Have you ever found a knife?

I found a kershaw blur in a basket my laundry that I was picking up from the dry cleaners, that was my first kershaw and developed into my current obsession with not only knives bout also the kershaw blurs in general
 
I found a Kershaw Chive in my leather couch cushions last year. No idea how it got there. I asked all my friends who I could think of that had been in my home and no one claimed it.
 
Ah! Just remembered my find.

It was on the Maine coast - on the rocks. I was walking along and saw something silver. I dug it out and it was a Leatherman PST. I couldn't believe it - how did this old thing come to be here...?

It was frozen shut - some rust and pitted. I soaked it in WD40 for a day and slowly but sure it came loose...and more loose. My grandfatehr gave me a spare sheath for it and now its in my knife box. 100% functional and great worn look from the rocks.

Good stuff.
 
I found a Swiss army spartan in a movie theater when I was sixteen. Kept it for 18 years before passing it on to my niece who had just lost her Swiss army knife.
 
A couple years ago I found a small case stockman buried in the dirt at a state park it cleaned up really nicely with only one spot of corrosion and was my first pocket knife. since then I haven't found anything that I didn't loose to begin with.
 
I found a SOG AirSOG on the side of the road years ago. The back of the handle was pretty chewed up so its been my toolbox knife & has come in handy more than few times
 
Years ago I found a Bucklite 442. I never would have been interested in buying such a folder, and thus used it recklessly if I used it at all. I had had a spyderco pro venator as my only locking folding knife for over 10 yrs at this time...Then my area had a rash of auto breakins, and some shitbag steals my spyderco and spare change from my car. Well the Bucklite had to step up and I worked it hard for a good year or more before picking up a "better" knife and then it went back to second string.

Fast forward, the "better" knife breaks and its back to the Buck again...although I have used the buck hard without any concern to what happens, it has never failed, locks up tight, even still has the tip which it shouldn't after all the prying I've done with it.

Yes, I have replaced the Buck again with "better" EDCs But that knife was a great find. I should give it more respect than I do.



Oh, along the same lines...If any of you found a Endura along the road within an hour or so drive of Camp Lejeune, sometime around 96 or 97' you're welcome.
 
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Small cheap Philippines machete...don't remember where
A home made hunting knife in a home made fabric sheath...in the mountains
A Swiss Army knife with all the accessories...on a logging road
A Frost Cutlery liner lock, broken plastic handle...on Hwy 12 riding my bike
A nice machete made in Columbia...on Hwy 12 riding my bike. Always wanted a nice machete.
A Gerber skeleton type frame lock, had resin on the tip from cleaning a pot pipe, too high to hit their pocket...on a trail along the Columbia River.
 
Just today I saw a NIB Mini-Dejavoo for 20 dollars at a consignment tool shop, and found an Alox Cadet in the street on the way home.
 
Found this Schrade pocket knife while fishing along the Susquehanna river at my Grandfathers house.
it says "Copenhagen Snuff" on the blade, and "Schrade + Cope USA" near the tang
the little badge on the handle says "since 1822, Copenhagen, It satisfies" It also appears to be upside down.
Shown next to a Swiss army knife for size reference:
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Here are the handle and blade markings
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Does anone know anything about this knife? I never really looked at it until i saw this thread. I've had it for over 10 years!
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Found a small Schrade stockman in a laundry clothes dryer when I was a Kid.that one didn't make it to adult hood. got lost some ware in time. As an Adult I found a Case swing guard in side a car door that I bought as a replacement for my Mothers car.
Sent that one back to case to repair the guard.
It came back in a bout two weeks looking like a new knife. Case did a nice Job. this knife turned out to be one of my favorites.
 
I found this Saber Japan trapper while walking around town last year. The main blade has a spot where it was melted by an electrical spark.

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My housemate found this Schrade 60TX somewhere around here, too.

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I found a;
Green River butcher under a tree overlooking a spring,
Victorinox Mauser folder in a rest area parking,
Martini hunter in a old house,
Gerber 600 multi tool by a lake,
boot knife on a hill top,
Sharade Sharp finger copy on a dirt road,
double blade Boker under a tree in the mountains,
Victorinox kitchen butcher in the middle of the road,
folding work razor lockback knife in the road,
various rusted cheapies, found one last week with only the tang and rivits left.
 
I found this one during an archeological survey, near Lone Pine, California.. This one got recorded as an artifact, as I'm pretty sure it's over 60 years old. I think it had four blades.

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When I was young about 10 give or take I found a switch blade in the park, remember it even had a name taped to it, my parents took it from me shortly there after, at some time in middle/ high school I took it back from them....I took it apart to see how the spring mechanism worked......found a old timer about 17 years ago.....still have that one...handle has three notches in it...don't know what they mean??.....found a bunch of small folders in items stored from when my grandparents passed.... most pretty beat up and well used ...the one I kept has some ag seed ad on the side of the scales...its in pretty good shape...
 
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