Do you still have your "first" knife?

My grandmother gave me a knife for christmas when I was 6 (I think)it was a cheap little slipjoint single blade from Kmart it had wool scales and a single brass bolster .I Lost it soon after :( !!! but....I saved my money and bought a new one to replace it and that one I still have :) I think it was $1.52 or something like that .I keep it in my leatherworking stuff I sharpened it to a zero edge and use it to skim and trim leather .
 
Although the 1st knife I can remember was a very little fixed blade I won in one of those 'crane' games on the boardwalk in NJ... this was my first 'real' knife (just found it in the basement a few months ago):

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I had these 2 knives since the age of about 15 (back in the '60's). Still have them and still carry the Schrade stockman on a daily basis...

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This one will be 50 in a few more years. It is the first knife my dad gave me before I was in grammar school. Back then we were expected to carry a knife to school so we could sharpen our pencils at our desk.

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Nope.

I think it was an old cheapy slipjoint with whitish scales that had some companies name on it.

Whoever the company was had given it to my Dad, and he gave it to me. I am pretty sure that was my first, but I dont really remember...I was really young.


Mom took it away after I sliced a hole in the chair that was in the living room. I had to see what made them so soft I guess.
 
Don't have my first anymore, and didn't keep it but a week or so.
We traded ours at school almost as much as we did baseball cards. It was a cheapy Barlow, and most all we had was junk. Later(6th grade) our friend who had a Dad that owned a Hardware store, and was a big Case seller/collector(Jimmy Green) brought a Case Barlow to school.
I think most of us had one by years end. A $10 Case Barlow and we thought we were up town.
That was around 71. I still have many case stag trappers I got from him in the later 70's(high school). Wish I had kept the Stag Pumas I bought back in HS.

Now that I'm thinking about it, those were some good days indeed:thumbup:
Times have really changed. I would say no more than half the 6th graders around here even own a knife these days.
 
I still have my first knife. It is an old case my grandfather gave to my dad as his first, and it came to me around age 5. I have every intention of passing it on once again. I carried that knife every day through high school along with another knife. Finally put it up as I really saw the significance in that knife.

I will say, I carried a knife everyday at school and often had teachers ask to borrow it. I'm sure that concept isn't shocking to many of you expect to say that I graduated in 2003.
 
Vic Huntsman that I got when I was 12 or so, in 1983. I was very proud of it because I saved up and got it myself, and I spent months agonizing over exactly which SAK model to get. It was my only knife and edc up until about eight years ago, and I still use it from time to time, although it is semi-retired. Maybe my daughter would like it when she's older.
 
Mine was an uncle henry signature (small thin stockman) with the staglon scales. It is the only slippie I have that is truly pocket worn and it is one of my favorite knives.
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I'm so old. My first knife was a "fixed blade" made out of napped flint.
It was great for scraping bison hides and such. My younger brother, the artistic one of the family, painted pictures of the beasts on our cave walls ;)

--Mike L.
 
Vege-Taco said:
Anyway, I was just curious as to whether anyone else still remembered and had their first knife.


PS I still have my first computer hard drive too.... All 192MB of it. :)
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I remember it, an equal end jack with carbon steel blades that my dad allowed me to adopt from the tool drawer. Lost it in the '60's as a teenager.



My first computer had a cassette tape player for media.
My second was a CPM system that had two floppy drives and no hard drive.
My first computer with a hard drive had a 40 meg drive. It's long gone, too.
 
I still have my first knife, it's a small Buck lockback that my grandfather had in him tacklebox. Thing must have been sharpened a thousand times, because the blade has been completely reshaped. I have no idea what model it is, I'll check when I get back to the states.
 
I still have my Camillus BSA pocket knife I got when I was 8. It needs some cleaning though... I'll post pics after I give it a good rubdown. :)
 
I still have the first knife that I had to save money to buy. I was 12 and had just started working for a guy putting up fence, mowing lawns, etc. It was 1985 and te knife cost me $103 not including shipping. It is a Buckmaster model 184. I have had to replace some plastic parts on the sheath but the knife is still in great shape. I no longer carry it becaus it is too heavy and the handle can really be rough on the hand but during my early years its was with me everyday.
 
my first knife was a victorinox classic that i found outside some where but i gave it to my friend as his first knife later on
 
The first knives I used didn't belong to me, but eventually did come back into my hands. Back in kindergarten I used to play around with a K.J. Erickson Mora (with a curly birch handle, double guard, and threaded-tang pommel) that my dad had probably gotten from my grandfather. He's always had a deep appreciation for knives, though I wouldn't quite call him a knife nut. I'll probably end up with his Randall when he goes, and he's given me a fair share of antiques. Anyhow, I distinctly remember doing myself a minor injury using it to stab bottle caps on the kitchen floor. I also got in trouble at daycare in preschool for bringing an orange Camillus parachute automatic with me. Again, it had belonged to my grandfather and been gifted to my father. I in turn stole it out of his tool box. :D I have that one still, as well as a Schrade version of the same model that was also my grandfather's. :)
 
Still got mine....(actually two), a small Old Crafty stockman, jigged bone, looks like nickel-silver bolsters, carbon blades....the large one worn from sharpening. It was a gift from my Grandpa when I was around 7 or so....shortly after that, I bought my first fixed-blade (a Mora #1 with a nice rosewood handle, threaded stick tang) from a local hardware store (they wanted a note from my mother before they`d sell it to me), I think it was around 6 bucks (back in the late `50s). The Moras were nicer back then, different than the recent crop....
 
Nope. My first knife was a little multiblade slipjoint my dad bought me when I was 8 or so, so I could cut bait when he took me fishing. I cut myself with it while we were standing in line to pay. You bleed on it, you bought it. :) My second knife came soon after, and was a hollow plastic-handled Rambo-type "survival" knife my dad picked up somewhere. Those both got purged in a move. Thanks, mom.

My third knife was something illegal I picked up when I was in high school, in Chinatown for purposes of mugger deterrent on the NYC subways. It did once help deter a *very* aggressive beggar who was scaring an old lady. I got rid of it a few years ago.

My fourth knife was a birthday present, a SAK (forget the exact model). One of the scales is cracked, but there's no way I'm letting it go.
 
First knife given to me was a Kamp King, mid 60's, have a scar on my left thumb from trying to whittle a piece of 2x4. That one is long gone.

First knife I bought for myself was the Sears Craftsman version of the Old Timer 194 linerlock. That one I still have.
 
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