what are your best knife Finds(like free, lying on the ground)!

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Since I started a lost knives thread, figured one on "Finds". Not good deals, no money finds. Riding bikes i often find them. A bear grylls folder the other day at the end of the powerlines. A no name multitool on a post above a pool along a quiet road. I found a Gerber remix a few years back next to a brook fishing. looked like it might have had some dried blood on it(specks). Not uncommon, until I looked up and back, and there was a highway running past. That comes out of Bridgeport CT, the city they have just chosen for a new season of COPS!
 
I found my Grandfather's boy scout pocket knife after being lost for over ten years. In the trunk of his Chevelle after he gave it to me!

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I found my leak in my mom's yard almost a year after I lost it. A little rusty but still my edc for many years.

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I found a rusted pocket knife stabbed into a tree stump. It had been under water for more than 30 years! Tim's Ford lake.
I liked to think about the guy who was cutting trees for the dam project and sat down to eat some crackers and Vienna sausages and poked it into the stump and then forgot it.

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I found the first knife I purchased when I was 14 after 30 years, but that was in a trunk in my parents garage.

More in keeping with this thread though, my then 12 yo daughter found a Leatherman folding knife in the pemi River in NH while tubing. I took it apart, cleaned and lubed and its great. Takes a crazy good edge.... Course it dulls pretty quickly but still a good find.

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a friend was driving around on bulk item garbage night or whatever you call it. He saw an old dresser and was picking it up and an old fixed blade in the sheath fell out from behind a drawer! he brought it to me and asked if I wanted, just to give him some user knife. I think he wanted a serrated edge so bad he settled on some china junk in trade. What I got was a jigged bone handle CASE knife with the spine notches and hognose tip that surely made it a fish knife! It had a leather sheath all tattered, with someones name and town hand scribed in it. I kept it a few years, then ended up selling for well over $100.
 
I was reading this thread thinking "I'll never find a knife that's decent", then I remembered I found a Leatherman Blast at a fishing cabin we rent a couple times a year. Stuck that baby in my tackle box.
 
A ZT knife about a decade and a half ago in the complex I used to live while in school.

ZT wasn't as well known or reputable as it is now, so I think I remember giving it to one of neighborhood buds. I usually end up second guessing whether I gave it away when I think about it and that perhaps it still around in the junk I still have. ZTs of today always has me thinking back to it, as I recall it had Speedsafe which made the blade feel like a completely loose blade which allowed it to fly open and thought the knife felt cheap despite its robust appearance. So, it just vanished. Ha ha.

I wish I remember what model it was.
 
I don't think that I ever found a knife, but I did lost my "traditional" work-knife once...that had some blades specially ground for machine calibrations. Since then, I only have carried folders with clips...Problem solved.
 
wensynch said:
A ZT knife about a decade and a half ago in the complex I used to live while in school.

ZT wasn't as well known or reputable as it is now, so I think I remember giving it to one of neighborhood buds. I usually end up second guessing whether I gave it away when I think about it and that perhaps it still around in the junk I still have. ZTs of today always has me thinking back to it, as I recall it had Speedsafe which made the blade feel like a completely loose blade which allowed it to fly open and thought the knife felt cheap despite its robust appearance. So, it just vanished. Ha ha.

I wish I remember what model it was.
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Zt was just started in 2006..
 
When I was a kid my moms cousin was staying with us for a while, and while going through a storage unit left to him by his mother in law he found a late 60's western black beauty f48a which he gave me. It's had about 1/16th of width sharpened off it, but other than that it's an awesome knife and the steel is great.
During the summer my dad found a brand new Milwaukee fastback hawkbill on the ground at work that he gave me, and for being a 14$ knife it was extremely solid and took a great edge, I ended up giving it to my brother as it just wasn't my style.
One day when I was about 11 there was a bnib Shcrade 33OT stockman laying around the living room of our apartment for a few weeks so I just took it and never heard a word about it, I think my moms husband had bought it on sale at Walmart and forgot about it.
 
I found a 12" PIC brand dive knife about 30 feet down on a reef off Grand Cayman in 1976 during my first of many dive trips there. It must have been one of the first dive knives PIC sold in either the late 60s or very early 70s as the stainless steel had surface corrosion over 80% of the blade to some degree. Still have the knife, corrosion and all, but no new rust has formed yet. :D
 
I saw some guys who were making some repairs at my house, one of them had a nice traditional folder, it wasn't free, but I paid $10 bucks, don't know anything about it, it just has Germany stamped on the blade, and puma on the handle, but it hasn't gotten its make over, its my weekend project
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I was doing some overtime at an event working security a couple years ago. The concert had a "no weapons" rule, which included pocket knives. Guys would just be asked to put them in their cars. Except one guy, when i told him we cant allow pocket knives, he barely even stopped walking as he grabbed the knife clipped on his pocket and pitched it in the trash can on his right....and kept walking. As the guy walked by me, he smiled and said something like, no worries i get my knives from the $1 bulk bin. I fished it out and to my shock, it was a ZT 0350. He obviously didnt know what he had.

I just traded it last week as part of a scope deal, but carried it on duty for the last year.
 
To date I have found a Kershaw Chive with no pocket clip, bent blade and broken assist spring. I contacted Kershaw and they told me to mail it in with $10 fee for new blade. They repaired the entire knife and put a new clip on it. Works like new. I have also found a Leatherman Micra in like new condition. Still have both and both were found just laying on the ground.
 
Back about 1997, I found a Smith & Wesson folder (500 series?) laying in the street in San Francisco.

Found a Victorinox Huntsman back around 1992-93, missing a scale. I replaced both scales with Kingwood, and carried it for almost 15 years. Early 2007, I decided it needed to be retired, and was researching which Victorinox model to replace it with. Lo & behold, I found another Vic Huntsman in the road while driving home one afternoon. Still using that one.

~Chris
 
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