Finding Lost Knives

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Dorito Monk

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After much fruitless searching, I just found my Victorinox Pioneer. Until a few minutes ago, when I found it in a winter coat I had put away, I thought I had lost my second SAK after only a couple months of owning it. :(

What a great feeling. :D

Has anyone else found any long lost blades recently?
 
I lost the Blade Forums 2009 Traditional's Forum Stag handled Barlow the day after I got it, found it a week later in my truck.
 
Long time ago, I was still a kid, maybe 6 or 7, I lost my grandfathers fishing knife, in a sand box probably. Anyway few days later I saw one of the neighbor kids playing with it. He denied finding it, and told me his parents bought it for him. I knew he didn't steal it, so I felt like I had no right asking for it back, since I was dumb enough to loose it.

Now I still regret it.
 
Lost my small blue SAK off my keychain in the yard where I used to work. It was clipped to my keys, which were clipped to my jeans with one off those fake climbing carbiner thingys. Anyway when I got off the forklift, the SAK snagged on the edge of the seat(my theory anyway) and came right off.

Later I was in the office, and my boss's son comes in and says, hey look what I found out in the yard. I didn't even realize mine was gone because
I said, hey cool, looks just like mine...hey wait, where's mine!?

He handed it over with a smile. :)

Lost one of those CRKT KISS money clip knives years ago. Still lookin for that one.
 
Couple years back I "lost" my Spydie Copilot Stainless - checked over all the pants and places I'd been but no knife - I mean I had a sentimental attachment to that Copilot! two days later coming in the drive I caught a flash of light in the eyes and went back to investigate - there on a cable supporting the light pole was my knife - I must have brushed the cable mowing and the knife stayed on the cable!
Revvie!
 
About 10 or 15 years ago, I gave my dad his first handmade/forged folder. It was made by Pete Peterson J.S. and I won it at the ABS Auction at Blade. It is a sweet little stag folder. He carried it to church one Sunday came home and changed.

Next day dad realized it was missing. Mom said he just about tore the house, two cars and a truck up looking for it. Apparently the couch and seat cushions were flying all over the place.:)

Two years later he found it in some dress shoes that he seldom wears. He had forgotten the knife in his pocket and when he hung up the pants to his suite it fell in the shoe. :D.
 
I've been looking for my MOD Ayoob Razorback for about a year now. I have no idea where the damned thing went. I have no idea how much time I've spent digging around the house looking for it. Funny thing is, pretty regularly I'll find knives that I'd totally forgotten I owned.
 
Lost my zdp endura the other week while out helping my friend fertilize - asked him to take a look in the truck we were hauling the tank with and got a call back that it was going to cost a case of beer to get it back. On a sadder note, lost a nice 5" clip point Track knife w/ cocobolo handle at the house when I was 16/17. I suspect that one of my little brothers friends helped himself to it. This would have been around '78. Still think about it to this day.
 
Once when visiting me, a girlfriend put my BM Nimravus in with her clothes and didn't realize it till she did laundry a week later.

I had been scratching my head as to where I had put it for the entire time.
 
Like you, I have "lost" some blades only to recover them a few weeks (or months) later inside a pair of jeans or a jacket. I have a habit of forgetting them in my pocket. In fact, I am willing to bet if I go search my entire closet right now I fill find a knife somewhere in some pocket.

Another question: How many times have you sent a knife through the wash? You know what I'm talking about...when the machine starts going and all of a sudden you hear a *clang*clang* and you instantly think "Oh crap...knife!" LOL. I know this happens to me almost monthly.
 
Lost my Swissbianco Yeoman last week. My sister found it just this morning in the washing machine, huge relief.
 
My 1960's vintage Buck 110 went missing for a couple years. Showed up in the pocket of a pair of wool hunting pants.
 
The longest I ever had a knife MIA was 5 years, it was a Benchmade Mini-Reflex, found it in a box of stuff I tried to yard sale, it was put in a box of knives I was sellin', (I think the spouse put it in the pile by mistake) anyway I was cleanin' up in the basement when I saw it in the box.

The only thing currently MIA is a small David Winston lockback drop point with maroon micarta scales I misplaced about a month after I got it, that was about 2 years ago, I still have faith. :)
 
Probably yesterday, I found my SAK in a pair of shorts I rarely wear since they are ripped up. It had been missing for several weeks, but I wasn't concerned since I figured it had to be in such a spot since I don't get out much. And by much, I mean ever.
 
I have a Gerber EVO I picked up when I was just starting the knife collection. I started getting better knives & thinking about (& using) this one less & less & it just faded out of my existence.

Then one day I was getting really irritated with how heavy so many of my folders were & remembered that one was pretty light. Figured I'd find it pretty quickly & when I didn't, that's when I really got a bug up my butt about finding it. Nowhere. Damn it...

I let it go.

Within a few weeks, while cleaning out a box of other project-related stuff, there it was, sitting quietly in the dark, just waiting for me to find it like some long game of hide & seek.

The moral of the story could be "if you love something, set it free," but in this case it really was "just clean up your damn junk already".

Regardless, that little EVO is again a full-fledged member of knives making the rotation. The little trickster.
 
Found my white handled Spyderco Endura after it went MIA for almost a month. On the one hand I'm really happy because I found what has become my favorite knife I have owned so far. On the other, a little bit longer and I would be buying myself a new toy. Lil guy was inside the seat bag of my road bike. Cant remember for the life of my why I put it there.
 
I lost my William Henry Gentac a while ago. I last remembered having it when I cut a straw shorter for my 2yr old son at a restaurant while visiting my Brother out of state. I thought for sure that it had fallen out of my pocket while in the restaurant, and I'd never see it again. It was a hard loss to swallow.

A few weeks later, we were cleaning out our mini-van, and I saw it peeking up from under the E-brake handle between the center console and the passenger seat. Whew! I danced a jig, right there in our driveway!:D
 
Ah we perform the Happy Dance.....

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