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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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In MemoriamPermalink 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 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....

FeaturedPermalink Reply by Craig Henry on August 3, 2012 at 19:03

Hmmm, interesting. But it won't happen. I have an old multi-drawer jewel box on my dresser that I put all of my EDC users in. They're ALWAYS there waiting for me. My wife likes knives too, so she knows not to let anything happen to them.

But, IF, my favorite at the moment EDC went missing (The horror! The horror!), I'd buy another just like it. And while I was waiting for it to get here, there would be inquisitions.

Permalink Reply by tom white on October 3, 2012 at 9:38

i would go crazy, trash the house and clear out my safe and find or cry

Permalink Reply by Steven Matthew on November 23, 2012 at 21:42

I lost one about 12 years ago. Left it on a bumper of a work truck. It was a Case trapper, and I'm still crying about it.
Constantly. No joke. Goodness I miss that Knife. I've bought and had many given to me since then. BUT!!!!!! I still miss that Knife!

FeaturedPermalink Reply by Charles Sample on January 16, 2013 at 8:45

Yes. In fact it happened to me lately. I EDC a Case Mini Blackhorn. It is so small and weighs so little that I don't even notice it in my pocket. Yet it is a lockbback and handles all the cutitng I nomally do. Anyway I lost it. Not misplaced, lost. Rather than take anything out of my collection, I bought a Case Caliber to replace it. The Caliber is similar to the Mini Blackhorn.

About two weeks later, I was walking back to my truck after deer hunting. I deer hunt on a friend's property about five miles from my house. As I was approaching my truck, I noticed my Mini Blackhorn laying in the grass. Even more amazing is that my friend had bush hogged that area after I lost the knife. The knife was undamaged and is now residing in my pocket where it belongs.

FeaturedPermalink Reply by dead_left_knife_guy on February 8, 2015 at 17:51

I recently picked up a Leatherman Style PS -- came in really handy for the frequent enough occasions when i needed a pair of pliers, that long nail file, or a surprisingly strong (& pointy!) pair of tweezers. I kept it on my keychain 7 everything was going great. It replaced my SAK Classic because it was bigger & stronger & still fit well in my pocket. Then I took my car in for an airbag recall, I took the loaner to the monthly knife club meeting, followed by a sorely needed trip to target, then back to the dealership with a few bags to transfer. Suddenly that Leatherman was gone -- I had literally lost my Style that day! I searched all my pockets & everywhere in my car -- even in those Target bags, but it was nowhere to be found.

It was a bummer -- I blame Takata for installing those potentially defective airbags in the first place! :) But at least we didn't have a fatal airbag explosion. So I ordered another through REI; it should be here some time this week!

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on February 8, 2015 at 19:09