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Maybe this has been done before but I'd like to know about your favorite lost knife...the one that was lost, stolen, busted or vaporized...the knife over whose loss you still get a little misty...the knife that even now, years later, you still think, "Did I ever look for it under the linoleum behind the fridge?" in the middle of the night.

For my part, I still pine for a large Cattaraugus Sunfish that used to go everywhere with me. I don't know why the loss bothers me so much, it never kept much of an edge and it was too big for a pocket knife. I guess it just had personality. Anyway, if you found it...maybe in that gas station in Lexington, KY or the Home Depot in Charleston, SC...I hope it works out for you.
 
How about this? Every one of my boyhood knives except for two. When I went away to college my parents moved, and we've never located my knife collection since. These were knives handed down to me by my dad and his brother, and used extensively by me as a boy.
 
That would be the very first knife that my father gave to me. Particulars are a little fuzzy, but it seems to me that it was either a trapper design or a Jack of some kind and it was probably made by Cattaraugus or Schrade. What made it so special was that it was given to my dad when he was 6 or so and he passed it to me. Well used, but still very serviceable. I snuck it outside and went into the grassy hills where I played and lost it.......
 
My first folder that was a real knife. A folder with wooden handles for 19 SEK I bought in Smögen, a coastal town on a field trip when I was about 13. My cousin lost it somewhere in a three square meter area by the lake at home. I have not been there with metal detector yet but I think it is just rust by now.
 
longbow50 said:
That would be the very first knife that my father gave to me. Particulars are a little fuzzy, but it seems to me that it was either a trapper design or a Jack of some kind and it was probably made by Cattaraugus or Schrade. What made it so special was that it was given to my dad when he was 6 or so and he passed it to me. Well used, but still very serviceable. I snuck it outside and went into the grassy hills where I played and lost it.......
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Thats the same story I was going to tell, except it was my Grandfather s knife..given to him by my Greatgrandfather..I looked for that knife one whole summer...eveyday trying to retrace my steps.....It had a leather washer handle...thats all I remember....sad.
 
Not as emotionally attached as the previous posts, but I had an endura clipped to my camelbak for a few years. I had just finished a 2-3 hour ride and noticed the material on the camelbak shredded where I had it clipped. I went over the trail a week later, but it was gone.
 
Benchmade 770. Its the black aluminum slabbed Osborne. Came out of my pocket at church. I hunted that grassy area where I thought I lost it for a long time before I gave up. I eventually bought a replacement but it just wasn't the same.
 
An old puma Automesser, most likely made in the late 70's or early 80's and found by my god mother on the side of the road. She had it for years and then gave the knife to me. I had it for a few years and wound up losing it in the tall grass in a horse pasture. Never to be found again.

Patrick
 
Conversely, I once found a knife while fishing with my grandad that he recalled a friend loosing while they were fishing together as a boy. It was a Kabar folder with jigged bone scales and a broken main blade. I cleaned it up and the smaller blade was, and is, very useful.

One of the two knives from my boyhood I still have. The other is the SAK Champ that I got when I made Star Scout!
 
It would definately be my Victorinox Swiss Champ (or maybe it was a Champ) lost somewhere in Germany around 18 years ago when I was living in Wiesbaden. If anyone has seen it let me know ... :D

Sean
 
I lost a Victorinox Swiss Explorer while camping. I found the knife years earlier while on leave and travelling in Luxembourg. Hmm, might just be time for a replacement as I don't currently have a SAK...

Mike
 
Oh, the losses! Some punk broke into my car and stole my work duffle bag which had a Gerber LMF in it. AAGGHHH! Then there was the Case Sodbuster that went AWOL.
 
Fiddleback, I really feel your pain. :eek: Thank goodness when I moved away to finish my schooling I didn't leave anything worth a crap with Mom and Dad. I took one look at a dorm room and said "BLANK THAT", then I rented a little wood frame house for $75 a month and lived there for a couple of years with my toys. Dad understood what a boy's stuff means to him, but Mama would have set up a yard sale and sold them all for a quarter apiece probably!!!
 
Fiddleback said:
Conversely, I once found a knife while fishing with my grandad that he recalled a friend loosing while they were fishing together as a boy. It was a Kabar folder with jigged bone scales and a broken main blade. I cleaned it up and the smaller blade was, and is, very useful.

One of the two knives from my boyhood I still have. The other is the SAK Champ that I got when I made Star Scout!
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I found a spyderco many years ago when hiking to an old adobe that was the Indian Wardens, or whatever they called those guys that held them prisoner on the reservations.

The knife was like brand new, but I couldn't tell ya what model it was. I gave it to a friend and when we were hiking to that same adobe, he lost it on the same trail where I had found it and it never did show itself on our way out.:rolleyes:
 
I lost an early Spyderco Delica plain edge on the bus when I was younger. Fortunately for me that's the only knife I've lost and been upset about. (crossing fingers)
 
I lost MY Gerber AR 3.00, partially serrated teflon coated blade, less than a month ago. It's thigh deep in a swamp right now. Only knife I ever lost. I liked that knife, alot.

It got snagged off of my pocket by heavy brush.
 
Two years ago I was wade fishing a local stream, Indian Creek (original name, I know) and found a small folding knife in the gravel of a riffle. I wasn't sure it was a knife at first because it was so funky. But I fiddled with it a few minutes and rubbed off enough moss, mud, sand and goo to get the blade partially open. It had a man's name etched on the blade. I thought to myself "this knife was very special to someone, and I'll clean it up and return it to him if I can find him". I cleaned it with PB Blaster and gun oil and surprisingly, it came completely clean and looked new. A stainless Case. I decided not to look the guy up and give him his knife back. I still have it. Oh the name etched on the blade? Eisenhower.

Codger
 
The most painful one for me was the very first fixed blade hunting knife I ever received. It was a small leather handled western that was brand new and shiny as all get out. My grandfather gave it to me for chirstmas when I was 10. It was just like the one he had. The second day I had it, we went looking for a deer that ran after my aunt gut shot it. I had my camo overalls on and no belt, so I slipped the knife in the sheath in my pocket. When crawling through the brush, it must have fallen out. I looked for the knife everyday for the remainder of the two weeks I was there, and everytime I went up there until they sold the place two years ago. The deer was found. The knife never was. I am still heartbroken. Shortly after I received a Buck 105 that from my stepdad and grandfather. I took much better care of it. It has been recently retired.
 
longbow50 said:
I found a spyderco many years ago when hiking to an old adobe that was the Indian Wardens, or whatever they called those guys that held them prisoner on the reservations.

The knife was like brand new, but I couldn't tell ya what model it was. I gave it to a friend and when we were hiking to that same adobe, he lost it on the same trail where I had found it and it never did show itself on our way out.:rolleyes:
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That knife just wanted to stay in that area huh? Wow. Cool story.

Great thread, btw.
 
I had a cheap little swedish made fixed blade , cost me a whole AU$6 in 87 or 88 , it had a cruddy red plastic handle , a nice leather sheath , and a blade that REALY held an edge , like , it was better than anything I have made yet , it was shaving sharp after being used to cut wire n carve , you name it .

I never actualy had to sharpen it in all the time I had it , it just never lost its edge , even when I was stupid and cut against concrete .

I had it for a couple years , and then one night while fishing on the wharf , my friend stood up to grab his line cos he had a bite ... and booted the knife about 5 foot out into space over the edge of the wharf and it went down ..... never to be seen again .

I have never had a blade to equal that little knife since , some have come close , but none matched it .
 
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