Do you still have your first knife?

Ah! The Pirate not the Parrot!

Wait I think I just did it wrong...
 
Anybody else recall covering their "privates" while playing chicken with both hands?? Guess I was a chicken but saved myself for fun down the road!
 
Nope, sadly I pitched it in my early twenties, 'twas a Blue Delrin scaled BSA knife with round shield (Camillus?). When I dug it out from a box it was pretty corroded from being stored without oil, and my 20 year old mind decided nothing with plastic handles could be associated with quality. I regret tossing it!
I still remember my Grandfather buying it for me for Christmas when I was six, against my parent's wishes. I had to promise not to let any other kids play with it. Later that day the neighbor's kid came over for us to compare loot, and I showed him the knife. He begged me to handle it, I declined, so he pulled out the big guns and said I couldn't play with his massive Transformers city/robot (he was spoiled) if I didn't let him see the knife. He swore he wouldn't touch the cutting edge, I acquiesced, he promptly ran his finger across the cutting edge 😬 His mom yelled at me, and I never did get to play with that super-expensive Transformer.
 
Hashishiin said:
I had some swap meet special swords as a kid, still have one China one, rusted to hell, but still exists! Must have been from around age 7-8, an Americanized-tanto "Japanese" shortsword. This is my first pocketknife, though, thought it was an "illegal switchblade" when I first got it at age 12, from the store we also bought our pipes from, affectionately referred to as the "Knife & Pipe Shop" run by an old Indian man named Sonny, who gave us free screens with our pipes, deals on balis and assisted knives, and would give a friendly "Be careful!" on our way out.

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I feel like I had pretty good taste even then, sensible wooden handles and shape, with all the crazy Tac-crap they had, this is probably the best choice I could have made. Once used it to cut down a noose, found hidden, wrapped 'round a tree, while on acid. That was weird. Waited around the place for an hour or so to see if anybody would show up. It was freaky, I felt like somebody could have hid it with intent to use it later. This incident, needing to use the serrations, made me think that I should probably invest in a quality pocketknife.
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That could easily be a knife that I would buy today
 
Bing Gao said:
Yeah.. love that little thing. You know 20 years ago titanium handle knives are quite something :)
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Absolutely my friend. When I was first getting seriously into knife collecting in about 2007 titanium folders were expensive and definitely the bee's knees. I wanted one sooo bad. As you said, there weren't a whole lot of them like there are today. My first one was a Bradley Alias. I so wanted a Sebenza but could not afford it haha.
 
Bob Denman said:
We never played that game...
But we did like standing up a .22 lr shell, and dropping a big flat rock on top of it...
"Youth" should just be renamed "stupidity": it would save a lot of time!
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I remember in middle school some dumb kid stuck a .22 shell in the sliding metal tracks of a drawer and slammed it shut. It ended up shooting a kid in the leg. I don't know how bad it was, if it was like a full impact or what because it was a different classroom than mine, but I remember being so mad at that kid.
 
coolbreezy37 said:
Does anybody still have their first knife? Whether they bought it, received it as a gift, inherited, passed down, etc. I still have mine, gift from my father when I was between 10-12 years old (can’t remember exactly). Buck 192 Vanguard from 1996. I’m 36 now. Stories about your first knife are welcome. If you don’t have it anymore, that’s ok, post pictures and stories about it. My father taught me everything survival related with this knife. I did my first real camping, hunting and fishing, with this knife.
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Beautiful knife.

My first knife was a SAK that I found on a Ski slope, I was 6 years old. My father was proud, showed me how to sharpen, etc, my mom didn’t like it. Until I was in my early teens and allowed by her to receive a folder as a gift, I’d lost and found 5 multi-tool folders, in sequence :) .... they are all long gone, unfortunately.
 
LimpCroissant said:
I remember in middle school some dumb kid stuck a .22 shell in the sliding metal tracks of a drawer and slammed it shut. It ended up shooting a kid in the leg. I don't know how bad it was, if it was like a full impact or what because it was a different classroom than mine, but I remember being so mad at that kid.
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Without a barrel to rifle and direct all that energy it probably wasn't too bad.
 
coolbreezy37 said:
Does anybody still have their first knife? Whether they bought it, received it as a gift, inherited, passed down, etc. I still have mine, gift from my father when I was between 10-12 years old (can’t remember exactly). Buck 192 Vanguard from 1996. I’m 36 now. Stories about your first knife are welcome. If you don’t have it anymore, that’s ok, post pictures and stories about it. My father taught me everything survival related with this knife. I did my first real camping, hunting and fishing, with this knife.
https://flic.kr/p/2mwG8Dt
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Yes I do have mine. I bought a Puma Bowie in 68/69. I purchased it from a gun shop next to the barber I used.
 
That's true, it probably only kind of barely lodged itself into the skin. Butt... Yup, I'd feel differently if it was my leg too.
 
Dimashkieh said:
That could easily be a knife that I would buy today
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Thank you! It's a beautiful style, and solid construction, especially after I put my Torx screws to it, I'd definitely buy the design again with a better steel, still holds up today :) Nice King Zog avi too
 
Yup - but it’s an ugly bugger.

My Dad gave it to me at around 6-7 because I’d already expressed an interest in knives. It originally belonged to/was VERY sharpened by my Grandfather.

I didn’t use it much - but still have it.

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I bought my first knife at the Katz drug store at about 9 years old. My father was mad when he found out, but he was mad most of the time, anyway. I later traded it and then regretted my decision. Fifty some years later, I bought this on the bay, as close to a duplicate of my first knife as I can recall. I paid seven times the original cost of $1.49.
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No. I went through so many Colonials and Imprrials the number is legion. I probably went thru at least one a summer. Mumbletypeg, whittling, opening cans, sharpening on the sidewalk, emergency screwdriver and pry bar etc.
 
My first knife was a worn out pipe cleaner from my father, with one scale missing, lost in the bamboo “forest” we used to visit in a neighbor’s garden. My first real knife was a ring pull horn handled knife I got for my birthday – bought in France from specialist a knife shop. Maybe 1973? The horn handle dried out and splintered, so it got left in a drawer, and eventually lost as I moved house.

Looking online for a knife in the same style, I found this.

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And of course, I bought it!
 
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