Ever found a knife?

My real knife accumulating started back in the 80s I was working as a mechanic at a uniform rental place and the guy's that supported the clothes always found knives in the bins and when I took the dryers apart to clean all the call out there was always money, jewelry and knives.

These guys had been doing this for so long they were happy to have a new guy to give knives to, they each had hundreds so whenever they found them they gave them to me. The first knife they have me was an SAK Executive, after that I had accumulated about 50 knives, most cheap but at least 1 out of 5 knives was mid range in the.$40-$50 range.

It was the beginning of a long and obsessive illness.;)
 
T. Erdelyi said:
My real knife accumulating started back in the 80s I was working as a mechanic at a uniform rental place and the guy's that supported the clothes always found knives in the bins and when I took the dryers apart to clean all the call out there was always money, jewelry and knives.

These guys had been doing this for so long they were happy to have a new guy to give knives to, they each had hundreds so whenever they found them they gave them to me. The first knife they have me was an SAK Executive, after that I had accumulated about 50 knives, most cheap but at least 1 out of 5 knives was mid range in the.$40-$50 range.

It was the beginning of a long and obsessive illness.;)
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Haha nice i love my SAKs some of my favorites do you still have all of them? post a pic:thumbup:
 
I found a Spyderco SSK-3259 AUS-8 (ENDURA WITH 3 1/4" FULLY SERRATED G-2 STAINLESS STEEL BLADE. 4 3/4" CLOSED. BLACK ZYTEL HANDLES WITH BLACK PLASTIC POCKET CLIP. LOCKBACK DESIGN). It was almost 20 years ago and I still have it. It is still in great shape.
 
One evening while fishing, I came upon a Case 6165 in new condition near where it's former owner cleaned his trout.
Several years later I was dragging a seven point out of the woods. At the muddy parking lot I saw a knife that was working it's way up out of the ground from ruts made by the traffic. As if my day wasn't going well enough, there was a Western 648. From it's condition, it was there at least a year or so. From the location, I assumed it slid off of someone's belt at their vehicle. After some judicious cleaning, it took and held a nice edge and saw it's fair share of whitetails in the years to come.
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I used to work with a fine saw filer named Jack Walker. He kept a box of items resawyers hit while sawing lumber. Mostly broad heads, bullets, forester's bits, insulators etc. He told me of a sawyer at another sawmill hitting a knife that the tree had completely grown around. Someone stuck it in a tree and left it there many years before. Naturally, I asked for more details about the knife but he didn't know any more about it.
 
I have found a lot of knives over the years, though I had not found any in a while lately. I found a homemade Sharpfinger hunting, found a cheapy bootknife walking, I found a Gerber multi-tool beside a lake, found a Victorinox Mauser at a rest area, found a Green River buff skinner overlooking a spring, found a Boker Peanut under a giant pine tree, found an opened Buck Ranger in an old shed, found a few (2) lockback utility knives in the street, found a Scandi Martini in a rental house, Probably the most interesting was while sitting under an old growth pine, I got a brilliant idea of feeling under the layer of pine needles I was sitting on, I found an old Swiss Army knife that somebody lost while sitting in the exact same spot I was !
 
Years ago, my unit was conducting a scheduled sweep of a disused military facility. Nothing special, we call it "walking the dog" because that's basically what it is. My sergeant at the time, a man who was constantly borrowing my leatherman, was on point and saw something glint in a corner. Turns out it was a Victorinox Swisstool Spirit with sheath in mint condition. Sergeant never had to borrow my leatherman again and that Swisstool is still kicking on his LBE.
 
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