Found knives

[KHarper]

-EDIT: sorry, I don't understand why the images don't show up. I post the URL in the "Insert Image" box and click "insert", and it acts like a link when you hover over the text. But nothing shows up. I had the same problem last time.-
EDIT 2: Thanks for the advice. Been driving me nuts not being able to get pics to post. When I finally get imgur to upload them, I can't make them show up here! Appreciate it.

Just bored, but I thought it might be interesting to see if anyone else had ever come across a knife that someone else had lost. I found a beat up, rusty old 7" Ka-bar USMC combat knife that someone had been using as a probe while metal detecting (why they had to use a good knife for that I don't know). It was covered in rust and totally blunted, I mean rounded right off, in both dimensions. I cleaned all the rust off and ground a new drop point onto it (which I almost think is more useful in most ways), because the original was too worn to even bother trying to restore. And I ground a new edge onto it. It's pretty rough because I don't have the right tools for removing lots of hard metal.
Anyway, I didn't need a 7" combat knife, and I wouldn't have paid money for one, but I'm glad I found this one. It obviously had been there for several years, maybe 5 or 6 (I know it wasn't there in 2014, the last time I was in that place), but in my eyes the patina and the work I put into it make it a better knife than a pristine one. AND I can use it for all kinds of terrible stuff and not have to worry about messing it up, or wasting a knife I spend good money on.
I suppose an alternative would be knives with lots of patina. But that's probably been done already.

The handle actually looked better before I stupidly tried to boil it to see if it would soften the leather up. It just made it harder, and raised a rough fibrous surface layer, which is good for grip but not for appearance. The handles feel almost like plastic now, but they work fine. If they don't turn to dust or something because the boiling stupidity.

These are before pics, after I'd sanded off the worst of the rust. That was the blade before I ground the tip down. The handle was rotting, dry black leather than left black stains on your hand when you held it.

 

[sabre cat]

When my wife and I were dating I found an M6 Bayonet in the trunk of her car. She thought that I put it there as a joke.

It was tucked underneath the spare tire. In all the years she had owned the car she never had removed the spare from the trunk.

Her car had been a rental for about one year before it was up for sale at our local Ford dealership.

I have tried to figure out how/why a bayonet would end up under the spare tire like that.

Andrea and I have been married over ten years now and I still have not come up with anything sensible.

 

[BitingSarcasm]

I found a Spyderco Rescue lying in a driveway one day as I walked my dog. The neighbor was out and about, so I gave it to him and told him where I found it in the hopes that it would make it back to the right person. It was a better alternative than knocking on the door and hoping someone else was home, big Husky/Shepherd leash in one hand, knife in the other.

 

[Arathol]

EDIT: sorry, I don't understand why the images don't show up. I post the URL in the "Insert Image" box and click "insert", and it acts like a link when you hover over the text. But nothing shows up. I had the same problem last time.

Don't use the insert image function.
On the IMGUR page with the thumbnail pics that looks like this

Click on the picture you want to use. You will see a page that looks like this

In the menu to the right, click the blue box next to the BBCode text that says "Copy" (second from the bottom)
Paste the code in the response box here, again don't use the insert image function, just paste it here.
You'll see a line of text that looks something like this -

[img]https://i.imgur.com/yslCiSI.jpg[/img]

which should make the picture appear in-line.

 

[sabre cat]

I found a Spyderco Rescue lying in a driveway one day as I walked my dog. The neighbor was out and about, so I gave it to him and told him where I found it in the hopes that it would make it back to the right person. It was a better alternative than knocking on the door and hoping someone else was home, big Husky/Shepherd leash in one hand, knife in the other.

My Spyderco Rescue was found in the middle of the road by a firefighter. He used it for a short time before passing it on to me.

All of my rescue knives are long gone except that one. It stays in the first aid pack in the Jeep Cherokee.

 

[anthonycastorena2014]

I found a Benchmade on the ground about a decade ago. It was used but in good condition. I ended up giving it away to someone just getting into knoves considering trying a higher end knife.

 

[longbow]

i found what appears to be a Sebenza that is unmarked stuck in the trunk of a tree when I was fishing for brown trout and steelhead. Right below it laying on the ground was a multi tool. I posted about this a good while ago. Still have the knife and gave the multi tool to my eldest for work. This was many years ago too. The folder has the wood inlays on it. I've carried it ton over the years and the lockup is just as good as it ever was. Anyways that is about the only knife I've found save for one of the old folding fishing knives with a scaler years ago when I was teenager. That gave up the ghost soon after I found it. stay safe

 

[OrangeBlueOrangeBlue]

EDIT: sorry, I don't understand why the images don't show up. I post the URL in the "Insert Image" box and click "insert", and it acts like a link when you hover over the text. But nothing shows up. I had the same problem last time.

Just bored, but I thought it might be interesting to see if anyone else had ever come across a knife that someone else had lost. I found a beat up, rusty old 7" Ka-bar USMC combat knife that someone had been using as a probe while metal detecting (why they had to use a good knife for that I don't know). It was covered in rust and totally blunted, I mean rounded right off, in both dimensions. I cleaned all the rust off and ground a new drop point onto it (which I almost think is more useful in most ways), because the original was too worn to even bother trying to restore. And I ground a new edge onto it. It's pretty rough because I don't have the right tools for removing lots of hard metal.
Anyway, I didn't need a 7" combat knife, and I wouldn't have paid money for one, but I'm glad I found this one. It obviously had been there for several years, maybe 5 or 6 (I know it wasn't there in 2014, the last time I was in that place), but in my eyes the patina and the work I put into it make it a better knife than a pristine one. AND I can use it for all kinds of terrible stuff and not have to worry about messing it up, or wasting a knife I spend good money on.
I suppose an alternative would be knives with lots of patina. But that's probably been done already.
https://imgur.com/yslCiSI
https://imgur.com/XaocUs4
The handle actually looked better before I stupidly tried to boil it to see if it would soften the leather up. It just made it harder, and raised a rough fibrous surface layer, which is good for grip but not for appearance. The handles feel almost like plastic now, but they work fine. If they don't turn to dust or something because the boiling stupidity.

These are before pics, after I'd sanded off the worst of the rust. That was the blade before I ground the tip down. The handle was rotting, dry black leather than left black stains on your hand when you held it.
[IMG]https://imgur.com/QYFuoUV

Don't use the insert image function.
On the IMGUR page with the thumbnail pics that looks like this

Click on the picture you want to use. You will see a page that looks like this

In the menu to the right, click the blue box next to the BBCode text that says "Copy" (second from the bottom)
Paste the code in the response box here, again don't use the insert image function, just paste it here.
You'll see a line of text that looks something like this -

[img]https://i.imgur.com/yslCiSI.jpg[/img]

which should make the picture appear in-line.

The "insert image" button works okay if you right-click on whatever picture you're trying to share and select "Copy Image Address" - that url pasted into the "insert image" popup will post properly. Or use the "Direct Link" text rather than the regular link (you need the url to be formatted as https://i.imgur.com/filename.jpg for the editor button to work properly)

 

[Arathol]

The "insert image" button works okay if you right-click on whatever picture you're trying to share and select "Copy Image Address" - that url pasted into the "insert image" popup will post properly. Or use the "Direct Link" text rather than the regular link (you need the url to be formatted as https://i.imgur.com/filename.jpg for the editor button to work properly)

Its much easier to just click the BBCode copy button and paste it here. That skips over all the formatting problems etc. Works every time.....

 

[Korean Hog]

Shoot.. all I ever found was hardware store and bait shop junk knives on piers and rocks.
Big find for a 9-10 year old boy though

 

[jux t]

When my wife and I were dating I found an M6 Bayonet in the trunk of her car. She thought that I put it there as a joke.

It was tucked underneath the spare tire. In all the years she had owned the car she never had removed the spare from the trunk.

Her car had been a rental for about one year before it was up for sale at our local Ford dealership.

I have tried to figure out how/why a bayonet would end up under the spare tire like that.

Andrea and I have been married over ten years now and I still have not come up with anything sensible.

Sounds like a reasonably sensible place to store a sturdy fixed blade to me.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Back in November or December last year I was taking the trash out at work when I saw a soggy little Case knives box in surrounded by water next to the cardboard bailer.
For some reason I just kind of knew the box still had the knife in it.
Sure enough I grabbed the box and felt a lump, inside was a Case mini blackhorn still wrapped in the wax paper.
They're only a $15 knife, but a good little knife and I decided to include it in giveaway I held on the porch.

The company I work for is pretty wasteful, so either it was supposed to be thrown away because the box had gotten wet or something, or I would have been told to throw it away, and theres no way I was gonna do that.

 

[KHarper]

When my wife and I were dating I found an M6 Bayonet in the trunk of her car. She thought that I put it there as a joke.

My guess is that someone had the car in a place where knives were illegal, or perhaps they were prohibited themselves, or they THOUGHT they were illegal (a lot of ignorant types out there; there are people around here who either hide their guns or brag about how they carry without a license...not realizing that in this state anyone can carry a gun without a license anyway). They probably stuck it there so they'd have a weapon in a pinch (hopefully not an emergency), but they hoped in a place where the police wouldn't find it. Or they were just transporting it, same reason for hiding. I'm assuming you dismissed the possibility of it just falling under there by itself.

i found what appears to be a Sebenza that is unmarked stuck in the trunk of a tree when I was fishing for brown trout and steelhead.

A counterfeit knockoff maybe? Still a good knife for the price.

I once found a small Boker pocketknife lying in the woods by a swampy place. But it doesn't count really because it was my own knife I had lost there at 2AM after I got my truck stuck and failed to get it out. I walked 4 miles home avoiding the State Trooper the property owner had called on me (I didn't realize at the time there was a house very close through the trees). I was upset when I realized I had lost the knife because it was an antique Boker, and was my grandfathes knife. So I hiked back into the woods a week later after the wrecker towed my truck out of the mudpit, not expecting much. But amazingly I found it. The carbon blade had suffered, but it is still a very sharp, useful little knife. I don't carry it anymore, because I'd hate to lose it.
Come to think of it, I originally "found" it in the attic of his house after he died. And more recently I "found" a couple other antique pocket knives, a mystery trapper with an unusually long and skinny spey blade and a clip point marked 'High Carbond Steel, USA", probably from the 20s or 30s, maybe older, and a New York Knife Company "Hammer Brand" 2-blade pocket knife very similar to the Boker, but larger. Both were in VERY rough shape, cruddy and scratched and it looked like someone had tried to sharpen them with the ultra-coarse old whetstones I also found in the stuff up there. The edges were mangled. But they sharpened up very nicely, especially the trapper. I broke one of the translucent plastic scales on the 2-blade taking it off to clean the verdegris and grease and hair from under it. But it is holding together okay.
Top one is the Boker.

I also found a .32 rimfire Stevens Favourite rolling-block rifle from 1874 and a 1934 Winchester single-shot .22 rifle (I forget the model number, but it's a first-year production).
At my OTHER grandfather's house I found a very battered 12ga single-shot hammer-type shotgun without brand marks of any kind, which have been repaired with solder and baling wire, a very nice 16ga Iver Johnson single-shot hammer-type, a Smith&Wesson Model 2 revolver in .32 S&W (with a couple boxes of ammo. Not that it's safe to shoot), a Harrington&Richardson .22LR revolver from ca. 1928 (which needs some lock work done), and a pristine Walter PP from 1942 (strangely without any sort of proofmarks that I can find), and a holster which fits it, but which is for some different, similar Czech pistol.
I later found a cache of ammo, including 8-9 boxes of .32 Auto (for the Walther), and 9,000 rounds of .22LR. I never knew my grandfather even had any guns, or hunted. Not sure what he had all these for, but I feel well equipped now. Mostly because the stack of .22 ammo!
But I guess I'm getting off topic.
It seems like there was some other knife that I found that I am forgetting though.
Well, there is always my old Austrian bayonet, also found in my family's stuff. But I already posted about that.

 

[KHarper]

When my wife and I were dating I found an M6 Bayonet in the trunk of her car. She thought that I put it there as a joke.

My guess is that someone had the car in a place where knives were illegal, or perhaps they were prohibited themselves, or they THOUGHT they were illegal (a lot of ignorant types out there; there are people around here who either hide their guns or brag about how they carry without a license...not realizing that in this state anyone can carry a gun without a license anyway). They probably stuck it there so they'd have a weapon in a pinch (hopefully not an emergency), but they hoped in a place where the police wouldn't find it. Or they were just transporting it, same reason for hiding. I'm assuming you dismissed the possibility of it just falling under there by itself.

i found what appears to be a Sebenza that is unmarked stuck in the trunk of a tree when I was fishing for brown trout and steelhead.

A counterfeit knockoff maybe? Still a good knife for the price.

I once found a small Boker pocketknife lying in the woods by a swampy place. But it doesn't count really because it was my own knife I had lost there at 2AM after I got my truck stuck and failed to get it out. I walked 4 miles home avoiding the State Trooper the property owner had called on me (I didn't realize at the time there was a house very close through the trees). I was upset when I realized I had lost the knife because it was an antique Boker, and was my grandfathes knife. So I hiked back into the woods a week later after the wrecker towed my truck out of the mudpit, not expecting much. But amazingly I found it. The carbon blade had suffered, but it is still a very sharp, useful little knife. I don't carry it anymore, because I'd hate to lose it.
Come to think of it, I originally "found" it in the attic of his house after he died. And more recently I "found" a couple other antique pocket knives, a mystery trapper with an unusually long and skinny spey blade and a clip point marked 'High Carbond Steel, USA", probably from the 20s or 30s, maybe older, and a New York Knife Company "Hammer Brand" 2-blade pocket knife very similar to the Boker, but larger. Both were in VERY rough shape, cruddy and scratched and it looked like someone had tried to sharpen them with the ultra-coarse old whetstones I also found in the stuff up there. The edges were mangled. But they sharpened up very nicely, especially the trapper. I broke one of the translucent plastic scales on the 2-blade taking it off to clean the verdegris and grease and hair from under it. But it is holding together okay.
Top one is the Boker.

I also found a .32 rimfire Stevens Favourite rolling-block rifle from 1874 and a 1934 Winchester single-shot .22 rifle (I forget the model number, but it's a first-year production).
At my OTHER grandfather's house I found a very battered 12ga single-shot hammer-type shotgun without brand marks of any kind, which have been repaired with solder and baling wire, a very nice 16ga Iver Johnson single-shot hammer-type, a Smith&Wesson Model 2 revolver in .32 S&W (with a couple boxes of ammo. Not that it's safe to shoot), a Harrington&Richardson .22LR revolver from ca. 1928 (which needs some lock work done), and a pristine Walter PP from 1942 (strangely without any sort of proofmarks that I can find), and a holster which fits it, but which is for some different, similar Czech pistol.
I later found a cache of ammo, including 8-9 boxes of .32 Auto (for the Walther), and 9,000 rounds of .22LR. I never knew my grandfather even had any guns, or hunted. Not sure what he had all these for, but I feel well equipped now. Mostly because the stack of .22 ammo!
But I guess I'm getting off topic.
It seems like there was some other knife that I found that I am forgetting though.
Well, there is always my old Austrian bayonet, also found in my family's stuff. But I already posted about that.

 

[eveled]

I found a carved fish one time. My friends had walked over it. I picked it up and found it was actually a knife. The tail was the handle the body and head were the sheath.

At least two more other finds but none as memorable as that fish.

 

[Edgeoflife]

Ive found a few unmemorable knives over the years. The only decent knives ive ever found was an old Buck 110 4 dot from the early 80s and later another folding hunter style Browning branded knife in 12C27 steel which was also a lock back with similar wood scales and brass bolsters. Neither were in terrible shape other than alot of scratches/wear. The buck i ended up carrying and using for a while but it was just to heavy for my preferences. its been so long ago (15-20 years) i dont recall exactly how or where i found it but i believe it was in the grass on my grandparents property iirc and looked like it had been there a little while. I did some batoning with it at one point to see how it would hold up! (Young and dumb). The other knife was left behind by a coworker who moved on a few years ago and it sat in my truck console for a while never really getting used. I actually still have both to this day. The buck is pretty beat up and has some play blade from the thrashing but still functions.

 

[James Usher]

lucky guys! I never found any knives! I wish I had

 

[sabre cat]

A coworker of mine found a CRKT M16 Tanto half buried in the dirt when he was getting lunch at a taco truck.