childhood "survival" knife

I first had some sort of SAK, then a Buck 110. Got the 110 because my dad carried one. Great knife, still to this day :thumbup:
 
Brian Andrews said:
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Mine was an oldtimer stockman as well :thumbup:

Jason
 
Schrade Sharpfinger was mine. I figured out quickly that for me, it's only good as a skinning knife. But I made do with it.
 
JasonSCarter said:
Mine was an oldtimer stockman as well :thumbup:

Jason
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Me too! My dad gave it to me when I was about 6 or 7 and I carried it everywhere. It was perfect for making thousands of pointy sticks, (used for 'hunting'), carving my initials into places I wasn't supposed to, and inspiring jealousy in my knife-less friends. I'm so nostalgic over it that I still keep several USA Old Timers in my collection though, admittedly, not the one from my boyhood.
I also had various camp folders, fishing knives, and a few small skinners given to me over the years.
:sigh: Oh, the Halcyon days of youth.
 
My first knife was(is) a Wenger patriot. Used for whittling carving. Until I was 13, I had to carry it tied to my pants ( the string was as long as my arm). Then I was given a Victorinox Ranger model. I used that little saw all the time and carrried it everywhere (this was when it was okay to bring a knife to school - 1980's). next was a Buck 110. Still use all today.
 
Mine was a G-96 copy of a Buck 110. Still have it in a box. I used that knife everywhere for everything. My fixed blade ( still have that too) is a Solingen faux-bone handled hunter in leather sheath. I actually had pretty good sharpening skills back in the 70's because I came across it a while ago and the edge was pretty decent. Those two knives where all I pretty much used for over 35 years. Things all changed when I discovered what was really out there in the knife world and I got a little more confident to spend more money on knives and heck , I've sure done that a lot !
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I enjoyed reading this thread :)

I had a succession of budget carbon-steel, Sheffield-made penknives. This was back in the days when an 8-year old could walk into a corner shop and buy a pocket-money folder with their pocket money.

I had a succession of them because in my youthful ignorance I would try to use them as screwdrivers or levers and ruin the pivot!

Alas those knives have been driven off the market by cheap Chinese items and the law forbids retailers from selling sharp objects to under 18's :(
 
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I had one of those for a few minutes too. For about as long as it took my mom to figure out I traded my super nintendo for it. Opps[/QUOTE]

NOW that brings back memories. My friends and I traded EVERYTHING! I couldnt keep anything, ever. My group of friends and I grew up in the 80's, so Rambo knives were KING! I had the one pictured here, and a Parker and an Explorer....and a RAMBO II. Machete's (ontario) and a Javenpaa, and ...the first run Cold Steel SRK, and ....a BlackJack Anaconda II..that was sharp!
Man I miss all those blades..long gone or lost.:D
 
Buck 110, USAF pilot's knife, K-bar. Still have the 110 and the K-bar :thumbup:
 
Mine was a generic SAK from a dollar store. I begged my parents to let me buy it for two straight weeks. I think I was 8 or 9 year old. I knew back then, I was a knife nut. It must have been from watching Rambo while growing up, lol. That and all my other heroes wielded swords.
 
Old hickory 7" butcher knife.
Scrade stockman knives- 340T, the good carbon steel ones.

several knives i made...too ugly to speak of..but they did work.
 
I bought my son a Victoinox SAK for his 10th. birthday. Showed it to my wife before I wraped it. Although normally level headed, she became alarmed when I answered her questions as follows: "Of course the blade is sharp. What good is a dull knife? And, yes he will cut himself a bit, but doesn't everyone when they learn to use a sharp knife?" I prevailed. He did give himself one little finger nick, one time. He still has that knife and says its still his favorite.
 
I had an SAK Camper and a Buck 119.

Both good knives. Broke the tip off of the 119. Dad was not real happy with me. It was his knife.
 
JK Knives said:
Still have mine, have had it over 50 years! Colonial camp knife.

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HA! I had one just like that! I say HAD because somehow it fell out of my pocket and my Dad ran over it with the mower! Boy was he steamed!

My real outdoor adventure blade wasn't a knife: it was a Estwing stacked leather handle hatchet (which is still in the woods somewhere) and later a True Temper pole axe. My parents bought my brother and I identical axes, and when they were tired of us they would throw us out of the trailer and say "Go chop something down"...and we would happily oblige them for hours!

Wonder what would happen if parents did that today? Somebody would probably call social services :)
 
Mine was a Barlow that had red scales; it was purchased for me by my grandfather who swore that I keep it a secret. God forbid other family members found out. He told me I could keep it if I didn't cut myself with it. Well, on that ride home i cut my finger but did not tell a soul about the cut and was able to get away with it. Man I wish I still had that knife there are still a few worlds left to overthrow!
 
still a teenager and now i carry an RC-6, RC-4 and izula by ESEE but my first knife was a swiss arym then a short kabar marine fighting knife with the stacked leather handle. great knife :)
 
First real knife was a good ol Sak, not sure which model it was. I used to cut out lots of staffs and such and play with them in the woods behind my place. I especially liked to use them for crossing through the swamps near my place. Good times.
 
I had lots of knives in my youth. I was a collector then also (but I could only afford poor quality knives that I got in trade or somehow got the money for).

It is amazing what I accomplished with such meager "tools"...but I managed to pick up a LOT of scars along the path of learning.
 
I think the first knife I bought was a Camp King pocket knife,that I bought out of a hardware store in the late 60s.That was the first of dozens.
 
Found a no name swiss army style knife while fishing when I was younger. The first knife I remember buying two barlow knives at the hardware store. When I started hunting, my dad gave me a Buck 501 when I was 12.
 
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