Have you ever found a knife?

About 2 years ago,I found a junk Gerber when out fishing at Los Vaqueros. It looks like they were cutting bait with it. When I sharpened it the blade steel felt softer than my butter knives. When I was a teenager I found a buck 110 on the sidewalk in Los Angeles in 1975. Decided to keep it then. Had a friend loose it 7 years later.
 
My friend found a CRKT M16 out in a park near a creek. Kind of jealous because he's not really even a knife guy, and I never find any knives.
 
Cold Steel Tokyo Spike found in a Honda accord I had a few years back...When I found it I thought it was a crap knife but I googled it,looked for it,etc and realized what it was. Interestingly enough,this knife actually started my interests in serious cold steel collecting.
 
Bladeviewer said:
About 2 years ago,I found a junk Gerber when out fishing at Los Vaqueros. It looks like they were cutting bait with it. When I sharpened it the blade steel felt softer than my butter knives. When I was a teenager I found a buck 110 on the sidewalk in Los Angeles in 1975. Decided to keep it then. Had a friend loose it 7 years later.
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Lose it...Just sayin :)
 
Never found a knife but I did find a very very rare and expensive gun one time. An old west German sig P226 (with butt mag release) in very good condition. Turned it into the police and after proving I found it on my property, and they ran all their tests/traces, a few months later it was awarded to me! I guess it wasn't reported stolen and the last person that it was transfered to was dead (of natural causes) so they said they had no idea how it got on my property but it didnt appear to be from any illegal activity and I was eldgible to claim it if I wanted to do the transfer, well being a gun guy that was a no-brainer.

Ended up selling it for $850 because magazines were impossible to find for it, man how I wish now I didn't sell that.
 
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I found a small sebenza in a parking lot of a gun store two years ago. It had initials ingraved in it, and it was obvious that it was a worry bead for someone as it had almost an indention where someone had rubbed their thumb on the scales over and over in one spot. I ran ads in all the local papers, as well as a few online local publications. Several weeks later, a man called almost in tears, described the knife perfectly, and wanted to pay me to retrieve the knife. No money was exchanged, as it was enough for me to return such a used beauty to its rightful owner. Words can not describe how thankful he was. It made me feel quite good. A week later I came home and found a new s30v kershaw blur in my mail box with a heartfelt note attached. That man has actually become a good friend and we often get together and talk knives as well as compare new blades.
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That is awesome!
 
I found a SOG folder about 15 years ago out camping with a friend and his dad. The dad "confiscated" the knife for safety reasons. I think he just wanted to keep it. To my 15 year old eyes, it was the coolest knife I'd ever seen. The guy still has it, and I still think it was kind of an a$$h@t move to take something someone else found.
 
I have been lucky enough to find two knives. One was in the Costco parking lot. I don't know what kind it was. It was a slip joint folder with lots of engraving on it. IIRC it said "Thanks Dad for all you've done." It was really a beautiful knife. I went into Costco and turned it into the lost and found. I only hope that the owner recovered it.

The second knife I found near a river bank. It was a Kershaw Blur. Dirty and covered in dust, but amazingly no rust. I took it apart cleaned and oiled it. Sharpened it and gave it to my son for his collection. Now if I could only find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow :D
 
NCCNC said:
I found a small sebenza in a parking lot of a gun store two years ago. It had initials ingraved in it, and it was obvious that it was a worry bead for someone as it had almost an indention where someone had rubbed their thumb on the scales over and over in one spot. I ran ads in all the local papers, as well as a few online local publications. Several weeks later, a man called almost in tears, described the knife perfectly, and wanted to pay me to retrieve the knife. No money was exchanged, as it was enough for me to return such a used beauty to its rightful owner. Words can not describe how thankful he was. It made me feel quite good. A week later I came home and found a new s30v kershaw blur in my mail box with a heartfelt note attached. That man has actually become a good friend and we often get together and talk knives as well as compare new blades.
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I should have done this instead of turning it into lost and found.... :(
 
Found a nice older Leathetman in it's original nylon sheath 2 years ago. Sold it because I already had an older one in a leather sheath.
 
1976, I found a large PIC brand diving knife in 50ft of water in front of the Sunset House in Grand Cayman. Looks like an over-sized WWII Kabar/Camillus MK2 with a plastic handle.

2007 - M5 Imperial bayonet with M8 sheath left behind in a rent house.

Just last week, while working on a film set, I was walking back from the "facilities" and found a CRKT First Strike lying in the grass. I tucked it in my hip pocket under my shirt-tail and went on. Found one of the assistant directors and had him put the word out to the crew. One of the grips tracked me down and described it down to the "4 white stripes" painted on the cord wrap. Needless to say, he was extremely happy to get it back.
 
Several years ago I found a knife while duck hunting with my dad and brother. It was stuck in the mud in some reeds. It is a large traditional lock back, I think the brand is Coast Cutlery Inc. It didn't have any rust but it was really scratched and dented. Just a couple of weeks ago I cleaned it up and modified it with some jimping and thumb stud. Its a cool knife now!
 
When I was about 9 or ten I found a folding knife in a marsh area. I was an Imperial folder made in Ireland. I have it around the house somewhere. I was just a kid so I thought "Cool!" and kept it. I lost a SOG mini X-Ray Vision only to find it ten years later in between the back seats of my dad's Honda Pilot.
 
Yep. Well, a multitool. Found a Leatherman, one of the old (and in my opinion, superior) ones, on the Ft. Lewis Land NAV course. Everyone claimed it was theirs; nobody could accurately describe it. Thing gets used quite a bit, actually.

But I've lost one, too: ColdSteel AK-47 (original type). I find stuff; I lose stuff.
 
I found a small Buck folding knife on the Ozark Highlands Trail in Arkansas about 8 years ago. It was later confiscated at Red Rocks Amphitheater going into a Allman Brothers/String Cheese concert. I have found alot of things in the woods over the years. Usually, but not always, I will camp where I found them for a few days giving someone a chance to claim them and then pack them up. I've found a pair of Hodgman waders, two brand new Sierra Designs backpacking tents in packaging, a tank of nitrous oxide, a bag of weed, 2 flasks (one full of bourbon), a bag of North Face tent stakes, a cheap aluminum cookset, several packs of Ramen noodles, a blue foam sleeping pad, some nice aviator sunglasses. I'm sure there's more. It's amazing what you find in the high country right after the snow melts off.
 
Just some little Chinese folder I found walking home one day. It was marked 'Surgical Steel, PROC (People's Republic Of China)' and had plastic scales and a back lock. I kept it in my watch pocket for light cutting, then gave it away.
 
I found a small folding Gerber in the snow a couple years ago. not really worth my collection so I believe my girlfriend keeps it in her purse.
 
I was a school custodian for a while and in chatting with the principal it touched on knives in school. He told me to take the bag on his desk home with me, it was confiscated knives from middle schoolers. The 1st bag contained Bokers, Case and Schrade folders, the 2nd days haul contained Gerber and more Case knives. I'm pretty sure there more than one or two very irritated dads when they noticed missing knives.
 
The first knife I found was a brand new Caterpillar knife (CAT as in the tractors) under the seat of a racing game at an arcade, it has been in my center console since and I use it most of the time when I'm in truck since it's so handy.

The second knife I've found was a fake Spyderco Delica clipit. I found it outside a courthouse next to my parked vehicle, someone probably forgot they had it on them and tossed it before going in the courthouse. I ended up throwing it away since it was a piece of junk.
 
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