First knife I remember buying

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I am in the middle of moving which is a pain. However I found this little guy and wanted to share.This Buck 503 is the first knife I remember buying. I picked it up from the neighborhood hardware store.

You will notice the "unique" blade profile. I broke the tip and fixed it by bringing the tip down on a wheel grinder. Hopefully I didn't get the blade too hot. I am looking forward to carrying it again.

 
The first knife I bought was my scout knife. I remember saving my paper money. I was so proud when the BSA issued my knife to me (remember when they issued knives, with a serial number and everything? Now the scouts just make popcorn and sell it at Kmart so they can give the money to the homeless.). My brother wound up losing it about 15 years later while I was at college. Irreplaceable to me. I remember one night, sitting at the desk in my bedroom, sharpening it on a medium Arkansas stone at such an acute angle until it was incredibly sharp. I was using it later, holding a small piece of a model kit that needed trimmed, and it went right through the plastic like it was butter and took the meaty tip of my thumb right off. Luckily that grew back. I think I would cry if it turned up. The memories.
 
The 503 was one of the first if not the first lockback that I bought when I was about 15 years old. I had bought other knives as a kid such as SAKs and boy scout knives, but the buck 503 was the first lockback that I bought which felt like a real high quality knife to me. Thanks for sharing :thumbup: great photo!
 
Nice knife. I still have the first one I bought myself with my own money.

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Mine was a sheath knife and hatchet combo, bought it with S&H green stamps I saved. The check-out lady would throw them in your grocery bags with the receipt. I was nine or ten years old.

I've seen the same rig on eBay.
 
manowar669 said:
I remember one night, sitting at the desk in my bedroom, sharpening it on a medium Arkansas stone at such an acute angle until it was incredibly sharp. I was using it later, holding a small piece of a model kit that needed trimmed, and it went right through the plastic like it was butter and took the meaty tip of my thumb right off. Luckily that grew back. I think I would cry if it turned up. The memories.
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Great but sad story. Thanks all for sharing.
 
This is probably not the first knife I bought but it's the first I remember buying. A cheap Japanese Enco Bowie Knife. Bought it at a dude ranch, Rocking Horse Ranch, in upstate NY way back in the late 70's.
 
I can't remember for sure---long time ago- 1967 or 1968--it was either a Buck 110 or a Sears/Craftsman white delrin peanut. I still have the peanut, but lost the 110 years ago. Replaced it in the mid to late 70's with another. I just don't remember which I bought 1st.
Harold
 
My first knife I bought was a yellow handled stockmn pattern made by Queen. Dad carried a yellow Keen Kutter Stockman but the hardware store diidn't have one of those.
 
First one I remember buying was a small sheath dagger thing for probably $2 at gun town mountain I Kentucky when I was maybe 7. It was a cheap probably souvenir thing that was extremely dull and about 2 inches long. The next I remember was a boot knife when I a little older. That one was at least made better. I had multiple folders and it seems that many were buck lockbacks, but smaller than a 110. My Boy Scout knife saw lots of use.
 
I don't think it's the first knife I ever bought, but it's close. Buck 110. Still have it. 1979 or so.

Shown here with an old Parker-Frost branded version of the Schrade 194OT which I bought close to the same time period.

 
The first knife that I remember buying is my Buck 112 that I purchased in the ship's store on the USS Claude V. Ricketts soon after reporting aboard in 1977. I still have this knife. This is not the first knife I purchased, but the first I can remember purchasing.
 
first knife i remember buying was a small schrade lockback, or maybe it had a frame lock. wasnt but maybe a handful of years ago. this guy that works with me lost it.
prior to that i had a cheap, all stainless lockback for 20 years. found it on the ground waaaaay back in college. i lost that one on my own lol. i also had a cheap barlow a friend of the family gave me when i was about 13 and a 'parker cut co' trapper pattern that belonged to my dad until i absconded with it in elementary school. still have the last two but i dont carry them much nowdays since they are sentimental.
 
The first knife I bought was an Imperial Toothpick/Fish Knife with the yellow plastic over steel shell scales & the crown shield poking through the thin yellow plastic.
I earned the money by helping my older brother fold the papers for his paper route in the mornings before school.
I don't remember if I lost it or traded it away,but I'll always remember the beautiful yellow Imperial that was my first.
 
First knife I remember buying was a large Richards Spearpoint, with fake stag hollow covers, bought on a school trip when I was about 8.
 
I was gifted by my parents or grandparents with several good knives in the 1960's; an Official Cub Scout, an Official Boy Scout (both passed down to younger brothers when I got a Buck 301 in 1970) and a Western Black Beauty skinner for Christmas 1966 which I still own and use occasionally. However, I never bought a knife (that I can remember) for myself until I was a new 2LT in need of a field knife - bought this Buck 105 at the APG MD PX in 1976 - still own this one too. OH

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