Sad Stories...Knives we have lost...

Sorry to hear about the delica.....I too have lost a few.

Most recently it was my zt0350. I was at work and servicing my equipment and I set it on one of the treads of the tire. I went about greasing and oil checking and whatnot and completely forgot about it! I finished up and went about my day and at the end of the day I remembered! I went back to the spot where I was servicing but to my dismay, the spot had been levelled by the dozer. I took a few pokes around with a shovel but it was long gone. So I guess it is an artifact now for someone in the future to find. I was pretty pissed.:mad: Now I am pretty cautious, a little paranoid you might say, I am always checking my pocket for my knife!
 
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bigbre said:
Now that's just mean hahaha
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Whut ??
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ha ha..
 
Whats really cool though, is finding one you thought you lost forever. About 10 or 12 years ago, I lamented losing my old BM Ascent for about 7 months, as it was my first real knife, and a lot of money to me back then. Turned out I had just left it in my tackle box and found it the next fishing season.:rolleyes:
 
Misplaced, maybe, MIA, probably, lost,.....never, to say lost means I've given up hope of ever bein' reunited, those types of missin' knives, I don't have any of.

I've found knives that had been MIA for 5+ years, a Bench Made Mini-Reflex turned up after bein' MIA for 5 years, found it under a boxed I moved while workin' in the basement.

The only knife that's still MIA after 15 years is an AG Russel One Hand Knife I lost while cruisin' around my Mother's junkyard on a Harley Davidson golf cart, she sold the junkyard 13 years ago but I still believe it'll turn up in a jacket, box, or old truck I still have.
 
When I was like 12 I lost a SAK Camper that my grandma and grandpa actually bought for me in Switzerland when they where on vacation.

Mom and Dad were not pleased.
 
A couple of years ago I lost a very nice Harner 3V necker. I left it sitting out for a while and while intending to move some stuff to my knife storage cabinet I placed it in a USPS box that was sitting around. At some point in between when I placed it in the box and getting around to moving the stuff, my wife decided to do a quick pick up around the house. I am notorious for leaving empty USPS boxes sitting by my chair.... box, Harner and all went into the trash.... I didn't realize what had happened until the evening of trash day.:o

Butch Harner necker
CPM 3V
Rag Mycarta
As heat treated blade finish

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dc50 said:
On my 4th birthday my Dad gave me a pocket knife with a Mountie pic on it.
Of course I was excited about my very first pocket knife, and went out side to show the neighbor kids.

Wouldn't you know it two big kids came along, and wanted to see it, so I hand it over for a look see..and that was the last time I ever saw my knife, I was devastated :(
Man oh man, that was some 50years ago, you'd think I would have forgotten this.
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Dude! I hear you man, I lost that same knife under similar conditions. They were good little Sheffield carbon steel slippies, those 'mountie knives' I bet a lot of Canadian kids have similar stories.
 
Lost a Spyderco Standard model in 2004. My Delica III is in this house somewhere, as is an SAK that sat on my dresser for months.
 
Haha I was saying it was mean yet funny to show him the bm 940...I am paranoid about loosing my knives. Usually they stay clipped to my pocket but the clip was not very tight so it fell out of my jeans...stupid cabs I blame them

-alex
 
bigbre said:
I feel ya man...honestly this is the second knife that i have lost to the seats of cabs...the first one was the smaller size persian from spyderco...i was very sad...:(

on the up side though it does give us another excuse to purchase a new knife to fill the hole in our pockets...

-Alex
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Had a Spyderco Q slip out of my pocket when I was getting out of a car
some years ago before I learned the shortcomings of clips. Was lucky
enough to find it in the gutter next to the car when I returned and
have used belt sheaths ever since.
 
Not near as valuable(monitarily, or sentimentally) as some already posted, but a week ago I lost my 1st Leek at work. A co-worker was playing with it a few minutes before I was due to leave, and I got distracted helping a customer. Forgot about the knife, and didn't realize it was missing until I went to put it in my pocket the next morning. Checked all over the house, in the truck etc., then remembered where I had last seen it. Checked at work, and it was nowhere to be found. Questioned the co-worker, and she says she left it on our table back behind the register where she had it before I left. No way a customer could have gotten back there to it, so that was out of the question. Chances are, it's riding in her loser boyfriend's pocket.. It's a shame really, I've known her nearly 15 years (we were in the same class from kindergarten-senior year), but the guy she's been with for the past 3 years has really changed her for the worse.
 
yobbos1 said:
Dude! I hear you man, I lost that same knife under similar conditions. They were good little Sheffield carbon steel slippies, those 'mountie knives' I bet a lot of Canadian kids have similar stories.
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Rock on, in the Great White North
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Nothing nearly as expensive as some listed here. But years ago, (1988, WAY before 9/11, when we could still fly with pocketknives) when traveling from Osaka, Japan, back to the good old USA, I had a little
Schrade LB3 confiscated at the airport. They had me address a box to myself and drop it in before I boarded the plane, but the box never showed up at home. Took me nearly 20 years to replace it. I now have about 15 of them, in case I lose some. I REALLY like that little knife!
 
I lost my first Buck 119, my first zippo lighter, my best pair of binoculars (still trying to find a lightweight replacement that actually replaces them), a camera, and my good canvas rucksack (still trying to find a good replacement for that too) all on a canoeing trip a few years ago. I was not a happy camper that night. Luckily, my favorite Swiss Army Knife was tied to my wrist with parachute cord and it just got wet.
 
Buck Solitaire PE. Had it in the truck for a year or so , then brought it in the house , never to be seen again. Looked everywhere , came to the conclusion my 2 yr. old son ( at the time ) somehow threw it out , because I looked everywhere. I liked that knife a lot , but replaced it with a CRKT M-16 zytel.
 
I hope someone with a brain found you my beloved Flat ground Endura w/ Foliage Green G10 Handle! I will never forget the joy you brought me on Xmas morning.
 
In '94 I had a roommate move out while I was gone for the weekend, taking with him both of my Vietnam era Randalls. I last heard he was in prison. Good.
 
I still, after all these years, can't figure how these guys do these things, ie steel from known family/friends etc. :confused: Not knives, but a whole record collection that I had from the 60's was stolen by a so called friend.
Were talking first albums the Stones, Hendricks, Cream, and on and on.
They must be wired different than the norm...
 
dericdesmond said:
This guy knows what he is talking about & sum.
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I owe you more than a beer.

Best wishes Welton!
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LOL I'm still trying to forget about that one! It wasn't the monetary value of the knives but the poor wasted spydies, hopefully some of them made it into the borders agents pockets! At least they will be loved, not smashed into bits and pieces like they said they would do. Live and learn.......live and learn.......
 
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