Have you been infected from the beginning?

r-winter said:
Guilty as charged! :D
I just as most other men have loved guns and knives from the beginning.
When I was three years old my father picked me up and took me into the woodworking shop, I attempted to jump out of his arms to get at the tools and cried when he tried to take me out.
I loved guns and knives since my father, brother, uncles, cousins, and grandfather all owned and loved them.
I grew up around Men who loved Guns & Jesus & their wives & Their Knives.
It, (tools, guns, knives, the outdoors, cars, Hunting, fishing, camping, and anything else you can think of that men love) Is all hardwired into us from birth and we (men) will never stop wanting these things.
( i apologize if i left anything out edit if needed )

~ Richard Owen Winter.
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Preach it brother!
 
Hehe thanks guys...Seems like the knife virus affects mainly children and youngsters. Truth be told I already thought so but was just curious. So now I have to find a cure for my little brother...He is more into swords and antique rifles :)
 
jfive said:
So now I have to find a cure for my little brother...He is more into swords and antique rifles :)
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I have a Sword DVD by Lynn Thompson I can let you have cheap. It'd make a nice gift for him. :D
 
jfive said:
Hehe thanks guys...Seems like the knife virus affects mainly children and youngsters. Truth be told I already thought so but was just curious. So now I have to find a cure for my little brother...He is more into swords and antique rifles :)
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jfive, no need to cure him...there's nothing wrong with swords and antiques rifles. I think that works out better, you are into knives and he is into those, just more cool stuff to look at and you're not competing for the same knife.:D

I have been into guns and knives since I was a little kid. My kindergarten teacher (yep a teacher, how times have changed!) bought me a toy rifle to cheer me up after being in the hospital for a week. That Christmas my oldest sister gave me 12" "Bowie" knife that hung halfway down my leg and the rest is history.:D
 
Actually, I got into the hobby of it as an older guy. Although from age 12 I carried a pocketknife, it was with not much interest in them as such. Any affordable knife that was reasonably sharp, sturdy enough to take my use/abuse was good enough for me. I gave the subject no more thought than I do the details of my screw driver, can opener, coffee pot, or any other common tool and appliance I use.

So it was until October, 1996, when I encountered a Leatherman PST for the first time. It was in the hands of someone I had met at a weekend retreat in a rural setting which our wives were attending while the husbands shifted for themselves in a nearby wooded area. He used it to fashion some fishing gear for his grandson, and I was fascinated by how he was able to whip out implements to cut, whittle, bend metal, file down sharp edges etc., all these capabilities in one handy, belt carried item. It had been a gift from another son, an Army MP who had been issued a PST and was enthusiastic enough about it to get one for his dad. ASAP, I picked up one for myself, and that turned out to be my introduction and gateway into the world of knives and multi tools. Too many sharp things later, I still have the bug. This is not a complaint :D .
 
I got my first knife when I was about 5 it was some crappy sak ripoff my dad felt bad and got me a real sak about a year later it was an sd classic I believe.
 
Got my first knife when I was around 7, an Imperial scout knife. The addiction slowly built from there when I would trade cheap china Fury brand knives with the other kids, eventually into gerber, then kershaw where I stopped for years when I had a scallion. Then a girl got me a crkt side hawg that I ended up cutting myself out of a car with one day, since then the addiction has been full swing, can't not have a knife with me.

Knives actually led me into guns eventually too, now I'm in the process of getting a pistol permit mostly due to exposure to handguns on knife forums. :D
 
I don't have a problem, i can, i can stop when ever I want... lol but I too have been into knives since around 9 maybe younger
 
I wanted knives (and guns) for as long as I can remember. I think it was due in part to the fact that I idolized Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett as played by Fess Parker when I was about 4 to 6 years old.
 
I used to buy alot of cheaper folders when I was younger to bring along on fishing trips. Then I looked online and in stores to see if I could find a "better" knife...I found quite a few acually.:D Been hooked ever since. Just such a practical thing to collect. You can never use a stamp or coin collection. ;)
 
I think I was truly interested after my Grandfather showed me the family history. It had a Civil War knife, captured German armbands, a Civil War uniform, and his daily carry- an old multi blade Buck knife. I bought my first knife around 4 years old. I believe it was a non brand stockman knife from a military surplus store.
 
I don't remember a time when I was not interested in knives.
 
When I was about 10, I read a passage in Jesse Stewarts Hie to the Hunters about the father sharpening his knife all night to skin the bear that killed his coon dog. I was hooked. and all that was reinforced by the guys sharpening and talking about their knives, and displays in the local hardware store.
 
The Boy Scouts, and probably the worst excuse for a Boy Scout knife ever, set the hook.

May have been the mumbletypeg.

It sure wasn't a keen edge.

That came later, with the appreciation for steel's magic chemistry as regards knives and tools.
 
I've carried freebie SAKs on and off since I was a kid, but I only recently started getting into high quality stuff, so I'd say the bug bit me late :D
 
I fall into the "since I was a boy" category. I got a Camp King boy scout folder when I was very young, you know the one with four blades and the fake jigged bone scales. It wasn't an amazing knife, but it was to me and it sparked a passion that has persisted for nearly forty years!:eek:
 
Seems we all have a similar story. When I was about 10 or 12 my uncle gave me a cheap Imperial. It probably cost about five bucks at the time but I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I don't think a day has gone by since that I did not have a knife in my pocket.
 
Ya, I couldn't take my eyes or hands off of my first knife given to me by my grandfather when I was just a boy. Had the disease ever since.
 
I've been hooked on sharp pointy things since my father gave me my very first knife (a Kershaw Scallion, and I'm betraying my age in saying that...)
 
Seems to me that my story is a little different from most of yours. I had SAK when I was eleven years or so, but I never wanted anything more til March 2007, when I'd been a grown-up for some years. So no "since I was a boy" for me, I hope you accept me nonetheless. :D
 
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