Have you ever found a knife?

I've found 2 knives. Both within the last few years. One was actually after my morning run. I turn into my neighborhood and slow down trying to cool off and I spot something on the sidewalk in front of me. I snatch up a small 3 bladed slipjoint. Just says "Stainless China" on the main blade. Wood scales and bronze bolsters. Nothing special but it was an interesting find.

The second was while I was in college walking back to my dorm from an exercise physiology class. The construction crew had just finished making a cement pathway for us to use so I take it. On the side of the path was this patch of grass and dirt and I happened to glance over and see something "knife size". I pick it up, give it a quick once-over and I notice its an auto. I put it in my pocket and keep walking until i'm away from others. Another chinese made pos. Blade probably wasn't even heat treated, powdercoated black. Springs were rusted out and the knife would lockout passed the 180 degree mark. Took it apart and it had plastic washers. Decided it wasn't even worth scavenging for parts and tossed it in a trashbin.
 
I know, bringing up a dead thread...

I went for a morning walk in a local park today and stopped at a bench overlooking the pond to sit for a water break. I looked down and noticed a very nice 3 Blade Schrade Old Timer sitting on the ground, it was the carbon steel kind I collect but I knew if someone lost it they probably wanted it back so I waited for a bit to see if anyone came looking. Nothing. I tore a note from my all weather notebook and tied it to the bench with the statement on it "found a knife here, call xxx and describe it and I will return it promptly" then went on my way. When I finished the run and got back to my truck I saw an older gentleman and his wife looking in and around thier car with a worried look on his face. He started walking down the trail looking at the ground and I realized that it was the owner looking for his knife! I took off after him and nicely asked if he was looking for something, he chuckled and said he had managed to drop his knife somewhere. I asked him what it looked like and if I could help him find it, he said sure and described it as a "old 3 bladed knife with brown handles". I produced it from my pocket and said "like this?". He was surprised and happy from the look on his face, I told him where I found it and that I knew it had to be his, he replied that he was worried a young kid would find it and hurt themselves or someone else playing. He then thanked me for not just taking it and coming to find him so he wasn't looking all day. I mentioned that my dad carried old timer blades and I would have wanted someone to do the same if he had lost his or I had lost mine. He then preceded to hand it back to me and say "give this to your father for me, I'm an old man that just collects these and I have dozens more at the house that need to be carried and loved", I was extatic and thanked him repeatedly before heading home. I did manage to get his number so maybe I can share a picture of his collection one day. I will post a pic of the knife in a bit, its still in the cleaning process.

Troy.
 
Only once. When I was a kid playing truant from school, we came across this huge chopper in the woods, it was well over a foot long, with a really heavy wharncliffe blade covered in rust. No idea what it was, we were close to a farm so maybe it came from there, but as we were kids, we reckoned it must have been used in some terrible act. We could barely lift it, but we sort of half-hid it in a dry-stone wall. From time to time, over the next couple of years, if we were passing, we'd go and have a look at the 'murder weapon', and eventually it wasn't there. Never found anything better than that I'm afraid.
 
I found a old Mora on a logging road in Northern Wisconsin about 20 years ago. The knife was just laying right in the middle of the road. I suspect it was deer hunting knife and the owner set it down while field dressing a deer. The carbon blade was rusted but it cleaned up nicely. I still have it. It was my first Mora.
 
I was camping and there was an old schrade fixed blade in the fire pit for some reason. I got it out right now it says Schrade + and PH2 USA. Its pretty sharp, but I have never used it.
 
I found a bran hammer new Case yellow delrin trapper the first day back to school after Christmas break way back when I was about 7ish. I was the first kid dropped off that morning so it had to be a gift dropped by the school janitor earlier that morning. I gave it to my dad as he was in need of a new one. Dad's been gone now for 15 years. It's worn out & has seen a lot of miles, but it still sits in my mom's jewelry cabinet.
 
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I have found a knife or two hiking and small game hunting. I am sure the hunting senario was similar to what I have done in the past... field dress a rabbit or squirrel and set the knife down on the ground planning on wiping the blood off, then you forget it or can't find it at that point. When I was a kid we found a big bowie style knife under some leaves in a woods shelter built by the CCC boys. We camped under the roof as it was rainy and way out in the woods. Clearing the leaves back from years of accumulation and we found the big knife. We always referred to it as our "buffalo skinner". It was too big to be practical for anything we could think of at the time except chopping. My Dad used it to chop corn stocks down which we fed to our cattle. The only knives we used then were Case pocket knives, so the big one was a bit useless to us then.
 
in the late 80s i found a small single blade lockblade commemorating the university of georgia winning the national championship in 1980. had it for twenty years and it fell out of my pocket a year or two ago. hope whoever finds it carries it for another 20 years.
 
Found an M7 bayonet in a field one time, then supposed friend stole it and took to school and got it confiscated. When I was in the Navy someone left a SOG multitool on my bed and never came back for it.
 
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Found it in a riverbed by Tinkham Road WA.
 
I lost my only knife at the time when I was nine while our camping. It fell out of my pocket on the last day of the trip. It was only a two blade Buck pocket folder that my dad had given me, but I was devistated that it was gone. My dad told me I had to wait till my birthday to get another. The next camping trip on the last day, I was rolling up the tent and there it was laying in the dirt. We camp in the same spot that was out in the forest. I'm still not sure if it fell out when I rolled up the tent and sat in the dirt till we came back, or it fell out of the tent from being rolled up in it. Either way, there was much rejoicing by myself.

I still have that old knife.
 
In preparation of a move, I was cleaning out my shed and towards the back I found a lockback Buck that I hadn't seen for almost a year. It was in the locked open position and laying in the very back behind a bunch of junk. I figure that my youngest child (7 years) had swiped it from my room and was playing with it. Being a curious kid, seeing how it worked and then tiring of it, it was tossed haphazardly in the shed where I found it.

I don't know for sure but I can almost bet money on it because I've found other gadgets that mysteriously disappear only to surface again years later. LOL, funny sometimes.
 
Strangely enough I've found 4 Imperial fishing knife folders with the clip blade, scaling blade and yellow grips. They started out that way anyway and by the time I found them they were corroded, one had a blade broken off and ground down on a grinder. It looks like a straight razor from a distance.

When I was a kid I didn't have money to buy knives, yet was expected to do chores with them. I used to explore old sand/gravel pits, landscaped fields, etc and that was where I found these. I still have the oldest, which I found when I was probably 8. That's over 40 years I've had it and it was probably my second knife. My first was a broken black cat that someone had been throwing at trees until the lock broke. I forget what I traded for it. It sure wasn't much though. Maybe a piece of gum or something.

The only other find was a rusted but serviceable Camillus Barlow which I carried until I left for the army. It had a broken tip , rust and pits but the walk and talk was good and it got sharp.
 
Almost daily in my line of work.. my kids have found some really nice gerbers while play around the neighborhood!!!
 
Being military I love going out to the field. So far I've found
A CRKT folder. I don't know what it was because I turned it in immediately. I found this out on Land Nav
A Smith & Wesson special ops dagger. Which I use more as a tool than a knife because it's a POS. I found this while out on recon of an objective site.
Last but not least a Benchmade folder. Which I also found out on Land Nav. I kept it though.
 
Only knife I ever found, was a Magnum push dagger that fell out of some biker's belt, while he was loading his groceries in the trunk of his car. If he hadn't been so hasty in pulling out of the supermarkets parking lot, I could've given it back. It had a little skull glued to the handle too. But it's been sitting in a drawer for 20 years now...apart from it being obviously illegal, I never felt the need to carry or use something like that.
 
Yup, a rekat hobbit neck knife...handle was sticking out of the snow and traded it for a good condition benchmade emerson cqc7 with box. When I was in junior high me and a friend were walking home, she stopped and bent down to pick something up and then handed me a small celluloid handled pen knife...it was wicked sharp and the only marking it had was inox.
 
Several years ago I found an old timer at a pinball auction. It had seen a lot of use as it had a broken tip. Last year I found a leatherman style in a park.
 
I found a SAK laying on top of the mown grass at Fort Pillow in TN. It was near a fishing lake so I figured someone had dropped it. I found a small Italian style switch blade in my back yard in Memphis under the dirt near the back porch/enclosed room; a termite riddled, drafty uninsulated "Victorian Bungalow." It is possible to freeze to death in Memphis folks. The switch blade was back of the comic book quality and I took it apart to see how it worked. I did re-find a lost knife one time. A small two blade jack knife with molasses celluloid scales I had aguired at a big gun/knife show in louisville. I kept running back to Mama begging more money. She kept feeding me pennies and nickles. I think the knives were $0.99. Finally I had about $0.75. The vendor threw the knife at me and said basically get away Kid. I lost the knife mowing the yard and found it a couple of years late all rusted up solid. That wa maybe 1965.
 
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