Casualties - Knives You've Beaten, Broke, Lost, or Just Destroyed

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steelscout30

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I was sitting around thinking of all my fine knives and tools that have been misplaced or just plain quit on me over my years as a collector (which really aren't extensive as I'm making it sound...I've only be a edge afficianado for five years), and was wondering what all my fellow knifenuts' experiences were!

Mine include:
I lost my first Buck Hartsook out of its sheath will it was riding at my keychain at work;

My Cold Steel X2 Voyager's serrations were destroyed after a bout with some apparently knotty vegetation around a campsite I was clearing for a local Boy Scout camp;

A missing Spyderco Delica4 after a recent trip to the Philmont Scout Ranch, whether it was misplaced or kept by a staffer or fellow crew member as an ill-gotten souvenior remains to be seen. Thank God it was only a backup for my Military;

A lost Spyderco Pacific Salt after a quasi-water resuce (search the forums for that story!);

And several other good stories that are elusive in my mind at the moment...

Please share yours!

God bless.

KATN,

Wade
 
A Wusthof Classic filet knife that I beat to crap on a Chef's Choice 130 electric sharpener. Luckily it only took one knife to learn never to use that thing again.

An old Spyderco Endura combo edge that saw so much use the points on the serrations rounded off. It was retired with honor.
 
I dropped two knives on cement...a BM 707, and a Case Canoe...

Aluminium handles look like shit after you drop them...
 
Broke a Mora 760mg seeing how far it would bend before snapping. Bent about 90 degrees and snapped.

Many knives of mine were hammered through co-ax cable during a comparison I did following up some testing I was doing with my UKPK.

My kuhkuri has been beaten for years.
 
I lost a small chinese buck knife at summer camp a few years ago.
Many of my knives were horribly chipped because I am too nice to not lend out a knife, but I sharpend the chips out.
I took apart my paraframe and use the blade, which is duller than a butter knife, as a firesteel styker; it works brilliantly.
 
My only casualties are a few knives I've lost in the last 50 years.
 
Sigh.

I lost my first Spyderco E4 last year after I was sitting on a couch in my Dorm's lobby, took the knife out to cut something but didn't put it back in my pocket all the way, and when I got up it fell out. I went back to my 3rd floor dorm room, and about 30 minutes later discovered it gone. When I got back down stairs to the couch.. she was already gone. :( I got another one though. :)

My Spyderco native fell off a table and landed tip first into the tile floor. Tip broke off, and I've never used it since.

Then there was the time I used a brand new never used cold steel night force on a cardboard box and the first cut took 3 chips out of the blade. Put it in a case and have never used it since.
 
Broke the tip off a RAT Cutlery RC3 by using it as a prybar. RAT replaced it no problem. Definitely good people to deal with.
 
...lost a Lg Sebenza in the Arkansas River in 2005... in a little class IIV rapid called "Big Drop."
 
Lost my large classic Sebenza at a party. Made a note to self, do not bring the expensive knives with you when intending to get plastered.

Lost my JYD-II with the composite blade because the stupid POS pocketclip it has bent out and the knife fell out of my pocket. Ironic thing was that I was on my way to borrow someone's Torx set to get it removed when it happened. Made me very sad, 'cuz I was really looking forward to using it without the clip attached. Seemed like a sweet knife otherwise.
 
...I also lost my first good knife... a Boker canoe, in the Rio Grande... circa 1997... It was back when class II border crossings were legal coming back from Boquillas Mexico... man those were the days...
 
Broke a stilleto by merely dropping it in a parking lot. Wouldn't deploy after that. Bent the tip of a Kershaw Scallion after it just arrived in the mail. I took it out of the box, opened it and then dropped it on the linoleum floor where the tip bent on impact.
 
Back in the day, at the bar, I was gooned up and my Red Spyderco Endura never made it home. Someone got a nice knife that night!
 
The worst casualty I've ever had was losing my treasured Tekna skeleton folder when I was a kid. I spent hours, days, weeks, months looking for that thing- never did find it. That was a really cool knife, I'd really like to get a replacement someday. I lost my Spyderco Walker that I'd been EDCing- I'd carried it for around 2 years and was devastated when I lost it. I kept looking for it and eventually found it a couple weeks later in some weeds on the path in between the bar and my cabin. It had some light rusting/ pitting, but it cleaned up fine, I still have it, but it's retired now.

I lost my favorite Benchmade 940 because I got in a fight at a friend's party. Some drunk jerk started smashing furniture against the walls and I took it upon myself to escort him outside and mash his face in. I took the knife out of my pocket and tossed it on a table before I set to, because I didn't want to lose my temper and shank the guy in a rage, or have him pull it out of my pocket and stick me with it. The guy had a couple inches and probably 40 pounds on me, but he was so drunk and stupid, I just took him apart. After I kicked dude's ass, I completely forgot about my knife until the next day. I went back to my friend's house and the knife was gone.

I busted the tips off of some of the serrations on my Voyager XL- so that went into the retirement bin as well. Other than that, my knives have been just fine. I did horribly mangle my Busse BATACLE in a fit of drunken concrete chopping- but that's just scratching on the side of the blade- cosmetic damage only.
 
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I've destroyed quite a few cheap imports, mostly to satisfy my curiosity about the strength of various lock types, "mystery Steel" edge holding, etc. I've destroyed a few Gerbers, S&W's, M-Techs, etc.

I carried an old SAK Huntsman for 15 years, and finally decided to retire that one and get a new one. It still worked pretty well, but it needed a break.

The worst thing, though, was having my knife collection stolen back in the mid-1990's. :grumpy: :thumbdn:

thx - cpr
 
A cheap-o WalMart machete bent after two whacks, then broke 5 minutes later. That's whay my brother gets for buying crap.
My wife broke my Gerber EZ-Out (the older, good ones) by trying to pry open a window with it.
I lost a Victorinox Pruner in the store when I didn't realize that I had a hole in my pocket.
My Victorinox Explorer was stolen from my car when the wife left it unlocked.
Cold Steel Voyager broke when it was dropped onto the pavement from a moving car. 25MPH killed it.
A Mora 510 broke when it was used to baton with.
A Cold Steel Finn Bear broke from "testing".
I snapped the blade on my friend's rip-off Vaquero with my hands to show how crappy it was; then I gave him a Delica.
 
I dropped a Gerber Mark 1 in my parents' driveway about 20 years ago, broke 1/2" off the tip.

I lost a Victorinox SAK, a Gerber Multitool,and a Buck 110.
 
I thought I lost my Vic huntsman on the King and Queens seat in Rocks State Park. Nah, just in the bathroom at home.
 
Boye Prophet Companion-Sharpened to a toothpic from cutting fireproofing at work

Buck Scout Lite-Same result as above due to 10 years of EDC. Recently raised from the dead with an at-home regrind and kick filing to keep the point in the handle. Its more of a zombie than an actual resurrection though. It looks terrible.

Schrade Peanut-Lost probably 10 years of life after cleaning it up after it spent a winter on the patio. On the up side, it was the first knife I convexed fully, and was the first one to whittle hair. Currently carried occasionally, and used to remove splinters.

Old Hickory Boning Knife-Same fate as the Boye, plus the handles split and came off.
 
Only knife I've lost is an Endura 3, which did not make me happy but isn't the end of the world. Have misplaced several, but they usually end up being located next to the driver's seat in my vehicle. Would hate to lose a spendy knife, and I won't even carry one that has sentimental value.
 
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