found a knife in the bush?

I've found a few. Two were Buck folders. One was a Buck 506 White Knight I found while in college. The tip of the blade was broken. I sent it in to Buck and they replaced the blade for free! I still have it. Made me a fan of Buck for life. :)
 
when i was about 4, i dug a nice bayonet out of the ground, i've never seen one exactaly like it, it's still around somewhere. about 14 years ago, i cleaned it up some and hung it on my bedroom wall. came home from school one day, to find it laying on top of a pile of wood my dad had spent the day chopping up. he didn't use my machete, or my hatchet, but my unknown bayonet. it held up just fine.
 
Cool find ... still looks like it's in decent shape.
I found a cheapie Schrade folder a few years ago.
 
this is going to sound really weird. But no shit, there I was, out in the arboretum trail here in davis a few years ago... and I found a japanese kitchen knife! More santoku that yours is, but the handle was mostly rusted/worn away. I've basically encased the rear in epoxy over time and polished it down to a usable handle.
 
goatariba said:
anyone else found any?
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Found this one in N.Georgia
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This is not my knife.

I mean, I've lost my first knife in the bush about twenty years ago.

To be serious, I've found no knife in the bush/woods/trail so far.
Houwever, I've found a broken watch at the foot of the infamously
dangerous alpine climbing route. I'm not sure but something must have
happened to it's owner...
 
I bought my dad a Buck 110 when I was about 8 yo for Father's Day. He lost it somewhere and it just disappeared from memory. When I was about 13, we were unloading a bunch of drums loaded with crushed brick that we had from demo'ing a house to lay a rough drive way at our cabin and the knife was in the bottom of one of those drums...
 
Someone in town found an old Benchmade Ares....ON THE BEACH. Totally fuzzed up with rust and clogged with sand...God knows how long it had been there. They brought it into the shop for me to take a peak at...after about two hours worth of work I actually cleaned the whole thing up--even the Omega springs were fine! Operated smoothly and everything.

Weird thing is though...the blade still looked fine but had somehow gone bad, because every time I would go to sharpen it these big gobs of the steel would just crumble off the edge and it felt soft as butter on the stone. If I took it to a drag-through it would rapidly cut away the soft bits leaving an ugly and scarred jagged edge of good steel deep behind the cutting edge where it was still hard.

Any clue what the hell was up with that? It was 154cm for crying out loud, and all of the rust had been removed. The inside of the flakes were a dark gray color. :confused: Still impressive as hell that it survived being dumped on the beach. I fully expected the springs to be rusted straight through.



For those that haven't seen it I'm talking about this model here (picture not mine):
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I need to hang out near you guys... I've never found a knife when out and about... ever..
 
I was working in a remote fly-in camp in Greenland a few years ago. My second day in the field I lost my Leatherman Supertool somewhere out in the tundra, I had been working alone about 20km from camp by helicopter. Six weeks later I was on traverse and sat down for lunch. I looked over to my right and laying there on the ground was my Leatherman with a slight bit of oxidation, but no worse for wear. The odds of this are astronomical. It's hard to convey in words the vastness of this place, this photo doesn't do it justice but it was taken from where I was sitting that day having my lunch (with a crappy sub-megapixel first generation Nikon Coolpix).

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i found a small spyderco folder snorkeling at the sandbar after a big holiday weekend where all the drunks drop stuff . soaked in freash water then oiled it still using it today. also found a big machate behind a cabnit in a rental apt its in my yard now in case my ol lady needs to use it on somone i mean something.
 
Funny... the very first SAK I ever got was a camper or a fieldmaster that my Mother in Law found in her apartment building parking lot and gave to me. At least that is the first true victorinox SAK I remember owning... got me hooked. :)
 
islamoradamark said:
i found a small spyderco folder snorkeling at the sandbar after a big holiday weekend where all the drunks drop stuff . soaked in freash water then oiled it still using it today.
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I lost a Spyderco Delica while shark fishing in the mouth of Crooked Island Sound in Panama City, FL...that may have been mine!

Billy
 
I've found a couple, much to the amazement of my 10 year old nephew. He now thinks everytime he hikes he will score a found knife.
While hiking the Superior Hiking Trail I stepped on a knife that someone dropped on the trail. My buddy picked it up. It was a small Buck fixed blade with a rubber handles. I buffed out the rust and gave it a mean edge and he kept it.
And biking along a road north of my house I found a Gerber fixed blade that had fallen out of some truck or maybe a boat in tow. Black, rubberized handles,maybe a 4" blade. Can't remember the name but it sells for about $30 at Cabelas. The edge had taken quite a hit on the road and it had slid out of its sheath which was filled with gravel. Threw it in my bike bag and cleaned and sharpened it up at home (not an easy knife to sharpen! has the thickest grind I've ever seen). Now it sits in my car emergency bag.
 
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