I just lost my most expensive knife!

Sinc e I was a Cub Scout in the 1950s, I have lost many pocket Kives and t least one sheath knife. Mostly that was as a pre-adult or teenager.

As an adult, I have lost a few others, mostly small non-descript folders. One nice SAK was lost for me by a pre-ten Boy Scout when I was a Troop Leader in the early 1990s.

Most knives were "lost" by just leaving them somewhere in the rush of whatever was happening at the time.

In the early 2Ks, I outfitted our son with a plethora of great cutting tools before deploying to Iraq. He chose and took a selected few of them. . The least expensive was a "21st Century" Kabar @ $125 in 2002. He left that one home. Yet knowing this young man since birth, I gave him a low end CRKT M21 for a utility pocket folder. He managed to lose a CRK Green Beret in a combat related hurry-up. The cheap folder seems to have just disappeared somehow.
 
scalpel_ninja said:
I’ve heard of a neat idea: tie lanyards with fluorescent/GITD paracord or beads on dark colored knives. Adds a splash of color and if lost, use a UV flashlight to light up the cord or bead.
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That's actually a smart idea. I have a tritium fob about the size of a lanyard bead. I rotate different knives all the time, but maybe I could clip it to anything nice before I leave the house with it. Yesterday I carried a Kubey thinking a loss there wouldn't piss me off.
 
Eliteone2383 said:
This should make you feel better. My ex wife cheated on me and when I found out about it she made up some crap and had me arrested and jailed for 4 days. In those 4 days she took 70k out of our business account. Took my truck and all my firearms. I couldn't get any of it back due to a RO. In the divorce the judge ruled she could keep everything she took plus some. Few years later I saw her and the guy she cheated on me with driving around in my truck. So I'd say you got off lucky just losing a knife.
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Thanks for sharing that. That REALLY sucked! Sorry to hear that.
 
toker said:
I had a Spyderco Salt that I attached to my waders when I went waterfowl hunting. Lost it about 4 years ago and could not find it anywhere. Last year when I was tidying up my decoy bags, it was at the bottom buried under about a dozen decoys. I have no idea how it got there to this day.
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Love the Salt editions. That gives us all hope when things mysteriously show up after years!!
 
To make you feel better:

There was a guy on Reddit within the past two days that lost an entire Pelican case full of knives during a move, with the cheapest costing over $300. He assumes his wife trashed it or gave it away during a downsizing spree before their move.
 
Ilikesharpstuff said:
To make you feel better:

There was a guy on Reddit within the past two days that lost an entire Pelican case full of knives during a move, with the cheapest costing over $300. He assumes his wife trashed it or gave it away during a downsizing spree before their move.
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OMG! I can't even begin to imagine how that conversation went.
 
knife_daddy said:
I've been buying knives for over 30 years, and until yesterday, only lost 2 of them. Those were lost over 20 years ago, and I've since overpayed to rebuy them on the secondary market because it bothered me so much. Yesterday I took my new $420 pre-ordered Kunwu Excalibur in my truck while running errands. It's a noisy bastard, so I wouldn't bother anyone with constant flicking in my truck. Somewhere along the way, I think it fell out of my pocket or truck, but it didn't make it home with me and I'm super pissed. I've torn the house and garage up on the off chance it's still around, and even checked in the snow around my front yard, even though I know it isn't there. Technically, I have more invested in a few other knifes with upgrades and mods, but this was my first Titanium integral and I was still in my honeymoon phase with it. Can someone tell me a worse story so I don't feel as bad?
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Sadly it happens........

I've lost a number of expensive custom and factory folders over the years. If you edc long enough it will happen to you. 😭
 
A gec 14 once slipped out of the watch pocket of my jeans in a cab. luckily i saw it before i got out. depending on how much i like a knife, i tend to buy two if i really love them. one mint for the collection and one possibly used depending on availability. hope you find it in the truck!
 
I feel your pain, I had my first Randall, bought from the factory was stolen from my truck.
About your loss do you have a metal detector? That could help in the snow
 
donnord said:
I feel your pain, I had my first Randall, bought from the factory was stolen from my truck.
About your loss do you have a metal detector? That could help in the snow
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A Randall?

That's a cause worth raising an Army over!

Randall's are so difficult to obtain now. I hope that thief ended up in a bad relationship with Karma!
 
Check your seatbelt, as I've had pocket clips catch before.

The only knife I lost was one I made for my wife, and it disappeared when we had some builders in.
 
I lost a Microtech ANAX (not an ax, and not the chinese version😆) for about 5 months last year. I looked everywhere. My wife looked in many of the same places. One night I finally accepted that it was gone, and a strange calmness settled over me. The very next day I found it in a place where we had both looked, and now I carry it most of the time.
 
I've lost only a few, starting with my first SAK, a gift at about 8 years old from a family friend. Lost it the same day. Others mysteriously disappeared, possibly through parental intervention (what's wrong with a 12-year-old kid carrying a nice Solingen hunting knife?). I've had one stolen (a cheapo, no loss) given quite a few away. I use most of my knives regularly, don't leave them lying around and most of all, don't loan them.
 
Sometimes they fall in between the seat and backrest at the bottom and are hidden. Maybe under the seat.
 
Keep looking in your truck. I lost a leather change purse that my wife had given me. About a year later I found it under the passenger's seat in one of our cars. How it got there is still a mystery.
 
I once mislaid my Becker BK17, and got a spare one, even when it was out of production already.

Now I can sleep better, knowing that in case I actually do have a backup of my favourite knife
 
mrknife said:
A gec 14 once slipped out of the watch pocket of my jeans in a cab. luckily i saw it before i got out. depending on how much i like a knife, i tend to buy two if i really love them. one mint for the collection and one possibly used depending on availability. hope you find it in the truck!
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Thanks. I buy sometimes buy multiples if I think there is collectible value, like my Spydie Sage collection. I love using them, so I have multiples and keep one pristine. Looking forward to the next Sage 6 dropping and will get the s30v and the s90v.
 
Eliteone2383 said:
This should make you feel better. My ex wife cheated on me and when I found out about it she made up some crap and had me arrested and jailed for 4 days. In those 4 days she took 70k out of our business account. Took my truck and all my firearms. I couldn't get any of it back due to a RO. In the divorce the judge ruled she could keep everything she took plus some. Few years later I saw her and the guy she cheated on me with driving around in my truck. So I'd say you got off lucky just losing a knife.
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I would seriously never be willing to even be in a room alone with a female after that, let alone any sort of relationship.

I got burned before my wife and it took me years to even be willing to date. Took my wife 7 years to convince me I could trust her enough to get married.
 
co556guy said:
I would seriously never be willing to even be in a room alone with a female after that, let alone any sort of relationship.

I got burned before my wife and it took me years to even be willing to date. Took my wife 7 years to convince me I could trust her enough to get married.
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That was years ago. My wife now and the mother of my child has made my life whole. Story was just a reminder that things can always be worse.
 
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