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I read a few things recently about the Spyderco Shaman, and thought: Didn't I have one of those?

I carried a Spyderco Native LightWeight for over 10 years. The Native LW was eventually usually replaced by a Spyderco Manix 2, which is larger and even stronger. Well, the Shaman is about the size of a Manix 2, but shaped like a Native.

My wife helped us a few months ago by re-arranging our very deep storage closest, which is a narrow, long room underneath the stairs. Most of my field gear got put at the back of the closet. :scrutiny: I've been dreading pulling it out. Fortunately, field time for me typically has me evaluating Soldiers, so I haven't needed it.

But. I have a class this week that is usually done in a classroom, but because where I work is super high speed, we'll be doing it in the field. So I finally attacked our Harry Potter closet. With much gnashing of teeth.

Fortunately, my helmet and load-bearing gear weren't buried too deeply. And I noticed a box, labeled as having lithium batteries. I opened it.

Amongst some papers and a few gear items, I found my Shaman, and a Maxamet Manix 2 LW. :thumbup:

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What have y'all (re)found lately?

John
 
My ex-girlfriend bought me a fixed blade from a local maker for Christmas two years ago. I found it in a drawer with the rest of my knives. At first I couldn't remember where it had come from. shameful really.
 
Haha, thats like finding a $20 in the back pocket of pants you haven't worn in years. :)

Sadly, haven't found any of my long-lost knives. Ive torn this place apart and cant find my old Camillus from my time in the Scouts, though I know I saw it a couple years ago somewhere here.

Itd be nice if my wayward Buck Outback or Odyssey showed up again too, but they probably fell out of my pockets years ago and found new owners.:confused:
 
Yeah, I used to lose a Native LW 2 about every 3 years. Considering I used it daily, that seemed reasonable.

Sadly, the Spyderco Endela I got last year only lasted a couple of months before (I believe) falling out of my pocket entering or exiting my vehicle.

John
 
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I thought I'd lost this one last fall. Found it under my trap vest (I use a half-vest now) when getting ready for leagues.
One of the guys I shoot with brought a box of knives to Trap last summer, and I grabbed this one. It has his initials on it so I kind of treasure it. (He let me shoot his Krieghoff while I was saving for my Ljutic.)
 
Didn't lose or find a knife... but did have one snapped cleanly at the handle about two weeks ago by one of my anglers... I keep two blades, a filet knife and a bait cutting one in a vertical holder inside the motor well on my skiff...That's the open space right in front of the motor that goes all the way down into the bilge area (the bottom of the boat at the transom...). One of my anglers moving around the rear deck of my small skiff, stepped into the hole and with one foot and plunged all the way to the bottom, snapping off the handle on the bait knife still in its holder and cracking the housing of one of the three pumps (a baitwell pump) that reside in that area.. He was alright, not injured and we kept on fishing, hooking up a big tarpon and fighting it to the skiff to end our day successfully. Me, I got to do some repairs the following weekend, finding the blade portion of that bait knife - after tossing away the handle... It's a constant thing, keeping any small skiff up and running properly and that week was no exception... As author John D. MacDonald said... "There's never just one thing wrong with a boat", but I won't bother you with all the other fun working out of a small skiff day after day.

Now, I'm looking for another small blade from Chicago Cutlery for use as a bait knife... Unlike most here I rarely ever buy a knife of any kind unless I'm replacing one that's broken or lost...
 
Not knives (still have Dragonfly missing). However, when I moved I shipped a set of handguns to an FFL due to local permitting time restrictions. So I go through the permit process. Go to the FFL (who had acknowledged get the guns awhile back). They can't find them. Much searching in the depths of the storage and they are in a box marked Christmas ornaments.
 
lemaymiami said:
Didn't lose or find a knife... but did have one snapped cleanly at the handle about two weeks ago by one of my anglers... I keep two blades, a filet knife and a bait cutting one in a vertical holder inside the motor well on my skiff...That's the open space right in front of the motor that goes all the way down into the bilge area (the bottom of the boat at the transom...). One of my anglers moving around the rear deck of my small skiff, stepped into the hole and with one foot and plunged all the way to the bottom, snapping off the handle on the bait knife still in its holder and cracking the housing of one of the three pumps (a baitwell pump) that reside in that area.. He was alright, not injured and we kept on fishing, hooking up a big tarpon and fighting it to the skiff to end our day successfully. Me, I got to do some repairs the following weekend, finding the blade portion of that bait knife - after tossing away the handle... It's a constant thing, keeping any small skiff up and running properly and that week was no exception... As author John D. MacDonald said... "There's never just one thing wrong with a boat", but I won't bother you with all the other fun working out of a small skiff day after day.

Now, I'm looking for another small blade from Chicago Cutlery for use as a bait knife... Unlike most here I rarely ever buy a knife of any kind unless I'm replacing one that's broken or lost...
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Did you design a knife for Spyderco?
 
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The Browning on the bottom was “lost” for several years. Was in an article of clothing worn once for hunting and never worn again. Found it by accident when I put those coveralls on to snowblow.

The other two knives were not really mine, but actually found at different times while walking my dog through a park. The middle one is an Okapi ratchet knife made in Germany, the red one is a Milwaukee.
 
I have one of those Milwaukee knives I got from a pawn shop for $3. It’s actually a decent knife even though it’s a cheap knife. It locks up solid. I figure it’s a good tool for carrying discretely. Discrete as in, it doesn’t look all weaponish and I am a carpenter so I can say well this is my work knife.
 
I have a friend that visits the planter boxes outside of bars frequented by local college students on Saturday and Sunday mornings. A lot of the bars have signs saying no weapons allowed. He has found a couple of really nice Benchmade, Bucks, Gerber multitools, and others that were "hidden" and forgotten. Their loss is his gain.
 
I did lose a Spyderco Native during a fire mission in early 2007. I found it a few days later, stomped down into the mud of the mortar pit. It had a few rust freckles, which wiped off.

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Bazoo said:
I have one of those Milwaukee knives I got from a pawn shop for $3. It’s actually a decent knife even though it’s a cheap knife. It locks up solid. I figure it’s a good tool for carrying discretely. Discrete as in, it doesn’t look all weaponish and I am a carpenter so I can say well this is my work knife.
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I've found if you hold the button down and flick your wrist, it easily opens like a gravity knife.

Aggressive policing in areas where gravity knives are illegal could be a problem.
 
I don't go for fine knives but the ones I do have tend to wander off.
Missing a Gerber, a Buck, and a little silver pen knife that was a gift.

I have a box of rusty knives recovered from the ruins of the house after The Incident.
 
Speedo66 said:
I've found if you hold the button down and flick your wrist, it easily opens like a gravity knife.

Aggressive policing in areas where gravity knives are illegal could be a problem.
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That’s how they are intended to open. Flick open. I did a little research on them when I got mine. Folks over on bladeforums like them.
 
I have/had a very nice Italian automatic stiletto with stag scales that I recently remembered I haven't seen in a long time. Having searched all the places it might be, I had given up finding it. Your story has given me inspiration to do a deeper dive.
 
did lose a Spyderco Native during a fire mission in early 2007. I found it a few days later, stomped down into the mud of the mortar pit. It had a few rust freckles, which wiped off.
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That is an old knife based on the blade shape. Never seen a Native with handles that color. I have a Stretch-2 with straight spine that color. Looks like this, but with tan colored handles.

Amazon.com : Spyderco Stretch 2 XL Lightweight Folding Knife (PlainEdge) : Sports & Outdoors

I have 2 of the older Natives with that style blade and black handles. Walmart was selling them for about $30 at one time. Picked up the 2nd one used in a pawnshop for $10 IIRC. Newer versions are flat ground with a different clip attachment.
 
I "lost" the first Buck 110 I ever owned. Was convinced I had put it in the Harley saddlebags. Looked there a couple of times, thought it was gone. Turned up in the pocket of some heavy wool pants I hadn't worn in years. I lost a Leatherman Juice my son gave me while fishing a little brook trout stream. Had been bushwhacking and over or under downed timber. On the way back to the truck, the Leatherman was lying in the middle of what trail there was. I didn't expect to find it.

I have found a few knives in the woods and on the river, but they are never as nice as the ones I've lost.
 
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