It finally happened....I lost my knife

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Brian.Evans

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I've misplaced, I've forgotten, and I've mislaid, but I've never lost a knife....until now. I'm heartbroken. It was a clip TC Barlow in red sawcut and it was never not in my pocket. A true user, it was patina'd dark with that bright edge fresh from sharpening. I had just stropped it to razor perfection. I know the last place I had it was after I cut a wrapper off some hamburger. I positive it was thrown away. I've torn apart our kitchen trying to find it. My pockets feel empty. In fact, today I didn't even carry a knife, which is so....weird. I miss it, no other knife feels right.

I'd love to hear your stories about lost favorites. Maybe take my pain away, or maybe just share in our woes together.
 
Brian.Evans said:
I've misplaced, I've forgotten, and I've mislaid, but I've never lost a knife....until now. I'm heartbroken. It was a clip TC Barlow in red sawcut and it was never not in my pocket. A true user, it was patina'd dark with that bright edge fresh from sharpening. I had just stropped it to razor perfection. I know the last place I had it was after I cut a wrapper off some hamburger. I positive it was thrown away. I've torn apart our kitchen trying to find it. My pockets feel empty. In fact, today I didn't even carry a knife, which is so....weird. I miss it, no other knife feels right.

I'd love to hear your stories about lost favorites. Maybe take my pain away, or maybe just share in our woes together.
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About 5 years ago I found a Buck 55 in a parking lot. It was in great shape, and I put it in my pocket, but didn't think a whole lot about it. I started carrying it on a regular basis, and it quickly became one of my favorites, in my pocket constantly. About 2 years ago, apparently while getting my keys out, in a parking lot (have to admire the irony), I lost it. I cried, and still look around for it!
I guess it wasn't mine to keep, but only carried it for a while.

Hopefully someone else got as much joy out of it as I did!
 
Oh man!...Thats terrible news Brian, I too have .lost a TC, I carried over to England, Scotland- it was a PPP 2012 Ebony Spear, I carried it with a TC saw Cut Red Bone, Paul Hilborn came to the rescue and managed to fine me another- which was no easy task!
Another time I lost a Clip point North field Barlow- a Gift ( yes another ) from Paul....couldn't find it for over a week- didn't have the courage to tell Paul- I looked absolutely everywhere - one day I was taking the washing out of the front loading washing machine, and in the doorway is a Rubber Gusset seal, the seal has a ditch type of drain in the middle where a little water sits all the time - I saw it and thought "I wonder..." put my finger in- and bang! there is was...during that week of sitting there in the water and detergents- it got a hammering - it created crevices in the Blade and came out with a shiny crust Black coating that resembled Porcelain, I managed to clean off this coating- and the Knife carries a massive Patina - kinda looks cool!

Have you looked in your car- felt deep into the join of the seat and back support? My friend lost his stag 85 that I gifted to him- found it I think about a month later in there, Under the seat - in the tracks where you can shift the seat forward and back - been there before!

I know how you feel- because it doesn't stop going over and over in your mind- retracing etc, I hope that later we see some good news with a find!
 
mitch4ging said:
About 5 years ago I found a Buck 55 in a parking lot. It was in great shape, and I put it in my pocket, but didn't think a whole lot about it. I started carrying it on a regular basis, and it quickly became one of my favorites, in my pocket constantly. About 2 years ago, apparently while getting my keys out, in a parking lot (have to admire the irony), I lost it. I cried, and still look around for it!
I guess it wasn't mine to keep, but only carried it for a while.

Hopefully someone else got as much joy out of it as I did!
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I begrudgingly admire the irony. Must have been a travelin' knife to only have stuck around so long.
 
Campbellclanman said:
Oh man!...Thats terrible news Brian, I too have .lost a TC, I carried over to England, Scotland- it was a PPP 2012 Ebony Spear, I carried it with a TC saw Cut Red Bone, Paul Hilborn came to the rescue and managed to fine me another- which was no easy task!
Another time I lost a Clip point North field Barlow- a Gift ( yes another ) from Paul....couldn't find it for over a week- didn't have the courage to tell Paul- I looked absolutely everywhere - one day I was taking the washing out of the front loading washing machine, and in the doorway is a Rubber Gusset seal, the seal has a ditch type of drain in the middle where a little water sits all the time - I saw it and thought "I wonder..." put my finger in- and bang! there is was...during that week of sitting there in the water and detergents- it got a hammering - it created crevices in the Blade and came out with a shiny crust Black coating that resembled Porcelain, I managed to clean off this coating- and the Knife carries a massive Patina - kinda looks cool!

Have you looked in your car- felt deep into the join of the seat and back support? My friend lost his stag 85 that I gifted to him- found it I think about a month later in there, Under the seat - in the tracks where you can shift the seat forward and back - been there before!

I know how you feel- because it doesn't stop going over and over in your mind- retracing etc, I hope that later we see some good news with a find!
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I've torn apart our kitchen looking for it, but I'm not giving up yet. I know the last place I used it was in the kitchen and I can see it laying out there open on the counter. After that, nothing.

Losing a PPP Ebony TC would destroy me. I love ebony and a PPP at that!
 
Brian.Evans said:
I've torn apart our kitchen looking for it, but I'm not giving up yet. I know the last place I used it was in the kitchen and I can see it laying out there open on the counter. After that, nothing.

Losing a PPP Ebony TC would destroy me. I love ebony and a PPP at that!
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It will certainly reappear once you buy a replacement!
 
I don't know if mine was as hard on me since I only had it for a year or so but I had a kershaw shallot and loved the knife. I'm pretty sure I caught the pocket clip on the door getting into my car one day and never saw it again. The clip stuck out a bit and I seemed to catch it occasionally and bent it several times. Couldn't afford to get another moderately priced knife at the time as I picked it up shortly after graduating college and getting my first "real job." I think I waited a month before replacing it because I kept thinking I must have placed it in a workout bag or something but it never spontaneously reappeared like it had spontaneously disappeared.

I replaced with with a byrd crossbill which I used until 2 years ago or so and still have. Wanted another shallot once I starting getting more into knives again but they've been discoed. I have a leek which I actually thought was stupid at the time because I wanted the "more manly knife" in my younger, dumber age. I did really like the shallot though, but not the clip.
 
Not a traditional, but I had a early wave multi tool, I lost it which I felt bad about. At the time I was doing mechanic work on 18 wheelers, coal trucks. Lost on the side of the road working on a truck, on a strip mine. Well I went to wally world bought another wave,at that time bout $50. Next day I was repairing airlines on a truck at the shop. Left it laying on the deck plate ,area between cab and trailer. Boss came in asked if his truck was ready. "Yep" up the highway he goes, 10 minutes later realized where my NEW tool went. So after work back to wally world....
 
I posted a similar thread three or four months ago about my favorite knife at the time, a simple GEC 78 American Jack. It was used for a few months very regularly then one day, just gone! I even went thru all the weeks' trash bags before putting them on the curb for pickup. Talk about grungy!

Turns out, my mischievous little angel of a daughter took it upon herself to take the knife on a little game of hide and seek. So, luckily I was able to recover it. But for that week or so, man was I upset. I know that crawling, gnawing itch you have when you can't put the matter to rest. I can only hope your 77 ends up under a cushion, jammed in a car seat crevice, in a jeans pocket, behind a coffee can, or whatever.

Hopefully she's not destined for a landfill. As someone told me on the thread I started...not RIP but rather MIA. Good luck.
 
Bummer Man.
Theres a lesson here for us all.
I do hope you find it.
 
I lost an OldTimer 34OT when I was in the Marines. Yeah, they were still a dime a dozen back then but I was distraught!! My daughter lost an older Victorinox Lumberjack, without toothpick or tweezers, this past fall. I gave her another I had stashed away. She was going through her closet at her Mom's house getting ready for a garage sale and she found it. She said "yeah Dad, I know, attention to detail".

If you have any, check your kid's closet!!!
 
About 15 years ago I was mowing an elderly ladies yard and I stopped to adjust something, using my benchmade auto in the process. To this day I am certain that is where I laid it down. I went back within hours of the incident and never found it. No one would have seen it walking or driving by. 15 months ago I was sitting in a waiting room of a hospital with a fairly new Mudbug in my hand. I laid it down on the armrest of the chair in the open position and that was where I left it. Never recovered it although I checked later at nurses desk etc... Last week I couldn't find my current edc (a swan lake jack). Turned heaven and earth upside down. Walked over at least several acres of ground. NOW HERE'S THE KICKER, and I know this will ring true with many others. I searched the recliner FIVE times and my wife also searched it several times to no avail. Where was it???? My wife looked in the recliner yet again.... and there it was.
 
Losing a knife always sucks. I’ve lost some down couch cushions but lost a large carbon sodbuster in the snow once, thankfully I found it. Good luck!
 
I have truly lost only one knife, a schrade 104ot. I have absolutely no idea where it went and I don't understand why I can't find it anywhere. It was nothing special and I wasn't really attached to it but I keep very good track of my knives so it's disappearance is an enigma.

There was another time when I thought I lost a long time edc (it was not traditional), it was on a job site where we had been putting pipe in ditches and concrete was being poured the morning I discovered it missing. So naturally I felt antsy and asked around if anybody had seen it. I looked absolutely everywhere I had been. No luck, it was a sinking feeling thinking it was probably under dirt or concrete. Well low and behold later that day I hopped in the truck of the guy I rode with that day and the knife had clipped itself to the seatbelt.

I hope you find your knife.
 
As a kid I had an old cheapo keychain balisong my dad gave me that I lost one day riding bikes with my friend.
I don't care much now as it was cheap, but I was pretty upset at the time.

Other than that nothing else has been lost for good.

I carried my leatherman Micra everyday for years and was completely lost without it when it hid itself in a hole in the couch cushion for about a month.

Then there's my Western f48a I was given as a kid which my mom's husband took from the garage after a bad friend got him back on heroin.
He was in the garage with some shady toothless homeless man ( I made sure to sleep with my great grandfathers axe next to my bed ) and when it went missing I figured that it had been stolen by that toothless bum and lost for good, but one day after he sobered up enough for my mom to let him back into the house it showed up on the garage floor.
Apparently my mom's husband had taken it for defense against something he thought was after him, according to my mom he felt pretty had about having taken it but all I know for sure is that I have it with me today.

Its never great to loose a treasured knife, so I really hope yours turns up.
 
Very sorry to hear this Brian, hope you find your knife. If you last had it in the kitchen, maybe there is a chance? :thumbsup: I once spent a day looking for mine while house-sitting for someone 30 years ago, turned out the cat had carried it outside on the magnetic collar which opened the cat-flap! Who'd have thought of that?! :rolleyes:

I've only ever lost one knife, a large Joseph Rodgers WW2 British Navy Clasp Knife my grandfather gave me. That was over 45 years ago, when I was about 11, and I still think about it regularly :(
 
The only knife I lost was a Moki Blackiston's Fish Owl. The small one. Mainly I was just annoyed that I had to buy another, plus the cost of it. Great knife, but it's not like these have a lot of character or soul. Black handle, shiny pivot and pins, shiny blade. Hardly unique or personalized. If I had to choose a knife to lose, that'd be high on the list.
 
When I came home from a beach party a few years ago, my knife was no longer in my pocket! I dreaded the loss realizing it was probably somewhere under the sand..
2 days later I used the same bag I was using for that party, and lo and behold, it had some loose threads it the back, and on one of those threads bungled my knife. The loose thread snagged the knife out of my pocket at one point, and it was literally hanging on a wire till I spotted it.
 
One of my best buddies bought a Case Junior Scout with orange G10 scales for EDC about ten years ago. He lost it about four years ago, looked everywhere. He asked me to find him another, which I did off of ebay - identical to his original. His wife (unbeknownst to him or me) also began searching and bought him one off of ebay (a beauty with stag handles). He kept the stag for dress occasions and began carrying the G10 model for EDC. About three months later he slipped on his yard boots - found the original had somehow fallen in there! Now he has three. OH
 
Another recliner recoup here. A custom had been missing for over a year, and the housekeeper managed to find it.
 
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