The most horrible words in the world, Lost Knife!

Hart · Dec 29, 1999

Hi, how many of you, {like me}, have heard yourself say those dreaded words: OH {Expletive of your choice}, I've lost my knife & can't find it!

I've lost several & miss every one of them, even the cheap ones. How many of you have had this happen to you. Also, how expensive & what kind of knives did you lose & did you ever find it?

Doug

Elvislives · Dec 29, 1999

I've only lost one little SAK on a boating trip, shouldn't have had it. It was the smallest version, cost me $15. Otherwise I am ship-shape! (boo)

Brandon

Squid · Dec 29, 1999

I tend to place my knives in various places throughout my home, and recently thought I misplaced my Vaquero Grande. Man, was I upset! I ended up finding it after three days of searching, but I thought I lost it for sure. It's a horrible feeling.

FullerH · Dec 29, 1999

I kept losing Spydie old-style Delicas when their plastic clips bent. I think that I remember losing 3-5 of them before I said "to Hell with it" and stopped buying the damned things at, what, $35 a pop.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller

John Watson · Dec 29, 1999

Darn near lost my Mini-socom. I no longer trust the clip. It is positioned too far down the knife and it popped out at the pistol range. Just lucky that I looked down and saw it. I took off the clip and keep it in the bottom of my pocket. Safe and sound. I don't even miss the clip.

John

TAutry · Dec 29, 1999

I was paticipating in the dreaded mall shopping excursion with my wife last year when I discovered that my old-style Delica was no longer clipped to my back pocket. I knew it had been there earlier in the day, so it must have gotten lost somewhere in the mall.

I had that "lost my buddy" sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, because I was certain it had fallen out when we sat down to eat in the food court. As you all know, very few people who find a knife turn it in to lost and found.

We retraced our steps throughout the mall, all to no avail. I drove home with a heavy heart.

About four days later, a lady called the radio station where I work and asked if I had lost a knife at the mall. During the time my wife was "trying on" some clothes, I had dutifully sat in the husband chair and made polite conversation with the sales lady. She remembered that I worked at a local university radio station and tracked me down to return my knife. I left work a little early the next day to reclaim my Delica!

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Travis Autry
My knives are just like rabbits---they keep multiplying!!

MNH · Dec 29, 1999

I lost a MB 350 this past summer, the clip was too lose and it slipped out of my pocket. It made me sad for a day or two, however, happy as there are several other knives I would have been much more unhappy to lose.

TAutry, I hope you took flowers to the nice lady, she certainly deserves them.

Mike

JoHnYKwSt · Dec 29, 1999

I almost lost my Delica about a month ago. Boy did I miss that knife. That is till I found it a couple of days later.

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Johnny
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CD Fleischer · Dec 29, 1999

All of them I have lost have come back, even if years later, save for that Schrade Filet Knife one of my fishing buds lost in Canada.

I count myself lucky...

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Clay Fleischer
clay_fleischer@yahoo.com
AKTI Member A000847

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it.

Kestrel · Dec 29, 1999

I have only lost one knife it was a little pen knife while camping.

Sara · Dec 29, 1999

I lost my large Sebenza about a month ago. It was clipped to my pocket, must have fallen out when I reached in the pocket for something else. I was only thankful that it had no real sentimental value, it had been a gift to myself about a year and a half ago. I'm saving for a large decorated this time.

Sara

rick melear · Dec 29, 1999

I have lost several over the years, however 2 were special. 1 was a Almar falcon with yellow micarta handles and mirror finished blade, the other will haunt me forever, a Wayne Valachovic folder forged from O1.
Kinda makes the SAKs Ive lost no big deal.

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RM

Hart · Dec 29, 1999

Whew!! I guess I'm lucky, the most expensive knife I've ever lost was a Gerber Gatorback,{actually two of them,

}. When you folks talk about losing Sebenza's & Spyderco's, I wonder about carrying really good knives, BUT I guess it's worth the risk. I hope so as I'm starting now to carry custom knives. I really feel for you folks, It's bad enough to lose a good tool, but to lose an old friend must really be bad!

Doug.

rkellogg · Dec 29, 1999

I lost a Spyderco Endura working under my house several years ago. I had some contractors doing some excavating and I think one of them ended up with it.

rk

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As for me and my house...

Joshua 24:15

MThunter · Dec 30, 1999

I lost a NEW Boker Infinity ceramic, the day I bought it!! I thought the clip was weak, it was, and I will never buy another Boker....ever!!

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Tis better to be the hunter......than the hunted

bruce · Jan 3, 2000

Actually, we never lose knives. They just get tired of us and hope for an owner who will take better care of them. They leave voluntarily! They want more attention, to be kept sharp, clean and dry, and a little lube once in a while. They don't mind working for us--even hard, abrasive work, but they want to feel needed. So next time you can't find your knives, ask yourself, "Self, did my little friends leave because of something I did or didn't do?"

I find more knives than I lose so I must be the one they're looking for. So to all you little knives, I'll take very good care of you and you'll have plenty of friends here in Idaho! Come on over, little sharp pointy things.

Bruce Woodbury

Auger · Jan 3, 2000

I lost an Al Mar Falcon many years ago

Kdarmy · Jan 3, 2000

I've been pretty lucky, I've lost plenty but they always seem to turn up. The only one I lost, I knew where it went..just couldnt get it! Years ago a friend and I were fishing in a small rowboat when he deceided to stand up and move about...a few seconds later he, me and all our gear including my Buck 105 were in the lake! At the time I was more upset about losing the trolling motor and battery which followed the Buck to the bottom.

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~Keith~
"War to the knife and knife to the hilt"

Roadrunner · Jan 3, 2000

This August my new style serrated Delica and I parted company at our county fair this past August. I misplaced in the night

, went half crazy looking for it

, and then found it at the camper

. Then the next day it dissapeared forever

. I loved that knife too. It was my first Spyderco and also one of the few Christmas presents that didn't lose its charm after about three days or so. It was also my first high quality knife, and probably still one of the best I've ever owned. Now that I'm thinking of it, I think I know where my next paycheck is going. Thaks guys, and all of your lost knives will be in my thoughts. And bruce, your theory isn't any good, or else my Delica was unfaithful

. If that knife didn't feel loved and needed, then it must have had a complex or something.

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Just because I talk to myself does not mean I'm crazy. What's wrong with getting a second opinion?

Chang · Jan 3, 2000

Interesting. I think that knives find better ways to get revenge for poor treatment though. I accidently scratched a Buck 450 on a EZE-LAP diamond sharpener and it got really angry at me (I could tell because it started closing funny like it wanted to remove my fingers by snapping shut really fast) and the next day I tried to use some sandpaper to smooth it out a little bit but it made it look even worse and my knife got angrier. The next week I got really angry with it and started yelling at it and it held a grudge against me ever since... so when I next tried to sharpen it, it jumped out of the hand I was holding the knife in and took two millimeters off the top of my other finger (healed back, but painful slightly). Of course I forgave it and cleaned it and oiled it and treated it real nicely and it has been happy for a while now. I think one of my Gerber knives is trying to get revenge on me, I put a nasty scratch on it by bumping the side of it into a broken plate and it put a nasty scratch in the finish.

[This message has been edited by Comrade Chang (edited 01-03-2000).]