Have you ever found your lost EDC only after buying it’s replacement

David45

David45

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It seems the only way I find something that would not readily available again is to buy a replacement of some kind?
I finally found my Para 2 M390 Red G-10 (which I wouldn’t be scalped on fleabay to replace) after being extensively looked for but not found for a couple years. I missed it dearly as it also had a Lynch mat black finish DPC clip. I liked the red and black with silver steel looked pretty good IMHO Coincidentally(?j I had just ordered a Manix 2 M390 G-10.
My warden suggested canceling the Manix order.
🤣😂🤣
Edit to say I didn’t wait years to replace the Red Para 2, but the Manix M390 was as close as I can get great Spydie ergos and that steel - I think.
 
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Well........sort of. Many years later.:)

A few years ago, after our Mother died, we were cleaning out her house to get it ready for auction. She always had everything very organised, so it was just a matter of sorting stuff. My son came down from the attic with an old cigar box containing all the pocket knives that my brothers & I "lost" as kids. Lots of old scout knives, Barlows & electricians knives, most with our initials crudely scratched on the handles.

Mom was always a, "A place for everything, and everything in it's place.", type person, so when she found our stuff laying around, where it wasn't supposed to be, it got "lost." After my brothers & I got done handling them & reminiscing, we gave the box to my son. Finders keepers.
 
I found a long lost Buck in a tool bag a few months ago.
It was a great feeling!

I’m still waiting to find my SOG Zoom-mini that’s been missing for about 2 years now. It was a surprisingly excellent knife.

Many knives have come into my possession in the interim. None as a specific replacement though.
i would definitely pick up another Zoom-mini if I found a like model at a decent price (as much as I like the knife, it was overpriced at retail).
 
I've lost so many knives that if I found any percentage of the ones i bought replacements for I'd be ecstatic
 
My very first knife was one of those cheapo red handled jackknives you get for selling enough popcorn in the Boy Scout troop fundraiser. It wasn't a very good knife, but it was my trusty companion for years until it went missing one day. I started looking for a new knife, and a friend of the family gifted me a Benchmade Griptilian, and sent me a few links to websites where I can learn more about knives. That's what ultimately lead me to collecting knives and joining this site years later.

I found my original knife laying in the lawn a few months later, after the snow had finally melted, and as I was getting ready to mow the lawn.
 
Years ago, I thought I lost my Benchmade Fecas Snipe somewhere on the range at a USPSA match. No one reported finding it, so I replaced it. Months later, I found it in my truck on the floor in the split of the bench seat.
 
kobold said:
My Dragonfly Salt SE is lying somewhere in the garden and its replacement already in rotation.
I reckon it's only a matter of time. The good thing is, I imagine nothing will happen to a H1 Salt even after many years.
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Funny…I can’t find my Dragonfly Salt SE either. Been searching high and low for the past 6 months.
 
I’m sure if you’re here on this website you haven’t had to buy many knives to replace one you lost. Maybe before you were here but almost certainly not after you stumbled in here. I’m sure we’ve all got two or three backups at least for our EDCs.

One time I lost my Sere2K for quite a while. I believe it was around a year or two. Even went back to Galveston looking all over where I went when it went missing trying to find it. No dice. I started carrying something else I already had at the time, no need to buy anything. It was probably a Spyderco Military or Benchmade 710. I found my Sere under the seat of one of our cars when we were cleaning it out to sell it.
 
Revival29 said:
Funny…I can’t find my Dragonfly Salt SE either. Been searching high and low for the past 6 months.
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They are easy to lose. The first thing I did with the replacement is to install the bigger wire clip from a Chaparral and add a lanyard.
 
I learned a trick years ago. It doesn’t apply to edc things. It applies to tools and things used less frequently that you can’t remember what you did with.

A couple of times I looked high and low for something with no luck. Finally I’d drive to the hardware store buy a replacement. After the project was done. I’d think long and hard about the best place to put it so I’d find it the next time. Then when I went to put it in that spot the original one was sitting there!

Now if I’m looking for something I’ll pretend I’m trying to put it away. Go to that spot and there it is!
 
I wonder if we use the fact we think it is lost just to get another knife, knowing in the back of our minds that we just misplaced it somewhere and it will turn up eventually. 🤭
 
Other than dropping a Rizzuto in a movie theater as a teenager and a fixed-blade Buck in the woods when I was about 11, I've never lost a knife. I'm one of those - take care of your stuff type people (as opposed to the everything's replaceable entitled folks) so I was very mindful of those things that were important to me and the things that weren't exactly cheap. Other than that, I have 4 or 5 knives that are in my edc rotation so if I "temporarily misplace" one, I can just grab another. And I guess that it helps also that I'm the kind of guy who doesn't lend things out very easily. I still after 30 years remember all those lovely people who failed to return a borrowed CD or book. Same goes with all who still owe me money no matter how pretty it mat seems to some. Maybe an OCD trait now that I think about it?
 
For me that’s how this whole bladeforums saga started.

I lost the knife I bought myself in college, which in turn led me to google “best pocket knife” - that took me to bladeforums.com and the rest is history.

3/4 years down the line and I’m visiting my old roommate in Atlanta when he goes “I have something of yours” . He pulls out my old CRKT, said he found it 9 months prior cleaning out his car to be sold..

lol by that time my expensive $40 dollar knife had been replaced by a Sebenza and customs.
 
I have lost a 1985 schrade usa stockman twice for longer than 2 months each time. Found it one time in the garden. Carbon steel. Still have it. Tips broken off on 2 of the blades. Should toss it but have had it 36 years and it still takes an edge.
 
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