The pain of loosing your EDC...

I too feel your pain. I lost my vic tinker last year, and was totally lost without it. I now have one in my pocket, and three in my top drawer just in case. For me, it wasn't memories, feelings, or even nostalgia.......it was loss of utility. I use that darn knife at least three times a day for something, and the toothpick even more. As an aside, if the original camillus heat is your "perfect" knife, I saw several in the knife case at the sportsmans warehouse here in Thornton the other day. If you want one and can't find one, email me, and I will get you their price or make a purchase for you if you are so inclined.

Brian
 
ejes said:
I only hope that whoever has her now treats her right. :(
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That's real love. When you know it's gone, but you at least hope that the new owner takes care of her.

I almost lost my first knife. A SAK I received from my father on my 7'th birthday. At school it fell out of my side pocket and another kid I'd never met before found it and I got it back. I wore it on a lanyard from then on. I was sick to my stomach with worry for about 3 hours though.

I hope you do one of two things. Find your lost knife... Or go and a find new one. There's plenty of fish in the sea.

Good luck.
 
addictedtosteel said:
That's real love. When you know it's gone, but you at least hope that the new owner takes care of her.

I almost lost my first knife. A SAK I received from my father on my 7'th birthday. At school it fell out of my side pocket and another kid I'd never met before found it and I got it back. I wore it on a lanyard from then on. I was sick to my stomach with worry for about 3 hours though.

I hope you do one of two things. Find your lost knife... Or go and a find new one. There's plenty of fish in the sea.

Good luck.
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Man, if that happened today, the S.W.A.T. team would have been called in!
Where did we go wrong?

Doc
 
I've lost one, too.
It was my first finished knife.
only a sheet of sketch remains now....
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Blade steel was M2. After I used it for two years or so, I lost it.
 
I lost a Breeden on the trail. Got it at 2 PM and it was gone by 4 PM. The only thing that got cut was some junk mail that came at the same time. :grumpy:

Jeff
 
bigbcustom, thanks for that post. I've looked at the ones the Sportsman Warehouse has down in Wichita. They looked like the original one, but they were the ones that are now made by Ontario via Spain with 440 stainless. Steel arguments aside, it didn't feel like it was made as well to me. If you happen to go by there again and find they are AUS 8 with a model number with a "C" and 4 numbers (like C2335) and not with a "CM" or "CAM" with 3 numbers (like CM710 or CAM710), please do let me know; the aforementioned are the originals. I might be interested. But, you know, even getting a new "original" probably won't feel the same.:(

Thanks for all the comments guys!! I feel kinda silly about being bummed about something like a knife; but I just knew some of you had to feel the same! It is a little surprising to myself as well, but when you've had something for a while, and use it a lot, you just get attached. It reminds me of my first car. It was a POS and the ugliest thing you ever saw. I bought it with my last penny from bucking hay bales and washing dishes at a cafe at the age of 14. Repaired it myself every single time it broke down no matter what it was, and it took me all over the USA; sometimes limping back to Kansas with some extra duct tape and bailing wire adhered. I got pretty misty the day I got rid of it when I started remembering all the high school dances, proms, close calls, etc. I had in that old sucker. I guess I'm too sentimental at times.
 
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Well I am back, got the PC repaired.

Anyways this reminds me of the time I dropped my Spyderco Police into the snow near the house. Stainless steel blends right into the snow, and a warm knife quickly melts deep into the snow.

After digging around for a long time I gave up and called my friend who has a metal detector. Of cource the batteries were dead and the unit needed 8 AA cells. I bought the batteries and found the knife in two seconds. I was happy to have my knife back, and he was happy to have fresh batteries for his metal detector. A happy ending.
 
bummer man... sorry for your loss.... i would be heated up, i hate losing anything....:o at least you now have a good excuse to buy a new blade...
 
Last year, I thought I lost my Spyderco Waved Delica. I had been kayak fishing, and thought I had it clipped to my pocket, but when I got home it wasn't there. Checked my tackle box, PFD, kayak, inside my truck, etc. Drove back to the spot where I launched the kayak (about half an hour away) to look on the shore. No luck. I was bummed in a big way. Couple of days later, I wake up in the middle of the night, realize I didn't take the knife with me that day because I had been cutting open a box on the side of my house the day before I went kayak fishing. I run outside in the middle of the night with a flashlight, and sure as hell, there it was laying in the grass next to a ball of string. Crazy.
 
Man, I lost many benchmade afcks and an emerson that I still am saddened by. And my first knife, a cheap taiwain lock back.
 
Lost my first Spyderco- a Centofante 3- about 2 weeks ago while deer hunting here in the No. Ga. mtns. Man I loved that knife. Took a metal detector back up there and looked for it but no luck. Its pretty big country for around here-3500 ft. and a good hrs. climb to my hunting spot but I was able to go right back to where I sat. Guess I lost it while slipping around. Oh well theres another one on it's way. At least I got to dress one deer with the old one.
 
I lost my first AG Russel One Hand Knife, my wife had bought as an anniversery gift, she spent hours practicin' openin' and closin' it so she could impress me with her knowledge of a knife I never had before.

I only had it a month or two before I lost it two wheelin' in the junkyard golf cart up and down the mountain in the back of the junkyard (we used the golf cart like a yard car we put the cuttin' torch where the golf bags went and mounted a little tool box in the back.

The golf cart was a Harley Davidson single cylinder gas engine looked like half an old flathead motor, man that an awsome ride, anyway bouncin' up and down the mountain it fell outta my pocket, I found it two weeks later after walkin' the trail a hundred times and finally I tore the cart apart and found it wedged in the seat cover.

Put the cart together and wouldn't ya know it I went back to my off roadin' in the cart and when I came in that afternoon it was missin', (my mom was right I never learn) that was 20 or so years ago, I've found every knife MIA since then, some were missin' as long as five years, never give up hope, always keep your eyes open, ya never know.
 
I lost my blue alox farmer someplace, bought 2 more and lost another one! The third one is in a very safe place now.
Then I lost on orange alox cadet. I love alox but it doesn't love me it seems.
 
I lost a Spydie SS Delica and had a Spydie Schempp Persian stolen from my car. Sucked both times....especially that Persian!
 
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