How often do you lose pocketknives?

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Yesterday I lost my acid-etched Spyderco Dragonfly. This is the fourth pocket knife I've lost over the past 3 years.

I am done carrying pocket knives and from now on am just going to carry a boxcutter because of this.
 
Think I've lost a half dozen or so over the last 50 years.

Stuff happens to knives. That enters in to the equation when I decide how much I want to spend on a knife. When I was a young man and had little disposable income, I had one daily carry knife. I carried what would today be a $40 knife (It cost considerably less then.) Nowadays I have more disposable income, so I can afford to put more money at risk in a pocket knife which might get lost.
 
Have not lost one yet *knocks on wood*

I am bordering OCD when it comes to my knives. When I go out the knife is in my pocket, after I use it I put it back in my pocket right away, and once I get home the first thing I do is unload everything in my pockets onto my bedside table.
 
Only 6 over the past 50 years..good job. At my rate in 50 years I'd lose 50 knives.

The problem with me is I'm out riding my bicycle a lot, 3 of the knives I lost that way.

The Spyderco Dragonfly had a good pocketclip. The last thing I did with it, I was sitting in a parking lot cutting the plastic wrapper off a Trader Joe's chicken wrap. I don't know if I put it back in my pocket without using the clip and lost it that way, or if I set it down and forgot to pick it back up again.

It sucks because that was my favorite pocket knife that I've owned and the acid-etched version I had was discontinued. Oh well, at least it wasn't a Sebenza.
 
Losing knives sucks. But it wouldn't stop me from carrying.
I have never lost a knife*knock on wood also* but I've had a few scares.
A few scares where I thought I lost knives, which were at the point prize possessions.
I thought I lost:
Kershaw Tremor
ZT 0560
and a few others.
They were all my favorites at the point in time I thought they were lost and I was devastated and can only imagine the feeling of really losing my favorite knife/knives.

But I would still carry and enjoy knives, I'd just be as careful as possible. It's pretty easy to misplace/lose a knife. That's probably why I'm pretty anal when it comes to being careful and keeping stock of what I have. I'm pretty anal about my knives.

I hope that your knife pops up and that you don't lose anymore!
 
I`ve only lost one, and it was my favourite.

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Very sad to lose a knife. I lost a clasp knife as a boy 45 years ago, still not sure what happened to it, it was a big old thing, too big for pocket carry, and it must have fell from my pack. Spent the rest of the day looking for it, but never found it. I had a load of knives stolen in the early 90's, still sickens me. To date though, the clasp knife is the only knife I've actually lost. I've been lucky, and hope it remains like that. Sorry to hear about you guys losing knives.
 
I've only lost one knife it was the first knife I ever had. The knife was nothing to write home about but I had it for a year or so and grew attached. I looked and looked for it but didn't find it.:( I went and bought a new knife and moved on. A couple months later I see my brother in law with a pocket knife. Turns out it slipped out of my pocket in his car and the rat b****** thought it was alright to take it. :mad:
 
I've never lost one, however I have had about half a dozen or so disappear over the last 40 years. I know where I put them, but they're just gone! Perhaps to another dimension? Who knows, there just gone!
 
I'm 42 years old and I've permanently lost one knife. I was a kid, it was a cheap little fixed-blade (still very cool to me, a prized possession). I had it with we when I was crawling around on some rocks at the edge of the water at the coast. The knife fell in between the rocks but the waves were crashing in and the knife was too close to the water for me to safely reach it. To make it even more heatbreaking was that I could see it between the rocks, just couldn't reach it. It's probably still there, slowly rusting away.

And then I've had 4 close calls-

Once when I was a kid, a little pocket knife slipped out of my pocket and into the chair at a friends house. I thought it was gone forever but his dad found it.

I also left that same knife somewhere that I was using it. I thought it was gone forever. But a week later when I was able to return to that spot it was still there.

I had a folder get pulled from my pocket at work when I lifted a large package with straps around it and one of the straps caught on the knifes pocket clip and lifted it out of my pocket. But it's likely I would have found it.

During some trouble I had with the law one of my knives was impounded. I thought there would be no way that the cops would give it back. But they did, eight months later.

Figuring out how not to lose a knife is a test of ones intellect. Don't give up, just think harder.;)

By the way, I just noticed that there's a thread on the next page entitled "Ever lose a knife".
 
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I've only lost one knife (a couple of months ago). But I haven't been EDCing for more than a couple of years (+ a year or so in the past when I was backpacking).
 
I find more than I've lost. I have lost fair share though, I take precautions now. Of course theft is another story but also a source of "lost knives" but I have since put my knives away from casual sight as a prevention measure. As for carry knives, I try to make extra effort to always remember where I place my knife (in front of me) when in use. Sitting down in chairs, I try to be aware that my knives like to fall out of pockets so I habitually check everytime I stand up that my wallet and knife is still there. Coincidentally, I once found an old knife under an ancient oak tree as I (and somebody else) sat down to eat. Always pays to check underneath the leaf debris when you find a perfect tree to sit under.
 
Thanks for the stories everyone.

I am getting more upset the more I think of this, as the acid-etched dragonfly is discontinued and has become rare. There is no way I can get a replacement.

I seem to lose more knives than most people. I guess riding a bicycle and pocket knives don't mix.
 
I've carried daily for the past 30 years and only lost one; a SAK my Mum and Dad bought me, which was also the first knife I ever owned.
 
Well I feel kind of left out as in all of my years I have never lost a knife.! And I am up there in the years and I just can't believe you can lose knives over the years like some do.* I have donated about a dozen or so but never lost one yet.!* {yeh ~~ I know - - knock on wood.*} lol
I promise I will try harder in the future.!!!!
 
A LEO took possession of a French Nontron I had when I had to empty out my pockets many,many,many years ago for some dumb BS. It was never returned.

But then, what do you expect?

Have "misplaced" plenty over the years and stick to the old adage that if you want to find something,stop looking for it.It works!

Biggest loss was a small Sebe. Still not looking for it.
 
Hmmm... interesting question. So far I think I've only lost two out of my 6 years of legit collecting... a Kershaw Skyline (not too bad), and a Swamp Rat HCLE 3.5" (worse of a hit on the wallet).

What's weird is it's not like misplacing my keys, or dropping them into a dark void somewhere... they just disappeared completely!
 
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