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have you lost a knife/knives? how did you get over the loss of your beloved tool?

Lost a really nice semi custom clip point sheath knife my dad gave me that I turned the house upside down a number of times looking for. Lost a nice D-2 Para - can't for the life of me understand how I lost that one. Lost a nice ZDP189 endura in my best friends truck - confirmed that it was there with Bob - told him there was a reward for a it (case of beer) and never did get it back. He is a farmer and I have learned over the years not to take tools out to his place, because if I screw up and leave them there, they don't come home! I considered that one a gift. Still would like to know where that clip point went to - that was 40 years ago. Losing the Para forced me to organize my knives - I had them all over the house and they were getting hard to keep track of, so I don't mind losing that one too much as I am afraid if I had not gotten some storage together, a few more may have gone missing.
 
I lost my Chaparral CF. PO'd at the monetary loss, not the knife itself. It's just a thing. So I consoled myself by going out and buying a Caly 3 CF. I felt much better then. :D
 
I naively leave my EDCs laying around work.
Sometimes they turn up months later and sometimes I never see them again.
 
Always sucks to lose a knife. My first loss (circa 1995) was a very early zytel-handled knife similar to an old Endura or Large Voyager. I think it worked it's way out of and off my pocket (it was clipped) while I was sitting on a rock out crop during a day-hike. It wasn't even that expensive of a knife (probably sub-$20), but I still went back the next day to re-hike the same trail and try to find it.... with no luck. I ended up replacing it with a nicer knife.
 
Good topic! I have lost several knives throughout the years. The only two that stand out are a cheap Made in Japan silver pen knife my grandfather gave me before he died when I was around 8 years old. I wish I knew where it went! The other one that pops to mind was an early Spyderco Harpy that disappeared when I was in college. A couple years ago one of my old roommates flipped his car going too fast in the rain exiting the highway. When I next saw him he thanked me and tried to return it, but I said he could keep it so he bought dinner. He told me he took it because it "looked cool," but it's good he did since he used it to cut off his belt when he was upside down after the accident. I suppose it was fate that he took it!
 
I "lost" a Kershaw folder that I set on an engine stand in a shop with 3 employees and one guy was not even there but the bosses two sons were there. I'm faily sure the knife had not grown legs which left one pair of suspects. I just chalked it up and bought a duplicate folder.
 
I've been lucky (and careful), so I've only lost two knives and they were easily replaced. A couple of SAKs lost over a more than twenty years of carrying one is not that bad. The first one I lost was a Huntsman with camo handle (bad idea), I was 10 or 12 and riding my horse like a mad man around my mountain home, it fell out of its sheath (weak velcro).The second one fell out of my pocket in a cab.

I felt so bad about the first one that I spent three days looking for it and retracing my route, using every hour of daylight. I thought my dad hadn't noticed, but he had. Since he saw I was devastated about the loss and that it was an honest accident, he got me a SwissChamp to replace it.

A few of my knives were stolen from my store, or from my luggage at airports. Only one of them (taken from my store) was a custom, impossible to replace. The rest I could slowly buy again (Fallkniven F1, a couple of SAKs, Leatherman Charge Tti).
 
The only knives I get upset about losing are the ones that have sentimental value. I lost a Victorinox pioneer Alox that my dad gave me when I was a kid. I looked all over for it. I was pretty upset, until I found it in my sons truck. Needless to say I was very happy to take it back... he will get it back someday!
 
Lost a benchmade griptillian one time. Still upset about it. Luckily it was just a griptillian so not much money was lost. Also my girl bought me a replacement for this past birthday.
 
Grief councelors are on duty at your local sporting goods store. They will assist you to recover your composure, man up and buy a replacement.
 
About 50 years back, I found a single blade folding knife, bone handle, in my garage, I assume it was my Dad's. It took a little while to figure out the button, but soon I had it open. It had a massive blade, the kind you could use to chop down a small tree. And every time you hit the button, it made a solid " ker-chank". So that was the name I and my best friend gave it. I never got a strong enough grip to get the button to work easily, even with hours of practice at night listening tothe radio. It almost needed 2 thumbs to open. The friend lost it a few years later and 10 years go, I lost the friend. Both irreplaceable.
 
ive had a Fairbairn & sykes with custom handel i used as a letter opnener go missing about ten yrs back !
 
Lost knives? Sure.

My most inconvenient was in Medellin Colombia. I believe my beloved Vic Tinker was stolen from my hotel room. I really depended on this knife there A LOT. Anyway, I spent most of an entire day searching the city for a knife dealer/store to buy another. Taxi's here and there... finally found another. Cost was not an issue. I needed this knife.

Most of my "lost" knives are simply misplaced knives. But I left a SAK at a job site a few months ago. Not worth driving the 75 miles back for it. Had a spare at home. I learned from the Colombia experience and I keep spares.
 
Lost one of my favorite knives out at the bar one night (Spyderco Military black/black). Losing a $100 + knife made me sick to my stomach, but it taught me to be much more careful with my things and to constantly make sure they are secure.
 
I lost a WWII bayonet when I was around 12 or so.

I still wonder where it went occasionally.
 
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