A boy's first knife...

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Absintheur

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I know I will be called sexist for the title of the thread but I is a boy and it is about my first knife...lol.

How many of you still own the first knife you were given or bought? I still have both. The Barlow on the right with the spear point main was the first knife my Dad gave me. It was made by the Providence Cutlery Co, R.I. , the clip point Barlow is the first knife I bought myself, It is an Imperial. I manage to keep the Providence nice simply because my father was prone to asking to see my knife at any time for inspection (career military man) and if it wasn't clean to his satisfaction I would lose it for a month...only took one time for me to learn.

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What was your first knife and do you still have it?
 
My first knife was either a Boker congress with the dogs stamped on it, or a Schrade Cave Bear I got from my knife and gun collector neighbor. The Boker was from my father. Great knife, I gave it to my little brother. The Schrade is long gone sadly.
 
Its not as pretty as yours, but I was born in 1989, so nice traditional folders were not very common. ( I know its a shame. When I spend a year in America, everybody told me that I was born in the wrong century.)

I got this one out of my grandmothers yard when I was about 8, and she gave it to me 'cause it was as dull as a butter knife.
The next day I made a sheath for it, but the stitches didnt hold long, the one you see in the picture is the third or fourth, I made before putting the knife away.

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By the way, my first folder was a sak, but I dont have it anymore, first the scales broke of, and then the main blade snapped, when I used it as a pry bar.
 
I wish I still had mine, it was a Sharp brand SAK copy called the Materhorn. I also had one of those Imperial clip point barlows in my youth.
 
My first knife was one of those Imperial barlow's. I think they must have been the first knife for many boys. After a while the crimped on scales fell off, and it developed alot of wiggle in the blade, and I used the heck out of it. It disapeared along the way. When I was 12 my dad gave me a new scout knife, and I carried it till I went in the army after high school and I left it home. I was afraid it would get "lost" in the barracks. My youngest son has it these days, and still carries it frequently in edc rotation.
 
My first was a cub scout knife from my father. I was 7 (that was 50 years ago) when I got it. I haven't seen it in many years and I'm afraid it has been lost along the way.
 
My first was a very basic SAK (maybe a Spartan) that I lost decades ago I got it when I was six. I still think of the first times I got to use that knife. Mostly on family vacation when my Dad needed a knife since he did not carry one himself.
Bill
 
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Circa 1964. It didn't last long. I do remember plunging into wet sand to clean it. :eek: A kid's tradition passed down through the neighborhood.
 
thawk said:
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Circa 1964. It didn't last long. I do remember plunging into wet sand to clean it. :eek: A kid's tradition passed down through the neighborhood.
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If my memory serves me right that looks just like the Cub Scout knife I had back in 1957. Thanks for posting the picture.
 
my first knife was a folding SAK classic, that my parents gave me when i was ten (a late bloomer...:rolleyes:). i had been begging for a year at that point.

but during that year that i begged, i went on many adventures with my buddy from school on the mountain in his backyard. we usually snuck a paring knife out of his kitchen into the pocket of my oversized army fatigue pants (the belt went around my waist twice before it buckled) to take into the woods with us. neither of us was really allowed to have a pocket knife at the time. i'm sure during that time his family ran dry on paring knives, because i don't remember ever putting them back.
 
My first knife was a Scout Knife made in Solengin, Germany. It was
carbon steel and the patina was/is very dark. The knife had been sharpened
many times. The scales were falling off (they were plastic) and the blades
wobbled but I loved it! My grandfather gave it to me when I was about 7.... this was
in 1982-83.
 
As far as I can remember this (not the actual knife in the picture but one exactly like it) was my first knife back in about 1961. I still have it. They used to be sold on display cards held in place by loops of elastic about a dozen per card.
I think my dad bought it for me on a trip to the seaside. I got a few knives that way.

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My first knife was a brown handled barlow (imperial) like the left knife in the original post. the scales have long since fallen off, but its still a very functional pocket-knife.
 
My first knife was a Christmas present from my younger brother and older sister. An Ulster Boy Scout Knife. I was seven and carried it every day from the time I was ten. I rtired the knife when I was 19 or 20 as the main blade just didn't hold open as well. The blade looks almost like a wharncliffe insted of the deep bellied spear point it was. I still have it in a box somewhere.
 
Imperial serpentine jacknife, medium sized, clip main blade and pen blade. I was 8 years old.

Don't have a clue where it is today.
 
I still have my first two blade slip joint by Hibben/Spencer/Bartlett Co. that my grandfather gave me and the first folder I ever bought for myself (Camillus Cam-Lok) new that came many years later. I no longer have the first folder my dad and mom gave me or the first fixed blade but I do have several others that came after that. Not sure whatever happened to the first ones.

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First one I can recall was just a piece of steel I picked up, edge filed and ground to shape, handle wrapped with friction tape. My grandpa saw it and took it away, then gave me a mill knife blank and showed me how to use a hand-cranked grinder. Still wrapped the handle with tape though. I was probably 5 years old, I didn't get a real knife . . . let me re-phrase that . . . I didn't have parental permission to have a knife until I was 7 years old.
 
My first knife was an official Boy Scout knife (Cub Scouts)... sadly, it was during an era of pretty poor quality control and it got damaged pretty badly even just using it for whittling. That was when I was about 7 or 8 years old. That, and I didn't even know how to sharpen it (none of the leaders even let me carry it on camping trips ??). It's been at least 14 years since I've last seen it (moved about 4 times since).
 
It is sad that in today's political climate the knife I gave my nephew would get him kicked out of school if he was caught carrying it there. (It was an A.G. Russell folding Sting) I simply could not imagine growing up today. We used to take our guns to school on the school bus and drop them off in the Principles office so we could go squirrel hunting after school.
 
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