Favorite Lost Knives

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Trixwagen

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Everytime I own a knife I actually like, I lose it. I just lost my CRKT M16-14T. I think I lost it in a Japanese movie theater watching that ridiculous Harry Potter movie. I still don't know the weapons laws here. Maybe I'd get in trouble for carrying it if I try to claim it at the lost and found. Call me paranoid. I lost a Benchmade knife a few years back. Both times the knife apparently fell out of my back pocket even though I was using the clip. I almost never carry my knives that way, probably for this reason. I thought the CRKT was too big to lose, if that makes any sense. At least I have an excuse now to buy a new one..
 
Trixwagen said:
Both times the knife apparently fell out of my back pocket even though I was using the clip. I almost never carry my knives that way, probably for this reason. I thought the CRKT was too big to lose, if that makes any sense.
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Sorry to hear about your losses.

Perhaps the reason the knives apparently fell out of your back-pocket despite the clip and being big - could be just because they were big.......

when sitting down often longer/bigger knives ride up in the back-pocket - so that they might become unclipped. Sliding down in the seat, a natural movement to get comfortable - could ease the knife further out of the pocket - to the point where if sitting long enough - the knife could eventually fall out of the back-pocket without one knowing about it - especially in a movie theatre - since one's attention is rivetted to the screen.....

Also a large knife clipped to the back-pocket could be quite noticable -
so could there be a possibility that your (back) pocket was picked?

Thanks for letting us know of your experiences.

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Vincent

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Picked? Maybe. I don't think the Japanese reputation for total honesty and zero crime is exactly accurate.
 
Oh man this topic is painful to even think about!

I have lost a few knives over the years, but the ones that really bug me are:

1. The first pocket knife I ever had, given to me by my father when I was 7 and promptly lost it like 7 year olds do. Can't even remember the name or brand, but he died when I was 9 so that's the main knife i would love to have found.

2. A Schrade folding hunter single blade BIG lockback that had the older high carbon blade and I have gun blued it.

3. A Colt Police Positive folder by United. (yeah I know most people hate them, but I kinda liked this knife)
 
I haven't lost a knife in almost 12 years. (Knock on wood) Luckily, the knives I used to own were junk back then. There was one Frost Coon Skinner with a scrimshawn eagle on the front bone scale. I bought it for $25, and that was a lot of money at that age. (15) It was actually pretty good quality, being made in Japan. A few years later when I went off to college, I must have layed it down when cutting up boxes at the restaurant I worked at. That was the last knife I lost. I missed it at the time, but that prompted me to start looking into knives more seriously, and thus began my journey for the perfect knife.

DD
 
I had a knife when I was a young teen. It was a cheepie, under 20 bucks easy, with a bright orange pocket clip. It would take an edge like you wouldn't believe, but I dropped it somewhere on a huge hill with a 50 acre meadow below, with rocks on one side. I've tried to find a new one ever since with no success :(
 
The lost knife that bugs me the most is a Victorinox Huntsman that used to belong to my mother. I thought it might turn up when my wife and I moved a few years ago, but no luck, and now I am pretty sure it will never turn up :( I've since purchased another Huntsman, but unfortunately, it lacks the sentimental value the other one had.

--Josh
 
1978 Gerber Paul first edition Coco Bolo scales, saved for the summer to buy it new from the sporting goods store in Canton, Ohio Very expensive knife for me (I was 17). Lost it somewhere here in California around 1986 from my right front pocket.

Spyderco Endura II. Was my EDC. Lost three years ago near Neptune's Net, Malibu.
I was walking around the surf and it was in my RB Pocket. Now carry a Spyderco Military.

Spyderco Police Titanium (worth 300.00) and an Anderson bowie (worth 450.00) Both stolen by the neighbor kid along with a Model 29 S&W and .38 S&W Airweight.
Cops caught him with the rest of my stolen property, but the knives and guns were gone.
 
As far as losing knives go, I' ve got to be the luckest man on this forum. Ten years ago I bought a serrated Spyderco Endura. It was my first quality knife I bought. I've lost this knife about 5-6 times, but it has always made it back to me. I've broke the pocket clip about 4 times or more. The first time I broke it, I sent it back for repairs. They cut what was left of the clip off and put a metal one on. A few months later, snaged it on a cabinate door and broke it again, Sent it back and they replaced it. After it got sent back 4-5 more times Spyderco fixed it, sent me a spare and gave the the order number. They said I would have to buy any other clips I broke. I have used the spare clip, but it's still on it right now. I figured after losing it and breaking the clip so many times, it was time for it to go into semi- retirment. It still comes out to handle any task that would need a knife with a full serrated blade for. But I don't use it for EDC anymore. I figure my luck has to run out sometime.
 
I hate losing knives, period. Even if they're cheapies, because they are worth more to me than the cost.

1) Eagle Cutlery all SS lockback I had my mom mail-order from Sears for me when I was about 15 or 16. Lost it in a move about 7 years ago. Worst part was it was in a leather sheath I had made myself and attached a spring clip to.

2) Meyerco Bolt-Action. Lost about 2 years ago. Didn't love the knife, but it's cool because of the lock, and flat ground. Didn't like it enough to buy another, but miss it anyway.

3) Meyerco Speed Demon. Lost at Newark airport while boarding a plane, due entirely to my own stupidity. Forgot it was clipped to the side pocket of my carry-on backpack. Came there by private car, nowhere to drop it. At least I wasn't arrested.

4) Delica. My first good knife after getting hooked on KFC and BFC. My "go-to" knife that I alwys came back to even after my collection went into double-digits. Lost within the last 6 months in another move. Still hoping it turns up.

5) Ka-Bar Dozier. Lost within the last 3 days. This has got to turn up somewhere.
4)
 
Lost a Japanese 5 piece damascus kitchen knife set ( I purchased them in Japan about 8 years ago), cost over $2000. They ended up with my first wife.
She was a great house keeper - she married, she divorced, she kept the house.
 
I lost my Spyderco Endura. It was my EDC for over 10 years and a perfect compangon for the Chinook2 which i use as secondary.
The Endura will be replaced with a Rat Tail very soon hopefully :D

I keep thinking about it on daily base :(
All i got left is a small clip that i recorded with my phone when i tried to show how to open back locks savely ;)
Attention: Blurry little .avi that opens immidiatly.
 
I've lost 3 that I really regret. One was a Spyderco Q with the Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) logo in the blade, which was a gift from my mom. My very first Swiss army, which my Dad gave me when I turned 8 and another Swiss which I got when I was a lot older. Really wish I still had the one from my dad though. It wasn't a big model, only had 1 blade and scissors but it got me interested in knives.
Lagarto
 
The only knives I lost were stolen at the same time. They were a Victorinox Soldier (a '92 hollow rivet) and a actual German army pocket knife. Ive since bought replaements for both, a Wenger Standard Issue and a Italian made copy of GAK (POS! It hurts to open blades, it's that blasted tight!).
I have found a knife someone else lost: a Spyderco Delica! :D It had the one-piece clip/handle, which broke off a few years back, but I fixed with coat-hanger wire and a dab of JB Weld(TM). The pocket clip broke off while sitting on a couch wit ha loose weave cover, got caught in the weave, and when I got up the knife stayed in my back pocket and the clip stayed on the couch! :rolleyes:

Matt in Texas
 
I lost a Mayo'd small sebenza, that hurt bad. I had it on me when I left the house, didn't use it while I was gone once, and when I came home it wasn't in my pocket anymore. I have no idea what happened to it :confused: :(
 
Seems like the only ones I manage to lose are ones that I'm most attached to.
When I was a kid, and in the Boy Scouts, my grandfather gave me a Boker Tree Brand slipjoint. One of the big ones with a clip point blade, and a filet blade. One of my buddies lost it for me on a campout.
First knife I remember actually buying for myself was a Case drop point hunter. Beautiful knife, with beautiful handles, and a basketweave flap sheath. Apparently lost it during a move when I was in high school.

Fast forward 16-17 years, to my recently lost Victorinox Recruit. I had a black one and a red one. The red one had been seriously abused, and looked horrible, but still functioned perfectly in every way. It was the trusted one, the "good" one. The one I went nowhere without.
I was changing the oil, and topping off fluids in my truck, and had the hood up with wiper fluid, transmission fluid, oil treatment, stuff like that, and had used the knife to cut the inside seal on a couple of them. When I gathered up all my junk, I left the knife sitting there, under the hood. I was a day late remembering it:(
 
I lost my first 110. I carried that knife everyday for about ten years. Lost it in a drunken stupor. The police took an old CASE sodbuster away from me that had belonged to an old woodsman that was given to me by my friend "his grandson" shortly after I lost my 110.
I lost a small CASE fixed blade that had belonged father. I was carrying it in my back pocket while woods walking and didn't make it back to the truck with it.
Last but not least I lost a CASE stockman given to me by my Grandfather. I would give up all the knives I have to get that one back.
 
The two knives I lost that bug me the most are a mini Spyderco Jess Horn with a white micarta handle and a flat ground blade. My wife gave it to me for our first anniversary and she still gets pissed when she remembers that I lost it! Telling her that the fact I was carrying it meant that I really liked it does not help. :o The other lost knife that still bugs me was a small framelock Obenauf Model 2 that I lost trying on coats at an outlet store. I had waited eight months and shelled out some dough for that knife. Losing it was no fun at all! :eek:
 
My dad used to use knives as advertising. Had the company name on the handle. One year (this is back in the '50's) he popped for some Imperial slipjoint MOP's (probly plastic) that were REALLY neat.
I was dove hunting. It was afternoon when nothing is flying and I was sorta messin around semi cleaning my birds when another showed up coming in to the field. I set the knife down, took the shot, got the bird and never COULD find that damn knife.
IT HAD MY NAME ON IT! Wowser!
I looked all afternoon. Couldn't spot the EXACT spot in the scrub where I was and there were no feathers off yet.
I finally found another from one of our customers but the name is almost all worn off. Still have that one. But every time I pass that field that has now been plowed for 50 some years, I think ......maybe.....but keep driving.

The other LOST knife was one I gave my best buddy when he graduated college and went to his professorship at NDSU and HE lost it. He was devastated, but he was also probly drunk at the time so I couldn't work up too much pity.

Worst part about SPECIAL knives is they CAN'T be replaced.

I caved in and sold a coin once that I swore I would keep as long as I lived. But I took an offer "I couldn't refuse" and have kicked myself ever since. It can NEVER be equalled for quality.

Oh well.....live and ....LEARN (?)

:(
 
In my younger days I lost a lot of knives. Some that come to mind:

-Several Barlow style knives.
-Dropped a Buck 110 in a lake.
-Lost a few small Buck lockbacks and slip joints - just fell out of my pocket somewhere.
-Lost a Victorinox Huntsman while canoeing in a river. I was trying to fish but my buddies were more interested in playing "battle ship."

I try and use a lanyard around water these days and always check my pockets while entering and exiting motor vehicles. That's a good way to loose a pocket carried knife.
 
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