Value on.. Accident or Irresponsible

Our hobbies are SO much more fun when our kids are into them with us Bryce!!!

T.L.E. Sharp said:
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.
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most expensive ($ value): Cold Steel Talwar XL, cost me $85
most expensive (sentimental value): Victorinox Swisschamp from my grandpa, lost when changing home and moving out to a new place
first one: Victorinox Outrider left in the car's trunk on a road trip, must've fallen in the middle of the lonely road
most recent one: Spyderco Dragonfly 2, a month ago and still nowhere to be found. I'm crazy searching for it. So little!!
lost by another person: my lovely Gerber MP600, by a forum member (not from this forum)
 
Spyderco Dragonfly salt. Disappeared from my waistband about a year ago. About $60. Still miss that thing.
 
I lost a Diskin Fire (about $700) for a few hours when I was moving some insulation around.

The clip got snagged on the plastic wrap and got tugged out of my pocket. There was tons of insulation, like 50 bundles, and it was all sitting in gravel.

I spent hours moving insulation and digging through gravel to find it. Leaving it behind was not an option, these knives are rare. I did find it after a few hours though.
 
Blues Bender said:
I lost a Diskin Fire (about $700) for a few hours when I was moving some insulation around.

The clip got snagged on the plastic wrap and got tugged out of my pocket. There was tons of insulation, like 50 bundles, and it was all sitting in gravel.

I spent hours moving insulation and digging through gravel to find it. Leaving it behind was not an option, these knives are rare. I did find it after a few hours though.
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The best feeling in the world is finding something that you lost, especially valued at $700! That's after the worse feeling of actually losing it!
 
After owning and carrying it for two decades I lost the SS Spyderco Police that I bought around 1992 (?). It was my first "modern" folder and the knife that turned me into a collector (as opposed to a "guy with a couple of knives"). That one was worth a lot more to me than its dollar value.
 
luke86 said:
Spyderco Dragonfly salt. Disappeared from my waistband about a year ago. About $60. Still miss that thing.
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that's what happened to me a month ago!
And the knife is so little, it could be anywhere, under any place :(

Still looking for it, though, I liked it so much to give up now!
 
Last year I gave a 'girl friend' a Hideaway Knife in titanium. It and some ...other things were taken by police.
I replaced it with a customized Folts S.P.E.W. which she...lost.....thats a long story.

Needless to say 'girl friends' don't get nice knives as gifts anymore.
 
ThePeacent said:
that's what happened to me a month ago!
And the knife is so little, it could be anywhere, under any place :(

Still looking for it, though, I liked it so much to give up now!
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I really have no idea where it went or how I could have lost it without knowing. That's the only knife I've ever lost. Looked for it everywhere. Either lost it at work or at the gym.
 
Grandpas old stockman, that one still hurts. A BM42 I had in a horizontal sheath, in the woods heading to a fishing spot. Looked and looked, nothing found. A nice Queen cutlery EDC taken off me by "security" at a concert, and when I went to get it back, it had "mysteriously vanished". I submitted a claim form and got a check for $20. Here's on for you: when my buddy and I were about 14, we went to a Kiss concert, and he had his brand new buck 110 (birthday present) in a sheath. Of course security found it (some were police) and it was put in an envelope for him to get back after the show. He returns, they open the "sealed" envelope, and gets his knife back. We leave, and are out and about going to McDonalds when he gets the knife out of the sheath and..it's a Buck 110 alright, his sheath too..but the knife is a worn down old clunker that had seen better days. They switched it. some cop or security guard got a brand new knife.
 
115Italian said:
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.
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Man with the current and that muddy bottom that knife could be in Norlans by now. Well it was my first left sided carry knife as I've always carried on the right. and I just got that knife and only brought it to show my fishing buddy.

I threw the net a few times and noticed it missing, as far as I can tell as the net went past me it snagged my clip on my knife and in the river it went. I was quite sick for a few days and looked every where a few times including my buddies boat to no avail. I'll never take an expensive knife on the water any more that's for sure.
 
One of the early Strider/Buck 880 folders. Lost it on a carnival ride, about $150. Also a Kershaw Blackout while working on a garbage truck, about $60.
 
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W. Anderson said:
Last year I gave a 'girl friend' a Hideaway Knife in titanium. It and some ...other things were taken by police.
I replaced it with a customized Folts S.P.E.W. which she...lost.....thats a long story.

Needless to say 'girl friends' don't get nice knives as gifts anymore.
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My first question would be why is my "girl friend" having dealings with the police. Second question would be do I really want this person in my life.

BTW, we have time for the long 'Folts S.P.E.W.' story.:)
 
I have a Spyderco rescue knife that has a mind of it's own. It disappears all the time. I have no clue where it is so we'll count it as lost. - $75.

I had a very early Buck 112 Ranger stolen from me. I've seen them go for up to $200 in mint condition but, a new one is not very much at all. Out of all the knives I have owned, this 112 is the one I miss the most. I used to carry it on hunting trips with my father.
 
I have two missing Al Mar ultralight knives named after birds that I'm still hoping will turn up one day. I lost an old SOG Tomcat the year I got out of the army that I was quite fond of at the time.
 
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