Has anyone ever found a knife?

[whitty]

I found an awesome Swiss Army knife when I was a kid. Went running in the house all excited to show my mother. She immediately took it away from me and said "your brother has been looking everywhere for this, when did you take it?" She never believed I found it in the back yard!

 

[billygoat162]

I found a Gerber LMF II when I was backpacking. I was pretty far off trail in the Sierra high country and found it sitting on a rock just above the timberline. It must have been there for a couple years at least--the side facing up was slightly faded from the sun, and this was in a place that is under snow 7 months out of the year. As much as I count ounces, I was happy to carry the extra weight that time

I also found a Leatherman on a friend's ranch that his mom had been missing for over a year--it was mostly buried and I could just barely see something shiny through the trampled grass. She was pretty excited to get it back, and I must say, those things are pretty stainless--there was hardly any rust on it.

 

[nccole]

I found a SOG Twitch 2 maybe. Really small back lock flipper with terribly slick scales and lots of blade play.

 

[A Justice]

Why of course. Folk's sure have "found" a lot of mine....I'll be watching this thread

Of course. I found an awesome knife once, it wasn't a well known brand like yours guys, it was a "Property of sirupatespecial" - they carved their crappy looking logo in the handle.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

Found a Cutco butcher knife with a chipped handle in a cabin I was demolishing, sent it in for repair and they sent a new knife.

 

[Blade Runner 7]

Found a Spyderco clipit rescue on a pier in Monterey CA. That was before I was into knives and I didn't know I found a nice blade. Still have it. It was pretty rusty when I found it but I've cleaned it up some.

 

[dishcore]

I found a rusted beyond belief folding utility knife inside a railcar loaded with scrap steel. It was at the bottom of the railcar and we were cleaning it out for later service. The knife appeared to be only a few years old based on the brand and design (can't remember brand now), so I soaked it in parts washer solvent for an overnight and then blew it off with compressed air and went to work on it on the wire wheel at the bench grinder. Came out pretty decent. Could still hold a razor securely, the folding mechanism was a little gritty but the lockback worked fine. I lubed it up a little bit and let that sit for a few days. Once I had it in reasonable working order, I gave it to one of the guys that I was cleaning the original railcar with. He didn't have a knife so to take one from nothing to something in a job that you helped do was pretty cool for him.

 

[hopsbreath]

Found a Mora Classic on the PCT while backpacking around Three Sisters in Oregon. I carry a Mora myself and didn't need another one, so I perched it atop a stump for the next guy coming through who might could use it.

 

[rajincagin]

I find them all the time on the internet, it's really not tough if you know where to look

 

[Cereal_killer]

Found a Mora Classic on the PCT while backpacking around Three Sisters in Oregon. I carry a Mora myself and didn't need another one, so I perched it atop a stump for the next guy coming through who might could use it.

That's cool. I wonder if the next person took it or also passed on it for the next guy.

 

[SURVIVAL&WEAPONS]

I found a steak knife with a blue bandanda as a handle when i was about 4 while waiting for my dads truck to finish in the body shop. My girlfriend lives near the place if found the knife when i was little, and there is alot of gang activity in the are which explains why there was a bandana as the handle. I also found some cheap boot knives, and my grandfathers schrade oldtimer clip point folder.

 

[link2derek]

Found a Mora Classic on the PCT while backpacking around Three Sisters in Oregon. I carry a Mora myself and didn't need another one, so I perched it atop a stump for the next guy coming through who might could use it.

Very cool. I had a similar experience while hiking the Appalachian Trail many years ago.... I found a nice Casio watch and no-name pedometer (both in working order) and a small alcohol stove along a difficult stretch of the trail (funny the things that people ditch along the way!). I didn't need any of those items, so I left them in a shelter for someone who might could use them. On an earlier hike, I found a bag of mini Snickers bars - now those are worth keeping - LOL!

 

[Cypress Creek Knives]

When I was five or six I found an old timer with a broken tip at a pinball auction. It was behind some of the machines so I think it belonged to a maintenance man's. I also found a Leatherman Style CS under a tree in a park. It was dirty and the blade was in terrible shape.

 

[K.O.D.]

Found an imperial brand knife in the grass by my house when I was 10 or so. (big empty lot across the street, partial marshland)

Found a knife in my back. A gift from the ex.

Found this in a desk drawer at my office the other day. No idea where it came from, and my family's business has been in this building since it was built. Its a POS Duluth liner lock, with a detent that makes a Szabo's feel like butter.

 

[grins000]

I found a 2-blade Frontier trapper once, in a field, while looking for Arrowheads, the blade were slightly pitted, but it cleaned-up ok. Also found a water moc in my boat once, didn't keep that though.

 

[GaryPogueCustomKnife]

While i was rafting with my friend about two years ago, we stopped and he stepped on a S&W cheapo folder. He isnt really a knife guy so he thought it was the greatest thing in the world. Another time when i was metal detecting in a forest near Bay City MI, I found a very old axe head and a really old hidden tang knife completely rusted with the handle rotten away. Both did not have handles and were complete rust buckets, so i just gave them to my uncle who wanted to restore and re handle them. Turns out they were over 100 years old

 

[sd550]

Found a Buck 110 stuck in a tree about 40 years ago near a trout stream, couldn't reach it so had to get my Dad to get it for me. The wooden scales were in bad shape, due to being in the weather for who knows how long. We applied linseed oil to them a few times and they finally got to looking good.

 

[Fish30114]

Not me as the 'finder' but a story about a find anyway. About 25 years ago, I worked for a couple of men I really liked a lot at an archery shop. I had an Old Timer stockman that I carried and used everyday. One of the owners borrowed it one day, and made a comment about how good the edge I had on it was, and how he liked that knife a lot.

About 4 months later it was his birthday, and I bought him one just like it. He talked about it a lot, and used the blade around the shop all the time, and would frequently comment on the fact that I gave him the knife. Well long story short a few weeks later he asked to 'hold' (southern for borrow) my knife, and when he got done doing what he was doing, I asked him where his knife was.

He said that he had lost it on a recent hunting trip, and was sick about it. Well, fast forward about 4 months and we were at the shop after hunting seasons were closed. I was working on a bow for a fella, and I pulled my stockman out to cut open a peep sight from it's packaging. A regular at the shop said ' hey I've got a knife just like that, I found it! ' Well about this time the guy pulled it out of his pocket and the guy I had given the knife to came over to the counter and said ' hell Mike, where in the f did you find that knife? ' Well the fella paused just a second and said ' well I found it in your bunk down at hunting camp ' With that the man I had given the knife too, took two swift steps over to the counter, and bitch slapped Mike right across the top of his head and snatched the knife out of his hand and said ' give me my knife you sonofabitch! '

It was one of the funniest things I ever saw, two grown men, knowing instantly what had happened and the one guy freshly slapped sitting there with a sheepish look on his face, and the other guy smiling, glad to have 'found' his knife.

 

[eb1118]

I was walking down the street and I found a CR Sebenza with a damascus blade. A few minutes later I woke up.

 

[DedRok]

I found a large Buck lockback in the sand near a swing set. I was 10 years old so it was pretty cool to find such a large knife. Unfortunately when I showed my dad, he thought it was a little to big for a 10 year old to have and took it away.... he probably kept it for himself.

I remember it looked a lot like the 110, but the handles were more squared off than the current ones. It may have even been a little smaller than the 110. What model is a little smaller than the 110?

The knife probably fell out of their pocket when they were having to much fun on a swing.