Ever found a knife?

i found a schrade old timer (whose edge was fubar by the previous owner) the name E. DAVIS is etched on the spine and i suspect the tip had been broken off and reprofiled bc the blade is short and sticks out of the handle when it's closed. i keep it in my hunting box as a back up back up knife. maybe someday ill grind a new edge for it
 
While working at a movie theater a few years back, people would find knives all the time. Everyone knew I was into knives so they all went to me. The best were both Case Trappers one a Large CV and the other a medium SS. A cop that worked security found a Delica 1 and carried it on duty from then on.

I've also lost knives only to have them be found or returned later. Once in an elevator at the theater which was returned by a coworker. A small SAK in a parking lot, found it hours later after going back to look. And one under the seat of my car, stayed there for about a week.

Been really lucky and have never lost a knife for good.
 
I've found a couple of cheap knives before, never put any of them to use. My brother found a Benchmade Presidio Auto in a Taco Bell parking lot though. It wasn't in very good shape, but he's been using it as a beater ever since.
 
My friend found a kershaw blur before the handle had burn spots on it but it was a decent knife for a find. He wasn't into knives at all he thought it was just a cheap knife like a couple bucks then I pointed out to him it was a decent knife
 
Was helping a nice old lady clean out her house. Found a SAK Camper, a camillus pilot's knife, and an antique Hiram Smith sharpening kit......along with a never fired Taurus model 85 .38 special. Score!
 
I found a Spyderco Rescue in a parking lot while riding my bicycle years ago. It's in my glove box at the moment.
 
found a $20 note at the dump just blowing around , I kept that , found a $50 at the turnstile in the local supermarket , took it tot he managers desk and handed it in , they treated me like a freak .. but took my name and phone number , barely 5 minutes later this girl comes up and asks if I handed it in , I said yes , she hugged me and carried on like I was a saint ... embarrassing I figured $5 no ones going to miss , $50 tho is a fair hole in the shopping budget .. turns out it was her entire budget .
I found a old folder with ebony scales and 1/2 a blade as a kid , ground a new point onto it on the concrete and carried it a while , I suspect one of my parents disappeared it tho . I was about 5 or 6 at the time .
Found a few rusted blades with my metal detector , as well as countless 22 rimfire pellets .
I lost one of the first small knives I made , my wife returned it to me , she'd kinda borrowed it and put it up safe from the kids when she was done , 3 years later she found it again and gave it back . weird but it was like meeting up with an old friend when I held it again .
I lost maybe 2 knives . I have given burials to a lot more stainless ones as their blades failed and I couldnt be stuffed carrying junk , so they landed in a trashcan or got burried near some big tree somewhere , there is going to be some confused archeologists one day .
 
I found an old Spyderco in the seat cushion of a waiting room at a truck repair garage. It was all stainless steel and was missing the clip. That knife would not hold an edge at all! It soured me on Spyderco's ever since. I threw that one out and have never bought one.
 
middleagedmutan said:
Was walking around the reservoir and saw something shiny it was a leatherman wave and than a month latter wife bought me a wave sheath for .50 cents wonder if the sheath the wife found was the original sheath best find ever.
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That is a good one!
 
When I was in the National Guard in the mid 80's I found a Gerber Guardian II camo. We were at our annual 2 week training at some camp and we were on our way to a bridge site and it was laying on the ground. Looked like it had been there a little while. No one knew who's it was or claimed it. I guess it slid out of their sheath.
 
I found a leatherman wave in its sheath in the yard at my old work (a yard similar to a scrap yard), still got that one. I found a no name fixed blade knife with a stacked leather handle in a cash box, under the drivers seat, in the cab of a catering truck that was burned right to the ground. most of the vinyl sheath was still there, but melted, I figured if that was still there the heat treat was probably OK. Cleaned up alright, gave it away. Countless SAK knock-offs, gave them all away. Just the blade and tang from a Solinger skinning knife, in a box of old tools from an auction, its still waiting for a handle. Oh, and in the army I found a woodsman pal under the seat of an Iltis, smuggling that out was'nt easy. Oh, and I had a car drive into the tool box on the side of my garbage truck, after the police were done I was cleaning up the absorb-all that came out of the broken box I found a Tramontia Machete, that came home with me.
 
When I was 10yrs old I lost my beloved Barlow pocket knife in the corn field by my house. 6 years later after the field had been tilled, I found my Barlow knife all rusted up.
 
I found a small collection of knives about 4 years ago when I bought a used pickup truck from a local car lot. About a week after I got the truck I reached into the map pocket of the passenger seatback and found 9 knives. I asked the dealer for the name and number of the previous owner so I could return them. The dealer said he couldn't give me that info and suggested I leave the knives with him. As a compromise I told the dealer I would hold onto the knives and asked him to pass my contact info along to the previous owner. 4 years later I still have the knives...

Starting from the left are 3 Frost Cutlery knives; AK-47 Tactical Fighter, Dirty Bird Folder & a Whitetail Guthook. All 3 are absolute crap. After that is a Kutmaster KM-50. This is my favorite of the bunch. All Chinese knives should be made like this one one. It's my go-to knife at the workbench in my garage. Next up is one of those Smith & Wesson Extreme Ops knives. It's pretty solid but I don't really use it for anything - just sits in a box on a shelf. After that is a no-name, made in China switchblade which is such a piece of shit, it actually makes the Frost group look a little better. Then there's an 'ok' italian made stiletto. I think it's decent quality for what it is, but I still haven't figured out what that knife would be good for - other than a West Side Story prop. The black butterfly is a Bear and the last one is a Benchmade 42.
Overall this found 'collection' effectively doubled my own 'collection'.
 
I've found several of the Victorinox Classics over the years, and a S&W model back in the mid-90's that was one of the cheap FRN-handled, 'surgical stainless' class of knives. It was free, so I wasn't complaining.

But by far, the most unusual find, or finds, rather, was two Victorinox Huntsmans. The first I found in a neighborhood street in the early 90's, and I put wood scales on it. Carried it for 15+ years, then in 2007, about the time I decided to retire it and get a new SAK - I find another Vic Huntsman in the road on the way home one day. :eek:

~Chris
 
I've made several trips into the woods nearby to find my lost Kershaw Cyclone...no luck so far.
 
Found a cheap stainless steel folder on the side walk in downtown Philly visiting my sister there once. Picked it up, no blood on it, so I stuffed it in my pocket. My dad found an old file that was converted into a blade. Had the blacksmith hammer marks and still some file marks on it, Civil War era. It was in an old barn on a nearby farm. He put a new handle on it. Nice D-guard now, looks sweet!
 
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