HOORAY! Lost knife FOUND!

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Crayola

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So today I removed a drawer and lo and behold, I spotted my benchmade Sentinel! I thought my Sentinel was lost and gone foreverm but now we are re-united. Wow, what a feeling!

Anyone else ever find their lost knife?
 
Originally posted by Crayola
So today I removed a drawer and lo and behold, I spotted my benchmade Sentinel! I thought my Sentinel was lost and gone foreverm but now we are re-united. Wow, what a feeling!

Anyone else ever find their lost knife?
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Yes, and it's a grand feeling, LTNS! Congrats on the return of the prodigal. That Sentinel was 'standing guard' all this time, but due to a SNAFU at headquarters, he was guarding the wrong post.;)
 
sometimes finding them hurts as bad as losing them. especially if you've pointed the finger of blame at someone else. :eek:
 
Originally posted by Crayola
Anyone else ever find their lost knife?
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Yep, I have.

I know - pretty well - how you feel.

(As I wrote some time ago, I found my BM690 after a quite a long searching period.)

Enjoy it - maybe more than before loosing it.
At least that's what I'm doing with my 690...
 
I can't remember a knife recently (then again my memory isn't so good), but there have been multi-tools and flashlights that have been lost and found again that I can recall! I recently lost my Micra and haven't found that one yet. I've searched all the likely places of course, including pockets of jackets and pants I haven't worn since last seeing it. I'm convinced it will turn up again some day...
 
I've lost a knife before, not like that tho. It was to a friend. He wanted to borrow my Apache for a day because he wanted to see how it was like to carry a knife for a day like I do. Afterwards, he liked it and wanted an extension on his rental period. Wouldn't give it back so I had to steal it from him......I had to steal my own knife back......
 
Once lost a BM Mini-Reflex, it went MIA for 3 years, I had given up hope, than one day I was working in my barn and as I moved a box off the floor, there it was. Than another time I lost my Beretta Avenger at work, it was only a couple of days old, I went nuts looking all over for it, figuring I was out $150, I went home and as I was doin' a load of laundry,(yea some times I do laundry too) there it was clipped into the work pants I wore when I lost it. Being made of 80% carbon fibre it was so damn light I didn't notice it.
 
Just recently found a Bucklite that I had lost maybe 8-10 years ago. Not the greatest of knives, but I was still happy to see it again. The story behind the Bucklite is kinda weird since I had lost my first Bucklite and a few months later my mom found one at the library that she was working at and gave it to me (I know it was a different one because it had a different shape to it). That's the one that I just found, the original one still hasn't turned up yet.

I'm also still looking for an AirSOG that I lost around the same time. That was my first one hand opener so I'd like to find it again.

And I also lost a throwing knife while I was throwing at a stump in a playground in the middle of the night (the first night that I got it)--hope no kids found that one.
 
Lost an Opinel number 8 a couple years ago. Mom found it a few weeks ago. It costs next to nothing, but I was still thrilled to have it back. Congrats on your find.
 
lost a camillus folder about 7 years ago. My dad had picked it up at a gunshow for me. I found it a few weeks ago in an old dresser. My new(again) favorite knife.
 
About 1980 a friend gave me a little Gerber Paul knife that I've lost and found several times since then.

The one that gave me the biggest thrill was a little tiny Schrade knife I had in the '60s. It had a big blade about and inch and a quarter long, a nail file and a short blade. They also made a model with just the longer blade and nail file. I lost mine in the early '70s.

About 1990, in another city, I was really wishing they still made the knife so I could get another one. One night I went to the grocery store and right in front of the door was one of these knives. It was the one without the small blade, but I snatched it up anyway. :)
 
The Sentinel was a nice collaboration between Elishewitz and BM. Glad you found it!
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YUP! I have bought few knives, just because I don't have a lot of discretionary income (University will do that to a guy's bank account.) When I first saw the Sentinel, I was in love. I bought this one when it was discontinued. I really liked this design, but I struggled whether to buy it or not. After all, the grind line isn't high, and for the money I could get a knife with better cutting geometry, blah blah blah. I decided to go with the knife I really wanted, and man am I ever happy I did. This knife doesn't slice liek my AFCK, but it handles 99% of the cutting chores I do, and I think it looks awesome, and feels even better. Ahh... to be reunited with my friend, after a year long break-up....
 
Yeah, lost my Scout knife when I was mowing the neighbors' lawn when I was a kid. 25 years later (+/-), when my sister and her husband bought that house, she discovered a rusted Scout knife in a windowbox. Of course, it was ruined:( and all the WD-40 in the world wouldn't restore it.
 
I once lost a Gerber Mark I in three feet of snow high on a mountain, far from any trails. The next spring my brother came across it while wandering about on the mountain. It was pitted (stainless is not stainproof) but it was good to have it back.
 
Reading this thread has me wondering how many Loveless's, Morans, Elmer Keith's or any number of fine knives are laying on mountainsides, by river or lake sides or stuck in trees out in the forest's and woodlands of America.
Accidentally dropped or set aside for a moment and then forgotten till the hunt is over and the person is back at the truck or on the way home from an exciting camping trip or hike or hunt or whatever.
Kinda makes me wanna go for a hike in the Ocala National Forest again.;)
 
I'm still sick, I carried the same Terzuola TTF-3 since 1988 (except for 3 days when I fed-exed it to Bob & he refedexed it back)thru about 12 states & well over 1,000,000 miles hauling cattle (till I temp. retired a couple years ago) and 2 weeks ago, somewhere between here (Jackson/Tylertown, MS) and Lawrenceville GA it became lost.I called the guy's shop in Tylertown where we had worked on the trailer the nite I left, WOW,yep he had just happened to find a knife, so I quit looking around in GA & came home. Wasn't my knife.What are the odds of that. Someone else had left their old beat up Case & he just assumed...Still sick about it. I've bought several knives thru the years thinking I liked them better but always went back to the old one after a few days (carried the old one & the new one in the other pocket; learned not to carry tip up LL in your LH front jeans pocket in a semi-hard to forget fashion that could have been a lot worse)I still can't beleive its gone.
 
still glad for those of you who found what was lost, but this is one of the first threads I ever read here I wish I hadn't ever read. all bummed out all over again. the only thing I've had longer than that knife in an everyday sort of way is my watch. I've even changed wives once since I first got that knife.
 
Originally posted by FC Yuk
I've lost a knife before, not like that tho. It was to a friend. He wanted to borrow my Apache for a day because he wanted to see how it was like to carry a knife for a day like I do. Afterwards, he liked it and wanted an extension on his rental period. Wouldn't give it back so I had to steal it from him......I had to steal my own knife back......
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whoa... that's harsh... hope you grappled the guy!

yeah, it feels GREAT to recover a knife, i thought i lost my Black Chive one time, almost tore my room apart and interrogated my entire family... later i found it in my bag... oops! : )

hope all of you are as lucky as i was!

aXed
 
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