First Love

[Bloodlet]

What was your first knife that started it all. Both child and adult? My Grandpa gave me a red victorinox when I was five. My adult love started with a kizer bad dog And a titanium ZT 0450 with blue anodized scales.

 

[b00n]

First knife that I actually thought was cool was the ubiquitous chinese hollow handle rambo survival knife, I was probably like 12 or so. And the knife that started it later was a CRKT M21 Large.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Red Vic classic I found when I was 3, mom took it till I was old enough but that started.

 

[GB940Rookie]

My first love folder was the Case Texas Toothpick, followed by the Barlow and then the Canoe.

First love fixed was the Kabar USMC followed by the RAT Cutlery RC6.

 

[willc]

A Camillus Cub Scout knife was my first.

 

[OddBlade]

Just like willc my first knife was a cub scout knife.
"Patient zero", the knife that infected me with this affliction that many of us suffer from (or enjoy) was a 1980 Stag Case Mako. It was too nice of a knife to use, and too nice not to use. Bought a second one to use. I've been a bit irrational about sharp cutting tools ever since.
Still have that first Mako, and got the Hammerhead and the Sharktooth to complete the set.

 

[Wowbagger]

What was your first knife that started it all. Both child and adult?

Well when I was very little like six or eight I had one or two tiny gum ball machine knives but the the one that made me go bull sheeeet until I got it was this big 'O multiplex. My Dad had one (that's it in the photo with mine; I got it after he passed . . . it was still in the trunk of his '54 Chrysler Desoto Fire Dome with his fishing pole). Once we went fishing a few times and I saw how it could open a tin and make lunch on the bank while we fished I wanted one. Once I saw one in the shop window down town . . . BAM . . . I always asked to park near that shop so I could look at the knife before we went to Wards or the drug store or Penney's for what ever we went to town for. I don't remember if I saved up allowance or Christmas money or just how I got it . . . I was delirious until I finally made that highly technical device my own.


That was mid to late sixties. Fast forward to a few years ago. Coworkers had pocket knives that that they flailed open and that went CLACK once they opened . . . and they clipped on the top of their pocket. Hmmmmmm . . . quite a bit of flourish and flash just to open a pocket knife. Who needs all that ?

Well. Wouldn't hurt to familiarize myself with them. Doesn't mean I have to have one of the silly things.
Hmmmm . . . well . . . that one is pretty small . . . it doesn't cost much . . . it's black (not too flashy) . . . wouldn't hurt to get one . . . just to see what all the noise is about . . .

Enter the Cold Steel Mini Tuff Lite (my first pocket clip / one hand opening knife) (though I have been one hand opening one or two other pocket knives for years . . . more about that later).


Some where between the multiplex and the Tuff Lite I bought a Buck 110 (early eighties). When I went to the mom and pop hardware store up the street from where I worked on my lunch break . . . to tool shop . . . the knife cases were there so I couldn't help glancing in . . . right ? Some how the 110 found it's way onto my belt. Then a smaller Buck lock back. I learned to pinch them open and hook the handle on my pocket to open one handed. It came naturally . . .


Well once I bought the Tuff Lite I kind of started getting knives kind of regularly. These guys were part of the flood once the flood gates opened . . .

I have things under control NOW. Matter of fact I will be buying my last knife next Tuesday. After that I'm done. Last one. I will have all the knives I am interested in.
. . .
for sure
. . . no more . . .
can't wait.

 

[Wowbagger]

kizer bad dog

Contoured Ti.
Just like what I have always wanted.
. . . it's in stock . . . they still make them ? !
I almost bought a slab of Ti so I could do this to my Griptillian. (about $400 just for the Ti)
Hmmmm
No
I don't need it.
I'm buying my last knife on Tuesday and that's it.
. . . errr . . . Hmmm . . .

 

[A.S.]

A Frost balisong I got as a kid at a flea market.

 

[Mako109]

As a child...Cub Scout knife.
As an adult...Swiss Army "Camping" and a Spyderco C01 Worker.

 

[anthonycastorena2014]

When i was a child: Cold Steel Voyager lockback. Still love them.
Adult: Spyderco Tenacious

 

[SW-EDC]

Cold Steel Voyager young adult

Protech Runt adult