on an average day. This thicker stack of bills is just enough to catch on, and completely and silently cause any knife that was formerly clipped to your right front pocket, to slip out into the back ot the hired car and perhaps fall between the seats never to be seen again.

In both teh Hilton parking case and the cab companies, I contacted management, security and lost and found, but of course never saw any of them again.

I REALLY hate losing knives.

jmx
 
OK, now for something less depressing (at least for me) -- About 10 years ago, I *found* a high-end, all-the-bells-&-whistles SAK in a trailhead parking lot. I posted a sign on the trailhead bulletin board & reported it to the ranger station as well, but nobody ever called & I've used it every since. It is good around the house for chores like (for example) picture hanging -- the awl makes a nice starter hole for a molly bolt in sheetrock, & the phillips head driver is stout enough to finish the job. The saw blades on these knives are also quite impressive.

Best,

Andrew
 
Lost my Swiss Army knife I'd carried since High School when my rucksack waistband pushed it out of the sheath during a long walk. Still miss it. Found a nice Gerber Mark II stuck in a dirt bank on the edge of Sicily DZ at Ft. Bragg many years back. More recently, I left my Benchmade AFCK on the rear bumper of a rental moving truck as I helped a friend load up for a move. The knife made it from Co. Springs, CO to Lawton, OK before he found it. I finally got it back and all was well. Experiences like these tend to give a knife more personal value.
 
For about six weeks in December-January I lost my medium Mayo TNT. Yeah, yeah, a TNT. I was fricking scatterbrained! I tore my house up, my car, my desk at work. Nothing. I even advised my three boys and wife that I would give them a $50 reward if they found the knife. I am at work after I had taken down the Christmas tree and my wife calls up and says "I want my $50" (all I was thinking is......the TNT has been found!) Yep, she found it putting away christmas ornaments. It had fallen into one of the storage boxes. Talk about almost havinga heart attack!:rolleyes:
 
I just lost my Benchmade 550 Griptilian. It's "only" a $60 knife, but it was my EDC and I felt naked without it. Turned the house upside down with no luck. I think I knocked it out of my pocket with the handle of a rake or shovel while taking up bark in my yard. If so, it's probably in one of the 3' high piles of bark in my back yard and I may find it when I haul off the bark. I bought another one.

I lost a Case Sodbuster when I was a teenager and swore off black handled knives for a while. I'm thinking about buying a Griptilian Trainer for the red handles and "spare" axis cartridge.

I've never found a lost knife. I lost some sunglasses on a hike once and found them a year or two later. A buddy unzipped the top pocket of my pack to hand me my water bottle. When I bent down to fill it, the glasses fell in the stream and got washed over a waterfall. The next summer I hiked to the bottom of the falls, spotted the glasses and took a VERY cold swim to get them . . .
 
Today I found an old slipjoint while hiking. The handles are solid brass with wood inlay. It's an ugly beast about 4.5" long 7/8" wide & 2/3" thick. The curious thing is it has a second blade that I don't have a clue what it's for. It is shaped like a scythe or a letter "j" with only the bottom of the "j" sharpened. It only opens about 45 degrees and is spring loaded so that it snaps shut, a second piece comes up simultaneously when the J is opened and catches on a notch in the middle of the J. This second piece extendes through the handle when it opens to a lever on the opposite side. When the lever is sqeezed, the piece releases the J and it snaps shut. There is a round hole about 4mm diameter at the blade end that runs almost the length of the handle.
Antbody have a clue what this is?

P.S.
The cool thing is it has a convex gring on the knife blade and it's still sharp!
 
I have a Shrade Stockman that's been lost and found several times. Once, I left it sitting around in the house and my dad hid it from me as a joke, then forgot about it for the next year. So I went crazy looking everywhere for it, tore up my room and the rest of the house, asked everyone if they had seen it anywhere, asked dad no fewer than five time if he had hidden it, then finally found it in one of our kitchen cupboards about a year after I had stopped looking. I gave dad quite a bit of grief over that one. Then I recently left it in the pocket of my Class A uniform, then hung it in the closet and forgot about it. I went crazy looking for it then too. I also once lost a Spyderco Delica at the county fair, spent hours backtracking, then found it clipped to the seatbelt in my car. I promptly lost it for good the very next day, I still have no idea where it went. I've never been fortunate enough to find anything I haven't lost though.
 
i found a camillus knife, its like one of the kabar usmc knives, i still use it all the time
 
I have misplaced plenty of knives but to my knowledge I haven't lost any. My almost-heartattack was when my small Sebenza fell into my future brother-in-law's couch. Luckily I noticed it before I left and tore the couch apart looking for it.
Matt
 
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