losing knives

So far I have only lost two flashlights and hats.... lots of hats... damn hats.... always loosing my hats. And they just don't make those hats anymore, once out of season, gone for ever....

At least you can buy a replacement. Cheer up! When things like this happen to me I let it be a lesson. Use/Abuse your knives.... that way you get maximum mileage out of them before you inevitably loose them.
 
I have lost 2 knives. One at a campground that my grandpa gave to me, and another at a previous girlfriends house, I just don't want to go get it.
 
I've lost several while fishing. I know where they went but have no way to retrieve them.
 
I lost a Vic Classic when I forgot to take it off my keys before I went to a Met game. I lost a Jaguar balisong when my mother found it! (I was 13 and she frowned on the idea of me having a giant knife, apparently.)

I temporarily lost a Benchmade Monochrome and a Spyderco UKPK but they both turned up several months later, thank goodness. Two of my favorite knives, right there.
 
Ive lost 2 timberlines and a beretta years ago in the back of a truck. It was my friends dads truck he said he never seen them. I know better than that.
At least they were cheap.

I went to a rays baseball game a few years back and had a william henry edc10 in my left front pocket. The kid at the ticket gate said you cant enter with a knife. I was about to take it back to the car. When he said thats a nice william. Asked him if he would hold it for me until the game was over on one condition, if i could see his id.
He showed me his id. So I took a pic of it. And found him after the game.
 
Jasonsdman said:
I lost a BM940 for over a month before cleaning out the crevices of my recliner and finding it just chillin' on one of the wooden frame. I must've dozed off while watching a movie late at night and the knife fell out of my pocket. Boy, did I miss it. I was so happy when I found it. So my suggestion is to start cleaning around. You just might get lucky.
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If I lost my 940 I'd cry. Definitely my favorite and most carried folder.
 
Vic Classic and Gerber Dime. Shoulda learned after losing the Classic not to put anything in that useless tiny 5th pocket on my jeans. Didn't and so...lost Dime. Shame on me.
 
I've lost quite a few. I break my losses down to three categories:

1. Lost then eventually found: Spyderco Gayle Bradley, found after three months, ZT0770CF found after 1.5 months.

2. Knives to disappear forever, for no apparent reason: SOG Pentagon Elite, pre-arc lock.

3. Knives I've stupidly lost: When I was 17 I worked at a shoe store, and we had this promotion for John Deere boots, with a full size cardboard stand up of some race car driver. When the promotion was over, they let me keep the stand up. So my buddy and I set it up in my parents back yard, shooting pellet guns at it. We taped ketchup packets to it and shot those. Then I got out my throwing knives. I had two large and three small. Lost all but one of the big ones. They went through the cardboard and off into the woods they went, never to be seen again. It was sad because my dad's friend came to visit from Japan and brought them with as a present for me. The three small ones had a wrist sheath to under your shirt sleeve. They were cheap, but I'm still sad I lost them.
 
Lost a Victorinox Rambler and a Alox Classic SD. Both off my keys. Never lost a clipped pocketknife.
 
I lost an original Spyderco Native while trimming trees and brush. Just went for my knife and it was gone. Never found or replaced it.
 
Multiple SAKs, but I've also found a few, so I guess those even out.
Had a cheapy knife taken away by the pre-TSA security at Chicago O'Hare airport in the 70's when I was a kid.
Misplaced a Leatherman Super Tool somewhere in my house, I think. Haven't seen it in a year or so.
 
Only lost one knife (had a few stolen), but it was a $1000 custom. Big 'tactical' folder with a small wire clip which bent. Been two years and I'm still depressed about it. Not to mention pissed at myself because I saw that the clip was bending, told myself that evening I'd have to fix it, and went and carried it anyway.
 
Lost an alox Vic Pioneer due to shallow pockets. Probably slipped out at the restaurant patio I was at one night. When it didn't turn up, I promptly ordered another one... great pocket knife!

-Brett
 
I manage to lose tools but I've never misplaced a knife. I did lose a knife in a trade deal that went bad, my old Spyderco Goddard folder.

I misplaced my Leatherman PST one time. I bought a Gerber to replace it for a trip, then months later found the Leatherman.

I lost a Snap-on ratchet and socket one time when I was working as a mechanic, never did find it so I had to buy another. I lost a pair of small pliers working on a customer's car- dropped them and they didn't come out the bottom. Never did find them but the customer found them a year later. I noticed the other day that the channel-lock pliers that normally hang on my tool board in the garage are gone. My wife won't admit to using them so I don't know where they went. I put them on the list to buy the next time I am in a store.
 
Spyderco Rescue.

Even though I am not a big Spyderco fan, I have to admit, I liked this knife.
 
I used to carry a spyderco harpy in my back right pocket in addition to my user knife. Several times I had gotten out of the truck to see it in the seat. Well I kept on carrying it there and it is somewhere between Virginia and Florida on 95 at a gas station now.
 
I have lost a few over the years especially hunting (sitting them down and walking away). That is the main way I loose knives; using them and sitting them down versus putting them back in my pocket or in the sheath.

Current knives that are MOA are the pre-fusion SOG Revolver Hunter, Vic Electrician. Hopefully they will turn up. My Blackjack 125 got misplaced for a couple months and found it inside one of my daypacks that I hadn't used in a while.
 
Longest I've "lost" a knife was 2 months. It was really far under my car seat and I had already started to use other knives as my EDC.

They usually come back, good luck!
 
Last the one thing that was passed on to me from my grandpa, a pearl (possibly imitation) stockman with rusty blades. Not sure of the brand. There is a 1% chance that it is in a box somewhere, but so far I haven't had any luck finding it. I have a feeling that it was stolen when my old house was broken into, but at that time I didn't keep my knives organized so who knows...
If it does ever turn up I will posting it here :)
 
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