Ode to lost knives

[os_tempore]

I know I'm not alone in this, so here's a "support group thread" for owners of lost knives. What did you lose? What was your history?

Ill start.

In 2010 I bought myself my first "real" knife before my first deployment. The knife was a blacked out Microtech Socom Delta tanto. I loved that knife. It went with me around the world multiple times and worked perfectly in everything from sand storms to salt water plunges. I used it so much the blade ended up being 1/2" shorter than when new and became a hunders point. Then about a year after I got out, it turned up missing. I spent the next two years keeping an eye out for it, occasionally turning a couch or or pulling out a stove.

I never found it, but I'll always remember it.

 

[91bravo]

I’ve never lost a knife. Knock on wood.

 

[JFrameV2]

A pristine Spyderco Superhawk... I had it tucked in the pocket of my sweatshirt. Typically, I would have had it clipped IWB, but I was headed to physical therapy and knew I'd have to strip down. So I just had it in the pocket, ready to be rolled up with the sweatshirt and tucked away. It was about 5 minutes after leaving PT that I realized it was missing -- had a hole in the fargin' pocket! I retraced my steps from the therapist's facility to my car. Unfortunately, the walk entailed a wide expanse of soft lawn where the knife had likely fallen out with nary a sound. Anyway -- never found it.

The happy ending to this tale of woe is that my wife saw the utter grief etched into my face as I told her the story, and she ordered me a new one.

 

[The Zieg]

Lost my first SAK, a Victorinox Huntsman, in 1985. Fell out of my pocket in Okracoke Harbor, bounced once off the deck of  Photon, and plunked right into the drink. But I'll always know where it is!

Zieg

 

[The Zieg]

I also lost my copper Ottermesser cat knife with carbon blade. It's around my house somewhere but for the life of me I can't find it.

Zieg

 

[91bravo]

I take that back. I've never lost a knife, but I have kicked a BM Griptilian off the pier while fishing one night. Tried using a speaker magnet to drag and retrieve it the next morning, but the river ultimately claimed that BM.

 

[Albim]

Way back in the mid 80s, my parents gave me a blue Case Russlock. First one-handed knife I ever owned. I have torn my house and garage apart looking for that thing for the last several years. I'm convinced my wife was carrying it in her purse and threw it away at a TSA check in the airport. But who knows, maybe it will turn up. On the other hand, I did find a Spyderco ctskb endura laying on a trail out in the national forest ! No name or identifying marks on it so "Finders Keepers" !

 

[Alberta Ed]

I take that back. I've never lost a knife, but I have kicked a BM Griptilian off the pier while fishing one night. Tried using a speaker magnet to drag and retrieve it the next morning, but the river ultimately claimed that BM.

The river gods took a few of mine, along with a couple pairs of sunglasses .

 

[burf151]

The first knife I purchased when I started hanging around here. My trusty Al Mar SERE 2K. It was my main EDC for 6 years and I lost it one day at my house. Never left the property. It either fell in the trash or got dropped in the yard. I looked for it for a year. Mad a final frantic fruitless search when I sold the house. I fantasize that it is somewhere in my horrifically overfull MAC toolbox. But I know in my heart it is gone.

 

[abcdef]

Good thread. I almost became a member, but the knife turned up after a while. I do empathize with those who have loved and lost.

 

[Corton93]

Spec Elite Auto, BM Grip, BM 531BK...

 

[Knives&Lint]

I lost a Dragonfly that consisted of an SE H1 blade swapped into a Zome Green frame. The thing is, I know exactly when I dropped it. I was on a hike that's around 15 miles, with an alpine lake about half way up. On my way back down after reaching the peak, exhausted, I stopped at the lake to splash my face and cool off in the water. The Dragonfly was clipped in my back pocket. As I stood up I heard something clink against the rocks. I looked around, checked my pockets forgetting about the DF in my back pocket, saw nothing, thought it may have just been the sound of two rocks, and headed on my way because it had been a long day. It was only when I got home that I realized what happened. I headed back a few days later in hopes of finding it, to no avail. "That one rock I was standing on" sounds like an easy spot to locate until you get up to a lake high in the mountains and realize that every spot there could be a candidate.

The Dragonfly is not necessarily an expensive knife, but the fact that it was a blade swap made that particular example twice the cost to replace

Speaking of replacement, I went this route to ensure something like this doesn't happen again, and this whole experience was another step in a long line of factors that led me to preferring the boldly colored knives I am known for around here.

 

[Backyard]

Just recently lost my EDC knife I made. CPM3V sheepsfoot. Must have slipped out of the sheath and I didn't hear it. I have looked in all the obvious places but have yet to find it. Feel naked without it. May have to make another

 

[John_B]

I lost you hunting
My brother found you in field
He uses you now

 

[mmyron1]

I lost quite a few going back 25 years when I moved. I guess the ones I miss the most are an SAK Huntsman and Buck 560.

 

[soundless]

Extrema Ratio Shrapnel - lost it in a lake while getting out of a boat
Spyderco Civilian - stolen
Spyderco old-school Manix - stolen
Mini Custom Skinner - stolen
Benchmade old model (can't recall the number but it was some linerlock with the old butterfly logo) - stolen
Benchmade 530 - lost while I was drunk never to be seen again

 

[John_B]

I lost you hunting
My brother found you in field
He uses you now

Sorry, thought this was a knife haiku thread.

 

[Richard Coyle]

I lost my small sebenza 21 with micarta inlays moved home from college and I could never find it after that. My favorite and most expensive knife too

 

[A.L.]

My parents got me reindeer antler handle mini puukko when we were on road trip when I was a child. I’m sure it was more of a tourist knife but I haven’t found it searching my parents place. I remember I got my first cut with it after only a minute of whittling.

 

[bayouace]

I was sitting in Hobby Airport in Houston when a guy about to go through security walked up and gave me his folder, saying, "I've had this knife for 10 years, and I'm not giving it to TSA." I insisted on getting his business card, drove home to Louisiana, and mailed it back to him. It wasn't a "good" knife, but it meant something to him. Maybe the karma is why I've never lost one. Lol