Those favorite knives that we’ve lost

AbelsDad

AbelsDad

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I recently lost my calf pen I can’t tell you how sad I am about this. I used it daily and likely will never replace it. (Because I am not paying the premium they are fetching). Let’s see the knives you guys have lost.
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Check the couch cushions? Seriously what a bummer. Sorry to hear. I lost a mini case Texas toothpick in pearl I had forever about ten years ago. Wife gave it to me as a gift. Miss that little knife. Kept thinking it would turn up but sadly no. Keep hemming and hawing over replacing it. I eyeball them in Abalone sometimes too :)
 
I actually just saw a picture of it yesterday on my phone, I’ll have to try and find it again. It was a case copper lock with dark green scales and brass shield, I haven’t found another like it
 
I haven't lost any true favorites, but I was pretty bummed when I lost my slimline trapper.
I looked inside my recliner so many times and flipped it over...ect with no luck.

6-8 months later my Victorinox cadet fell into my recliner and as I was trying to get it unstuck from the weird spot it found it's way into I saw a glint in the very back peeking out of a hole in the fabric.

Here it is the day I found it.


Still as sharp as the day I lost it with nothing but 1 minor spot if tarnish on the brass liner.


Theres a good chance your knife is hiding very well or is just somewhere you're not thinking to look, it will very likely turn up in the future.
Knives have a way of doing that.
 
Well, my favorite knife I lost was bought when I was about 14 or 15 at an Army surplus store in Platteville Wisconsin. An Old Timer 34OT. I lost it I think in 1989 in the Marines. I’ve since replaced it with a 34OT my Grandad gave me in the late 90’s, and many more I’ve picked up, but I’d like to have mine back. I know the location where I lost it but I would not be allowed to ever look for it and I know it’s history, so I’ll continue with the ones I have now.
 
I lost a CV Sod Buster Jr. out of my pocket way back in the mid 70's when going to work one morning, took my eyes off the road and lost control of my car. Rolled it four times AND flipped onto top. Strangely, only thing not bent on that car was the trunk lid. Car was totally totaled and got towed.

While getting checked out at the hospital, I asked my dad to go to the tow yard and get some things out of the car ... one of the things he brought back was THAT KNIFE !!!

Here we are 45+yrs later and I honestly have NO idea what happened to that knife or where it is now ... lost again I guess.
 
BrotherJim said:
I lost a CV Sod Buster Jr. out of my pocket way back in the mid 70's when going to work one morning,
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I too lost a Sod Buster Jr. in the 1970’s but I was in elementary school. It fell out of the pocket of some horrible baggy hand-me-down pants I was wearing, just days after I got the knife for my birthday.

In 2003 somebody broke into my apartment and stole a briefcase that contained exactly no valuables, but had all my important documents in it along with the Okapi knife I had since 1990 or so.

I have no idea what became of the first knife I got (for my 5th birthday), or the other knives I faintly remember from my early childhood, but I don’t think I have actually just lost a knife since elementary school.
 
Some years ago I bought this Fontenille-Pataud XS locking Laguiole from an esteemed poster - I fear he is no longer with us in any sense. Then it had thick Walnut scales. It got put in a sink overnight to soak by a well-meaning woman :eek: and the result was the scales were a bursting swollen mess. Sent it to F-P for a recovering in this Horn tip, not exactly cheap. Went on some STUPID BORING work conference trip on the other side of the country in 2019 and it vanished in an hotel.

But, it was clearly not meant to be....wouldn't mind it back though :D

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Does being intentionally tossed into a campfire count ?

I got my first knife when I was 7, it was a cheap Victorinox lookalike my dad bought me at the local dollar store.
It was never very sharp and really nothing on it worked very well, but it was my knife and I was very proud of it.
By the time I was a teenager I had graduated to a Schrade 33ot middleman Jack my dad had received for Christmas a long time ago from his dad and decided to save for the son he hoped to have
Once I got that the $1 knife had already began falling apart and had outlived it's purpose as a starter knife so i threw it into a campfire.
 
I almost lost an ebony gec 14 in a cab when it fell out of the watch pocket of my jeans, good thing i noticed before i got out.
 
Old hardware store knife my dad had in the Boy Scouts. Don't know who made it, by the time he gave it to me it was stained up so bad I couldn't read any of the text on the blade. It was a mini Bowie pattern with a synthetic bone handle and about 4.5" carbon steel blade and dry rotted leather sheath. He wasn't a sportsman, so it was pretty cool he still had it. It was probably from the mid 50's. I butchered my first deer with it and carried it in my pack a few seasons. Then divorce happened, you know the rest...
 
I've been looking for a #76 Krack-a-Jack for a long time.
One was offered to me for a possible sale, I promptly sod several of my GEC knives to fund it, and then the seller backed out.
Later on the seller decided to let go of it, but I had already spent the money on other stuff, and had to pass on it with great regret.
I consider that a lost opportunity and a lost knife. :(
 
Many decades ago one of my uncles gave me a candy stripe handle button fired toothpick switchblade. Carried it proudly for a few years before it disappeared.

I have looked at replacements off and on but they were to much. But just a few days ago I ran across a Hammer Brand that looks identical on another forum for a very reasonable price and it should be here on Friday.
 
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