Found my Fieldmate!!!!!

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During our last Gathering, I wore my Kentucky Fieldmate on my side. It had become one of my most frequent and favored weekend blades (not really acceptable to wear a sheath knife in a downtown office building). Upon returning home in a haze of post-Gathering excitment, I removed it from my belt, placed it on the desk in our bedroom and there it sat, awaiting it's next call-out. When the following weekend rolled around, I went to grab it, but my Fieldmate had mysteriously disappeared! At first, I really was not that upset, thinking I must have left it elsewhere or grabbed it for a quick cut during the week. As the weeks wore on, it gnawed at me more and more. I could just picture it sitting there, I knew that was where I had left it. After about a month, I realized that I was also missing a Marttiini knife I had brough along to the Gathering....WHAT.....TWO KNIVES MISSING!!!!!!! I went into super-hunt mode and was able to locate the Marttiini on a shelf in the garage....OK, where's the Fieldmate????? It must be close I thought but, alas, it was nowhere to be found. I started to wonder if I would ever see the Fieldmate again but the thought of losing it in my own house was just unacceptable. I vowed to search until I found it. I started in the bedroom, searching in around and under the desk, curtains, TV, everywhere.....nothing. Ahhh, perhaps it fell on the floor and got kicked under the bed! Aside from a few missing socks and a dog-hair dustbunny or two, no knife. I was almost ready to give up on the bedroom and begin my assault on the garage when I thought I might as well check my wife's closet (she has the whole bedroom closet). I glanced down into the Imelda Marcos-like sea of shoes and saw a glimpse of leather that looked out of place....there it was, upside down in the bottom of my wife's closet, my Kentucky Fieldmate was found!

The Fieldmate ranks up there with my Kephart as one of my favorite JK blades. It is a perfect unobtrusive companion, never in the way and always handy. I had mine done in a scandi edge, which I then polished and convexed. It is screaming sharp and the burl handles look even better than new after a bit of general use. The blade is starting to patina nicely after several rounds of kitchen duty and should only get better with time. If you are thinking about a small blade that has a wide variety of applications, this would be a serious contender in that category.

I am curious too if anyone else has ever felt the one two punch of losing a knife, only to reclaim it later. This is the second time this has happened to me and I hope the last time (for the losing part that is!).
 
Good news Sean! I lost a knife within an hour of it's arrival, but mine never turned up.

Jeff
 
Wow, an hour after you got it??!!?! Maybe it just wasn't meant to be but that REALLY sucks!
 
Hi Sean -

Awesome - glad to hear you located your KFM!

I always used those Marttini filet knives - I still have one in the garage.

best regards -

mqqn
 
One day I was working on my truck and was using my then very new JK Ewok(which if you don't have you are really missing out on a great blade) before driving to a shop to get some major repairs done. Two miles down a really bumpy road in Michigan I realize that I didn't have my knife on my belt. I pulled over in a panic and found the knife on the frame where I had placed it. How it stayed there while driving down that road I'll never know. Perhaps it was simply meant to be my knife.
 
protourist said:
One day I was working on my truck and was using my then very new JK Ewok(which if you don't have you are really missing out on a great blade) before driving to a shop to get some major repairs done. Two miles down a really bumpy road in Michigan I realize that I didn't have my knife on my belt. I pulled over in a panic and found the knife on the frame where I had placed it. How it stayed there while driving down that road I'll never know. Perhaps it was simply meant to be my knife.
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Wow, that's exactly the opposite of JDS' experience......it was meant to be yours!
 
That sounds a little like me! I hate safe places and any other place that can hide things from you! My main space, is in the office at the computer! Sooner or later just about everything ends up there at one time or the other, because sooner or later it gets scanned into the computer! I have lost knives, beer bottle labels, beer coasters, you name it! I usually hunt in every other room in the house, and like you, I look high, I look low, I look around things, I look under things! Then it gets to the point that I have looked in every room and closet in the house, including the basement, garage and barn! I usually finally end up back in the office, at the computer, I pull out the under desk keyboard shelf, and low and behold, there is where I find whatever it was that I have used up uncountable hours hunting for! Don't even get me started on safe places! Ha! Ha! "Danger" Will Robinson!

Later!
 
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