Worst luck ever...this ever happent to you?(knife content)

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Scarman

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I must have the worst luck ever. I had just acquired a new knife in a trade and was carrying/admiring my new "toy" around when I LOST IT!!!. Can you believe that??
I had it in my back pack and was just getting out of my car(after work) when I discovered it was missing. Needless to say I went ballistic. I tore my car apart, retraced my steps, checked my office, all around the parking lot and ZIPPO, nadda, nothing.... I am so pissed off at myself right now. Why didn't I just leave it at home in my safe? Why, why, why???
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The only plus side is that it wasn't a really expensive piece, but it still sucks!!
Anyone else ever have to deal with this?

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The bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

*Lewis S. Chafer

2 Tim 3:16

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Yes I had something similar happen to me. I just got my Knife from Alan Folts it was the Mantis #2. I got home from work and there it was sitting on the front steps so I picked it up and when it to play with it, Well my dog need to take a walk and he couldn't wait so grabed to box (I hadn't even opened yet) and the dog and off we went. I open the box while I was walking the dog and looked at every piece it was all there. After we started back to the house I notice I was missing part of the sheath. The area I was walking in was a 20 acre woods behind my house. I took dog back to house and started looking, I looked for over 4 hours no luck. Boy was I mad I wanted to blame the dog just cause he had to take a dump I lost part of my sheath.
I had never been so mad in my life.
But you know what the very next day when I took the dog walking I steped on the part I had lost. And I check that area I bet 500 times the day before.
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So don't give up you might still find it

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-Greg Johnson
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Scarman, you experienced my worst nightmare (well not the worst, I have a vivid imagination). If I may ask, what knife was it? I want to share your pain.

gregj62, nice find!!! But please don't blame the dog, we just do what comes naturally.
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LD
"Every Dog Has His Day"
BFC Member Since October 2, 1998

 
I've told this story before and it wasn't a new knife but, in light of the season, it can bear repeating...

A few ago an OD Green Delica disappeared from my jeans pocket while Christmas tree shopping. I knew it was there when we started out but it was gone when I reached for it to cut cord for tying the tree to the rook rack.

I used another knife to cut the cord (Who carries just one?) & then went back & retraced my route, checked the car, etc but no Delica. When we got the tree home, both my wife & I looked through it, thinking that it might have gotten snared when I was carrying the tree to the car. Still nothing.

Weeks later, when we were taking down the tree, guess what was hanging from a branch -- yup, the Delica. I don't know how we missed it before, both when looking for it & while dressing the tree, but there it was securely clipped to one of the branches.

I guess my point is, as Greg said, don't give up hope just yet. It might still turn up. (BTW, I found my mechanic's pager when searching the car for the knife.) Also, just a word of caution for others -- be careful with those pocket clips when carrying a Christmas tree. Your knives might just want to find a new home.
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Cheers,

--+Brian+--

I may be goin' to hell in a bucket, Babe, but at least I'm enjoyin' the ride.


 
Lucky Dog,

It was a 6" Greco, similar to the companion only in 5160. I traded a Cold Steel San Mai III(had to withdraw the Sebenza due to spousal complaints) and a few other items for it and I loved that knife even though I only had it 3 days.
I hope y'all are right and I do find it, otherwise I will have to save my shekels and order one.

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The vague and tenuous hope that GOD is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the conscience of millions.

*A. W. Tozer

2 Cor 5:10


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bcaffrey, you're right with the bit about being careful around christmas trees. i owrked on a christmas tree farm throuhg high school and temporarily lost three knives in those four years. none were gone more than a day. i got lucky, but there were a few other guys that would go through two cheapies a year.
 
Brian,
You may have inadvertently discovered the last sign that one has gone over the edge with knife collecting--decorating the Christmas tree with knives! I wonder if my fiancee would go for that?

I've lost a couple of knives in the past but I've always found them again. So there's hope Scarman. I lost a ring I had one time (thought one of my room mates stole it) and found it 4 years later in the couch. I had looked in the couch several times but didn't find it. Check in the cracks the seats of your car, I find some interesting things there from time to time. Things that I can't even figure out where they came from. The only thing that I ever seem to lose permanently are socks. I think there is a one legged sock gremlin out there somewhere.


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Paul Davidson

Them:"What's that clipped to your pocket, a beeper?"
Me:"Uuh....yeah, something like that."


 
You may have inadvertently discovered the last sign that one has gone over the edge with knife collecting...
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Paul, I don't think that there is any question about my being over the edge.
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About decorating the tree though, maybe an assortment of some small anodized handled folders -- a few Rainbow Titanium mini-Bucks and such -- maybe RJ Martin could be persuaded to make up some Beanieballs & Combat Neck Knives in different colors...

OK, time for my medicine. More later.
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Cheers,

--+Brian+--

I may be goin' to hell in a bucket, Babe, but at least I'm enjoyin' the ride.


 
Ah, but what to crown the tree with eh?
It would have to be something spectacular, a one of a kind perhaps....

I will keep looking, trust me on that one.

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The vague and tenuous hope that GOD is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the conscience of millions.

*A. W. Tozer

2 Cor 5:10
 
Yeah Paul, and hey, where is my daughter's pacifier?
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I wonder if Darrel Ralph would donate an Extreme Apogee to crown my Christmas tree? Please....I promise I will return it right after Christmas(of the year 2050
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) J/K, well not really....

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The vague and tenuous hope that GOD is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the conscience of millions.

*A. W. Tozer

2 Cor 5:10
 
I've told this one before too but it still hurt's.One night about 2 years ago while out fishing for herring I was leaning over the rail of the boat trying to gaff the float line of our seine(net). while wriggling back across the boats rail my MT L-UDT got caught on the rail of the boat(it was clipped to the front of my oil pants) All I heard was the splash. It now rests in 40-50 fathoms of water on outer Schoodic ridge.

But I'm gettin another one.
 
The "pass around" knife that is being discussed in Shop Talk would make an excellent tree topper, but I don't think it will be ready in time. Maybe Ed Caffrey (no relation) would care to lend us his Journeyman Smith Knife of the Year 2000 http://www.mtn-webtech.com/~caffrey/2000.htm for the tree.
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I love the Photon light idea, Ewok. How about a few strategically placed Krills to silhouette some pieces?

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Cheers,

--+Brian+--

I may be goin' to hell in a bucket, Babe, but at least I'm enjoyin' the ride.


 
Ewok, I like your idea of Photons on the tree, but it would take forever to light that son of a gun.
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LD
"Every Dog Has His Day"
BFC Member Since October 2, 1998

 
You guys caught me. I pilfer lint covered pacifiers, pocket change, chewing gum wrappers, and bic lighters to support my knife habit.
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When you hear those car alarms going off in the middle of the night it's me. You'd be amazed what lint covered pacifiers go for on the black market.

I like the Photon light idea too. It would only cost about $2000 to equal the lights that are on a regular strand of tree lights. I was also thinking some nice ornaments out of kydex or concealex, especially with all those nice colors out there now. Garlands made of worn out grinding belts. A few nice folders clipped here and there. If I had the money I'd go for a nice damascus star tree topper, with mosaic stars in it. A few shuriken would be festive. LOL I just hope there is some knife stuff UNDER my tree.

It should be interesting to hear what everyone got for Christmas on Dec. 26.

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Paul Davidson

Them:"What's that clipped to your pocket, a beeper?"
Me:"Uuh....yeah, something like that."


 
Once I lost a folding buck-lite while splashing around in the ocean. A wave knocked me over and the knife came out of my hand. Then while wasting my time searching for it, another wave knocked me over and I lost my mask. I would have spent more time looking for the two of them, but the only thing I had left were my shorts, and I wasn't going to wait and see what the third wave would do.
 
Had a JW Smith tactical folder, a Remington Bullet knife, a Russ Easler hunter,and some cheap knives stolen from my home. Know how it feels and it sucks. I did get insurance money for them but would rather have the knives. Who the heck wants cash when you can have a knife.
Hope you find it Scarman

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Phil. 4:13

Dave
Wharton,NJ


 
About ten years ago, I took a road trip to El Paso, Texas to visit my father-in-law. I remembered last using my Al Mar folder to cut string and tape for the cartons we were going to ship to California. When we stopped over at a motel, I couldn't fine my knife! I called my father-in-law, but he couldn't find it. Six months later when I was vacuuming the car, I found my Al Mar Hawk wedged between the seat belt bolt that is attached to the car floor.

 
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