Losing knives.

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mountainm

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Jan 12, 2011
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Lost my swiss champ.. Gutted - it went everywhere with me. I've checked bags, coat pockets, trouser pockets, car glovebox.

Tis nowhere to be seen.

I know as soon as I buy another it'll turn up. Just venting my spleen.

In the meantime I'll console myself by browsing Heinnie Haynes...

M
 
Shame, stay peeled on Amazon... occasionally a good deal on SAKs appears.

Last month Swiss Champs were £30.10 :/ Though not much help now.
 
Lost my swiss champ.. Gutted - it went everywhere with me. I've checked bags, coat pockets, trouser pockets, car glovebox.

Tis nowhere to be seen.

I know as soon as I buy another it'll turn up. Just venting my spleen.

In the meantime I'll console myself by browsing Heinnie Haynes...

M

I bet it'll turn up, I lost my leatherman for 6 months, I found it in the attic which is weird as I don't even remember going up there!!!
 
Lost my SAK which I got on my 6th birtday in Switzerland also some years ago. After months it showed up, with a cork of a bottle of wine still attached to it.... :D

I have framed the knife together with a pic when I got it and bought a new one. I know what you're going through, hope you'll find it soon!
 
Mountainm I do have a spare sak like the hiker but without a saw you can have! Will need a new handle set as I destroyed the old one when I was younger :o
 
Sometimes they turn up in the dumbest of places, and it's at the point you had a good reason at the time for leaving it there.
 
Getting on for 20 years ago I lost my EKA Super Swede that SWMBO had bought me for my birthday. It was my favourite knife of all time.

I looked everybloominwhere. Under the sink, under the stairs, under the floor. Up-ended rucksacks, beds, toolboxes, whole cabinets. Reupholstered the sofa. I canvassed a whole street where I thought I might have dropped it with a duplicated sheet.

Finally, after five years of purgatory, we moved from Plymouth to Bath, so obviously the knife was gone forever. But I still pined for it and the Mrs. couldn't stand it any more so she bought me another one.

Two weeks later, when I picked up the car from being serviced by the dealer on Bristol Road, there was my old knife on the driver's seat.

"Where on Earth did you find that?" I asked them.

They said "Oh, we had to replace a rear light bulb and it was in the tail light cluster!"

It must have slid off the top of a pile of tools in my toool box in the boot and found its way through a hole in the panelling when I indulged in what BMW calls "the more enthusiastic driving style".

So now I have two of them. And a Swede 10. :)
 
Getting on for 20 years ago I lost my EKA Super Swede that SWMBO had bought me for my birthday. It was my favourite knife of all time.

I looked everybloominwhere. Under the sink, under the stairs, under the floor. Up-ended rucksacks, beds, toolboxes, whole cabinets. Reupholstered the sofa. I canvassed a whole street where I thought I might have dropped it with a duplicated sheet.

Finally, after five years of purgatory, we moved from Plymouth to Bath, so obviously the knife was gone forever. But I still pined for it and the Mrs. couldn't stand it any more so she bought me another one.

Two weeks later, when I picked up the car from being serviced by the dealer on Bristol Road, there was my old knife on the driver's seat.

"Where on Earth did you find that?" I asked them.

They said "Oh, we had to replace a rear light bulb and it was in the tail light cluster!"

It must have slid off the top of a pile of tools in my toool box in the boot and found its way through a hole in the panelling when I indulged in what BMW calls "the more enthusiastic driving style".

So now I have two of them. And a Swede 10. :)


You know that thread that's going on about pet hates in unbelievable fiction.... :lmao: If I read that story in a book I would have launched it. Funny old world eh? Really happy you found yours ged, and under such bizarre circumstances too.
 
6 years ago I dropped my Schrade Old Timer in a field in France somewhere between the outskirts of Paris and Chartres. Fell out of my pocket during and after lunch doze during a 30 mile stage.
I hadn't moved a metre but I couldn't find it in the grass. Still miss it but wife replaced it with a nice Buck Stockman.


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Besides losing my bush-tool in the woods for over a year my UKPK regularly goes on holiday with all the odd socks and pencils.
Always turns up.
 
My old Opinel goes on holiday from time to time, sometimes a few days up to 3 years once, naughty bloody thing
 
Can you find knives the same way you can find sewing needles that you've dropped? Wander round barefoot for a while, and the needle/knife will appear impaled in the bottom of your foot... Not exactly the least painful way, but it certainly worked with my favourite sewing needle...

Julia
 

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