Lost knife

[Brian Williams]

I just gave up on finding my Uncle's pocket knife. I was given a peanut type knife by my cousin a while back and I was carrying it on Oct 31 at a church Harvest fair. I was a roving MC and while leaving at the end, I went to change and took off my Bibs and rolled them up and transferred my Canoe and Trapper to my left front pocket and right rear respectively and forgot that my uncle's small knife was in my front right pocket. I went looking for it a week later and I could not find it. I figure that it fell out of my bibs when I walked back out to the car. bummer. It was a nice little knife that had a peanut Clip blade and a very small pen blade about 1/2 the length of the larger blade. I had some markings on it but they were almost invisible. It had some type of fake plastic horn type scales. My Uncle was a Master Machinist for Martin/Marietta and they had some very fine work. I have seen his tool chest that my cousin has and some of the drill bits that are in it have a shank that is a little smaller than 1/16 and the actual bit is IIRC .022 these are tiny little things. He had one that he showed me back in 1970's that had been sent over to Switzerland thinking that the M/M plant would show off and the Swiss plant sent it back with a hole drilled through it, I was looking for that one but could not find it. I found this little knife in the tool box and it was so sharp and well kept. My cousin saw the gleam in my eye and gave it to me as she knew the respect I had for my uncle, her father. I am going to miss that little knife as I miss my Uncle.

 

[kanook]

Do you know anybody with a metal detector?

 

[TimboKhan]

well, thats a bummer! I haven't lost a knife in some time, but I certainly know how badly it sucks to lose any knife, let alone one that special.

 

[Piraticalbob]

If you go to replace that Peanut, Case makes the Peanut in dozens of variations, including easy-to-see yellow handle scales in both stainless steel and Case's own CV (chrome vanadium) steel. Shepherd Hills Cutlery has these available, as well as many others.

 

[Grizfire]

Here are two places that I have found missing knives....

-deep in the guts of my recliner
-Between my truck seat and truck door, inadvertently clipped to my seatbelt.

 

[Al Thompson]

Completely agree with kanook. Find someone with a metal detector - you'd be amazed at how something like that can hide.

 

[Zeke/PA]

I once lost a favorite Slimline trapper and finally bought another.
One day when driving, I felt the new knife slide out of my pants pocket to between the seats of my truck.When I arrived at my destination, I went to retrieve my knife and lo and behold, found both old AND new.

 

[76shuvlinoff]

I received a boyscout knife for my 8th birthday (1968) and I lost it before I was 10. Sometime in the years following Dad found it in a pile of sand next to the garage. It was crusty and pitted. He never said anything to me, just cleaned it up best he could and put it away.

Fast forward, when I was 45 I was visiting Dad and there he was cleaning his fingernails with that old nasty knife. He looked up at me and asked if I thought I was responsible enough to take care of it yet then slid it across the table to me.

Much to my wife's discontent it lays in her jewelry box now and when I need a grin I get it out.

 

[J.R.W.]

Christmas Eve, I was out looking for a Christmas tree. The last place that had any was operating on the honor system. After I got mine bailed and loaded, I helped a woman and small child do the same. The trees were $10 and all I had was a $20 so I paid for both and wished her a merry Christmas. Getting in the Jeep to leave, I realized that I'd lost my CRKT K.I.S.S. Eevn though it's not an expensive knife, I carry it every day. I went back that evening with a flashlight, no luck, and Christmas day with the same result. By yesterday, the snow had melted enough that I finally found it. It's not very pleasant to lose something that is so familiar.