I lost my CPK EDC on a farm!

NJBillK

NJBillK

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For about 15 minutes...

Don't worry, it now is riding safely back in my pocket. But for a little bit, my stomach was flipping around, I was looking everywhere we were picking veg.

Scotch Bonnets, Nope
Ghost chiles, nothing
Bell peppers, nope
Cherry peppers, still nothing
Long hots, not-a-thing
Popalo, No
Cilantro, nil
Basil, nada
Cherry tomatoes, not here
Squash & Eggplant, No & No

Heirloom Tomatoes: Jackpot!

I was almost out my Favorite fixed blade, that I would not likely get another for at least the next year...

Long story short, a good day turned into a horror show and then into a Great day.
Now I have some fresh veg and peppers for tonights steak dinner and I will be sure to use my CPK for cutting it.


Did you Almost lose a knife, or lose one just to find it again?
Who else has had a close call?
Let's hear the stories of love almost lost.
 
Tragedy averted. :thumbsup:

Haven't lost a knife in a very long time. A couple years ago I was convinced I absent-mindedly set it down in the woods while doing something and walked off. Searched that small spot for an hour.

When I got home it was sitting on the coffee table; never considered the possibility that I forgot to take it with me when I left the house. Doofus. :D
 
Whew, glad it worked out for ya. I was bummed when I read the title because I know how it feels to lose a knife, let alone a CPK that can be almost impossible to replace.

I always seem to have a folder missing. Most turn up eventually.
 
I had my GB1 get its clip snagged on the trash bag as I took the trash out. I searched all week and finally, the day before trash day I decided I would have to sort threw the trash before it could go out to the curb, I was not looking forward to it but it had to be done as I had searched EVERYWHERE else.

Imagine my delight when I pulled the first bag out of our can and the knife was right there on the outside and I didn't have to dig threw even one bag!!
 
I set my knives down often and can't find them. I go into panic mode and my wife shakes her head because it is always someplace near.
 
Found this beauty a few days ago riding trails on the ATV's..Magnificent..no?

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Three times I lost knives in the house and found them 1-2 years later. A manix 2, Tenacious, and a dragonfly.

More recently I had an experience like yours, thought my modded Dragonfly G-10 was gone forever, it rides loose in my watch pocket. Thankfully I found it in the car later that day.
 
I was startled by the thread title. As much as CPK's are cherished, I felt the need to read the thread. Glad to see you had a momentary sick feeling of losing a good friend. Bet that won't happen again. ;)
My ZT0452 is hiding from me somewhere and I don't know where just yet. It's been MIA for about two weeks now. Don't ask me why, after a week, I had to have another. Got a replacement from usamadeblades with bronze anodizing. I'm still trying to figure out why I like the knife so much.
 
NJBillK said:
It sort of looks like a Ritter grip with after market slabs.
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Thanks for the stories folks. I am relieved that I am one of the survivors. Good to see that there are others.
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I wish it was that good
I say it's a flea market knife. Can't find any identifiable marks on it.
It will get cleaned up, sharpened and then relegated to the garage tool box or a general knife that rides around in my truck.
 
I lost a Spyderco Southard in the couch once. I had no idea where it was for two months and then one day looking for a remote I found it.

I lost a Spyderco Military in Cruwear once for about half an hour. I retraced my steps and found it clipped to the seat belt of a forklift I was driving earlier.
 
Yep, a few years ago I left a Scrapyard Scrapper5LE stuck in a log our in the far west of my state, I was a bit stuffed (it was about 41degC and I had been walking for several hours), it is dead flat out there but lots of crappy timber. All I could recall when I found the empty sheath back at camp that night was using it to open something out on the walk back to my truck. To walk out there and find "a log" was a long shot but I did recall checking the GPS while taking that rest and noting I was 2.4km from where I had left my truck in the morning. The waypoint for the truck was still in the GPS so I walked out till I was 2.4KM from that point and started walking an arc till I found what I thought was the log...but no knife...till I explored and found it had fallen down in the grass and rubbish behind where I was using it.
 
Whewww tragedy avoided. I read the first lines and was ready to get the tracking dogs and metal detectors and gather the crew for a grid search ... I may need a drink now ... :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Glad it worked out ... but bet your Dr wouldn't have liked your blood pressure readings for that frantic bit til it was safely bavk in your hands.
 
I lost my orange Ritter mini grip after eating at a sushi place. Me being me, I was playing around with it(just came in the mail that very day), and must have laid it down when the food arrived and forgot all about it until I was walking to my truck.

Thankfully the gods were looking out for me and my truck keys happened to be in my right front pocket(where my knives ride in), and I went running back into the restaurant to find it sitting on the booth. Who says you can't lose something in orange? Haha.
 
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I was hoping not to have to admit this to anybody, but considering the title I may as well confess.
2 weeks ago I lost my entire triple aught design backpack full of survival gear. 900 fill down jacket, hammock, my Swiss Army tool and expensive compass, paracord, first aid stuff, my personally customized GS06 with Ironwood scales in a Sagewood sheath and my great eastern Cutlery 79 in stag. There were other odds and ends in that backpack as well. I literally had sold off all of my entire knife collection which consisted of about 15 other knives. I narrowed it down to the gec 3 blade 79 I liked best.
Lost in the woods forever.
I really loved that little 79, strange how how much I miss it. :(
 
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Lost two custom Crawfords and never found them. :(

Lost a BM Mini Reflex and found it 7 years later under a box, on top of another box in the basement. I had used it to cut tape to seal a box and when I grabbed it to place on the box already on the floor I didn't see the knife as the box blocked my view. I went crazy for years, I had gotten to the point where I was draggin' the lawn with a big stainless clad magnet hopin' to catch something with enough iron to be attracted to the magnet or hear it "tink!" as the magnet skipped over it. It was a good week that week as I found 2 other missing knives, one tied to my upside down canoe, a Blackie Collins original Thumbolt Joggin' Buddy and a large Case Sodbuster I replaced pretty soon after it turned up missin'.
 
So far I've been lucky ... only things I've lost seem to be small bits of my brains as the days pass ... but then again most of my knives are probably more valuable anyway.
 
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