How often do you find/recover lost knives??

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We've all done it. Put a knife down and walked away....left on the tailgate.... fell out of holster after bike wreck...Left under the hood.

How many are returned or ever found again in any condition? Lost a remington pen one time, a year later found it deep in couch looking for prob remote. Lost a small EDC knife last night, went thru my pockets, laundry basket etc. couldnt find, went to bed with that oh so terrific feeling(at least not an expensive one). All of a sudden i remembered where it might be in bed. At work the next day opened the fridge and there was the little stainless knife stuck in a head of broccoli I was cutting yesterday!
Any stories would be fine!

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I remember the day and pretty much the moment I lost my Endura. I bought it while in the Marines circa 1992. Loved that blade and carried it daily for many years. I wasn't a collector at the time. It was a tool. Fast forward to 2004 and I'm moving into my first real home with my wife and new child. As you stated, I left it on the tailgate during the move in day. I got about a mile down the road, turned around but I could not find it anywhere. I can only surmise some lucky neighborhood kid found that gem and hopefully uses the piss out of it now. I was broke from getting married and starting a family but I did manage to get myself a Delica that served me well for many years following. Weird. It's like losing a good friend.
 
I remember one of my first around 1979-80. A Buck stockman I lost playing in a large bail of hay.
I have lost / missplaced others but that's the one I remember most.
 
I have lost expensive pens and nice flashlights, but luckily (knock on wood) I have never lost a knife, and I carry one everyday. I don't know how or why, I just haven't.
 
I lost a Remington stockman folder at work one night. I figured it must have fallen out of my pocket at some point. About a year later I was vacuuming my jeep out and there it was under the passenger seat.

My brother was recently clearing brush at our parents house and found a cheap hollow handled survival knife tucked in between two rocks in a stone wall. He remembered owning it when we were kids 25 years ago. Some how it survived and the blade has almost no rust on it.
 
Nfd538 said:
I lost two Hinderers in six months. One I think was stolen
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I had a Buck 112 stolen about 40 years ago. Still get angry when I think about it.

I know who did it but can't prove it. I hope the slimeball cut his thumb off the first time he used it.

I recently lost a 551 Griptilian. I am really stressed about it, too.
 
Lost a small dive knife that was attached to my console diving near Carysfort Light - didn't realize that it was gone until returning to shore and washing my gear.
Went back to that spot the next day and found it.

Lost my beloved Emerson CQC-8 with my birth year serial number. Months and moths later my son found it in a paid of shorts that I threw in a rag pile (instead of the laundry) as the shorts got torn. I put that baby right in the safe and carry it's replacement - a used one I bought here at BF.
 
Realized after a pocket dump after work that I lost an AG Russell medium Barlow tonight which was in a sheath. Decided to retrace my steps and saw something in the headlamps it in the parking lot behind my office in the gravel. Yes it was my knife. I was a happy camper.
 
The first knife I bought with my own money around 81 or 82. Schrade lb7. Went everywhere with me for a few years... And I lost it. 30 years later I was helping my parents move out of our childhood home and found it in an old footlocker I forgot about for literally decades.

The bolsters were green with oxidation. Mild rust here and there on the blade. A little work, with some time on the stone and sno seal on the sheath and its fantastic. Takes a great edge. No blade play. A great find that brings back wonderful memories. I'll be handing it down to one of my two kids soon.




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Wow good stories. I remember daily going to the local tackle/hunting shop and oogling new Buck 110's in that yellowish box! Wouldnt let me hold one or touch one till I was 18! Saved my money up and went in and finally bought one with the old black sheath in about 1980. Ha! I was like 16! Kept that baby in the orig box on a shelf inbetween uses, till I believe someone threw it in a pond at a camping party mid 90's. Never saw it again.
 
Whenever I lose my knife or my gun, I tell my wife and she finds it within five minutes.
 
Every knife I ever carry is subject to being lost. In 1973 I lost a really cool SAK in a leather sheath. Pretty sure it slid off my belt while i was using an outhouse in Acadia National Park in Maine. It was one of those with about 30 different blades, tools, etc. Just recently I lost a SOC Access Card I have carried almost daily for years. I used it as a money clip and figure I had about $65 clipped to it. It was all battered from carrying for well over a dozen years, but the VG-10 was razor sharp. I still keep thinking it will show up somewhere but I think somebody had a great find for themselves.
 
Those are awesome stories and it's great that some of you were lucky enough to find your knife. I'm afraid that I'm not going to be so lucky.

Years ago, I bought and A G Russell K87 One Handed with Ivory scales and Damascus blade. I happened to be looking at his website and saw the knife in the "seconds" sales area. I immediately bought it. My favorite knife for years, carried it every day that I was outside. Well, two Saturdays back, I was working in my yard, loading limbs and sticks in my Kubota RTV. Took a load to our burn pile, unloaded the limbs and went back to the house. when I got inside, I realized that my knife was gone. Pants pocket had a hole that I wasn't aware of. I immediately started retracing my path, but lots of leaves on the ground and plenty of area to cover. Thus far I have not been successful, despite borrowing a metal detector from a friend and covering the entire area where I traveled that day. Maybe it will turn up, but my hope is dimming. I've pretty much resigned myself to replacing it, although that particular knife doesn't turn up for sale very often.
 
No way I would give up if I had a level of certainty it was in my yard. The yard is a very finite place to search. If its there it can be found. Domt give up on it. Good luck.
 
In my life I have "lost" one pair of sunglasses in the woods and one sheath knife in a separate woods. I knew as soon I returned to camp/home that I had left these behind. Luckily and determinedly, both times, I went back - one within hours and the other a few days later - very methodically retraced my steps and found each. Whooh! :cool:

The best story comes from a friend though. He left his brand new Nikon on a city bench in Tokyo. Two days later :eek: he too having retraced his routes - finally with a cab ride - came back to the bench and there was the camera, just where he had left it - someone had set it in a closed box - as if it were a little shrine, to keep it protected from the weather. That was Japan in the 70s - pretty amazing. Camera still taking good pictures.
 
Knives... lost a few. Generally misplaced for a long period of time until I stumble onto it. There is one that I have not found in going on 10 years now. Not sure where to look. But generally I loose very few knives.

I have left them on the tail gate of my truck. On the truck tool box and so forth. Kind of like leaving a gas cap and driving off.

Cameras..... I have left 35mm SLR and 35mm DSLR cameras on the roof of my truck more than once and drove off. Only once has one fallen to the ground.
 
My first multitool was an early 2000's imperial Ireland that I used all the time ( I absolutely can't stand that pos now ) until I lost it. Eventually about a year later we were getting rid of a couch and it was found inside while checking it for TV remotes, change ...ect.
I also lost my trusty leatherman micra for over a month and one day I felt something hard in the couch and it turns out that it found it's way into a small tear in the cushion.

Both of these were luckily found in the same condition they were lost in.
 
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