Value on.. Accident or Irresponsible

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What is the most expensive knife or edged tool that you lost and what was the value on it?

I'm pretty religious with checking to make sure I have my normal stuff; wallet, phone, keys and knife pretty frequently and luckily haven't ever lost a knife valued over probably $20.

Minus one time I did lose a Benchmade 710 behind the back seat of the wifes car for about 2 weeks.
 
My first Benchmade was a brand new 940. The day I got it my son fell in love with it and I was only too happy to give it to him......he lost it that day!
That was like a swift kick in the best part of my body!!!
That was years ago and it still hurts!!
~'$175.
Joe
 
palonej said:
My first Benchmade was a brand new 940. The day I got it my son fell in love with it and I was only too happy to give it to him......he lost it that day!
That was like a swift kick in the best part of my body!!!
That was years ago and it still hurts!!
~'$175.
Joe
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Yup, that would definitely be painful. Didn't even get to break it in. Should've made him work to pay it off lol. How old was he?
 
palonej said:
My first Benchmade was a brand new 940. The day I got it my son fell in love with it and I was only too happy to give it to him......he lost it that day!
That was like a swift kick in the best part of my body!!!
That was years ago and it still hurts!!
~'$175.
Joe
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I'll have to strongly resist this urge. I always had to earn my stuff, so I wasn't prone to losing it. Seems like the way to go, but it's really nice being able to share your hobbies with the kids.
 
A Damascus UTX-70 with white micarta...$375 :(. I was using it as a money clip, the money was still in my pocket but the knife wasn't...and there wasn't even enough money to cover the knife :mad:

~Chip
 
A $20 Kabar lockback folder that got knocked into a snowdrift and somehow 3 hours of skimming ice left me and my friend baffled. It must have teleported to some other reality or something!
 
It may be hard to know exact values because most knives people lose are those they use, and a used knife is no longer worth what you paid for it ( mostly ) but I can list an estimated value at time of loss and cost of replacement if possible.

My leatherman micra found it's way to a small tear in the couch cushion and was lost for about a month until I finally sat on it and noticed something hard.
It's a 1996 first production year example, so I'd like to think that might make it worth a little more than the 20$ a new one costs. And of coarse i could just replace it for 20$
When I was a teenager my ca 1968 western black beauty model f48a was swiped from the garage by my moms husband after a friend got him hooked on heroin.
I searched and Searched to not find it, then it randomly showed up on the garage floor after he sobered up enough for my mom to let him back in the house.
It's value was no more than 20$, but could cost a little more to replace

I lost a 5$ flea market folder I believe while riding my friends go-kart and it was probably only worth 1$ after a week of use.

The first knife I lost was a cheapo key chain sized balisong my dad gave me which must've cost a couple dollars and was probably only worth 25 cents by the time I lost it.
 
Bought a Ruger folding knife in ats-34 for $75 back in the mid 90's. Loved it, carried it Dailey until it jumped to it's early grave from the seat of the skid steer I was operating. Buried under many tons of dirt. I searched and searched but never found it. Looked it up a couple years ago out of curiosity and saw one sell for $300 on the bay...... Still miss that darn knife lol
 
Emerson 10 pimped hk edition lefty around 5 bills into it. It's at the bottom of the Mississippi river in about 40 feet of swirling water last time I seen it.
 
d762nato said:
Emerson 10 pimped hk edition lefty around 5 bills into it. It's at the bottom of the Mississippi river in about 40 feet of swirling water last time I seen it.
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Hmmm... got a gps location. I lost a cold steel voyager after owning it for a week. A kabar karon. A coast loackback. Nothing too expensive. Which has me worried the my time will come.
 
My very first knife, a Buck lockback, on the playground in the 4th grade. Another kid found it, gave it to our teacher, who held it up on front of class... and admonished, "Who lost their knife? You boys need to keep track of your pocket knives." Then he gave it back to me. That was about 1980... different times!
 
I'm not sure where it ended up, but I have a CQC-15 with a broken G-10 scale floating around my house somewhere. I'm hoping it's buried in a closet somewhere. I've recently found the pocket clip for it that I thought I lost years ago, but no knife to be found. Weird. I'd say it was a painful loss, but honestly I always thought it was a pos and a waste of money.
 
I've lost a few cheap $10-$30 knives, but the worst one was a week old Benchmade Arvensis that somehow managed to fly off my belt while mountain running:eek::(
 
I kicked a Griptilian off my pier many many years ago when fishing. I even used a speaker magnet to drag around the pier to no avail. About $85 worth...
 
Lost a Spyderco Atlantic Salt in the water. About $75. It was clipped to my shorts and came loose when I jumped from a rock ledge.
 
A $400 small sebenza w/ wood inlay. It was my EDC carry for a couple of years, and at the end of a day of meetings at Robbins AFB it was no longer there. It must have fallen out of my pocket somewhere along the way.
 
After reading some of these posts, I feel blessed. I lost a small Case xx folder in Pennsylvania a few years ago while returning home from Niagara Falls. I can't remember which pattern it was, but the knife itself probably wasn't worth more than 20 dollars. My dad gave it to me though so the sentimental value makes it a painful loss.
 
Case copperlock slipped out of my pocket at the movie theater. About 50 bucks. I'll eventually replace it, I really like that pattern.
 
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