KNIVES: Lost, and Found. Lets here your stories..

jeepin

jeepin

Gold Member
Joined
Jul 20, 2003
Messages
17,453
havent heard any good lost or found stories lately. Wondered what everyones lost, or found. Multitools, knives, swords, etc. Lets hear em :)
 
i just lost a victorinox soldier sometime last week. i think it fell out of one of my pockets during class, another reminder to only carry knives with clips when wearing sweat pants.

p.s. i did find both a gerber multi-plier 600 and a busted-up wave in an old bureau we removed from a work-site. the gerber was in great condition but the wave had one plier broken in half and about 3/4 of the knife blade snapped off, anyone know if i could get it fixed for a reasonable price?
 
When I was a kid I lost a Barlow.I'm not sure but it may have been my first knife and knives were hard to come by in those days so it was a disaster !! I looked and looked but no knife. The next year while walking through the woods something shiney caught my eye, it was my Barlow !! From deep depression to absolute joy !!
 
My father was very involved in scouting through Eagle. He had one of those BS knives with a leather sheath and a full size fork and spoon and all the gadgets. He lost it one year on a scout trip on Morrow Mountain, in Albemarle, NC where he lived. The next year while leading some younger scouts on the same trail he stepped on something that rolled his ankle. Yep, same knife. All the blades and tools still work and look fine, and the leather is still intact though a little worn. I have the knife now.

Love that story.

DC Williams
 
I found myself missing my Gerber LST. Couldn't locate it. Finally decided I had given it to one of my nephews even though I couldn't remember doing that. After a couple years I finally tackled the paper mess on my desk and found my Gerber! :D
 
I've lost and found one of my first knives numerous times...a CRKT M16-10F (carbon fiber handle, tanto blade), which was a pretty sweet little blade. Unfortunately, I think I lost it for good almost a year ago because I haven't seen it since. :(
 
Rock climbing in Carbondale Illinois. I was in the Air Force in my 20s. (a long time ago) I was up pretty high and relaxing on a ledge. Took out my Buck Esquire I'd carried for years to slice an apple. It flipped out of my hands and I had to watch it fall into la la land never to be seen again. It wasn't a huge money loss but I did love that little knife. It was before the one hand openers with thumb studs on them. I liked that knife because you could grab the blade and flick it and open it up. Of course that is how I lost it though. Bad part abou that is that I bought another one just like it and lost it too years later in a roll over in my 4Runner. Not sure if it flew out the window or what. Alls I know is that it was in the center console before the roll and not in the truck after. Then of course there is the story of my Cold Steel Ultra lock that I lost. I think it is on the roof of a home I helped remodel and we closed in the area of the roof where the add on joined the old structure. It is probably still up there in that insulation somewhere to this day.
 
I accidentally put a Kershaw Vapour II through the washing machine. It opened sometime through the spin cycles and trashed a number of good clothes. My wife was NOT happy !! It was a mystery to start with as I couldn't find the knife, which had gotten caught in the folds of the rubber seals around the washing machine door. I only found it 3-4days later. I was sure I'd hooked it on some brush while walking and it was gone for sure.

I've also lost a number of knives under my drivers seat. I once looked and there were 3 lying there. Another time, I was detailing my car and heard the awful THUNK as I was vacuuming the interior with one of those huge vacuum hoses at the car wash. I knew it was a knife I'd just lost, and actually got help to open up the machine. Found my little Schrade Old Timer slipjoint that I'd lost for some months...

Cheers. Jason.
 
I found a Buck Special (without the sheath) at a construction site in a wooded area. Two hours later I threw it at an old petrified tree and it broke in half. Right at the hilt. Oh well. ;)
 
I found a Leatherman Supertool in a chest drawer in a motel on a school trip (right next to the Giddeon's Bible). The irony was that I'd bought a PST just days before leaving on the trip.
 
Once I lost my old cheap Buck EZ out while mowing my dad's lawn. About 4 years later, I was walking through his yard, and found it.
It was dirty and mudcaked, and rough to open.

However the blade was spotless after I washed the crud off. No rust or pitting.

Still sharp too!
 
I lost a small Sebenza last year while pheasant hunting. I stupidly left it clipped to my front pocket. I was walking through a lot of tall grass, some of which must have hooked the clip and pulled it loose. It still hurts to think about it. I have since stopped buying expensive "users" since I just can't handle loosing them. :(

-- Dizos
 
Ok guy's here is my lost knife story . as a kid i got involved in M.A and began throwing knives screwdrivers , exacto blades shuriken . i got some money from mowing some neigbours lawn a couple of times and bought a german throwing knife not the best but a good knife . i lost it somewhere at my parents house which is where i was growing up i remember the knife being lost and looking everywhere i could think of for several days thinking i would find her i never did . fast forward about 20 years my older brother bought the family house from my father ,and on a family get together he hands me back my long lost friend . i guess that mean ill have to pass it on to one of my boys .
 
I've told this here before, but here goes...

I was climbing a mountain in the winter, in deep fresh powder, in an area that is off the beaten track. Not many people go to that part of the mountain. About halfway up I notice that my Gerber Mark I that was clipped on my daypack is gone. There is no hope of finding it in the deep snow, so I just wrote it off. The next summer my brother was on the same face, and found the knife. The blade is pitted, but I got it back.
 
i guess things do even out in the end. i found this inbetween the walls in my new apartment earlier today. it was pretty dirty, what looked like dried food and a lot of dirt was all over the implements but i just soaked it in multipurpose cleaner, scrubbed it with a toothbrush, washed it off and blow-dried it and it's in great shape. everything opens easily, i just sharpened both blades and it's going in my pocket tomorrow.

29100wegner.jpg

p.s. it's a wegner (says on the big blade) but i don't know what kind.
 
Found a Victorinox Swiss Champ on a gravel path at my parent's house. My Dad asked all his friends that would have come over if they lost it but no one claimed it so I got to keep it. I had never seen a SAK like it before, only basic SAKs. I was full of excitement as I opened each tool. I was like "Scissors!! A saw! A magnifier!" etc. I think because of that experience I just had to have the Swiss Champ XLT. :)

I lost a Gerber EZ Out, AST-34 version and some time later a friend found it in his driveway (his lives in the woods, rocky driveway). It had a little rust on the blade, but it looked like the rust could have come from a rivet or something else the knife was near.

This isn't a knife, but I remember being about 5-6 years old and my Grandfather giving my cousins and I all silver dollars. My one cousin, the same age, pretended he was George Washington throwing a coin over the river and chucked his coin off the front porch and into the yard. We searched and searched and never found it. A few years later my parents bought the place. Then years after that we tore out some bushes and I found the silver dollar. :) Now that I'm thinking about it I don't think I ever told my cousin I found it, I probably should find it and get it back to him, we'll be 30 in a few months.
 
Most embarassingly a Spyderco Harpy fell from my pocket and got buried under the seat of my car. I assumed a coworker stole it, and was grumpy about it. Then I cleaned out the car and found it. Felt like an idiot. :)
Worse, I found a frigging hitter pipe that smelled of weed, from the previous owner of the car, I assure you. I threw it into the dumpster. Thank goodness I'd never been pulled over and had police dogs sniff the car. Spyderco saves the day :D
 
I found an old Case peanut in the basement of my fraternity house. It was a bit rusty but cleaned up well. There was a crack in one of the smooth bone scales. I did not know anything about knives at the time, I thought it was a cheap knife because it was not stainless steel. :rolleyes: I carried it sometimes for a couple years and then left it in a drawer for a couple more. I found out that it is a 1964 when I got into knives. I still have it.
 
I used to have a small Phill Hartsfield kozuka. Loved that little knife. One day it was there. Next day, gone forever. I've been bummed about that for over 15 years!!

Bruce
 
:grumpy:

A couple of years ago, I had a video camera bag that I carried around on trips and other reasons. I was hanging around the bus station. One idiot moved the bag from the counter with the frieght scales to a cart, then another idiot put it on a bus, without a claim tag or even looking at it and there has been no sign of it since. I made several phone calls, but nothing and I am still mad.

In this bag was a Simonich Combat Raven (purchased from Rob), a Becker BK-7 (purchased from Ethan), a Camillus Talon with a Kenny Rowe custom sheath, a Busse Assault Shaker, a SOG folder, a Leatherman Wave, and my check book, cellphone charger, many maps and no telling what else. I am sure I outfitted some gang war in Chicago or something, but it was a major loss. I had taken my digital camera out of it the day before. BUT I am stll MAD! :grumpy:

I want my knives back!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top