Lost knives, lets hear your sob stories.

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I'm really bad about losing stuff and I figure some of you are too. I want to hear about some of the knives you've lost.

I'll go first.

In 2003 my sister gave me a SAK Spartan for Christmas. But not just a regular one, it was tranluscent blue with "Ford Motor Company" written down the side in silver script. Now I'm a Ford guy and a knife guy so it was perfect. My sister doesnt have alot of cash so this really meant alot to me. I carried it every day for about a year until that fatefull day. I was hanging in a harness under a coveyor belt at the quarry replacing rollers about 90 feet up. The knife just slipped out of my Carhartts and plummeted into an eight foot tall pile of baby powder fine rock dust. I didnt realise it at first until later on when another guy asked me if I had found what fell out of my pocket. I went back to have a look but it was gone forever. I was so mad and sick about it.

Even though it was just a cheapo SAK, it was my favorite gift I've ever gotten. I'm still pissed about it. :grumpy:
 
While on a date, my Kershaw limited edition Chesapeake Knife and Tool Random Leek (with S30V blade) came un-clipped from my pocket and ended up lost somewhere in the sand. I LOVED THAT KNIFE!:grumpy:
 
Kershaw Leek, Black Polished G-10, S30V- went to work with me, clipped in right front pocket. Came home and it was gone. No idea what happened to it. Have scoured the work place and home to no avail.
Shoot....I hate losing things! Especially that knife.

Also, I remember losing my first cub scout knife in a theater when I was a kid. I still remember the emotions of losing it.
 
I had a Buck pony I carried for years and once while on vacation I stopped at a rest area to tighten down some rope on some stuff I was hauling and left it on top of the roof. Some hitchhiker found a sweet little knife.
 
I grew up rather poor, but I've always been obsessed with knives. So I spent most of my spare money on them, and by the time I was 20 I had about a $1500 to $2000 knife collection. (which was a huge amount of money to me back then)

Then while living with a couple other guys, somebody broke into our place and stole damn near everything I owned, including my knives of course! :mad:

-No insurance, and no recourse, and no money in the bank, I was simply SOL! Had to start over from scratch with everything. ....bummer, but I'm doing just fine these days. :thumbup::)
 
When i was 18,i was doing my apprenticeship at merchant navy,my folks moved from old house into new apartment,in process they lost my Canadian belt knife,couple folders and stag handmade bowie :mad: ,couple years ago i lost Buck Odysseys(G10,ATS 34)while riding a bike,last year i borrowed U2 to a friend,never sow it again..... :mad:
 
My latest was this week, I wore shorts for the first time this season, board shorts with only a lone cargo pocket-which automatically nixed out fixed carry. I grabbed for my brand new RAT-1 instead (nothing other than my finger has yet to touch its edge). I used the pocket clip to hold it on the inside of the pocket and then velcroed the flap over it. somehow during the day while running around town it managed to disappear from the pocket, much to my dismay. I'm never carrying a folder on a pocket clip again, that's for sure...
 
That's alot of missing Leeks. I lost a Kershaw Chive at work too then bought a new one. I then found the origial one a month or so later on a shelf and promptly lost the new one. Go figure.
 
in 1987 or 88 I walked through a metal detector at the airport with a Benchmade/PCC balisong. Balisongs had just been outlawed recently in CA. The cops confiscated the knife and gave me a lecture about how the DA was going to prosecute me. Being just a teenager I was $hi++ing bricks for weeks. Nothing ever became of it, but I was a great little knife.
 
I was 5 y-o's and I got my first knife. A Buck 55 looks-like probably made by Puma, Böker etc. It was late 80's... I had it couple of years and when I was 8 I lost it in the woods. I still when I go around those places look if I could find it...
 
Eight years old, Grandfather gives me a Barlow, I lose it in the woods 3 months later. Crushed.
Eighteen years old, police officer confiscates a EKI "Normark" lockback during party bust.
Nineteen years old, dildo amusement park renta-cops conducting random vehicle searches (along with some ganj, i was 19!) take my Frost Bali from early 80's.
Thirty seven years old, dildo brother in law "borrows" my kershaw Cyclone, haven't seen it since.
Forgot one: 30 years old, pushing a large steel cart onto elevator when it snags the molded clip on my Delica, pulls it out of my pocket a d I watch as it falls right through crack into elevator shaft.
 
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The only knife that I remember losing was a Kershaw Whirlwind (?) that was one of my first good knives. I went out in college and got hammered and ended up at some girls apartment. I had a feeling it fell out in her bedroom but she said she never found it. Oh well it was a fun time and I got better knives after as that one didn't hold an edge too well as I think it was 440A.
 
I lost a Mora last week while hiking in the woods and pastures.Retraced my steps twice and cannot find it. Green handle-green sheath. No sign of it. Now I am "Mora-less"... out of luck!
 
DoctaD said:
Kershaw Leek, Black Polished G-10, S30V- went to work with me, clipped in right front pocket. Came home and it was gone. No idea what happened to it. Have scoured the work place and home to no avail.
Shoot....I hate losing things! Especially that knife.
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That's a great knife...lost one just like it a couple of weeks ago...
Posted here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=741773

Had a very cool FHM Balisong...that was stolen...
Posted here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=479605

Also had a 70s era Smith and Wesson Bowie that I carried in the service confiscated by the police...back in the mid 80s...
Couple of years ago a found a duplicate, but it took a while...
 
fatcat55 said:
I lost a Mora last week while hiking in the woods and pastures.Retraced my steps twice and cannot find it. Green handle-green sheath. No sign of it. Now I am "Mora-less"... out of luck!
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You'll lose fewer knives if you buy them in bright colors.
 
In the fall of 2008 my wife and I were backpacking in the Porcupine Mountains with another couple. I had a brand new one-of-a-kind Ray Laconico fixed blade made just to my specs. It was in a pack up in the car carrier. My buddy was the last one rootin' around in the carrier and forgot to latch it shut. Well one rainy morning we decided to go out for breakfast. Somewhere along a very wooded road my pack, with the knife and other valuable camping equipment, flew out, never to be seen again.
Argh...:(
 
I had some idiot kids move my best friend (benchmade 722) from where I had put it, next to the rifle I was shooting.

I could have kicked kittens.
 
Only knife I recall losing was a cheap throwing knife that missed my target and burried itself under years of collected twigs and leaves. Combed the area forever. Never could find it.
 
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