childhood "survival" knife

[Rick Marchand]

I had two edged tools in my childhood. The first was one of my mother's butterknives.. lol. I wrapped the handle with electrical tape, sharpened it and used a hacksaw to make sawteeth on the spine. The other one was the head from a garden hoe. I use those tools up until my early teens... no foolin'.

Rick

 

[Heath2]

It was never mine but when I was around 7-8 my dad would let me run out to the woods with his buckmaster paired with a 110. I had alot of fun with that knife, it used to hang down to my knee. Good times. Wasn't till many years later I found out how gimmicky that the buckmaster was.

 

[PDE]

I carried this for awhile, a little sheffield.
Says SYLVITE.

A great little knife, one of my favorites.

 

[crackerjax]

I carried a USMC KA-BAR when I was in the scouts but then they banned fixed blades because of some BS danger... I saw many more kids whose Swiss army knives folded up on their finger and cut it to crap then I saw injuries with a fixed blade... so I quit.. the end

 

[low96hb]

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

Good Gawd, I had it too! EXACTLY the same one, too! We ran around the woods w my BSA troop with a bunch of these on our belts like we were in 'nam for months. Horrible blades though. All the real cutting was still dne by my SAK. I soooo wish I had that knife, just for the memories.[/QUOTE]

Yep me too. I went through about 3 of these things.....

 

[Myal]

my first real survival knife :

Had it since about 77 I think , hitch hiked and driven and camped so far , a couple times around and across this country

this knife actually got me started off making knives , I wanted another to have as a spare if I lost it .... but in Australia , its dam near impossible to find a hi carbon blade on a knife that isnt custom made , so having scared myself a few times snapping stainless blades , I read a book on making knivesa nd it grew from there .