Lost knife(knives)!

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Alrighty! Not sure if this type of thread exists, but as a newbie, I'll take a swing! Along with my affinity for SW revolvers, I am a real sucker for knives. Forget make/model for a second, but I just plain love pocket knives. Most recently - well, this evening, I realized that one my rarely carried knives was missing. The last time I remember having it, I was processing Habanero peppers for canning. No idea where it is, it is not overly valuable, but it is a discontinued model in a brand/line that I really like. So, I am compelled to submit: tell us about that special knife that somehow came up missing and, how'd it turn out for 'ya?
 
In the middle of the great depression the young man that would later become my grandfather lost his pocket knife. Roughly 50 years later I found it while cleaning out the barn and returned it to him.

Being a very kind and loving grandfather he waited until I was gone before throwing it away. It was an interesting story for a moment, but farmers are very pragmatic, and it wasn’t a great knife.
 
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the middle of the great depression the young man that would later become my grandfather lost his pocket knife. Roughly 50 years later I found it while cleaning out the barn and returned it to him.

Being a very kind and loving grandfather he waited until I was gone before throwing it away. It was an interesting story for a moment, but farmers are very pragmatic, and it wasn’t a great knife.
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I hear 'ya Jim. I'm betting that just about all of the CFF members have lost a knife.........and perhaps a story or person that came with it. Fortunately, mine had/has no sentimental value, but MAN I really liked it!
 
I got a butterfly knife when I was somewhere around 10-12. Had gone downtown (Charlotte) to visit my dad at work. Went to the Army Navy store by myself. Two old guys working the counter. I asked if I could see it, looked at it, and said I wanted it. The two just kind of shrugged and said ok. Had it for a few years and then it just disappeared. Found it several years later in the tool box of my dad’s truck. Knocked the rust off with some aluminum foil, and still have it ~35 years after I got it.
 
I have a Smith and Wesson knife my brother gave me probably 10 years ago. Not a real fancy knife or anything. But I liked the camo pattern blade and didn’t have a better one so I carried it all the time. The clip was kind of loose on it so it never was real secure attached to my pocket but I made due. Probably around 2012 or so I was driving the usual route from NC back up to PA to visit family. Made a stop randomly exiting route 19 to I-79 and got out of the truck. Can’t remember what I stopped for now. But when I got into pittsburgh, the knife wasn’t in my pocket. At the end of the weekend on the trip back to NC I stopped at the interchange and ran across the highway to where I stopped to see if I could find it. No luck. About a year later I found it in my truck tucked real far under my seat. Turned out I didn’t look very hard in my truck the first time. Considering the knife is black and it was dark when I searched, it was pretty easy to miss.
 
About 10 years ago an ex bought me a case gut hook skinning knife for Christmas and I’ve used it on every deer I’ve killed since then. Two years ago my wife killed a nice buck she wanted to get mounted. I had two guys come help with skinning because I wasn’t sure how to process for a mount. After cleaning the deer and disposing of the carcass I went and pulled our camera to see if we had any pics before the harvest and when I got home I couldn’t find my knife. Looked for weeks and it never turned up. This year when I went to check my spot something caught my eye. My knife was laying in a ditch sitting under clear water on top of the mud. I’ve walked or ridden thru that spot a hundred times since I lost it and never saw it. Only damage was the gut hook had some rust but can be repaired after two years.
 
I had a random folder with a string that I tied onto it... I’ve lost it multiple times and it always comes back to me. Once, I found it in the driveway after it being missing for a couple months. I still have it to this day after years of trying to get rid of it!
 
I had an Old Timer AMERICAN MADE Sharp Finger I bought myself, back in the mid 90's. I bought it at a hardware store right off I77 in Mt. Airy I think, back when I had to work for a living. I've used it on many rabbits and squirrels over the years, but it's gone now. And they're all 19.99 chinese junk now.
 
Sold a butterfly knife to a girl when i was in highschool. Gave it to her in the parking lot and said put this in your car. She took it in and started swinging it around like a crazy person. They asked who gave it to her. She said me.....I got suspended, not her:confused:. Not a lost knife but one i wish i hadnt gotten rid of, at least not in that way.
 
I was building a high ropes course in the mountains. About 30 feet up a tree, boring a hole for a thimble eye bolt. My pocket knife (old timer 3 blade) fell out of my pocket into the leaves below. It was fall, deep in the woods, with the leaves falling. Couldn't find it. Waited until next summer to replace it. Just hated to admit it was gone. Next fall, up in the trees adding more rope course to the existing, pocket knife falls out of my pocket. Looking for it and found last years knife. Quit looking.
 
I left a 28" Machete in the woods on a job. As a young surveyor my machete was my main tool. It wasn't expensive to replace but it took me a week to get a new one set up right. About a year later we're back on that job and there's my blade stuck in the ground next to a fence post, all rusted to hell.
 
Only one that ever really hurt my feelings was a Schrade Scrimshaw. Was actually working at a place that sold furniture edge banders and a guy was trying to cut a stack of bands by hitting it on the back with a rubber mallet. I saw it break and he just tossed it in the trash. Thought he had broke the blade, but when I took out the trash, he had sheared the pin that held the blade in and the knife together. Walked back inside to the drill press, drilled out what was left of the pin, found a nail that fit and bradded it back together. Carried it for years. Then one day I was fly fishing a little cow pond for brim and bass. Had a small hole in my shorts the knife worked through. Went back for weeks walking around in the muck (read cowshit) on the bottom of that pond hoping I could find it. No go and had to buy another one later in life. Now I have drawers full of knives and I bet I have not lost one in 15 years.
 
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I've probably forgotten half the knives I've lost over the years.

First one was the 3-blade Old Timer my father gave me for Christmas when I was 5 years old. I was whittling sticks on the back porch, when mom called me in for dinner. I forgot it on the back porch. Thought I'd lost it forever. 25 years later, when my father passed, I found it tucked away in the bottom of his gun cabinet. No idea why he never gave it back.

I've lost not one, but two Kershaw Leeks. One I lost doing forestry work in the swamps around Camp Lejeune. Caught on some brush, and pulled out of my pocket. I searched for it for an hour, but it was in thick swamp, under calf-deep water. Never did turn up. Perhaps during a dry season, a young marine on a training mission found himself a new pocket knife.

Lost another one doing the same kind of work in the Hoffman Forest. And a small Buck folder near the Dare Bomb Range in Dare County.

Somewhere up in Caswell County I lost a Leatherman Wave. My favorite multi tool. I've got a few others, but none of them fit the bill quite like it did. I still don't know why I haven't picked up a new one.

Lost a slim Kershaw folder while in Dare County. I assumed it was gone forever, but a few years later, when I was assigned a new work truck I found it. I had to take the seat out of the truck to remove some of the radio gear, and there it was, lodged underneath the radio amp. I don't carry that knife to work anymore. But its my daily carry when I'm out and about.

Thought I'd lost another Buck folder, while replacing the axle in my 03 Mustang GT. Found it a year later when I'd took out the spare tire. Somehow it got under it.

And I'm sure there are many others that I haven't lost, only put away, and then forgot where they ended up.
 
my Uncle, who was the ultimate outdoorsman in our family, told me that he had lost
lots of expensive knives before he got smart and started losing cheap knives.
 
I had a Kershaw multi tool knife that I loved. It wasn't too expensive or anything but it was a gift. Had to go to ER one day and the nurse told me to empty my pockets and said the knife will be at the security desk when I check out. Well guess what...it wasn't....
 
Haven't lost one yet. But have come close several times.

Carried a spyderco delica (with orange handle to make it easier to find:rolleyes:)for a long time. One day after work I couldn't find it. Looked everywhere on the job site and home.

We were building a culvert bridge over a creek. Every evening we pulled the construction zone mesh fence across the area to keep out people.

Handled that stuff twice a day for a week. Then one morning. There was my delica. That orange fencing had slipped under the clip and pulled it out of my pocket. There it hung camouflaged perfectly until I just happened to finally notice...
 
Left a Microtech SOCOM my dad bought me in a girlfriends car. I forgot to get it back before we abruptly broke up.
 
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Come to think of it, I found a a Microtech MUDT auto in the grass while I was mowing at work maybe a year later so... that was cool.

Any of y’all lose a MUDT?
 
I lost one but I know exactly where it went. I was in Montreal, on my bike. Had just finished working the Ferrari Challenge races at the F1 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and was on my way off the island. I had to stop and wait for traffic to be directed and the next thing I know, a Montreal police officer had snatched my Gerber paraframe clip-on out of my pocket. He shook it at me and said "these aren't allowed in Montreal". Sorta stunned, I asked him how I was supposed to peel my apple and he replied, "these aren't allowed in Montreal" and walked off. When I got home, I wrote a letter to the mayor's office inquiring about my knife and received a nice letter back with a copy of the ville ordinance that stated, "no knife, sword or machete are allowed in public in the Ville de Montreal". That knife went home with the police.
 
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well, i forgot about the Spyderco i lost at the NC General Assembly (back before the metal detectors)
while i was helping out GRNC pushing for interstate concealed carry reciprocity. (bill passed)
 
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Well this has ended up being a nice little active thread! I still haven't found mine, but keep your stories coming!
 
lost my Victorinox deluxe tinkerer somewhere in charlotte in 95... never have seen another anywhere. I have a few EDCs now, usually justa single blade.
 
Remember those orange scaled autos, I think they were some sort of paratrooper issued knife. I had one in 6th grade, 1976 or so. Another kid ratted me out and I’m sure it went home with a teacher. His name was Shawn, he was a dick.
 
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