Greatest knife loss story

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Anyone else ever have the great misfortune of losing one of your cherished knives. I lost my Spyderco Delica while steelhead fishing a fews years back and I'm still bothered by it. :mad:
 
I lost an almost new Buck 110 and the leather sheath once when my belt came undone and it slipped off.
 
Misplaced a SAK Swiss Champ (about a 20+ year old version) somewhere along the way. It's probably around my parent's place, somewhere. Maybe someday if I tear through enough storage containers I'll find it. It's some what sentimental because I found it, and never located the owner, so it became mine. I never saw a SAK with so many cool tools and I went through each one with amazement. I was probably only 11 or 12 at the time.
 
few months ago I lost my favorite edc ... a small sog flash.

experience told me that if you loose something and could not be found ... you will find it almost immediately after you buy a new one.

so I did ... bought myself a sog flash ALU (with Ti coating) grrrrrrr ... and found the old one within two weeks.:thumbup:
 
Given to me by my grandmother when I was fifteen or sixteen (that would be 1965-1966).

Plain white bone. Tremendous snap. Sharp as no tomorrow. Made -- literally -- right down the road from where I was born.

Had no idea what the heck I had.

Carried it to England in the USAF. Somehow, it didn't come back with me.

I felt the loss, but had trouble describing the thing to people (yeah, I had this great little pocket knife by Holley -- who's Holley? -- but I lost it . . .) and then, a couple of months ago, I found a copy online. Some wiseacre used the word "Wharncliffe" to describe a knife, and I had to look it up. A search turned up pictures of two of them. One had just sold on eBay . . . for more than $400.

For crying out loud! That little ten dollar slipjoint . . . going for hundreds.

Didn't do anything at all to improve my feeling of loss.

However . . . (cue dramatic music) . . . I now know what I'm looking for. All I have to do is a) accumulate enough cash, and b) convince my wife that it's worth doing.

(That may fly, as it's less than the rifle she knows I want.)

Some examples:
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Mine looked just like this, but in white bone.
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Somewhere, a sad-looking LOL cat gazes longingly at a white Holley, over the caption, "WANT!"

 
Many years ago, I've lost a swisschamp ( Victorinox)
I've learned the lesson, so it will be hard for me to loose another one knife.
Dummycord and carabiners do their work.
 
I took my son to a 3-year old's birthday party at one of those play-space businesses that is like a gym for toddlers. They throw lots of birthday parties there. Later that day I discovered my SAK was missing. It may have fallen out of my pocket in the ball pit. I went back, told the employees and searched as well as I could. Hopefully I lost it somewhere else. And hopefully a kid doesn't hurt himself with it. I feel like a real heel for that one.

My new one is attached to me so it won't get lost.
 
My brother-in-law recently gave my son a big boxful of knives. They were collected over the years from cleaning the floors of movie theaters after the patrons left and were never claimed. So as a family, we are on the plus side of the equation as the only knife I have ever lost was a SAK Super Tinker and my son has yet to lose one.
 
Yeah, I found a nice Case stockman under a couch pillow and a cheapo slipjoint that I liked on a pier. In the woods I found a machete with sheath and a fishing knife. I've definitely lost a few as well, but it is a give-and-take.
 
When I was in the Military I had a Buck 110 mysteriously disappear from my locked room. The locks were a joke and almost every one of them could be 'loided. It was one I had replaced the scales on using cholla with a a deep crimson resin filling the voids. As it was a few days before payday I suspect it was sold by the rat bastard who took it but scouring the pawn shops in the area didn't turn it up in E-Town and I didn't bother to search Louisville.
 
I lost a spyderco co-pilot several years ago while at silver dollar city on a roller coaster and it made me sick{losing the knife not the roller coaster}. the worst part was i got it on sale from smkw and when i got a chance to order another they were out. the only thing worse than losing a knife is losing one you got a really good deal on.
 
I lost a Dozier agent at an outdoor market. It fell out of my bag. I never heard it drop.

There is some lucky bastid out there with an awesome $200 knife.
 
In college my apartment was robbed and they took just about every knife I had. The monetary loss is not so bad in the grand scheme of things, but several can’t be replaced or had sentimental value. It still makes me mad thinking about it. I lock up anything I don’t want to replace now.

Casualty list:
Gerber Loveless Hunter
Gerber Applegate Fairbairn Combat folder
Gerber Multi-Plier
Gerber Magnum
Spyderco Endura
SAK Explorer
Blackjack Anaconda II
SOG Seal Pup
SOG Tanto
CRKT pre-production SealTac
My dad’s SOG Tomcat
My dad’s old Buck 119
My dad’s 45 year old switchblade
The first pocket knife I ever bought at six years old
There were a few others I can’t remember

Its kinda funny, I thought my Kershaw Leek was stolen with the others, and I liked that knife so I bought a replacement soon after the incident. Well a week later I’m looking for something in my truck and find the old Leek under the passenger seat.:rolleyes: Flipping both out at once in either hand got old faster than I thought it would, so I gave the new one to my dad.
 
I lost a bunch :grumpy: almost everything from when I was a kid, and a couple of heirlooms, too. Left them with family for safekeeping during a move, and they were stolen, along with a lot of the family's tools, out of a locked garage.

I'm still feelin' that one to this day . . . the little bottom-feeders who took them have no idea what they got.

thx - cpr
 
Many years ago, when I was still living at home as a teenager, I had a bunch of knives that I kept in a paper bag in my room. I can't remember all of what I had in there, but there was a Russell belt knife, a Remington camper pattern, some other fixed blades and folders that had sentimental value as gifts from relatives or first purchases, etc.

My mother said my room was a pig-sty, and to clean it. Being a typical teenager, I threw a fit and started tossing a bunch of stuff and acting like a fool, like most teens do.

It wasn't till a week or so later when I was looking for my knife sack that I realized I must have tossed it out. I was nearly sick to my stomach.

I've never really gotten over it. Subsequently, I seem to be spending my life (and my money) making up for that foolish mistake...

Glenn
 
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