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re: Lost knives
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:35 am to GREENHEAD22
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:35 am to GREENHEAD22
quote:I no longer buy expensive knives in any catagory. The more expensive, the more likely I lose them. I bought the Sam's Club 3 Gerber pack and I leave them on the porch. I still have all three
That is why I no longer have expensive EDCs
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:18 pm to KemoSabe65
I've lost very few, two that I remember and miss was a Benchmade Mini Griptilian and a SOG Pentagon Arc-lock folder. I still have pocket knives going back to childhood, have a shoebox full of them...
Posted on 9/28/26 at 1:14 pm to Clames
I lost a spyderco Shaman with the jade green scales. Was a bladeHQ exclusive. Still makes me sad to think about.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 1:32 pm to KemoSabe65
Lost mine getting out of my truck in a parking lot, I heard something hit the ground but blew it off.
Now I know what it was
Now I know what it was
Posted on 9/29/26 at 2:02 pm to highcotton2
Sigh. Saw this thread and brought up a memory.
In my prior life, I was on the side of a mountain tracking some people. Slipped on some loose shale and fell on my side. It got exciting for a second as I slid about six feet downslope towards the edge. Stopped that and collected myself and my gear. I was kind of patting myself down and realized that my HANDMADE ORIGINAL ERNEST EMERSON CQC7 was no longer clipped in my pocket. I looked around and saw it a bit further down the slope. I did some mental calculation and decided it was worth the effort to retrieve it. I took off my rifle and pack and started edging my way down the slope. I moved about two feet and started a small landslide of rocks and gravel. I watched helplessly as that little landslide picked up my knife and took it right over the edge of the cliff.
C'est la vie I guess but it was a terrible moment. I eventually replaced it with a Ernest Emerson Karambit gifted to me by the Jordanian Special Unit II with their crest lasered onto the blade. Some numbnuts at TSA liked it so much he took it out of my checked luggage and kept it. I don't check knives these days.
In my prior life, I was on the side of a mountain tracking some people. Slipped on some loose shale and fell on my side. It got exciting for a second as I slid about six feet downslope towards the edge. Stopped that and collected myself and my gear. I was kind of patting myself down and realized that my HANDMADE ORIGINAL ERNEST EMERSON CQC7 was no longer clipped in my pocket. I looked around and saw it a bit further down the slope. I did some mental calculation and decided it was worth the effort to retrieve it. I took off my rifle and pack and started edging my way down the slope. I moved about two feet and started a small landslide of rocks and gravel. I watched helplessly as that little landslide picked up my knife and took it right over the edge of the cliff.
C'est la vie I guess but it was a terrible moment. I eventually replaced it with a Ernest Emerson Karambit gifted to me by the Jordanian Special Unit II with their crest lasered onto the blade. Some numbnuts at TSA liked it so much he took it out of my checked luggage and kept it. I don't check knives these days.
Posted on 9/29/26 at 10:15 pm to KemoSabe65
I lost a CRKT I really liked. Bought it for $70 in 2005 which for me back then was a lot. It disappeared about five years ago.
Posted on 9/30/26 at 7:36 am to KemoSabe65
I lost a bubba blade in venice. Not that pissed about that one.
I did have a meth head break into the old camp i was in and steal my custom made knife that my grandfather got me when i was a kid.
I am still upset about that one.
I did have a meth head break into the old camp i was in and steal my custom made knife that my grandfather got me when i was a kid.
I am still upset about that one.
Posted on 9/30/26 at 7:44 am to freshtigerbait
Was throwing the cast net about a month ago catching pogies for trout, last throw of the morning and the net catches my brand new spiderco salt 2! Luckily it was still in the net when I pulled it up.
Posted on 9/30/26 at 8:33 am to KemoSabe65
Haven't lost many, but I did get one washed in the washing machine once.
Posted on 9/30/26 at 10:45 am to Night Vision
I've lost a few over the years. Nothing too pricey or new though. I had a nice serrated SpyderCo for about 20 years go missing after a camping trip. Still no idea where it ended up. Lost a Case Trapper, but I had a small collection of those. The ones I don't leave in the car or take anywhere were my grandfather's. Nothing fancy but he always had a knife in his pocket. We buried him with one because he always joked that if the coroner was wrong he wanted a way to cut himself out. All of the grandkids divided up the others.
Posted on 9/30/26 at 10:22 pm to Rize
Back in the day when I could still get around, I was tracking a wounded deer through thick brush and cedars in light scattered snow cover. After about a quarter mile of that stuff his bloodless trail got in with many others and I had to give up the chase. Upon returning to the camp that night I realized that my sheath had come unsnapped and my personalized, hand made Frank J. Richtig hunting knife was missing. I Spent most of the following day trying to retrace my steps through the brush but was unable to find the knife.
It broke my heart to lose that knife which he had personalized for me. His knives of this style were uncommon and it was irreplaceable as he had since passed on. Because of the reputation of his knives and the fact that I was aware of his advanced age and that his time was coming near, I stopped at his shop one day when I saw smoke rising from the chimney. While there, I bought six sets of his highly touted kitchen knives, one for my wife and one for each of my children to have in their own homes some day.
I spent an extended period of time with him as he was processing a batch of blades at that time and he explained the process to me in some detail. The "official" heat treating process as detailed in the media and "expert" books about him is not the true process that he used. The temperature ranges quoted are close but the physical methods of heat treating and tempering attributed to him are not in conformity with the processes that he demonstrated to me that day.
It broke my heart to lose that knife which he had personalized for me. His knives of this style were uncommon and it was irreplaceable as he had since passed on. Because of the reputation of his knives and the fact that I was aware of his advanced age and that his time was coming near, I stopped at his shop one day when I saw smoke rising from the chimney. While there, I bought six sets of his highly touted kitchen knives, one for my wife and one for each of my children to have in their own homes some day.
I spent an extended period of time with him as he was processing a batch of blades at that time and he explained the process to me in some detail. The "official" heat treating process as detailed in the media and "expert" books about him is not the true process that he used. The temperature ranges quoted are close but the physical methods of heat treating and tempering attributed to him are not in conformity with the processes that he demonstrated to me that day.
Posted on 9/30/26 at 11:22 pm to KemoSabe65
That number sounds about right for me as well, 4 over a longer time frame, because I had knives as a teenager.
I still have my official Cub Scout knife from the 1970s. I've "picked" up way more than I lost as I now have my father and father-in-law's knives (some of which I bought for them).
I found a Kershaw Leek during a backpacking trip in New Mexico, but I lost that one on the same trip.
I actually haven't counted in a bit, but I have around 35 pocket and fixed blade knives/multitools. Mrs. Midnight probably has twice that if you count kitchen knives as well.
I still have my official Cub Scout knife from the 1970s. I've "picked" up way more than I lost as I now have my father and father-in-law's knives (some of which I bought for them).
I found a Kershaw Leek during a backpacking trip in New Mexico, but I lost that one on the same trip.
I actually haven't counted in a bit, but I have around 35 pocket and fixed blade knives/multitools. Mrs. Midnight probably has twice that if you count kitchen knives as well.
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