First ever knife? How old were you when you got it?

I don't remember what it was but I was around 8-10 also. Might have been a SAK. I remember looking at them at the hardware store
 
This honking hobo for my 5th birthday.

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I got two at about the same time, when I was about 7 or 8. One was a small fixed blade, it wasn't very sharp. It had a leather sheath - the blade was less than two inches long and the handle was shorter. The other was a well used folder of my Dad's that he had 'retired' and given to me. I no longer have either one, 50+ years later.
 
I started dirt cheap. A CRKT Pazoda 2.

It's hilarious to think back on how nervous I was when I was first opening it and carried it, and how :cool: I felt carrying around that tiny little thing :D . I dulled the everloving hell out of it on cardboard boxes at work before realizing that it was poorly suited for boxcutting. Which led me to the internet and reading about Wharncliffes, eventually I bought a Cold Steel Tuff Lite and thus began my addiction.
 
First post about my first knife! That seems somehow appropriate...

I was 8 and I found a Case jackknife with a clip and a small pen. Jigged bone. To my astonishment, my dad let me keep it! A few months later, he bought me a genuine Boy Scout knife. My parents have never thrown anything away, so pops assures me they are both still, well, somewhere. I would love to find those knives. Lots of memories associated with them.
 
I'm pretty positive my first knife was a Victorionx Super Tinkerer. My dad got my brother and I each one for Christmas. How old is anyone's guess, under 12/over 8.

Still use that Tinkerer daily(luckily I didn't abuse it like the rest of childhood knives). Even have the toothpick and tweezers!
 
SAK Huntsman, and I think I was 10 years old. It got stolen by someone at summer camp 2-3 years later, and its replacement still lives in my bugout bag. Great knife!
 
I was in Cub Scouts when I got my first knife. Back in the 1960s. I wish I still had it.

The first knife I got to pick out was a little two blade, Boker. That knife I still have.
 
McFeeli said:
I'm pretty positive my first knife was a Victorionx Super Tinkerer. My dad got my brother and I each one for Christmas. How old is anyone's guess, under 12/over 8.

Still use that Tinkerer daily(luckily I didn't abuse it like the rest of childhood knives). Even have the toothpick and tweezers!
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I really abused my old timer. It had 3 blades, one of which I tried to use to sharpen a rock for whatever reason.
 
This is how one feels old. My second knife (maybe age 12) was a SAK Spartan. They didn’t have the toothpick and tweezers then. After 20-25 years the scales were peeling off. I sent it in for warranty service and it came back with brand new scales AND toothpick and tweezers! All for no charge.
 
I was 9 and my dad gave me the yellow Victorinox classic that was in my grandfather's pocket when he died the previous year.

This is not that knife, I put it's scales on the like new one he had bought my grandmother.

Before that was a dollar store " multi function knife " that was garbage, and an old keychain balisong my dad had laying around which was completely edge free. neither of these could be be considered knives, so I don't and they don't count.
 
I was four years old and my Opa handed me a little (no longer than 2.5 inches closed) two-bladed jack pocketknife with a clip-point main and a small pen shaped secondary blade. The handles are stamped steel or aluminum: all the paint was rubbed off and one of handle scales was already missing. I think it was made by Imperial or some similar maker of inexpensive pocketknives from the 1960/70's - no doubt picked from the counter at a feed store. The first thing I tried to cut with it was a pecan shell. The first thing I actually cut was my thumb. It was all downhill from there.

I still have the little knife squirreled away somewhere.
 
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