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

It is going to happen one day, if it hasn't already many times. You wake up only to discover you simply can't find your EDC, or the one you wanted for that day.

What'll you do? Pull out another one and chalk up the other one? Get on eBay right then? Cry like a baby? Accuse someone in your house of stealing it (or throwing it away)?

And if you had to buy a new one- what'd it be? Had your eye on a new one but were waiting til your birthday, now's your chance- tell us what you'd get and why-

Tags: edc, knife, lost

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Permalink Reply by Salvatore V. on May 9, 2009 at 1:11

I haven't lost any of knives, well, not lost and never found.

You see, I this impulse, if I lose something, I WILL find it. I will tear the room apart, I will likely get annoyed, then proceed to sit down thinker style and back track. I always find them, never lost one, yet.

Even when I'm walking with my E.D.C at my side, I occasionally look down or feel for my knife, just to make sure I still have it attached.

That is kinda why I like carrying cold steel knives, they have excellent clips, never fell out of my pocket once.

As a result of this impulse, however, I haven't lost anything in a good long time. :D

Permalink Reply by Ian McEntee on May 10, 2009 at 15:48

I'd probably just grab my gerber ripstop and look for it when I got home that night. If it was lost forever I'd probably just replace it, cause it's one of my favorite knives, and it's only 25 bucks. I'd be more worried about what might have happened to it. If I'm not cutting it's clipped to my pocket. If I'm not carrying it(See: Showering, sleeping, day off still in PJS), it's on my night stand, always in the same spot. Dunno what else I could do to make sure I don't misplace it. Lol.

Permalink Reply by John Hawkins on October 19, 2009 at 20:22

The only time i ever lost a knife was when i was a little kid my dad and I went fishing and then next day i went to go and get it just to stare at it as Im sure everyone does. anyways i couldn't find it turns out my dad had put it in his tool box i was 7 when i lost it and i just found it a week ago.

Permalink Reply by Dave White on October 24, 2009 at 12:12

Reach for another!....Then feverishly search for the missing friend!...lol.

Permalink Reply by Jake on October 28, 2009 at 14:09

Well amusing I can't find my multi-tool or Benchmade or cheapo case I'll let it slide for a day or 2. Then I'm going to the store and buying a another cheapo knife. Now as soon as I spend 5-10 dollars I will find the knife almost instantly.
In fact at the moment by Benchmade Monochrome is lost.

Permalink Reply by Gary Nelson on December 24, 2009 at 16:50

I really miss my Buck Tempest. I lost it a few weeks ago. I didn't pick a new EDC for a week because I was sure it would turn up. It didn't. I carry a Lone Wolf Blackfoot now. I also have a Spyderco Cricket as a money clip.

Permalink Reply by kage on December 31, 2009 at 2:14

Well it hasn't happened, and isn't likely to.... but if I woke up one morning to find all my EDCs gone, then I would use what I had been sleeping with during the night, Kershaw Leek & CS Super Edge. That would get me through the morning til I got some coffee in me and figured out what the hell I did last night... and why there were all those traffic cones in the house?

Permalink Reply by Kevin S Gallagher on January 17, 2010 at 17:19

I simply pull out a backup of the same knife. For instance, if it's my LLC I have at least 10 backup, if it's one of my Emerson Karambits I have four backups. Of course through out the day I'd be wondering what happened to it and can not wait to get back home to find it.

There are two times I lost a knife and recovered them. The first time I was in a meeting room waiting for others to arrive and was playing with my folder. When the first person came in I placed it between my legs on my chair. At the end of the meeting I left and forgot the folder, left work and at a car dealership that was replacing my windshield realized it was not in my pocket. I searched everywhere but no luck. I went back to work and checked lost and found. They had it and told me who found it. The next day I thanked him and he said he knew it was most likely mine. The second time was another knife which somehow droppped on the ground next to my car in my car port. While looking for it my neighbor said her husband found a very unusual folder and thought it might be mine. Went back to their place and he was looking at it, said to me "do I really have to give this back to you" in a joking tone.

Permalink Reply by jim Thompson on January 22, 2010 at 21:26

I would not feel right for the day!! My EDC is a little Case toothpick bone handle that my wife brought back after a trip to Mayo Clinic. It means a lot to me, and I carry it every day. It fits in my pocket well, and I use it with residents of the nursing home I'm a therapist at. Most of them admire it, and remember when "everyone had a knife in his pocket" It doesn't look scary or intimidating, and you'd be suprised how many others will ask "hey do you have your knife?" when they need something cut! It's always with me, and it usually has a friend in another pocket!!

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.