Lost my favorite (ok 2nd favorite) knife today. Let's hear some stories.

my first knife that i really liked, i lost, i was i believe 16 at the time and i had one of the CRKT m16 without the autoLawks
It disapeared one day, and i havent seen it since. i eventually replaced it with the same in aus 8 instead of aus 4....then got a benchmade.
 
i lost a balisong a couple months back.....it was a ccc that my dad found, but i still enjoyed it....now i'm balisong-less
 
Almost lost my 940 last night...I thought I lost it in the middle of a field. Checked my car, my friends car, the field for an hour, my room, everywhere. I was heartbroken. But! I was taking a shower later, looked up, and there was my 940 on the windowsill next to my shower. No idea how it got there, but I'm sure glad it was.
 
Lost my SOG Pentagon Elite II folder that I got for my 16th birthday. I LOVED that knife, and I'm 21- got a Benchmade auto for my 21st to make up for it, but I still miss that SOG.
 
I once lost a Spyderco Endura PE SS while surveying on a big grading job. I had walked at least a mile in all sorts of directions before I noticed it was gone. I tried to retrace my steps, and along the way I walked past the loader operator and one of the graders chatting with one another. On a whim, I asked if they had happened to see a knife lying around. The grader grinned at me and handed it over. They were apparently discussing how such a nice and unique knife had ended up laying in the dirt. The guy said if no one claimed it, he would be only too glad to keep it. I almost didn't bother asking them about it... so glad I did.

That was the closest I ever came to losing one of my lovelies. I do have a friend who lost the Kershaw Leek I bought him as a gift. I ended up buying him another to replace it, and he's had it ever since (about 6 years now). He actually lost the second one for a few months, and found it in his car, out of the clear blue sky.
 
Back in '93, I moved from Seattle to San Francisco. I left most of my collection, maybe fifteen knives, with my uncle until I got settled.

It was at least six years before I could get back up there, and by the time I saw my uncle again in '99 my knives, and probably $4,000. worth of his tools, were stolen from my uncles garage. I had my Case #6265 CV two-blade Hunter with me, but the rest were stolen. The worst part was a handmade skinner was taken, one of six that were made by a family friend who later died.

I've replaced some of those that had deep sentimental value, but those first knives can never really be replaced.

~Chris
 
I've never truly lost a knife until a week and a half ago. I was hauling firewood and somehow my centofante 3 took a dive out of pocket. Had it clipped and everything. Retraced my steps literally three times. 'Nuff said, RIP. It wasn't a truly expensive knife, but it was literally my only decent pocket knife when I lost it. Just replaced it with a rat 1, but its not the same.
 
Lost a Busse Meaner Street with Krein kydex sheath about a year ago. I keep thinking it will turn up in one of the cars/rooms/or gear bags. No such luck yet, but I will tear apart areas in the house periodically looking for it... thinking it is still just misplaced.

If I pass in the next few years, this will likely be the past-time of my ghost... searching for that stinking knife.
 
My first knife was given to me by my father. It was a small stockman style knife with imitation abalogne scales. One day my father took me to a large park and all I can remember is me checking the sheath I had made for it and realizing that it was gone. I tried searching, but to no avail. I've often thought of that knife. On the other hand, the other day when I was taking a rest from a bike ride, I looked down and saw a small pocket knife lying in the grass. A neat little chinese folder, wonder if that knife has a story behind it??
 
Lost both my Izula and RA Clicky within a week of each other. I had just convexed that izula. Maybe I'll get them for the holidays
 
I've lost a bunch of them, not lately (i say as i bang my knuckles on wood till they hurt).
the first i remember was a camilus electrician knife from my grandfather. i lost that one in a drainage ditch in the late 70's when i was a kid running a trap line.
lost a small tree brand stockman a few weeks later.
i lost an old Japanese switchblade when i was in high school. kinda lucky, i was skipping school and got picked up by the cops. i was worried about the knife. it was when they searched me that i realized i had lost it.
lost a stainless endura a couple years ago kayaking. then lost the huge magnet i had tied to a cord trying to find it.
i lost my benchmade cqc7 about 10 hrs after i got it for Christmas. i searched all over for that knife finally found it in my basement, it had come out of my pocket and was in a box of old Christmas ornaments.
not lost but stolen, a hand made skinner id had for years from a climbing gear shop i used to have.
hell i loose knives in my own house, i have a stainless spyderco rescue somewhere in the house.
i lost a large schrade stockman at a knappin in another campsite, had that knife for at least 6 years. i was talking to some people that i had met that year and they mentioned they had found a knife in their campsite and it ended up being mine. got it back a few months later.
my daughter lost a real nice old Barlow i let her use one day squirrel hunting. not my fault but i could have chose a different knife.
i have found a bunch of knives. found one, a kbar skinner in sheath with a hunting license holder with 20 years of licenses in it. the last one was 8 years before i found the knife. looked for the guy but he was nowhere to be found. knife was trashed, could barely make out the kbar emblem.
found that schrade a RR track rabbit hunting.
one thing about knives, you carry them enough you are gonna loose one or two.
 
when I was about 15 or so I bought myself a S&W swat knife. did pretty well for me for the better part of 10 years. anyway one day I noticed it was missing from my pocket and I had no clue where it went. I liked that knife but what can you do? so I went to the store and replaced it with a CRKT M16 which I love. my favorite folder ever. a couple months later I found my old smith on the floor of my blazer and it went in a drawer until I gave it away to a friend.
 
Spent my first paycheck on a Buck. Used it for a couple years, and then I left it under the hood of a car. I was in college and working a part-time job at the time. It took me forever to save enough to buy another knife.
 
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