Do you still have your 1st knife?

I have my first fixed blade. My first folder, my friend accidentally kicked into the river as we were fishing from a dock. I have learned my lesson. 15 years later, never had another knife lost!! After use and cleaning, goes right back in the pocket, or in its sheath.
 
My first knife was a Schrade Old Timer lockback gifted from my dad. I do not have it anymore
The first knife that I purchased was a Gerber E-Z Out. That also is no longer around, but I really liked that knife. The 8 inch overall length and curved ergonomics fit my hand perfectly. In fact, even though it's discontinued I won one online today for under 5 bucks!
 
My first knife was a Colonial Barlow my Grandfather gave me over 50 years ago. I sent it to Glennbad and he brought it back to life with some beautiful stag covers


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NDJeep said:
My first knife was a Schrade Old Timer lockback gifted from my dad. I do not have it anymore
The first knife that I purchased was a Gerber E-Z Out. That also is no longer around, but I really liked that knife. The 8 inch overall length and curved ergonomics fit my hand perfectly. In fact, even though it's discontinued I won one online today for under 5 bucks!
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Like this one?

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ATJ999 said:
I have my first fixed blade. My first folder, my friend accidentally kicked into the river as we were fishing from a dock. I have learned my lesson. 15 years later, never had another knife lost!! After use and cleaning, goes right back in the pocket, or in its sheath.
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I know the feeling...had a Camillus marlinespike I was using to break free an anchor shackle and it fell right out of my hand. Watched it sink to the bottom of Lake Erie...that made me sick.


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I still have what I believe is my first knife. A Wenger with a blade on one side, a nail file on the other and a toothpick and tweezers in between. It is a little bigger that an SAK Classic. It has green plastic scales with Nestea printed on them. My father worked for them in the 70s and it must have been a promotional gift that I ended up with.
 
First knife I bought myself was either a tenacious or a coyote brown skyline.

The tenacious now belongs to my younger brother and he loves it.

The skyline went swimming when I slipped while fishing the jetties down here :(
 
Yes, I do. It is an Imperial peanut that has the walk and talk of a geriatric with a wobbly wheeled walker. My grandfather gave it to me the week after I started 1st grade, saying

"Now that you're in school, you need your own knife so you don't have to borrow anyone else's knife."

I carried that knife every day I had on pants with pockets until my father gave me a used Kutmaster 2 blade advertising knife - Pioneer Seed Company. Still have that one as well.

I also still have my first fixed blade - a Western L46-5. IN August 1965, I was helping my grandfather tune up the combine in maize harvesting. His shirt sleeve came unrolled and got caught in the chains/gears. He reached down, pulled out the fixed blade, a Kabar 1232, he always wore when working on equipment and sliced off his sleeve. He looked at me and said

"That's why you carry a fixed blade. I could never have gotten my pocket knife out and open in time."

I asked - "What if it had been your other arm?"

He was like I am now - short, fat, balding and right handed. He could never have reached across his body and pulled out the Kabar.

He looked at me a little funny, turned of the tractor and said

"Let's go."

We drove 3 miles to the Western Auto in the nearest town. They were out of Kabar 1232s, so he got the Western. A couple of weeks later, the WA owner called him up and told him they had "those little Kabars in" if he still wanted one. He got a second Kabar 1232 and carried dual Kabar 1232s when ever working on machinery after that.

The first time I saw him after that, he gave me the Western, saying

"If you're smart enough to come up with that question, you're old enough to have your own fixed blade."

That was the first of many Westerns and Kabars. And other fixed blades as well. And I still carry dual fixed blades every day.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Yes, I do. It is an Imperial peanut that has the walk and talk of a geriatric with a wobbly wheeled walker. My grandfather gave it to me the week after I started 1st grade, saying

"Now that you're in school, you need your own knife so you don't have to borrow anyone else's knife."

I carried that knife every day I had on pants with pockets until my father gave me a used Kutmaster 2 blade advertising knife - Pioneer Seed Company. Still have that one as well.

I also still have my first fixed blade - a Western L46-5. IN August 1965, I was helping my grandfather tune up the combine in maize harvesting. His shirt sleeve came unrolled and got caught in the chains/gears. He reached down, pulled out the fixed blade, a Kabar 1232, he always wore when working on equipment and sliced off his sleeve. He looked at me and said

"That's why you carry a fixed blade. I could never have gotten my pocket knife out and open in time."

I asked - "What if it had been your other arm?"

He was like I am now - short, fat, balding and right handed. He could never have reached across his body and pulled out the Kabar.

He looked at me a little funny, turned of the tractor and said

"Let's go."

We drove 3 miles to the Western Auto in the nearest town. They were out of Kabar 1232s, so he got the Western. A couple of weeks later, the WA owner called him up and told him they had "those little Kabars in" if he still wanted one. He got a second Kabar 1232 and carried dual Kabar 1232s when ever working on machinery after that.

The first time I saw him after that, he gave me the Western, saying

"If you're smart enough to come up with that question, you're old enough to have your own fixed blade."

That was the first of many Westerns and Kabars. And other fixed blades as well. And I still carry dual fixed blades every day.
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That's a great story!

I still have my first knife. It's a Schrade Walden paratroopers switchblade given to me by my father in 1970 when I was 4 years old. It was issued to him when he was in the service. It has tons of blade play but still works.
 
I still have my first one, an Ulster scout knife from the early '60s. Still use it regularly around the house.

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Got this one about 20 years ago from my oldest brother. It started showing rust so i took it apart to clean it up. Really need to get it back up and running again.
 
Yes, it was so called "Sheppard knife", a huge slipjoint with 6 inch bowie style blade. Dream of the kid :D . Now its one of my "safe queens" together with my grandfather and fathers knives
 
Mine was a Victorinox Outrider, that I lost when we drove out of a middle-of-nowhere restaurant and I forgot it there, just next to the car.
I realised it 400 miles away from that place, during the night, so we couldn't get back. That killed me as a kid. I used it and enjoyed it every day, it was my one and only. :(
 
I am close.

The photo below shows a progression of my knives over a long period of years. I may have gotten my first knife when I was 6 or not much older, a hand-me-down from my father. My father was a mechanic and would occasionally break his knives and I would end up with them. I was probably closer to 10 when my grandfather gave me the black handled knife on the left in the photo. The yellow knife second from the left was handed down from my father and I carried it starting in high school when I worked as a mechanic. My father had broken the tip off of the main blade so I ground it square and used it as a screwdriver. It was very handy to carry a knife and screwdriver in my pocket.

The Buck Prince in the photo was one of the first I bought for myself and I still have it as well as most of the others. A few I have sold or given away and some of the other early knives I bought for myself aren't in the photo.

I'm not sentimental about old things. Sometimes I keep things that I liked so I can remember what they are like, other times I don't have attachment and sell them.

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Sadly, no. I went through tsa and it was at the bottom of a backpack. Had no clue it was there and hadn't seen it in months. Probably could have had them ship it to me but it just wasn't worth the hassle. R.I.P Damascus Kershaw leek.

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No. My first knife was a dimpled steel scout knife, probably a Camillus. Lost in time. Then when I was thirteen I saw West Side Story on Broadway, and decided I had to have a switchblade. Never got one, but I did carry a gravity knife that looked like a switchblade. That one is long gone, too.

I didn't carry a knife at all through high school and college. In 1970, I bought this Loewen Hippekniep in Amsterdam. I was traveling around Europe and realized I had no way to cut the cheese and sausage I ate on the road. I still have it.

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That knife was in my pocket every day for the better part of a year. It doesn't get carried much now, supplanted by a couple of Case sodbusters. Until I joined this forum last year, I had never heard the term Hippekniep, or sodbuster. It was just a knife.
 
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Hi! Nice thread! My first knife has been a SAK, an old Alpineer model, I think. My Daddy gave it to me; it was his second hiking knife (an Opinel carbon # 8 being the first), which he and Mom mainly used for food prep. I have been allowed to use it, under supervision, since I was four or five yrs. old, during our hikes. The Alpineer is a very simple SAK, doesn’t have many gadgets, a blade (possible to lock) and a corkscrew, plus tweezers and a toothpick. I can say I have learnt recreational knife use with that one :). Unfortunately the original Alpineer went somehow lost and don’t have it anymore. I have good memories though. Slicing salami and pulling corks at picnic areas, sharing food with other hikers, pointing pegs, carving walking sticks, etc. The second knife I got from my Grandpa, an Opinel. I was 8 yrs. old and I still remember this so brightly! :) We were out fly-fishing on Adda river and during the lunch he took out this a nifty, sharp-edged tool, shiny and brand new. It was for me! He said that was a grown-ups knife, I was growing and was time to start leaving childhood behind… really another era :D. This one I still have around, among the several Opinels and SAKs we keep in a shoebox as around-the-house knives. Used but not that bad looking :)! I treasure it but don’t feel like putting it in the safe. I think Grandpa likes to see his grandchildren and me using it still today...
 
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