Mojo, good, bad, or non-existant?

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Shore08

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The other day I fished a pair of knives off theBay. They were listed as being NTSA confiscations. One is a USA Schrade 108OT, 2 3/4", some minor stains on the blade but otherwise in good shape. The other is a Buck 310, I believe from the year 2000. I paid what I consider to be a fair price for them, but being as they are used knives, it got me to thinking.

Is it bad mojo to own a knife that someone had taken away like that? Or is it good that these knives were so cared for and carried so naturally that the owner didn't even remember to take it out of their pocket before going to the airport? Of course, if you don't believe in that sort of thing, it's all just hokem to you anyways :D

Personally, I lean towards it being good mojo. Yes, it stinks in color that they lost their knives, but I feel like these knives were such a part of the lives of the people that carried them, that they were so ingrained a part of their daily life, that without even thinking they just dropped em in their pockets and headed out for their flight. I like to think that some of that rubbed off, and hopefully they'll serve me as well as their last masters.

Where do you fall on it?
 
I believe that you make your own mojo. I fully understand that you're concerned about how these knives came to be in your possession. Somewhere out there, there's a person who's no doubt frustrated that they forgot to leave these knives at home, or at least put them into their checked luggage. But, having said that, what you do with them from here on is at least as important as where they came from. Care for them as if you were in temporary custody of someone else's children.

Give 'em a good home.
 
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The bad mojo is on the folks that confiscated them and sold them not you. Enjoy and use your knife in good health!
 
I don't think it's any bad mojo at all!

If theses people cared at all for thier knives, they would not have been confiscated. Come on, it's been all over for long enough, that you don't take your knives through security. Unless you've been living under a rock or in a cave, you know about it. Even at the last minute, you can take it out to the car, mail it back home to yourself, or hand it over to whoever is seeing you off on your trip. Or even give it to a sky cap if need be. There are altertnatives. But somebody didn't care enough about this knife, and just tossed it to the wolves. They're former owners didn't deserve them.

I've gladly bought TSA confiscated sak classics and used them as give aways to non knife people who needed a knife. I think it's like finding a good home to a pound mutt that somebody didn't think enough of to keep. You're giving them a second chance for a life to be somebody's daily edc companion. Thats good mojo in my book!:thumbup:
 
oh oh. i've got loads of these. schrade mainly .I don't feel there's any bad mojo to any one involved ..but i'll ask this question.
why are we not allowed to carry knives/scissors including teensy little nail scissors /multitools on planes anymore?
 
Folks, before this thread goes off-topic, let's please keep the discussion to the knives and leave the politics for the political and current events sub-forums. Thanks.
 
They have the option to go back to the ticket booth and send it back home. A guy I work with was asked.
 
A friend goes to sales and buys confiscated knives by the pound. He's offered me a few but I politely refuse because I do believe there is bad mojo on a confiscated knife. You should be able to put your knife in an envelope where it is stored somewhere safe on the plane and recover it at your destination.
 
No bad mojo. If the guy(s) did care about the knife, you, who presumably care, now have it. Think adoption, pet rescue kind of thing.

At least they don't melt them down into manhole covers!

You're good. Take care of those knives for their original owners. Think of it this way, there's some guys out there with excuses to get new knives...married guys I mean...who need excuses.
 
I had a Schrade 34OT (my only pocket knife at the time) come up missing at a city courthouse "check in - check out". Didn't come out from under a rock, just forgot to leave it in the car. Pissed me off of course, and had to go online to find a replacement. Pretty much only found Schrade USA knife information on Ebay and the Schrade SubForum here.

After initial deliberation I ended up deciding on "one Uncle Henry 897UH". Used for $15.00. Fast forward four years, dozens of knife buddies around the globe, and quite a few knives later, I'm still hanging around this place. I hope whoever ended up with my old 34OT got some good mojo, or at least as much as I have reaped as a result of the loss.

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Not all lost knives have bad mojo. My oldest son still has the one 897UH. And several others.
 
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