Where's the silliest place you've ever left a knife?

[nickliv]

Me? I was using my Mora to assist me with plasterboarding out my garage.

I left it on a noggin, and I've sheeted it in. As looking for it could cost me a fortune in knackered plasterboard, I have left it in situ for future blade experts to study.

Yes, since you ask, I do feel like a tit.

 

[Mesquite]

Me? I was using my Mora to assist me with plasterboarding out my garage.

I left it on a noggin, and I've sheeted it in. As looking for it could cost me a fortune in knackered plasterboard, I have left it in situ for future blade experts to study.

Yes, since you ask, I do feel like a tit.

That's a classic. Thanks for being brave enough to share it with us.

As for me I've yet to loose a knife. Had my SAK go through the wash a few times but that's about it

 

[DaveBromley]

The silliest place ive ever left a knife is embedded in my thumb!! I literaly cut my thumb in half From the tip to the first knuckle!!

That hurt let me tell you healed now altuogh it is lopsided i'll post pics later if anyone is interested

Thanks Dave

 

[Matt.S]

There's a museum in Sri Lanka with a well-used Victorinox Hunstman SAK in the grounds somewhere...

 

[Shambling Shaman]

I have a folder with a clip on it so it lives in the top of my wellie for work, So Iv left it there when shopping in are local tescos, wife spotted if 1/2 way round.

 

[Retired Member southey]

I left my first estwing axe in a air gap in a cabin i built in north devon, tonge and groove wood wall with hidden pins, there was no way I was going to pull it apart to get it back, it did have my name engraved on it so it might find it's way back if the cabin ever burns down.

 

[pastymuncher]

I left a Victorinox multi tool on top of the synchotron when it was being built, luckily it's S/S being as the whole thing becomes highly magnetic in use.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Did it have a little lanyard ring on it, could good to see it wooshing around the roof ( i know it wouldn't, just in my head)

 

[Shewie]

Lol, nice one Nick

I've only ever lost one knife and that was an Opinel No. 8 which I think fell out of my pocket in a wood one day. I could have just as easily left it somewhere though which was even more annoying as I couldn't remember using it.
I've left other outdoorsy stuff in daft places though, like a brand new pair of Berghaus windstopper gloves which I left on a trig point after checking a map. I realised about ten minutes of descent later and couldn't be bothered going back up for them.

 

[Muddypaws]

I left a Victorinox multi tool on top of the synchotron when it was being built, luckily it's S/S being as the whole thing becomes highly magnetic in use.

Maybe not so lucky, my Victorinox SAK is not a non magnetic stainless, so who knows how much damage your multitool may have caused? Still, I won't tell anyone if you won't.

 

[Retired Member southey]

" our tests are inconcluesive, there appers to be a strange anomoly in the southern quadrant," goes to have a look" Dam those swiss trying to sabertage our kit!"

 

[Hugo]

Somewhere in my loft there is a SAK with alloy scales with blade open.
The loft is triple insulated with fibreglass so no chance of finding it.

 

[wingstoo]

Sounds like a few people need to hire a metal detector, not lost a knife but dropped plenty of chisels and screwdrivers into cavity walls, have even chiseled out bricks to retrieve some of them.

Wings.

 

[Ph34r]

I accidently put some chicken on my desk and my knife in the fridge, but hey we all get mixed up when we a tired!

 

[jackcbr]

I would say the passenger seat of the car whilst I popped into a field to check on some sheep. Came back to find an armed police officer checking the car out. I should explain, we have a farm near Gatwick and we are on the regular patrol route for airport police. Got a ticking off for parking in a silly place, but he completely missed the knife (and axe) on the seat. Felt a little sheepish, but dodged a bullet there. (BTW, every pun intended).

 

[william#]

when i was18 i was daft enough to use a stanly knife towards me to open something in a warehouse i was working in at the time

where did i leave the knife ?

in my left leg - though i got a nice cool scar and the rest of the day off work lol

 

[TomBartlett]

I once put a leatherman wave down on deck while sailing. Made a nice 'plop' before racing to the seabed.

 

[brancho]

I left a knife in a vice waiting for the epxoy to cure but the blade was unmasked though it was pointing away from the edge of the bench.


Much later and not paying attention I reached to get something with my right and steadied myself on the bench with my left and I found out the knife was sharp just as a mate said mind that knife. My left hand wasnt that bad but could have been a lot worse.

 

[D3adkl0wn]

as a kid i had the bright idea to screw the cork screw on my SAK into a tree and couldnt get it out again.. later after telling my dad and was heading back to find the tree and get the knife, i couldnt locate the tree and the knife was lost to me forever..

another time i had a rather normal locking folder that was given to me when i was about 6 or so, and a friend and I were in the woods near my house and i laid the knife down for a second and it was seemingly swallowed up by the earth itself.. never to be seen again

 

[Biker]

as a kid i had the bright idea to screw the cork screw on my SAK into a tree and couldnt get it out again.. later after telling my dad and was heading back to find the tree and get the knife, i couldnt locate the tree and the knife was lost to me forever..

Some chainsaw using woodsman going to love you one day finding that the hard way

I've found keys hung on nails absorbed into trees and I mate of mine cut a lead musket ball in half while ripping a plank down on a bench saw. Must have been from some bygone time as the tree had healed around the "wound"

Can so identify with dropping tools down a cavity or leaving them on noggins, it's so easily done. Haven't lost a knife but I did leave a bolster (tool for cutting bricks) in a roof soffit one day. I was using the bolster to lever the sheeting into place before fixing. What made it all the more annoying was that it was my grandad's he'd had it since the 1940's. Lot of usage and memories. Still kick myself for losing that, thing is I know exactly where it is too.