I lost my Spyderco Calypso Jr a few months back and I was sure it was in the house somewhere but it never turned up. I have looked everywhere but it is gone. Where do all these lost knives end up? Is there is lost knife lost and found somewhere?
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Where do lost knives go?
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Ok, I will tell you. They go deep into the counch in a crook you never new existed until your 6yr old child with there curious mind and tiny hands locate them. The other place is in the extra space behicd the glove compartment of your vehicle. Good luck.
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They all go into another dimension, just like the socks that go missing from the dryer.
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I dunno, but I bet it's with my favorite compact camera and cell phone....
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I had one blown up by dynamite. No kidding! I was blasting limestone and forgot it was next to the hole I had packed with 1.5 sticks. One boom, no knife. I do some stupid things. 
Busted a Puma folder blade trying to dig a broadhead out of a tree. Sent it back and that's the last I saw of it. No fixee, no returnee.
Busted a Puma folder blade trying to dig a broadhead out of a tree. Sent it back and that's the last I saw of it. No fixee, no returnee.
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In my pocket if its something I likekgriggs8 said:
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I always hate finding POS knives.
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I lost a knife inside my house yesterday. A Wenger SAK with wooden handles (the ones they made with Eka of Sweden). I don't know where the hell that little b&$tard went! I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
There is hope! Just yesterday I found my AFCK that I had carried for years. After a couple weeks the snow on the ground had melted, and I was walking in the grass on the side of the house and there it was! It was a little wet, but no rust. I sure was happy!kgriggs8 said:I lost my Spyderco Calypso Jr a few months back and I was sure it was in the house somewhere but it never turned up. I have looked everywhere but it is gone. Where do all these lost knives end up? Is there is lost knife lost and found somewhere?
Couches and reclining chairs have a tendency of being good hiding places for knives, so I always check there.
Gene
I lost a brand new Gerber EZ out several years ago, opened the package, set it on the kitchen table, went to grab it two days later and it was gone. I think it was such a POS that it actually disintegrated upon hitting the open air, went back to the dust from whence it came.
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The commonest place that I have found lost knives and keys is in the guts of couches and armchairs. We are used to looking under cushions, but there is a lower-level hiding place that Sigsauer mentioned. It is adjacent to the arms of the furniture where you would expect the cushion support to be sewn to the material covering the arms. Commonly there is a sort of captive cushion on the seat of the chair/couch that supports the removable cushions. This creates a pocket for stuff at a hidden lower level inside the sides of the furniture. That is the number one place to find a lost knife, particularly one that goes missing Christmas morning.
The other place things go Christmas morning is into unusual pockets in unusual combinations of clothing you wear when the kids get you up. Often that is the only morning of the year when I wear that bathrobe that my wife gave me for Christmas 10 years ago. It has pockets where I stick knives for opening presents. Sometimes I have to grab a present out of a cold car or garage and I put on an odd coat from the entryway closet for the task. Knives have a way of getting into the pocket of that coat an disappearing for years on end. Odd coat pockets are great for that all winter.
The other place things go Christmas morning is into unusual pockets in unusual combinations of clothing you wear when the kids get you up. Often that is the only morning of the year when I wear that bathrobe that my wife gave me for Christmas 10 years ago. It has pockets where I stick knives for opening presents. Sometimes I have to grab a present out of a cold car or garage and I put on an odd coat from the entryway closet for the task. Knives have a way of getting into the pocket of that coat an disappearing for years on end. Odd coat pockets are great for that all winter.
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Lost knives?...If you have kids, keep your eyes open for bandaids on their fingers or hands...That's a dead-give-away that they have "found" your "lost" knife..
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How about lost chisels? I've got this story...
Jim worked for many years in a black powder mill. He was real proud that during the years that he worked there they never blew up the mill even once. They blew it up the year before he got there and the year after he left, but never on his watch (they did lose the nitro fab, but that wasn't his department). Jim was about the most careful guy I've ever known. He was a machinist and general mechanic at the plant.
The powder mill was run by remote control. You would shut it down periodicaly and go in and do inspection and maintenance. One night Jim went into the plant and as usual he stopped outside the door and counted all of his tools. He went in with the crew and did his work. When he left he counted his tools and found that he was one short. He had to talk to the foreman and tell him that they couldn't restart the plant until they found his missing tool. He figured out that what was missing was a wood chisel, he didn't think that he even used his chisel that night. They turned the place upside down and couldn't find that chisel. Finally the foreman had an idea. They would start the plant running dry (without any chemicals in it). If the chisel was in an unstable place maybe it would fall into the works then. They ran the plant for a couple hours and the chisel did not show up. They crossed their fingers and put the plant into normal operation.
A couple weeks later the foreman came up to Jim and handed him his chisel back. He said that he had just opened a door in the plant and the chisel fell on his head. What he figured was that a carpenter had seen Jim's open tool box and borrowed a chisel out of it without telling anybody. He used it to work on a door in the plant. He left he chisel up out of the line of sight lying on top of the door sill. After a couple weeks of that door opening and closing the chisel finally fell off the sill. So it is not alway gremlins that steal your stuff, sometimes it is carpenters.
Jim worked for many years in a black powder mill. He was real proud that during the years that he worked there they never blew up the mill even once. They blew it up the year before he got there and the year after he left, but never on his watch (they did lose the nitro fab, but that wasn't his department). Jim was about the most careful guy I've ever known. He was a machinist and general mechanic at the plant.
The powder mill was run by remote control. You would shut it down periodicaly and go in and do inspection and maintenance. One night Jim went into the plant and as usual he stopped outside the door and counted all of his tools. He went in with the crew and did his work. When he left he counted his tools and found that he was one short. He had to talk to the foreman and tell him that they couldn't restart the plant until they found his missing tool. He figured out that what was missing was a wood chisel, he didn't think that he even used his chisel that night. They turned the place upside down and couldn't find that chisel. Finally the foreman had an idea. They would start the plant running dry (without any chemicals in it). If the chisel was in an unstable place maybe it would fall into the works then. They ran the plant for a couple hours and the chisel did not show up. They crossed their fingers and put the plant into normal operation.
A couple weeks later the foreman came up to Jim and handed him his chisel back. He said that he had just opened a door in the plant and the chisel fell on his head. What he figured was that a carpenter had seen Jim's open tool box and borrowed a chisel out of it without telling anybody. He used it to work on a door in the plant. He left he chisel up out of the line of sight lying on top of the door sill. After a couple weeks of that door opening and closing the chisel finally fell off the sill. So it is not alway gremlins that steal your stuff, sometimes it is carpenters.