Advice on finding lost knives

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Starkherz199

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Because of my job, I use knives a lot. In fact, while working i usually have 2 or 3 knives on me.
I have lost my fair share of knives and then some. A week or so ago I lost my Spyderco Para 3. Heartbroken I looked for it for 5 days. I then accepted that it was gone and limped off to Fuqua Guns and Gold to get a new one. Frank, is the knife guy at FG&G, and when I told him I lost my knife he gave me a sure fire way to find it...just buy another knife, and it will show up.
They didn't have the exact Para 3 I had, so I settled with the Para 2 instead.

1 hour after I got home I found that knife on a piece of chicken wire on the chicken coop.

If you lose your knife...go buy another one and it'll show up within a week. Guaranteed
Well maybe.
 
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Starkherz199 said:
Because of my job, I use knives a lot. In fact, while working i usually have 2 or 3 knives on me.
I have lost my fair share of knives and then some. A week or so ago I lost my Spyderco Para 3. Heartbroken I looked for it for 5 days. I then accepted that it was gone and limped off to Fuqua Guns and Gold to get a new one. Frank, ( @Glade8r ) is the knife guy at FG&G, and when I told him I lost my knife he gave me a sure fire way to find it...just buy another knife, and it will show up.
They didn't have the exact Para 3 I had, so I settled with the Para 2 instead.

1 hour after I got home I found that knife on a piece of chicken wire on the chicken coop.

If you lose your knife...go buy another one and it'll show up within a week. Guaranteed
Well maybe.
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That works for flashlights, too.😁
 
You would hate me helping you to find a lost knife. I'd pull the same thing with you that I do with my wife.

Several years ago she asked me to help her look for something. I asked if she looked around the couch and got the rundown "Yes! I've looked everywhere!" followed by a list of places she's looked.

I checked around the couch...and right away found what she was looking for. "Where did you find it?" "Under the couch." "I looked there and didn't see it!"

So now, whenever I get drafted into looking for something she's lost it's ALWAYS "under the couch" when she asks where I found it. It drives her CRAZY because she KNOWS she's looked there before asking me!

I've already come to terms with the fact that I'm not going to leave this mortal coil by natural causes the day she finally figures out I've been messing with her mind on this for years. But I figure at least it'll be quick!

🤣
 
Same for a Spyderco delica I lost. "Orange to make it easy to find" lost for two weeks. Give in and buy another.

The next work day back on a site I hadn't been to since. Darn thing is hanging from the orange mesh netting I was there to take back down after fixing the sink hole...

Works the same way with my tools. Can't find the darn thing for months. Give it up for gone. Buy another. Boom, there it is. Just did that with my crown stapler. Been putting off a job with cedar shakes because I couldn't find that air gun.

Give in buy a new one, do that side job. Get back to another job site this past Monday. There is my old gun in a subcontractors hand🙄🤣. I had left it there for them to use for the same purpose months ago🙄
 
yard mongrel said:
I guess those recommending not setting it down didn't read the entire post. Silt fences, chicken wire, weld wire, and orange buffer net are fantastic thieves for any thing with a pocket clip.

I'm kind of in the habit of patting down my pockets every time I work near the stuff.
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Seat belts are culprits as well.
 
I’ve thought about attaching an idiot cord to my knives.
I’ve found them in the couch, recliner, between the car seats, washer, dryer, and the last place I used them.
 
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Schattenreiter said:
That's for sure. Just means you will lose another one soon.
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I can't afford it. Thinking of buying bulk from Amazon.

I know there's one in a jetski I worked on. Dropped off the extension and went down in the hull. Dammed if I could find it.

Another on was dropped while working on my wife's car. Never heard it hit the cement. Swear a worm hole opened up and it fell in. Probably be found on Mars when they open up a Dollar Store.
 
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rdinatal said:
I can't afford it. Thinking of buying bulk from Amazon.

I know there's one in a jetski I worked on. Dropped off the extension and went down in the hull. Dammed if I could find it.

Another on was dropped while working on my wife's car. Never heard it hit the cement. Swear a worm hole opened up and it fell in. Probably be found on Mars when they open up a Dollar Store.
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Yeah. I have worked around some of those worm holes before. Dropped an 1 3/8" Mac offset wrench one time and could not find it. That thing was probably 15 " long. How can you not find something that big? That was worth a whole truck load of 10mm sockets.
 
Several years ago, I was working on my 95 Tacoma. I had to remove the battery and right there in the tray was one of those ratcheting box end wrenches in 10mm.

It wasn't mine, but it is now.
 
Mors Korchanski, may he rest in peace, pioneered the drop-in neck sheath for fixed blade bush craft knives... don't put it down, put it in the neck sheath, loose fit if you drop it in lightly, so it's one handed to remove it, jam it in tight when you are done. That could also work for folders, just use it while you work, but what would you do with the sheath when the knife is in yer pocket. I guess you could just carry a fixed blade in a neck sheath, then yer seat belt wouldn't yank it out and drop it under the seat!
 
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Doggone it! I know that knife is around here someplace? Most likely with my EDC, which I can't find either!
 
Years ago I was doing a start up on a new Cat engine. When I cranked it up it had low oil pressure, in checking I pulled side door and checked oil pump pick up screen, found a red shop rag and 9/16 long pattern Mac combo wrench. Still have the wrench in my tool box.
 
I lost my favorite skinning knife a few years ago after cleaning a deer. Looked over a week walking my paths thru the woods every night after work. The next season the very first time I went to set cams out it was sitting right beside a tree. Weather had made the blade weak and brittle but I still keep the knife.
 
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