What's the LONGEST Time You've Lost and Found a Knife?

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Recently I found a Cold Steel Night Force knife I'd lost for months. I'd given up on finding it, yet it appeared quite suddenly in a closet, where it had fallen from the waist band of one of my pants. There it was, right next to a pair of shoes which, in turn, were under another pair of shoes. It was in new condition and had eluded a number of careful searches and was missing on patrol. Anyway, I was overjoyed. It was as if someone had given me a brand new knife.

I guess it had gone missing about nine months ago, maybe longer, but it got me thinking that there's probably some good stories about lost knives here. So that's the question. What's the longest time you've lost a knife, then found it?

Also, I heard a story of a guy who lost his knife (don't know what kind), but he became so distraught that one of his sons got one just like it (it had been new) and arranged for his dad to "find" it. It went over well and succeeded, but I've always been curious as to whether he ever found the real missing knife. That would have been an even greater story.

Oh, one more thing. Have you ever lost a knife, then turned your entire house over looking for it, never to find it?

Any "loss" story will be appreciated, but please give details!

Knife maker Jim Sigg lost his knife, reportedly, and decided to make a replacement.
That eventually launched him into the business. He soon found a high demand for his work
and began making knives as a hobby. He started selling them at different art and sport
shows to pay for yearly vacations. His knives have been featured in Knives Illustrated,
Small Business Opportunities, Sundance Catalog, and several other small local magazines and
newspapers. I don't know the man, but I found his story on the Internet and sounded like a good story.
If he's on this board, plugola. Maybe he can fill us in on the missing pieces.
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Jim Sigg
 
Well, I misplaced my Buck 110 when we moved (away!!!) from California in 1988 and haven't found it yet. I know it's around because I remember packing it when we moved, so I guess whenever I find it it'll be my longest "lost" knife ((( :D )))
 
Hey Confederate..

For me Personally I lost and then found one after 19 years...

Back in 1977-78 I cought an AG Russell Sting and carried it daily...

I carried that as well as many other knives for years..

When I was still dating my wife, I wore it while we were goingout for dinner with my parents in Detroit..

She was angry that I was concealing a knife and made me take it off...

After awhile, I couldn't find the knife and Literally tore the interior of the car out,, just before the tow truck came to take itto the junk yard...

19 years, new we are married, living on my childhood homestead and my wife moved a large cabinet that hadn't been moved in years..

Low and Behold there it was..

I blamed my wife for losing it because she made me take it off for 19 years...LOL

I still hear about it to this day.. Matter of fact, I heard it tonight, because I've got one AWOL that I have NO idea where it is...Tore my shop apart,, looked through all of my knife drawers,, Nothing...

Now I'm bummed out and won't sleep because of it...

Time to clean out the shop Again!!

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
About a year. I left one in the ceiling where I worked when running network cable. A year later I was in the same area running cable again and when I lifter the ceiling tile the knife was right where I put it earlier.


Mitch
 
Normark said:
I still hear about it to this day.. Matter of fact, I heard it tonight, because I've got one AWOL that I have NO idea where it is...Tore my shop apart,, looked through all of my knife drawers,, Nothing...
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Now you have to go move all of the furniture that's been in one place for more than a decade.

I've yet to lose a knife and find it any significant amount of time later.
 
Have a Vic Tinker from the '80's that comes and goes in my life----currently know where it is----sometimes I don't see it 5 years at a time.
 
I had an old boot dagger disappear on me then a couple years later my brother come in to my room and drops it on the bed and says "I just found this in my buddies car......I think he stole it from you"

I pick it up and look at it... missing 1 inch of the tip, and on handle scale is cracked almost off on the end.
 
Bought this Al Mar in 75...lost it in the mid-eighties (carried it everyday before that). It just seemed to diappear

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Then in 2002, after losing about 20 lbs, I was trying on jeans not worn in about 27 years and...

"WOW, my Al Mar"

..right in the pocket! :D

-Michael
 
My BM Mel Pardue Auto went MIA some years back, and it nearly drove me crazy trying to figure out where I might have lost it. Time goes by, and three years later my Brother In Law asks me if I recognize this knife he found in between chair cushions at my Mother In Law's house. My eyes about popped out of my skull when I saw one of my lost children! Yeah, there's been others, in fact, two Kershaws are MIA right now. I haven't given up hope yet...
 
I recently found my long lost Delica. I lost it about five years ago and for some reason I moved a box that had been in the corner of the utility room and there that knife was on the floor under the box. NO I don't have a clue how it got there but I took the new SharpMaker and fixed it up good and now its back in my pocket.
 
braillediver said:
About a year. I left one in the ceiling where I worked when running network cable. A year later I was in the same area running cable again and when I lifter the ceiling tile the knife was right where I put it earlier.


Mitch
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You didn't lose anything, you were planning ahead! :D
 
Two years. A black cat K55. Lost on a camping trip forty years ago in northern NY. Two years later we returned to the same area and while hiking for a camping place encountered our old camp spot.. There it was laying in plain sight in the general area of where we had pitched the tent 2 years earlier. Pretty rusty, but there it was.
 
5 years.
A good Japanese copy of a Gerber Mark II

A friend returned me a knife that had falled in the back seat of his car.
Before he sold the car, he did a complete clean, and found the belt clip stuck in the seat springs, so it had not fallen to the floor of the car.

I got it back just in time to take it the army.
 
I lost my Eagle while walking through chest high corn in a 150 acre field.-- 2+ years later I was hunting the same field after harvest and as I bent down to pick up a shot pheasant, there was my Al Mar. Of course I had immediately replaced it with one in the Talon grind so now I have one of each.--:)
 
mine was about 6 months. I thought I lost one of my custom fixed blades and I just misplaced it in a pile of junk around my home


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With my middle-age memory loss, I consider my knives lost every time I set them down. I can't remember how long the longest lost time was and, quite frankly, I don't care because I'm too busy looking for my car keys.
 
Okay, I have two related stories:
I used to mow lawns as a side business, for beer money and such. I took care of 12-14 places per season. While I was taking care some lawns in 1993 I lost a little Japanese Frost Razor knife that I had bought new in 1989. I did not know where I lost it and spent the rest of the day backtracking without any luck.
So, I went and bought another little knife to replace it. It was a Beretta Airlight. I carried that little knife for the rest of the season, still missing my Frost razor. The next summer I'm taking care of lawns again. I stopped in the middle of a yard to dump the grasscatcher bag on the lawnmower. When I came back to re-attach the bag, as I looked down, there was my little razor knife! The wood handle was dried out but the little thing made it through a very snowy and harsh winter. The next year (I'm still carrying my replacement Beretta) I left to go with my girlfriend (now my wife) to her hometown's 4th of July celebration. In the course of the day, yep, I lost the Beretta knife. I was pretty down over my dismal record. At least I had found my Frost razor.
Flash forward two years later and my father-in-law calls to tell me he has something for me for the next time we visit. A couple weeks later, he hands me the little weather-beaten Beretta. He found it sitting on top of a mole-hill out in their front yard. Evidently it had dropped onto the ground, been worked into the dirt and then excavated by a mole during a two year period! I've got 'em both. Extremely cheap knives with good stories.
 
I misplaced my fillet knife about 35 years ago when I was still in high school, and carried the knife alot. Back then I would keep it in my school locker, and I would sometimes fish after school, knives were viewed differently those days.

Mom is moving out of her house and going to a senior's appartment and she recently sent me a box full of stuff that included old school stuff and in there is my old fillet knife, and has the plastic sheath ever discolored over the years. It has no name other than stainless steel Japan.
 
Why just today I left my Leatherman Charge on top of the garbage can after cutting up cardboard boxes, my neighbor came over while I was doing it, started talking and I forgot I had set it down, I left and came back two hours later and it was still there! Lots of pedestrians from the high school come by here and nobody spotted it. That's the longest I've lost a knife, two hours.
 
This is the only one I can ever remember loosing.... so far. [knock on wood ]
Back in 1995 my friends wife died suddenly. I went to his town and stayed with him at his house for about a week to help out. I had a little lock back made by Rigid Tool Co. in my pocket when I left my house in a hurry. It dissapeared at some point when I was there at his place ...and I or he have never found it to this day.
It is still MIA......... :(
 
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