First Knife You Ever owned?

cj65 said:
I got a dull Imperial fisherman knife with yellow celluloid scales. I thought it was so cool because the blade was so long. I was in 4th grade, and I was slicing some cardboard (pulling towards me of course:rolleyes:) and stuck the point of that about 1/2 inch into my left forearm:eek:. I almost fainted and could not go to my parents, because err.... :oI did not have permission yet to own this knife I acquired from a neighbor kid. I slowly gained my composure, pulled the knife out of my arm, cleaned it with hydrogen peroxide (my arm not the knife:D), and bandaged up my wound. Told my mom the cat scratched me, and put my knife away hidden until my wound healed to ask if I could have the knife. I recall having the knife for another few years before I lost it, so I must have gotten permission. I am 43 now, and I still have that crescent moon scar in my left forearm.....Thanks for letting me share....

CJ65 as in born in 65
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reminds me of my first zippo. but my parents still dont know about that one
 
Well, I believe when I was 7 my dad gave me a Buck 110. I had a knife before that, but I really can't remember. The Buck 110 is the first knife I can really remember though.
 
mine was a well used Boker congress from my grandfather--got this knife when i was 10--had it many years--i am 57 now:D
 
Victorinox Swiss Army Knife, don't exactly remember which version, but probably the Explorer.
 
my first knife was a Busse Battle Mistress it was on 1946 when i had 56 years old :D

seriously it was a little lockback with a 2 inches blade with wood scale and brass frame.
 
Mine was a SOG trident when I was 14. Traded a magazine for a SVI Infinity pistol replica back when I was still interested in airsoft. :rolleyes:
 
was a camillus 26 hunter that was my grandads. Even had a custom sheath with it:thumbup: hard to believe that it was almost 24 years ago, and in a few it will be passed to my son, he'll get it when he turns 14, same age i was when i got it!
still have the camillus though, its got a special place in my collection
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My first knife was a knock off something my grampaw gave me. My first real knife was a Wenger SAK that my sister found under a bunk bed at church camp, and she brought it home for me. It's a unique Wenger. It has a large blade, small blade, can opener, bottle opener, leather punch, and on the handle it has a cut out of a musket of some kind.
 
My Mother gave me a no-name 1" folder when I was 6. I asked my Father for a larger knife but he didn't want me to hurt myself so he whittled me a wooden one that I played with for awhile. Then, when I was 8 my Mother found an auto on the quiet residential street we lived on and gave it to me. She didn't know it was a switchblade and neither of us could get it open (it was a funky style of leverlock) until my teenage sister got home from school and opened it without a hitch! When my Mother saw it open like that she grabbed it off me and hid it. I begged her for days afterwards until she finally relented with a promise from me that it would never leave the house. Kept my promise for 4 years and ended up trading it to a friend who promptly broke the spring in it. I still regret trading it to this day. That was 37 years ago and it was a different world then!
 
Easy. Camillus BSA 4-blade. It's been dinged and beaten and I've reground the awl twice to clean up dings, but it's still snappy and clean. :)

It's also one of the few knives to break one of BRL's rules- it has stainless blades with carbon springs, something that's pretty rare.
 
An old no-name (at least, i don't remember the name) stockman. It was a great knife for me at age 10 until age 21.
 
1st would be a nailclipper with a little POS knife on it... I was probably 4-5, so I don;t remember anything except whittling on saplings... More vivid memories would be varoius SAKs... The BIG one would be a Leatherman I scrimped and saved for in 7th grade... That was 18 years ago, and I still somehow have it! It's still a go-to tool when traveling.
 
My first knife was a German swiss army type, like a Spartan, but with no small blade. White handle. Must have got it around 1970.
The knife is long gone, but I got a small scar on my left thumb as a reminder of it:D
 
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