Lets hear some stories about the most expensive knives you lost

Not really a knife, but I lost a Leatherman Charge TTi a few years back, and that was pretty painful. I was helping my friend down the street strip out a cheapo Ford Escort that we were going to turn into a rallycross car. (This was pre-"Cash for Clunkers" and you could still get Escorts for a couple of hundred bucks.) I forgot my Charge in the car and figured I'd just get it the next day, only to find that the car had been impounded off the street for expired registration, and the cost of getting it back would've been more than it was worth, especially since my friend hadn't registered it yet (he'd only bought it a couple of days before) and would've had to pay for that on top of impound fees that would've gone sky high while the car sat waiting for the paperwork to get processed.

I also lost my favorite MT ever, a Vic Spirt, last year. Not sure what happened, it was always in my pocket and then one day it was gone, must've slipped out somewhere.

The most awkward loss was probably a Leatherman folding knife. Not sure of the model, but it was a metal-framed one with a weird flipper lever. I actually thought I'd lost it months before, and found out otherwise when I went through airport security and TSA found it in a forgotten hidden pocket of my camera bag. I was lucky it was a small local airport and they just chewed me out instead of arresting me or something.
 
Never lost one but I'm over cautious to the point of not carrying knives I really like in fear of losing them. Dumb. In the end even if I lost them I would have enjoyed them alot more than I do now even carrying them for a short time. Yes I need counseling.
 
My zdp endura cost me $100 and i find it expensive. the second layer of inspections inside a private building found it inside my bag and i had to surrender it. no option of leaving the building with it.
 
Lost a Zero Tolerance 0566 getting on or off the tractor. It's still here somewhere.... Only ten acres.... I KNOW I'm going to find it someday!
 
Not a knife, but I lost a Fenix PD35 tac flashlight about 20 minutes after opening the package. Put it down somewhere and never found it again, that was 4 months ago, eventually it will turn up, but for now, it is lost.
 
hank_rearden said:
My zdp endura cost me $100 and i find it expensive. the second layer of inspections inside a private building found it inside my bag and i had to surrender it. no option of leaving the building with it.
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Did you try to blame it on the lax outer security?

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Max Archer said:
I also lost my favorite MT ever, a Vic Spirt, last year. Not sure what happened, it was always in my pocket and then one day it was gone, must've slipped out somewhere.
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I feel you, my Spirit was (is) my favorite multitool and I carried daily for years, until one day I was on a moving train's bathroom and used it to pry open a stuck towel dispenser. I left it laying on the handwash to get the paper towels, washed my hands and just left. Noticed I didn't have on me 30 mins later.
I ran like crazy to the bathroom, but some lucky guy got there first and took it.
Someone got a nice souvenir from that train trip. :grumpy:

Of course, I got a new Spirit soon after that
 
Lost an Al Mar Eagle ultra lite pheasant hunting in a cut corn field. Found it the next spring turkey hunting.--KV
 
A $700 William Henry; ZDP, desert ironwood, ostrich leather pocket slip. Slipped out of my pocket getting in or out of my truck at Walmart. When I realized it was gone, I went back and searched the area where I had parked, but it was gone for good. Somebody had a nice day! But hey, I've still got the nice wooden box it came in.
 
Lost a Kershaw something or other (Whirlwind maybe?) that was my nicest knife at the time when I was first getting into nicer knives. It disappeared during a half drunk night in a new 'girl friend' bedroom that I didn't find in the morning.

Lost a Spyderco PM2 S90V/CF when my girlfriend, now wife, dropped it over the side of a boat while making sandwhiches. I went in right after it without a second thought but we were moving and I couldn't find it in the grass.

It wasn't a knife, but like the guy above who forgot about a knife, I forgot about a .38 titanium revolver that was my previous CCW and was in a hidden pocket in a bag that I was using while going on a cruise for my honeymoon. They weren't real happy but let me call my friend that dropped us off who took it with him. The captain of the boat asked a couple questions and after finding I had a permit to carry and was legally allowed to own and carry it, let me on the boat for the cruise. My wife told me she was going with or without me so I'm glad he let me on. I think he was French and I'm sure handguns were a bit foreign to him so I'm glad he was reasonable about it. Even after x-raying my bags about 8 times looking for stuff, I later found a pocket knife and a speed loader that made it thru. I had about a half dozen knives plus my wife had one or two that at the time were allowed on the ship, but they kept looking and taking them out and I wasn't going to argue at that point that their rules said they were allowed. Not a knife but was a funny story about our honeymoon.
 
I've lost 3 over the last 20 years or so...but one really hurt!

Benchmade Pinnacle - lost in the snow while hiking on Mount Royal in Montreal. My first titanium frame-lock.
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Dick Atkinson sheepsfoot - lost somewhere in Boston. It was my first true "custom" handmade knife. Slim, slams, and discrete: it was my "office carry" knife when I was a research fellow in a very conservative environment.
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Microtech Lightfoot LCC - lost in the Montreal Metro system. This one was a real tragedy! It was my #1 daily carry knife from '99 until I lost it in the summer of 2009. It was with me every day for 10 years! Took a long time to find a replacement and prices have gotten nuts on the secondary market!
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I lost a protech tr? Can't remember. Wife bought it for me and had my name engraved. Lost it at work while going through thick brush for about 2 miles. I miss that thing. Last knife my wife bought me. Oh well I do fine for myself lol. I'm a lot more careful with my knives now. I have knives I was given when I was twelve and still have it 25 years later. I lost another kershaw hunting in Alaska. I slid and fell a few times and I'm sure it fell out somewhere along the way. Very possible not another human will run across that one.
 
The one knife I lost that I remember most was my Kershaw Ken Onion Boa.
It was my EDC knife ever since I got it at SMKW.
We were staying at a motel in Pigeon Forge, TN & I was cutting a pizza box. I guess I set it down somewhere on the bed, forgot about it, left the next day, remembered it later that day, went back to the motel & nothing turned in. Someone got a really nice knife that day.
Can't hardly find them on eBay & if you do, you're going to pay through the nose.
 
I lost a Buck/Strider 880 on a carnival ride. I picture some dude that looks like Joe Dirt carrying it now.
 
Lost my pre-production run Benchmade Pinnacle 790 350/1000. Occasionally I still turn my house and my mom's house upside down looking for that knife. possibly the best knife I've ever owned, though not the most expensive.
 
I lost my [gifted to me] spyderco GB1, I had a USAKM clip on it (yea won't do that ever again) and it snagged a trash bag as I was taking it to the can. I spent about 3 days searching (and devastated, ask my wife how that went). Then the night before trash night I decided no trash was getting set out for pickup without me going threw it all.
Luckily it's clip had snagged the bag, been drug out my pocket and it was clipped to the outside of the trash bag!
 
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