Worst thing that happened to a good knife

TSA took one of my favorite custom knives...made by Terry Primos. Accidentally left it in my backpack and it was confiscated before my international flight. Man, that hurt.
 
I had few pretty good puukko's when I was kid. When I was 10 I forgot my puukko with leather sheath into bathroom. Never needed it in few years and when i found it there was mold growing in the sheath and blade was rusted heavily :eek:

I bought then identical puukko and told my brother he can have the trashed one. What he does? He graps my less than week old puukko and when i notice that puukko is already poor shape: tip had broken off, huge scratched and blade chipped many parts. I mean how cannot guy make adifference between brand new puukko and one that has almost decading sheath and horrible rusts? *sighs* :( I've learned my lesson...
 
Theft and loss. Had several stolen, have lost more than I care to think about and have broken several through misuse in a prying situation. Simply not using the right tool for the job.
 
Lost several , never had one stolen or confiscated. I left a Spyderco Native in a hotel room. Went back the next day and of course it was never found. Some maid's husband got a fine knife. Lost another Native and a waved Endura climbing around in construction dumpsters to salvage firewood. Finally learned to carry a cheap knife when doing that. Of course, I haven't yet lost the cheap one, a $10 S&W liner lock.
 
Dumb kids moved my knife at a back yard knife range, never saw it again, 10 year relationship with it.
 
I've lost {misplaced) my fare share of folders over the years. And while it's not a knife, I lost a Surefire G2 from my luggage on a business trip. I specifically remember packing it but it was not there when I got home. I see that the TSA now puts a notice in your bag when it is checked but this was about a year after 911.

Never had a knife go missing from a checked bag thought.
 
Coyote3855 said:
Lost several , never had one stolen or confiscated. I left a Spyderco Native in a hotel room. Went back the next day and of course it was never found. Some maid's husband got a fine knife.
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Same thing happened to my Chris Reeve Ironwood Mnandi. :eek: I'm still trying to recover from that one.

Daniel
 
this hasn't happened to any of my knives, but the worst thing that's happened to any good knife is knifetests.com. nobody should let a special olympian near cutlery.
 
chipm said:
My better half was talking, I was hearing but not listening,
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:D I get in trouble for that alot!

Anyway, I would say it was last night. Was adjusting the blade on my Cold Steel Ti-Lite folder, the titanium handle, made in Japan one that they don't make anymore :(, and I stripped the head out on one of the torx screws. So now my thumb gets a workout when I open it, and forget about the snag opening feature.

Also can relate to the stories of people lending knives, and getting them back looking like a meth-head tweekers mouth. Or just duller than a butter knife. My response nowadays ," Not with this knife you're not!".
 
din said:
this hasn't happened to any of my knives, but the worst thing that's happened to any good knife is knifetests.com. nobody should let a special olympian near cutlery.
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Hahahaha, I burst out laughing when I saw this one. Well put :thumbup:
 
I lost a MT regular troodon at walmart while shopping. I guess it must of fell out my pocket and i didn't notice, but the worst thing is the person who found it probably thinks it some chepo flee market/gas station knife.:mad:
 
thejamppa said:
I had few pretty good puukko's when I was kid. When I was 10 I forgot my puukko with leather sheath into bathroom. Never needed it in few years and when i found it there was mold growing in the sheath and blade was rusted heavily :eek:
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A similar thing happened to one of my puukkos. I let a roommate borrow it, and returned home a few days later to find it rusting in the filthy kitchen sink. Now, that one belongs to him.
 
I'm not comeing back to this thread anymore I'm starting to get sick to my stomach an tears in my eyes
 
it wasnt really a knife but a ninja throwing star- i won it at an arcade when i was younger. i was throwing it in my back yard at my fence- probably at about 15 ft. i was feeling dangerous so iwanted to throw it like completely across my yard. after a couple of throws, i threw it, it somehow turned sideways in the air, acted like a helicopter blade and went super high. it went into my neighbors tree. thinking theres no way it stuck- because it went into a leafy area of the tree i went over to look for it on te ground. i searched their whole yard and it was nowhere to be found. and if it was in the tree it was much higher than i, or anyone else i knew was willing to climb. :(
 
I know one that happened to my dad.

The reson I bought my benchmade 10100 was because of my dad, he paid 240 for the "Prototype" 10100, and used it every day.

One day he stopped to help someone working on something and used it to cut some stuff. Got the guy running and left (cant remember if it was at a site or side of road) he put it on the bumper of his truck after he cut everything. when he was done got into the truck and drove off. Its somewhere between the island and la feria.
 
Many, many years ago a friend of mine [at the time] and I were out hunting We were sitting under a big Oak tree having lunch and he asked to see my knife... a fixed blade.

I handed it to him. He looked it over and said..."this is nice".

He the proceeded to start jabbing it in the ground....... :eek: :eek:

When my initial shock quickly wore off, I grabbed his arm and got my knife back as quick as I could...... we almost came to blows..... ;)

Luckily, the only damage was a tiny chip in the blade from hitting a rock most likely. I was able to sharpen it out completely. [luck for him.... ;)]

I learned a valuable lesson that day that I still practice today......... I rarely hand one of my knives over to anyone [unless I know them & their track record with knives] and IF I do hand one of mine over....
....I always ask what they are going to do with it. :thumbup:

That saves a lot of knives and hard feedlings.......... :thumbup: :)
 
Mostly loss

Misplaced a few SAKs when I was younger.
I've lost a CRKT KISS knife on a bus, and I was a little upset. But this was before my age of reason with knives, I look back now and laugh.
Almost lost my sebenza. Was re-shouldering my messenger bag and the clip caught on a pocket and it dropped right out. Luckily I heard a clang on the sidewalk. Now I carry it in a belt sheath.
 
canadiantrailman said:
Never lost a knife but way back when, I didn't have a clue how to sharpen knives and I put some nasty scratches in one of my SAKs. I can't stand the look of it now but it still works great. Come to think of it, I should strop it with some polishing compound to try and get them out.
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Just take a Dremel with a buffing wheel to it. That took a big scratch out of the blade on my favorite one.

I dropped a log on my KaBar USMC and bent the cross guard, it was really loose but I managed to fix it, for the most part.
 
someone picked up a nice cqc-8 in a macdonalds parking lot. not a bad deal when you get an emerson with a big mac :(
 
Had a Kershaw Blackout go missing off my IBA, and I lost a Gerber Applegate folder on a land nav course.
 
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