Knife Lost and Found

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What is the best knife you have ever found, and what is the best one you've ever lost?

In my case, I've found several. Usually cheap flea-market folders while hiking or at camp sites. The best find was when I bought a second hand sofa at a charity auction. While I was cleaning it out, I found a swisschamp in excellent condition. Now, I use it all the time and somehow it's better knowing it was free.

The only one I've ever lost was a throwing knife. I threw it at a tree, missed, and never saw it again despite raking the whole forest.
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Just some musings on a Saturday.

 
Hi JDS,

THis is a good topic!

The best knife I ever found was a spyderco Dyad. It was just sitting on the sidewalk one day and I decided to give it a home. The handle is a little scratched up, but otherwise its in great condition.

The best knife I ever lost was a tanto folder with a damascus blade and stag scales. I either lost it at the hotel, or in the back of the car that I took to the airport...
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[sigh]

Later,
John

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When I was 9 or 10 years old I found an antique "pressbutton" (early schrade) auto while fishing with my grandpa.
BTW that was over 30 years ago.
I sold it on the net last year for decent cash.
I lost a good old Case sheath knife while hunting some real rough ground once.
I lost a Kershaw/Onion mini task for awhile that then popped out from under my truck seat when I hit a deer, but then I lost it again somewhere since. I don't know what that means, except I don't want to have to hit another deer to find it again. I liked that little knife but it seems to want to stay lost.
 
The best knife I ever found was a Camillus electrician's knife and an old non-functioning Imperial switchblade. There is a tie for the best knife I ever lost. One was a great 41/4" Queen stockman that I lost working in a museum and the other was an SAK electrician model that I lost while doing research in Sudan. Luckily, I still had my Benchmade Balisong, it became my pocket and kitchen knife.
 
Well I have found a bunch of cheapies like imperial and a case lockback, (found those at school
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and one sheepfoot liner lock on the road (somewhat broken handle but still good
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I haven't lost any knifes yet
 
May we all keep our knives safely where they belong.
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You can tell a knife nut by their hairless arms....
 
Ilost my Spyderco Cricket a couple of weeks ago at work.
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I replaced it with a Spyderco Pegasus.
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My new bumper sticker:

Let me tell you about my SIFU!
 
best knife found, my gerber e z out, best lost a bayonet blade i sharpend way past scary sharp and had from age 5 to 12

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a man is no fool to give up that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannever lose.
 
Before I was in my teens I found an Italian marked switchblade with wooden scales clenched in the teeth of my neighbors dog... after he dug it up directly from under the fence that divides his and his neighbors backyards!
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Don' t recall ever losing a knife though...

L8r,
Nakano



[This message has been edited by Nakano 2 (edited 02-27-2000).]
 
Best found - a Technisub diving knife - found it in the water! in the north coast of Israel during a dive. had to give it some serious scrub to get all the dirt and rust off - but now it is as good as, well, used.

never lost a knife yet, hope I never will.
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I'm not so lucky as you, guys, I have not found any knife yet, but the hope dies at last
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I lost Spyderco "Dragonfly" couple years ago during balloon operation (good-by my little one ...
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) and since that moment when I'm going to outdoor I ALWAYS USE LANYARDS ! and look sometimes as Christmas-tree
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MIKLE
 
I've lost POSs beyond counting, and never missed them. The best knife I ever lost was a (discontinued) Victorinox Safari I'd had for 20 years or more. It dissappeared on a Christmas visit to my parents house and I was heartbroken. Tore the place apart looking for it.

Trying to replace it, I looked everywhere I could on the net and in meatspace; and when I described the knife everyone I talked to gave me a funny look and implied that I was an idiot, that Victorinox had never made a knife like that. This was pre BF of course.

Fortunately this story has not one, but two happy endings!

I called Victorinox in Switzerland, and low and behold they not only knew what I was talking about... they still had two tucked away!!! At least that's all they were willing to part with, but that was plenty good enough for me. I figured at the rate I had been losing them (1 knife per 20 years), that would carry me to the end of my days! I had the dreaded "brown-truck blues" for a couple of months then was reunited with my childhood pal (or at least an exact clone).

Happy ending #2: Next Christmas, I lost my car keys at Mom's. I more or less totally dismanteled her sofa, and found not only my keys, but my missing Safari!!! And several bucks worth of change, tissues, a remote, cat toys, and about five pounds of cookie crumbs in a condition best left to the imagination.

And yes Mikle, the SAK lives on a lanyard with a tiny carabiner that is always attached to my belt loop. Jeans and t-shirt, or suit and tie; it never comes off.

Joe

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Hmmmmm. Knives disappearing into sofas seems to be a trend. Remember that when you are over at your fellow knife nut's house. Ask them to go get a beer and then dive behind the sofa cushions and see what you find
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I doubt you'll find many treasusres other that crumbs, hair, change, and the occaisional pizza box. But, who knows, maybe you'll find that lost sebenza.
 
Forgot to mention in my prior post:
When my little brother and I were children, we dug up an OLD Spanish dagger in our backyard. About an 8" carbon blade, pewter handle inlaid with buffalo horn. Blade was deeply etched with woodland scenary and a deer(methinks). Wish I could find that knife today, to see what Bernard Levine thinks about it.

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My new bumper sticker:

Let me tell you about my SIFU!
 
I would have to say the best one lost was an old - 1930's vintage Case copperhead - I did't realize there was a hole in my pocket !
The best found would be hard to say - a sak maybe "camper" .. then my son lost it again a few years later.


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knife Knuts are sharp people

Jonesy!
 
I found an old dive knife with a thick rubber coated handle in some bushes by my house when I was a kid. I remember saying to my Uncle (who was watching me) "Lets throw this cool rusty knife I found into a tree!" (you can see where this is going). It was all fun n' games until the rubber handle ricocheted (bounced) off the tree and hit me in the upper lip.
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(several stitches)

The good news is I have'nt lost a knife yet!
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"Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Matt. 10:16
 
I've never found any, but I have recently lost (hopefully only misplaced) two...an Emerson LaGriffe and my Rob Simonich Cetan Tanto kit knife! I BETTER find those suckers...or worst case I'd better at least find the Cetan...

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I found a Randal Model 14 stuck into a VERY high tree branch while camping a few years ago. Couldn't believe the luck! I spent the rest of the trip, cleaning and sharpening it. It wasn't very bad, must have been recently left when I found it.

I lost an old fixed blade Buck that I'd had for most of my childhood, and had sharpened into the unknown. Still miss that knife.

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I lost a Benchmade CQC7 that I bought in grad school(read hopelessly poor). My first really cool knife! I read Dick Marcinko's "Rogue Warrior" books and of course had to get THE knife, or at least an inexpensive and reasonably good copy of it. I loved that knife, did everything from cut rope, boxes and oranges to the occasional finger. Man could I get that thing sharp
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. One day I reached for it and it was GONE. I had no clue where. I searched for months and concluded that I dropped it somewhere on the street. Somebody has a nice knife now. I bought another one sometime later but it just wasn't the same. My old friend was gone forever
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Rich
 
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