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

My very first knife was a Victorinox something rather.... I was about 7. My dad's friends came over and he had a daughter about my age. I used it alot to impress her. I wasn't into girls to much at that age but wanted to show off my manly knife. She complained to her dad so my dad took it away under the promise of getting it back when they left. 25 years later..... no knife!
 
bflying said:
This honking hobo for my 5th birthday.

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My first knife was some kind of Boy Scout with a Spoon and Fork . However old you had to be to join up ? ;)
 
I was somewhere between eight and ten, and I got a scout/hobo knife with the fork and spoon. Unfortunately, either I lost it or it grew legs on its own. My folks refused to replace it as a reminder that I needed to be more responsible (thanks Mom). I then saved every bit of change I could for months, and that plus the spending money my folks gave me for a week long scout camp (probably $5 I was supposed to spend on other things) was enough to get this Kamp King, the first knife I ever bought myself:
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I used it for several years, but when I entered high school, I had to stop carrying it since there were "issues" in the area we lived at the time (issues like "hit the dirt, its a drive-by", but that's another story).
After I got my first car (with an 8-track player), I kept it in my car's took kit. I "found" it again last year (after reading a thread here) after a few decades and cleaned it up. I even carry it occasionally in my pocket instead of my Vic Farmer.

Enjoy
 
I was 7, my grandpa bough me a a little Kershaw belt knife at a gun show. I still have and keep it razor sharp!

I made my children their first knives when they turned 5 and 7 last year. They are learning to use them this summer.
 
Puleio said:
I was somewhere between eight and ten, and I got a scout/hobo knife with the fork and spoon. Unfortunately, either I lost it or it grew legs on its own. My folks refused to replace it as a reminder that I needed to be more responsible (thanks Mom). I then saved every bit of change I could for months, and that plus the spending money my folks gave me for a week long scout camp (probably $5 I was supposed to spend on other things) was enough to get this Kamp King, the first knife I ever bought myself:
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I used it for several years, but when I entered high school, I had to stop carrying it since there were "issues" in the area we lived at the time (issues like "hit the dirt, its a drive-by", but that's another story).
After I got my first car (with an 8-track player), I kept it in my car's took kit. I "found" it again last year (after reading a thread here) after a few decades and cleaned it up. I even carry it occasionally in my pocket instead of my Vic Farmer.

Enjoy
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That is so cool. Thanks for sharing this.
 
My first knife was a Girl Scout knife from Utica Cutlery when I was 8.

I was going to Girl Scout camp and we were suppose to bring a pocket knife. My Dad let me take his SAK style Army knife. When I got home my Dad asked me to show him what I had learned. After showing him how we learned to safely handle it, he told me that he thought I learned enough to have my own knife and gave me the Girl Scout knife.

I had that knife for about 20 years until it came up missing after one of my moves. A couple years ago, I came across one just like it in good shape. I couldn’t resist it for the nostalgia factor.

I recently bought a few of the centennial Girl Scout knives and gave them to my nieces who are in the Girl Scouts. They were very excited and I had the pleasure of being the one to give them their first knives.
 
I was only 4. My mother refused to give me a knife. My father was building our house, and I took his hammer and 6 inch iron nail, and cold forged my first knife. It was not good but better than my plastic toy sword.
 
Oh do those ads bring back memories - the ad to the left of your knife was for freeze dried seahorses, as I recall, had to have them, along with something called "sea monkeys", the "switchcombs", the "Big (little) Box of Army Men", and Loard knows what else I was always sending my scrimped dimes, quarters and nickels on. BL had great ads, but so did the comic books.
 
I was eight, and it was a Camillus Cub Scout knife.
That little sucker was the cause of my life long obsession with sticky-pokey-bits (knives, daggers, swords, polearms) of all shapes and sizes.
 
Puleio said:
I was somewhere between eight and ten, and I got a scout/hobo knife with the fork and spoon. Unfortunately, either I lost it or it grew legs on its own. My folks refused to replace it as a reminder that I needed to be more responsible (thanks Mom). I then saved every bit of change I could for months, and that plus the spending money my folks gave me for a week long scout camp (probably $5 I was supposed to spend on other things) was enough to get this Kamp King, the first knife I ever bought myself:
full

I used it for several years, but when I entered high school, I had to stop carrying it since there were "issues" in the area we lived at the time (issues like "hit the dirt, its a drive-by", but that's another story).
After I got my first car (with an 8-track player), I kept it in my car's took kit. I "found" it again last year (after reading a thread here) after a few decades and cleaned it up. I even carry it occasionally in my pocket instead of my Vic Farmer.

Enjoy
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That sir is a fantastic story. love it.
I think I was about 6 and it was a
old timer I think I had found.
I would carry at least 6 edged weapons on me at all times as a teenager. Throwing knives were the only thing my parents wouldn't let me have:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Railsplitter said:
This was the first knife that I bought for myself. A friend and I saved up our milk money, put the cash in an envelope and sent it off. Got it from an ad in the back of a 1971 Boys Life magazine. We were both 10 years old.

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Bought the same knife about the same time! Wish I still had it. Ordered from ad either in Boys Life or a comic book.
 
First knife was a scout knife when I was about 9 or 10. Had it for years. May have given to younger brother. Don't know where it is now.
 
When I was about 7 years old my dad gave me his PAL 36 that he used in WW2. Still have it and it's sharp & useable. When I about 10, I bought my next knife. It was a 3 inch peanut style knife from some clerk who didn't care about my age - just collecting his one dollar bill. I've acquired a few since then.:)
 
I was 6 or 7, and I had just finished my first or second year in cub scouts. My grandparents gave me a SAK Classic. I had it until the blade failed and broke backwards while I was using it in a wood carving class much later when I was approaching eagle. I still carry a classic around on my keys. They also bought me a SAK Tinker when I became a boy scout, a knife I cherished, and sadly was lost when my home was flooded in early adult hood.
 
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