What if you woke up to discover couldn't find your EDC?

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Permalink Reply by AlecsKnives on January 30, 2010 at 20:38

Hi,
First, I love having good cutlery in my pocket. Sometimes I carry three different size knives on me. THis has happenned a fe times. First valuable one was an original Pat Crawford designed Benchmade that I loved. That hurt. Second was a cold steel tanto mediun voyager. I found that one, but I had already replaced it. I loved the older one because the steel was the older steel that cold steel used. At the NY knife show in November I upgraded my cold steel recon 1 tanto to an emerson knife that I LOVE. what a solid knife!! and now.... i cant find the emerson and I am heartbroken. Aside from that it cost alot, I loved it.
The 154CM steel takes and holds a great edge. My cold steel does too, but not like the emerson. So I will save up and buy a new one if I dont find it.
Thanks,
Alec

Permalink Reply by Andy Voelkle "AxeMan" on January 30, 2010 at 21:06

Tough to admit it, but I follow a little checklist the "Old man" gave me on my first day at the shop:

1. Check the other hand.
2. No, the OTHER hand.
3. Check the other pocket.
4. Check the other vest.
5. Check the other bag.
6. Repeat until you see it.
7. The new invisibility device only works on knives.

Permalink Reply by James Cole on February 12, 2010 at 9:27

When I was a kid, back on the farm in Michigan, two of my uncles, my best friend and I were out in the snow at night playing. As I recall we had been locked up in a jail cell and were trying to get out. One of my uncles, who was not that much older than I, asked to borrow my switch blade (yes a real switch blade and legal at the time) so he could pick the lock. Later when I asked for my knife back, he said he had lost it in the snow. We looked for it, but it was nowhere to be found. I sure hope uncle Don enjoyed carrying my knife, cause I don't believe it was really lost.

There is a simple rule for EDCs; take it out of your pocket, open it, use it, close it, put it back in your pocket.

Oh ya, if I lost an EDC now, I would dig out a backup and try to find the one I lost. If I couldn't find my knife, I'd buy a new one.

Permalink Reply by D ale on February 12, 2010 at 19:19

That's cruel dude !!!

I would indeed grab another ... but, the thought of loosing a good knife ... no fun !!!

My EDC's vary ... a modified Case Culock is a fav. Queen's 06L has been wking out well, a little heavy in the pocket though.

New one ... been looking @ Kershaw's Chive. Some people think it's too small. I'm worried more about the quality of the steel.

What do you folks that already own a kershawscallion or chive have to say about their blade steel ???

Permalink Reply by Jonathan J. Bob on June 24, 2010 at 17:03

About 6 months ago I did loose my EDC. Unfortunately it was a gift from my wife. Even more unfortunately it was a William Henry w/wave damascus blade and snakewood scales. Maybe it's stupid to use it for an EDC but man was it nice to look at and a great size for the pocket. After 3 months of my griping about losing it, my wife said to get a new one. Since I did manage to find an exact replacement I bought it but have yet to carry it.

Permalink Reply by Nate Andrews on September 7, 2010 at 1:07

I tear my house apart looking for it, I do have a back up in case such a thing happens.
Funny story about this subject, about two years ago my main EDC knife whas a tanto half serrated speed assist Kershaw Blur, best damn knife i ever owned I had had it since I turned 18 and it was just a part of me. Anyways I woke up one morning and on my way out to work i couldn't find the knife so I casually looked around no results, after work that day I came home and started looking around for it, No results. my girlfriend at the time was also very much into knives like me so i thought she was trying to be funny and take it from me and hide it, she denied it and for the longest time I didn't believe her cause it wasn't her first time lying to me. needless to say I went for 5 months looking for this knife all the time. Now I almost got to the point of buying another knife like it but when a knife is almost $80 you dont really want to lose it. So one day long after me and my now ex-girlfriend Broke up I was leaving my 8 AM saturday class at college when a friend of mine asked me for help with his car. Given I'm a mechanic and looking at his car I went to mine to pull out my jack from the trunk, Low and behold what is lying under the carpet on top of my spare tire but my Kershaw. we fixed his car. I later sold my kershaw to a dear friend who was going out to live in the wild for a few months with nothing but the clothes on his back, I more of gave him the knife cause I knew it was going to be used for good means. I still want to get another one sometime.

Permalink Reply by Steve"Hog"Hanner on September 14, 2010 at 15:39

No real problem, I reach into the drawer and just like that I got myself a new one. I will however retrace my steps, search my old clothes and revisit every place I've been to to find the one I lost. Honestly does not happen too often. I did lose my old Imperial fish knife but found it again the next year. Minus one side...It is now yellow on 1 side and silver on the other the after affect of a 1000lb cow walking over it. Don't take it out much now...I've resorted to knives sporting pocket clips....

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