First knife

rdgarbo

rdgarbo

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:) How old were you when you got your first knife, what was it, was it a gift, if so who gave it to you.
My Dad gave me my first knife, he bought it at a drug store in Jacksonville Florida...it had pearl handles and two blades, I'm not sure what brand it was.
Yes I did cut my self with it and my mother was very upset with my Dad...Thanks to my Dad for starting my love for Knives.
 
I was probably 5 or 6? It was a green handled buck with a reground blade b/c dad broke the tip off. No clue what model, but I'm pretty sure it's still at my parents house in a drawer somewhere... not so much a gift as a "stop barrowing my knife, here have this one" - I was addicted to turning every palm branch into a ninja sword...
 
Mine was a little swiss army knife...just a blade and a bottle opener. My dad bought it for me one Christmas. I must have been around 8 or 9 when I got it...
 
small swiss army knife i got from my aunt while we were going on a camping trip when i was about 8 or 9
 
I don't really know how old I was, but it was a gift from my grandfather who died when I was six, so I must have been younger than that. I haven't had the knife in years (don't really know what happened to it, to tell the truth), but it was a slipjoint, most likely a Case or Schrade or something similar.
 
Seems appropriate for my first post on the forums to be about my first knife. On my tenth birthday I recieved, among other things, an oldtimer knife and a super soaker water gun. I remember the soaker being tied to the box with those zip tie like plastic bands and being that I had this brand new pocket knife it seemed as if my life was finally starting to make sense. To make a short story shorter, the day i got my first knife was also the first time i saw one of my own bones. It was sharp, it went deep, and I most likely cried. No stitches, just some gauze and tape. I have no idea where that knife is, but thanks to the 3/4 inch scar on the top of my index finger, I'll never forget it.

P.S. - Absolutely love the site. You guys have answered many of my questions and introduced me to a world of knives I didn't know existed.
 
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It was a swiss army knife, not sure of the model. Had about 6 or 7 tools I think. I was maybe 8 or 9 at the time, I got it for a family camping trip.

I later traded it for a Storm Shadow figure. At the time, I kinda regretted it, my friend got the better end of that deal. But today, I came out waaay ahead. Best trade I ever made!:D
 
i bought one while on a school field trip to gettysburg when i was in 4th grade. it was a cheap buck 110 knockoff. my mom confiscated it the second i got home.
 
I was 5 when my dad gave me my first knife. Its an Honest abe kansas cane cutter II. I think my dad found it while working. I still have it.
 
I was probably about 5 or 6 when my dad gave me my first knife. It was a schrade folder. Sweet little knife and I wish I still had it. I lost a lot of nice knives back then.
 
A SAK when I was probably like 8 or 9 from my grandfather who lives way down in Florida. Got confiscated after he left, haven't seen it since. :mad:
 
got given a basic SAK (big'n;small blades, scissors, bottle & can openers) by my mum on my 15th or 16th birthday.

carried a knife pretty much every day since.
 
Somewhere in my late teens, my mother finally ceded and allowed me to get a knife. As I was old enough to hold a job at the time, I paid for it myself, but bought it alongside my father at a gun show. It was an original Smith and Wesson S.W.A.T. when they first came out with that line. That was before their knives went to total crap. It was all black, partially serrated blade, and all mine. Pretty proud moment (my father and I considered it a pretty big victory over my mothers oppressive anti-dangerous-thing campaign). Learned a lot about knives since then, like, for instance, don't buy Smith and Wesson knives (though admittedly, that one wasn't bad for an entry level knife). Like many of you, I've owned a lot of sharp things since then, and have Strider, Benchmade, Spyderco, and several others in my current lineup. Not entirely sure what happened to that first knife...would have been kinda cool to still have my first. Oh well.

It's like my first surfboard. Carried it with me through seven countries, till my friend (the Marine) did a crappy knot job to the top of his Cherokee and it flew off on I-4 on the way back from New Smyrna Beach, coming to a gentle rest on the other side of the highway, just in time to get annihilated by two successive semi trucks...

sigh.

I was about to retire that board after that day, to hang on my wall forever.....the road to anti-materialism has been a long one...

sorry, tangent....
 
I got my first one when I was around 8. A family friend gave it to me one day when we were at his house. He had a big field that he burned off every year and since I was the little pyro I got to set it on fire. He gave it to me one time before I ran down the road lighting fires every so often.

It was a little case lock back pocket knife with a blade probably just under 2 inches. I still have it in a drawer.
 
i was young and it was in the days of rambo movies. i wanted a rambo knife but my parents wouldn't have it. so they got me this really nice swiss army knife with ever thing possible on it at the time. they told me it was what james bond would of used so i was happy an all the kids in the neighborhood with rambo knives were envious of me.

maybe one day i'll pick up a rambo knife for the hell of it.
 
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