Have you ever lost one. (a traditional knife, that is)

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Have you ever lost one of your knives? Well I sure did but it wasn't one it was two! At the same time!
I have spent a lot of time and money looking for the perfect knife. I found it with the gec# 38 whittler. It was in the green jigged bone. I was carrying it in a KSF slip next to my kershaw blur cf (my other favorite) at the play ground with my son. Some how they jumped out of my pocket when I was playing. I was devastated about the 38. I know it's just a knife but It was my favorite knife.
Have you ever lost a traditional? If so how where you carrying it.

Let out we can all grieve together
 
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I think we all have been there if we have been into knives for awhile! That is a tough loss, the 38 is a great knife...
On the traditional side I have lost a SAK, but I honestly can't tell you how or where. One day I went to look for it and it was gone!
This will just give you an excuse to buy a new one!
 
Knock on wood covers not yet. I always check my pockets during a ride anywhere, after or if I'm sitting in a car as well.
 
No ~~ because with my Traditional Knives I wear a Custom Leather Belt Sheath made just for that Knife and just for that reason ~~ I don't like to lose things !** Even my Custom Folding Knives have a Belt Sheath to fit everyone of them.!*
Adds extra $$ to each one but saves money in the long run.^^
 
I lost my very first knife, when I was just a kid. I don't think I've lost one since, but I've made extensive use of lanyards over the years.
 
I've lost a few. Mostly Spyderco's. But I did loose a Camillus 22 Rimfire pen knife that I liked alot.
 
No, I've never lost a pocket knife yet. Unless you count a red SAK I had when I was about 12. I didn't lose it per se, I just have no idea what might have happened to it. I wasn't really into knives back then so it probably ended up in a drawer or box someplace that never followed me into adulthood.
 
Quite a few of my knives have gone missing over the years. During my misspent youth, local police would sometimes arbitrarily "confiscate" knives they deemed inappropriate. I suspect that my dry cleaner has a secret collection of gentleman's pocket knives. I'm wary of friends and relatives who "borrow" knives. The only one I specifically remember losing while carrying was a Gerber Folding Sportsman II in the late '70s. Most likely lost while playing basketball at a campground where I was staying with college friends. We searched the court and the trails back to the campsite, but never found it.
 
About 3 years ago i misplaced or lost my Jerry Halfrich "Small Woodsman". It still could be somewhere inside my house, like maybe in the pocket of work pants that i have forgotten about. Or, it could be somewhere in my garden of a few acres.
I have looked and continue to look because it is somewhere on my property (including house). If it is outside and i do find it then i will find out how stainless 154CM is !
kj
 
kootenay joe said:
About 3 years ago i misplaced or lost my Jerry Halfrich "Small Woodsman". It still could be somewhere inside my house, like maybe in the pocket of work pants that i have forgotten about. Or, it could be somewhere in my garden of a few acres.
I have looked and continue to look because it is somewhere on my property (including house). If it is outside and i do find it then i will find out how stainless 154CM is !
kj
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Ouch. That has to hurt. I really like that pattern of Jerry's. I hope you find it one day.

I've lost a few but none that had a special significance or high value. I do recall one was a small Camillus lobster that had some pretty wood with jade and pearl inlays. It was one I carried in my suit pocket. I'm sure it turned up on the floor of some conference room somewhere.

I do use leather pocket slips just for that reason. The additional friction a pouch offers has kept me from losing any more for a long time now. Knock on wood.....
 
Yes, my first good knife. No idea where it went. It was a Bonsa Springer automatic, which was no longer automatic. Nice old carbon steel, though, and the lever lock was very satisfying. Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end...
 
jc57 said:
No, I've never lost a pocket knife yet. Unless you count a red SAK I had when I was about 12. I didn't lose it per se, I just have no idea what might have happened to it. I wasn't really into knives back then so it probably ended up in a drawer or box someplace that never followed me into adulthood.
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My only "lost" knife so far was a situation very similar to the one John described. When I was in high school (or maybe a little earlier), my parents gave me a fake-pearl pen knife that I carried only for church. I was very proud of the looks of that knife. But when I moved away to college, that was apparently one of many of my possessions that didn't come with me, and I have no idea what happened to it. It was probably in the pocket of suit pants or jacket that got donated to a school fundraiser or something. I really need to get me a pearl pen knife to replace that "hole in my heart".

- GT
 
Changing the title to include the word "Traditional", so as to keep modern knife posts out of the thread.
 
I must have lost a half dozen knives over the decades. Didn't used to be a problem, because knives didn't cost much. Now that I have fancier, more expensive knives, I've not lost any.
 
I temporarily lost my Jared Oeser single blade trapper. I had other instances of things falling out of the pockets of the pants I was wearing that day while sitting, so I went through the car, and every chair I had sat in, at home and work. I even went to the place I ate lunch at that day and asked about it there.
A few days later, about the third time through the same chair (LayZBoy recliner), with it upside down and shaking it violently I hear a clunk, and out it falls.
To say I was relieved is an understatement.
The pants however were lost, and never found again.
 
I lost my first ever pocketknife, a Colonial two-blade jack. Not a great knife but it meant the world to me; in my mind it was "just like Granddad's." Then I lost two good ones in high school. Both were stolen actually, one (a Case stockman) from my locker during football practice, and another (a Buck 503 lock back) from my jeans in the weight room while I was working out. Probably the same scumbag both times. It wasn't just me -- other guys lost stuff too. I of course never mentioned the knives to my coaches because we weren't supposed to carry in school.*

-- Mark

* Yep, I was quite the rebel. ;-)
 
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