Ever have a knife come home?

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Two or three months ago. I discovered that my Little Spyderco Harpy, old knife with Gin-1 stainless had wandered off. I was kinda perplexed because I usually only use it in the summer at the beach...Lake etc. Its my "around water" knife. Summer was fast approaching and I couldn't find it. I took apart my closet...clothes hamper..My safe...my toy room...all the drawers in my nightstand. Went through my car...my locker at work...My desk at work. I rooted around on top of the TV..bookshelves and kitchen drawers. I then searched behind the washer/dryer...utility room shelves and around the computer. I then resorted to going through pockets of all the clothes in my closet. I finally mentioned to my wife that I was looking for a knife I had lost. (the description of the knife didn't really help...I got kind of a blank stare and a "don't you have another knife just like that? Why is that one suddenly so important?" I reminded myself that this was the mother of my children and she should be treated with the appropriate respect)

I finally gave up. She was starting to look at me as if therapy might be a viable option regarding this bizarre obsession I seem to have developed for a particular knife. I made plans to wander to the next gun show and just get another one.

We were getting ready to go out and see a movie Friday night and I happened to wander into her closet to talk to her while we were getting ready. There...laying on her closet shelf..at eye level..was my Harpy. "Hey!!! thats the knife I've been looking for!!! What in the world is it doing here????" "Oh...That knife? You handed that to me months ago when I told you I had to work late...."

Anybody else had a knife wander off like that and finally come back home wagging its little tail behind it? If so..how long was it gone and how obvious a place was it in when you found it again?
 
Missing one Spyderco/Howard Viele SP42P I lost it/missplaced it, don't remember what the f**k I did with it, if you see it please send it home, I miss it very much, and I'm sure it misses all its family.

In case you don't know what it looks like here's a picture.


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My wife thinks I'm nuts cause I keep lookin' everywhere, I've cleaned out the sofa 10 times already, gone through every pocket in the house, turned all the cars inside out.

I know it'll turn up someday, cause I misplaced a BM Mini-Reflex once before, it was MIA for about 3-4 years than 1 day I moved a box in my barn and there it was. Lost a blackie Collins Buddy knife once went MIA for 2 years then I decided to take my canoe out for a cruise and there it was wrapped to a cross bar from the last time I went out with the Canoe:D
 
Once went out drinking with a few buddies and got pretty hammered on cheap brandy. I gave my M16 to a girl friend of mine for self protection (she had to bus home). I drank so much that I had no idea that I had done that.

For the next week I was practically crying over that knife. I know it's a fairly inexpensive knife but I was pretty attached to this particular CRKT of mine.

Anyway I called her some time later and she told me that she had it. I cannot begin to explain the happiness I felt when she said that...
 
I'm sorry to say, but I've got you guys trumped on this one. I am still trying to figure out what happened to my Randall Model 18. Every so often, I rip the house apart.:rolleyes:
 
A few months ago I misplaced my De Villiers ExecTac Spearpoint while visiting my mother. I noticed it was missing when I looking through my check in baggage outside of the airport. I admit that I thought the worst, that maybe it was taken while in baggage handling. Fortunately, when I visited my Mom again, it turned out that the knife had fallen into my bed. Needless to say, it is good to know that I did not lose a custom folder!:D
 
I am waiting for a miracle to show me where I left my (also inexpensive) AirSOG. Last I saw it I was placing some pink insulation in the attic, prior to blowing in another 14" of pink "fluff". I KNOW it's up there somewhere...:(

At least I know it's safe and warm...;)
 
Originally posted by Bobby B
I am waiting for a miracle to show me where I left my (also inexpensive) AirSOG.
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That's hilarious...Not that you lost it, but that I also lost an AirSOG over 7 or 8 years ago and it still hasn't turned up. Must be something about the AirSOG. It wasn't the best knife, or the most expensive knife, but it hurts any time you lose a knife.

I also lost an old Bucklite close to around the time that I lost the AirSOG, but just a week or two ago, my mom pops into my room and asks, "is this yours?" Man it feels good to find one. I'm also still missing a Gil Hibben thrower that I lost in the middle of the knife while throwing at a wooden stump in a park. The sad thing about that one is that that was the first time I tried it and I never saw it again. Bummer.

Hmmm...I notice that all the knives I lost didn't have pocket clips--I'd better keep an eye on my balisongs.
 
When I was in high school, I lost the first good quality knife I ever bought: a Schrade stockman with delrin handles. I was in the midst of a BB gun fight me and my friends would take part in once and a while. It's probably still lying out there in the woods somewhere.
 
Lost a few SAKs in my younger days, but nothing else.

Misplaced my Military for a while. Could have sworn I left it in my friend's basement but it wasn't there when I visited again. Finally found it in a couch in his house upstairs. Atleast I was right about what house it was in.

Thank god for pocket clips!

I took a nasty capsize sailing with a friend about two weeks ago. I was sure that my Merlin was sinking to the river bottom but I was too concerned with getting my friend out from under the boat. When we got the boat back over again and climbed in, I patted myself down. My Merlin was still securely clipped to my shorts, despite the fabric being very thin! Thanks, Sal!
 
Had a Syderco Endura go astray twice. The first time I had loaned it to a friend while we were working on his boat. We were rebuilding it from the hull up. After a full day of work I asked for the knife back. It was gone. We tore the area up looking for it. No luck! I figured was a lost cause. Two years later, we dry docked the boat. I was in the bilge area checking on the pumps when I saw a black mass in a little bit of water. I reached down and picked it up, and sure enough it was the endura. Covered in thick black slime but none the worse for wear.

The second time I had it in my sap pocket when I got into a foot chase. By the time I got back to the cruiser I noticed that it was gone. No bother even looking for it. No telling where it got lost at. Once again it was written off. Now you LEOs out there know that you mark your name on everything you carry. So I had with my endura. Name R.Clark and badge # 145. About two months later another officer stopped me in the parking lot. He asked if I had lost a knife in a certian area. I said sure did but that was a couple months ago. Well with a big smile he handed me my knife back. Seemed that he was looking for some drugs that a suspect had thrown and found the knife in some underbrush!

I have since retired that knife in favor of a Crawford Leopard. Now For the last several years it has been gone again. Maybe one day it will find its way home again!
 
Originally posted by Bobby B
I am waiting for a miracle to show me where I left my (also inexpensive) AirSOG. Last I saw it I was placing some pink insulation in the attic, prior to blowing in another 14" of pink "fluff". I KNOW it's up there somewhere...:(

At least I know it's safe and warm...;)
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You could rent/borrow a metal detector and see if you could locate it, that much steel's gotta make it easier to fing.:)
 
about 25 years ago, my father decided to hide a S&W 9mm in the house (under pressure from my Mom, she had guests coming over).

You guessed it, he hid it so well, he couldn't find it. Searched the house, etc... and absolutely nothing, it was no where to be found!

Fast forward 24 years, Dad is selling his house and moving into Independent Living. My brother and I figure that as we pack up and throw out, surely the Smith will turn up. No doing, we even searched through all the attic rafters, etc... since the new buyers have four small kids, we need to be absolutely sure the thing isn't hidden somewhere. The attorney advises us that we need to tell the buyers, so we do so and give them a picture of the gun.

About two months after closing, we get a call form the buyer, he has found the pistol, in the basement on top of an air vent in a small back room. He, being a non-gun sort, called his neighbor who had been in the military. They unloaded it and took the bullets to the Police Station! (They were "cop-killer bullets", you see).

All's well that ends well, at least the kids didn't find it!
 
About 4 years ago, I misplaced one of those Hen & Rooster folders. You know the expensive one that has the super thin blade, supposedly only recommended for cutting flesh. Also, mine was probably one of the older ones with collector value. This knife, I could not find to save my life. I ended up finding it several months later in my Stepson's room. The blade had the tip broken off, the edge deformed and chipped and was covered in bong resin. I still have the knife, but the blade wont close.
 
Anthony Cheeseboro: Fell into your bed??:eek: :eek: You are a very lucky guy.:D I wish something that exotic would find it's way into my bedroll.:cool:
 
Still looking for SAK Pharmacist model. Not expensive, I was given
it by a rep. Had a great cotton pick attached for removing cotton
from prescription bottles. Don't know if they even make it anymore.

Mike
 
We recently moved across the big water. I was Fed Exing my computer and some other items, the rest was going on the ship. My wife and son went a few weeks before me to stay with her parents and find us a place to live. I had split up my collection, about 40 knives, and packed them in two of the Fed Ex boxes with the computer being shipped to my inlaws. I thougt all was well when my wife told me my son had gotten them out and showed them to his Grandpa. After I arrived and asked where the knives were he brought me one container. I asked where the other one was, he did not know. No problem I thought, I had not unpacked the computer. Opened the monitor box where I remembered packing the second half of the knives, not there. I tore open the box with my hard drive, no knives. There had been workers in the new house fixing things before I arrived and I figured they lifted half of my collection. Needless to say I was very depressed. These are not cheap knives, none under $100.00, some much more. My wife felt very bad for leaving them in the new house unattended with repairmen in the house. Luckly, I kept my thoughts and words to myself. Moving had been stressful enough for all of us. I was so bummed that I did not even want to go to the Eugene show, I did not want to even look at knives. A few weeks later when the cable guy was coming to hook up the internet, I unpacked the rest of my computer. Guess what was packed in with the printer???? Yep, I then remembered moving them from the monitor box to the printer box. Good thing this was a week before the Eugene show, we went and had a great time.
 
I lost a Case Sodbuster about 6 years ago. Found it last month in the bottom of an old back pack.
 
I lost this knife in the Missouri Breaks during a canoe trip 6 years ago. My brother found it with a metal detector yesterday. It is really still quite sharp. The blade is D-2 and the handles are Bighorn Sheep. The handles didnt fare too well.
 

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