Found knives?

[Novadak]

I was just curious whether or not anyone else here has ever found one of their current knives through a stroke of luck.

Example: last July some friends and I got into a car accident, a minor fender-bender on the interstate. While we were waiting for the police to show up I walked up and down the side of the road in the dark kicking things at random, annoyed that we were going to miss our movie. Then my boot connected with something solid and I saw a flash of metal, which turned out to be a Gerber Gator in fair condition (some tip chipping, possibly from being run over).. weird or what? After it was cleaned, oiled, and sharpened it didn't look all that bad, either.

(I've no idea how an open knife ended up on the side of the road on a busy highway, nor do I really want to speculate..)

Do you think this kind of thing happens to non-knife people as well?

 

[Chang]

I found a $20 bill on the floor of a bookstore. It is going to go into buying knives or something.

-Chang the Asian Janitorial Apparatus

 

[Rick1955]

I found a Camillus electricians knife on the Appalachian Trail years ago. The spear cutting blade was open at right angles and it was rusted and the blade was pitted some. I use it to teach blade sharpening.

Just a few weeks ago I found a one of those real small locking folders made in Pakistan along a street. The blade was locked open and it had been run over but I cleaned it up, sharpened it and gave it to a boy who thought it was great.

I've never found a good knife.

 

[Freemon]

Hey you guys must be following me around. I've been know to throw some of those cheap sh** knives out the window if I get suffieiently fed up with them.

Seriously though, bout 25 years ago I did find a great shape MkII Navy ww2 blade under the mattress of a bed in a house we had just rented. Something made me check under my side of the mattress and there she was...still got it today...still a great blade. I'm sure somebody missed it sorely but it has found a good home since.

 

[Vampire Gerbil]

While I never found a knife, I DID lose a $20 bill on the floor of a bookstore.
(Kindly email it back to me Comrade)

I know that someone FOUND a nice knife that I owned back when I was a little punk in Junior High.
Word was out that a tough gang from Paterson (NJ) was coming to town at the end of the week to kick some butt (for some unknown transgression) and all us guys thought we were straight outta "West Side Story" (I was all prepared to snap my fingers and dance), talking tough about weapons etc., so I brought along this Kris shaped Fixed blade and buried it in the sand of the pool that was located on the school grounds.
I eyed its position in my best Clint Eastwood manner, spying a particular bush, noting its position indelibly in my mind and went to school.
Well, the toughs from Paterson never showed up which was just as well, since all the danged bushes looked the same and I never did find the knife!

An interesting anecdote was the fact that we eventually told our metal shop teacher about our plans and he told us what we really needed were Zip-Guns. He then gave us step by step instructions on how to make one with a nail, a broken off car antenna, a rubber band, and a .22 cartridge.
Needless to say I went out that afternoon and made one. I pocketed two cartridges from the Junior NRA course I was taking and I'll be dagblasted, the thing worked!
Of course he forgot to mention that the spent shell comes back with almost as much force as the bullet leaving, so I had a really messed up thumb for a while.

Reminding myself that I'm lucky I didn't have a kid like me,
I remain,
VG


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[blademan 13]

I have actually stumbled upon two. The first was a 1915 (first year) Marble's Woodcraft which the factory was nice enough to return to like new condition. A month later I found an old Case 2 bladed jack in mint condition in a drawer of a camping trailer I had bought. Much to my dismay, nothing since

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[M-Hickey]

Yaaa my first post, well anyway This kid I was hanging out with found a Klotzli on the floor of the mall and he had just bought a new knife the day before so he let me keep it

Got stolen from me at the same mall a year after but it was a very nice knife. My first "real" knife of good quality and im gonna buy another Klotzli as soon as funds allow.

 

[Lone Hunter]

Who keeps losing those old Marbles? i found a 1911 Marbles Ideal Hunting Knife #45 lying in a road. I wasn't into knives that much then and just tossed it into my locker at work. A few years later I was reading in Blade about Marbles when the name started to seem familar checked my locker and what do you know I got one ! I also found a Buck Duke in nice shape while camping.

 

[Steelwolf]

Dang it, Guys! Now you've got me turning over bushes and rocks when I go trail walking, checking under mattresses at every motel and staring at the side of the road like a maniac everytime I go for a drive.

Stop messing with my mind!

 

[chet]

I used to work in a furniture store when I was a young man and I found several knives under the chairs when I was cleaning up. My favorite is a stag handled Queen stockman that I still use as a gentlemens carry. I've also found several knives while fishing the most memorable is a Imperial bayonet that currently resides under the front seat of my truck. I have, though, lost more than I've found

and the one that I miss the most is a Frost Cutlery "Smokey Mountain Toothpick" that I bought in 1978 and carried for many years. I dropped it while mountain biking in the Flint Hills. I looked high and low but could not find it and I've always suspected that my buddy Ron picked it up and kept it for himself (so it goes).
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