Do you remember your first "serious" knife?

My dad gave me a Case 2 bladed pen knife, my first EDC.

My first knife purchases were a Mora Fixed blade and a Christy.
 
The one I remember most is the Ontario USAF survival knife I still have. Before that there was a Buck stockman don't remember the model.
 
I must have been about 10 or 12. A friend of my parents gave me a couple of fixed-blade knives. One was a cheapie that I ruined by carrying it in a home-made acid tanned leather sheath, but the other was a Western L66. My father helped me make a good sheath for it and I still have it (decades later).
 
My first knife I bought myself, and used for EDC was a Buck Spitfire. Cheap, and cool looking blade.
 
Had a Boy Scout knife when a cub scout. Later had a Browning Stockman three blade. Next was probably a Gerber Paul, awesome knife, one of the first one hand opening knives! After that I had some Spyders and a German parachute knife (gravity knife). I think they all did the job. My current EDC is a Spyder Gayle Bradley Ver 1, love that knife. I keep some Leathermans in the cars.

 
SoCalEDC said:
Oh, sorry. By serious I mean the one you thought had the quality to have confidence in. Yeah, I guess first true EDC.
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Camillus 1760 "Demo" knife, round about 1963 or 1964. My uncle gave it to me when he got back from Viet Nam. (It was also my first knife.)

It was lost during a move in 1966 or 1967. :(

In 1975, the Army Reserves were kind enough to give me a new 1760 "Demo" knife. :D
It is part of my EDC Trio. :)
 
My first serious knife was a Puma Game Warden I bought back in 1970 - paid $23 bucks for it, which was quite an investment for a 19 year old delivery driver making 2 bucks an hour. I still had the knife (in excellent condition) up until a year ago when I gave it to my nephew for graduation.

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I had some SAK, opinel and a small buck backlock before, but the one knife that started everything about knives for my was a ZT0350.
Great blade!
 
Kershaw Blackout. It was my one true EDC for about 7 years. A couple times over that span I lost it and immediately repurchased the same knife.
 
I remember it because it was only a few years ago when fixed blades became legal in the state. My first serious knife was actually three, and was the Cold Steel Kobun, Cold Steel Shanghai Shadow, and the Becker BK9 with the original smooth coating and stamped markings.
 
I had a Buck Nobleman when I was a Boy Scout, and learned how to sharpen with it. In college i bought a Spyderco Ambitious on a whim, and the quality of that budget Spyderco is really what got me started collecting...
 
The first knife I ever spent my own money on and procured myself was a Camillus USMC fighting knife. I rode my banana seat bike 5 miles down the shoulder of a highway to buy it. I was 12. I cant even remember anything about the ride home, but when I got home I chopped, stabbed and slashed at trees in my back yard for hours. Ten years later I lost that knife to a sticky fingered roommate.
 
I was issued an ASEK knife when I was in the Army (aviation) which I still have. Showed me the importance of buying quality. First serious folder was the BM 940
 
When I was away at college in 93, I bought my first real knife, a new Randall Model 14 from a dealer. My brother has the knife and I am going to do some work on it b/c it developed some carbon pitting.

It remains one heck of a knife!

I did not get in to collecting knives until 2017, and I ordered 3 Randalls, one of which was a model 14.
 
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