My firsty is now gone bye byes - hurts

[miso2]

That sucks.
Hope you find it someday.
I just had my favorite custom slip joint broken and feel the loss.

 

[trevitrace]

Damn, bro. The worst.

 

[K.O.D.]

Judging; you should have multiple knives and at least one smatchet strategically mounted on your walker.

I always have two knives with me. A modern clipped to my pocket and a Vic super tinker in my medicine bag.

I just remembered I lost my stars and stripes ST back in February. That sucked.

 

[cbach8tw]

Very real problem.

Dare I say it;

It's literally like looking for a Kabar in a stack of haystacks.

Sorry about your loss, at least it did go out fighting like a fighting knife should, sort of. And you do have a good attitude about it, and you can say that you enjoyed and USED it. Hopefully one day you will enjoy the online knife sites. And I like the idea of having a few Moras or others around to loan out.

 

[cbach8tw]

I only let people use my knife if they are family and are using it my presence.

6-7 months ago I was in the car at the cemetery, wasn't walking much at that point. My mom borrowed my TSF Beast to cut flowers. Didn't think about it, then we were out to dinner when I remembered. She left it at the cemetery, and it was closed. Fortunately, it was still there the next day. Nearly a $300 dollar mistake. I was still using a walker, so couldn't get up the hill to the graves.

Yes, I was using a walker and still carried a knife. Don't judge me!

I would not judge, I think it shows you are true knife guy, just figure out how you are going to strap a kydex sheath or horizontal sheath to the walker.

 

[kvaughn]

Buy one exactly like it. Your lost one will magically appear!--Seriously though, a sharp knife in a bale of hay could cause some injury when feeding that bale out. I know I almost injured myself seriously when I found a dead mummified rattlesnake in a bale I was feeding out of a pick up bed! Almost tore the tailgate off trying to get out of that truck!--KV

 

[K.O.D.]

Buy one exactly like it. Your lost one will magically appear!--Seriously though, a sharp knife in a bale of hay could cause some injury when feeding that bale out. I know I almost injured myself seriously when I found a dead mummified rattlesnake in a bale I was feeding out of a pick up bed! Almost tore the tailgate off trying to get out of that truck!--KV

Wow! And yeah things to magically reappear when you replace them. Good thing I haven't replaced my ex.

I say get a new one, and get something else just because.

 

[danbot]

Yeah man true that. Wasn't so much the kid had no knives or tools, he had to carry my Kabar because he had to carry my Kabar.

Kid is as dumb as me and starting to show early symptoms of the sickness, hard to be angry.

Going to keep a slot in my collection blank to honour where this knife would have been.

Can't get another Kabar right now, might replace it with a Buck 210. Not the same idea but still.

Sounds like you have a good opportunity to teach this dumb kid a valuable lesson about borrowing other peoples things. Make him replace the Kabar for you! Then you will both be a little less dumb! You having learned about lending out knives, and him having learned about responsibility.

 

[onekerf]

1) Never, ever loan your knife. Particularly to an idiot who doesn't have one. 2) I lost my first knife, a SAK, the day I got it. Age about 7, I think.

Never ceases to amaze me of the frequency of coworkers at my job who ask to borrow my knife. They'll have a mobile device the size of a business envelope, and a couple of pounds of keys swinging from their hip, but nothing to perform the most rudimentary of cutting tasks.

 

[Frontiersteve]

I think i would borrow a metal detector and go over the whole area , it might turn up .

 

[Hale Storm]

Too bad you lost your knife. On the plus side, it sounds like it was a relatively recent addition, not a family heirloom thus easily replaceable, should you so desire. Still sucks in any event.


You are not 'meant to to start a collection.' In fact having a sound interest in knives and using them is more than reason enough for being on BF.
You did okay apart from one thing:


Sounds unsanitary.
Im an avid hunter, but wouldnt recommend doing that with any knife. In this case especially due to the leather washer construction of the KaBar.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Wash it off real good each time you use it and move on. I'm an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and survivalist (40+ years in the wilderness and 25 in a farming environment). I would assume the leather handle is not getting dipped into prepared food. I carried a cheap fixed blade and/or folder for over 30 years in the woods until the knife bug bit me and I got educated about mid-tech and custom knives. I used one knife for everything for decades Cleaning game, skinning, meal prep, fire starting,etc. Thousands of men before us did the same thing in the wilderness their whole lives with nothing more than a patch knife or Kephart style blade.

 

[afishhunter]

I would not judge, I think it shows you are true knife guy, just figure out how you are going to strap a kydex sheath or horizontal sheath to the walker

Velcro.

 

[BladeScout]

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Wash it off real good each time you use it and move on. I'm an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and survivalist (40+ years in the wilderness and 25 in a farming environment). I would assume the leather handle is not getting dipped into prepared food. I carried a cheap fixed blade and/or folder for over 30 years in the woods until the knife bug bit me and I got educated about mid-tech and custom knives. I used one knife for everything for decades Cleaning game, skinning, meal prep, fire starting,etc. Thousands of men before us did the same thing in the wilderness their whole lives with nothing more than a patch knife or Kephart style blade.

To each his own of course. People can do what ever they like with their own knives.

Personally, I dont recommend using the same knife for both skinning/field dressing animals and food prep in the kitchen. Not with any knife and certainly not with the KaBar with its leather washers and other design features i.e. crevices around the guard/tang area.

Assuming that the leather washers dont touch food is rolling the dice. Feel free to gamble Even if you dont drop your knife directly in the food, you at various times let go of the knife in order to handle food thus transferring what ever is/was trapped amongst the leather washers to said food and fod prep area.
If you'd ever seen one of those vids, where they use a tracer and UV to simulate certain aspects of food prep and how easy it is to spread for example Campylobachter around a kitchen, youd know why Im vary of using the same knife for everything. As you can see in the below video, 'assuming the knife doesnt get dipped into prepared food,' is NOT something you can count on. At all.

Quite right; thousands of men before us had only the one knife. They also croaked by the thousands as well. Further more, in recent times we have also seen the spread of several animal-borne diseases, which you dont want to drag into your kitchen and food prep. Even more animal-borne disease, than your grand pappy had to contend with.
You might well get away with using only one knife for all tasks (and feel free to continue to do so) but why take the gamble.

I like the romantic notion of one knife to do it all as much as the next guy but contrary to days of yore, few of us have to (limit ourselves to one knife). Even if only one knife or few knives are used for both skinning and kitchen fod prep, at least dont use a knife with leather washers prone to trapping organic matter.

 

[22-rimfire]

Very real problem.

Dare I say it;

It's literally like looking for a Kabar in a stack of haystacks.

Sad that your Kabar disappeared (got lost). This stuff happens and you just have to move forward and replace it if you like it so much. I don't own a "Kabar" and don't want one.

As far as the knife being dangerous if encountered inadvertently? Could be, but stuff happens. The good part is you would have found the knife. Encountering a knife in a haystack is nothing.... we did a job where there were supposed to be spent nuclear fuel rods buried. Try encountering one of them. A knife is nothing. Make a decision. Moan about it for a while, but replace it with the same knife or one you think you'd like better. That's the way things work.

Oh, to re-affirm >> Never loan your knife out. If there is a need, just do the cutting yourself. Can't hardly believe somebody working making or handling hay would not have a knife on them. It runs against basic common sense not to have a knife. You need to have a knife just in case you need to cut something. Happens every single day for me. I would feel naked without a knife.

 

[Robinson1]

Oh, to re-affirm >> Never loan your knife out. If there is a need, just do the cutting yourself. Can't hardly believe somebody working making or handling hay would not have a knife on them. It runs against basic common sense not to have a knife. You need to have a knife just in case you need to cut something. Happens every single day for me. I would feel naked without a knife.

I'd believe it although it makes zero sense.

15 years ago working on a municipal maintenance crew I the only one out of 12 to regularly carry a knife. Some of the other guys would when the mood struck them but I was to only one to carry a knife everyday. And I got asked to borrow that knife on average of about 12 times a day. No joke. It got so bad I started carrying a junker to loan out

 

[22-rimfire]

I'd believe it although it makes zero sense.

15 years ago working on a municipal maintenance crew I the only one out of 12 to regularly carry a knife. Some of the other guys would when the mood struck them but I was to only one to carry a knife everyday. And I got asked to borrow that knife on average of about 12 times a day. No joke. It got so bad I started carrying a junker to loan out

I would carry a loaner spare too in this situation. It makes no sense to me if knives are regularly needed on the job, that somebody would choose not to carry a knife. I carry a pen most of the time.... because I might need to write something.... but many don't. Flashlights.....

Regardless of not making sense, I understand folks not carrying a knife. You can give them a knife and they still won't carry it. On the job.... many have the attitude that if I need a knife, you provide the tools, so give me a knife to use. If they loose/waste time because they don't have a knife, they don't care. I care.