"His knife"

Ed T

Ed T

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So, tonight my two year old (almost three) and I sat at the knife chest wiping down knives. He was pretty funny. With each new knife to come out, he would say, "oh, that is a cuuuute one" (maybe too much time with mom?)

I asked him which one was his favorite, and to no surprise, he pointed to the sodbuster from my pocket (thanks again, Keith). And then, it happened. We hit the tray of "little ones" he asked to pick up a bermuda green case mini doctor's knife. "Can this one be mine, daddy?"

"Of course it can."
 
I think it's great that your getting your kiddo interested in knives at an early age. That's pretty cool right there.
 
This happened to me a few years ago. I bought an orange barn jigged Tiny Texas Toothpick. It had two blades (the main and a pen) and was about the size of a Peanut. I bought it, took it home, and was wiping it down, sharpening it, etc., when my then two year old daughter started oohing and aahing about it!! Now she's seen me use all sorts of knives, from traditionals to SAKs, but for some reason, this one totally caught her eye and fascinated her. I let her hold it (since it is a slippie, she couldn't open it) and she was just star struck. I made the decision, right then and there, to make this her knife. I put it away and am waiting for the right time to give it to her, although I used it the other day, and she immediately recognized it. Gotta love kids.
 
Great story, and the beginnings of a great young man some day... one that knows a jack knife (good on you dad):)
 
That is a neat story. I kind of went through that with my youngest a couple yrs ago. I believe the 1st knife I got her was a Case tiny Trapper in orange G-10.

A friend just gifted her a Case tiny Toothpick in dark red bone & CV blade steel & it made me feel proud to hear her excited voice thanking him on the phone for it. She was genuinely happy to get it.
 
Thats great Ed. Always good to start em out young.

I have done the same thing with my 13 year old son Travis. I told him, someday all my knives and guns will be yours. BUT don't rush it :D
 
My nephews are in town and coming over for a visit tonight, maybe I need to leave a few SAK's out for them to discover.
 
My experience with the little folks was to start out with something larger with a single blade, like a Sodbuster. Smaller bladed knives were tougher to work with and nicks and cuts were more likely.
 
Luke is pretty sure that you only use them to cut apples. I think I will be ok until he sees his sister turn a stick in to a pile of shavings.


thawk said:
My experience with the little folks was to start out with something larger with a single blade, like a Sodbuster. Smaller bladed knives were tougher to work with and nicks and cuts were more likely.
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I have always thought it a stange thing, how dunp out a bunch of knives, and there's one that will often call out to a boy. Heck, even a grown up. Something strange takes place, that one knife out of all of them has an attraction that the other do not.
 
Carl, I remember the first time I saw a sowbelly, with that gracefully curved handle and swooping, swedgy blades. My heart nearly leaped out of my chest!
 
My 5 year old has a small fixed blade picked out as his. I will officially be his on his first deer hunting trip, but that is still a few years away.
 
Great story. I already have a couple of knives set aside for my little one, but she'll definitely get the chance to choose her own when the time comes.

- Christian
 
Ed T said:
Luke is pretty sure that you only use them to cut apples. I think I will be ok until he sees his sister turn a stick in to a pile of shavings.
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There will be no turning back after he sees that he can do that :D
 
Nice story. I'll share my own. I've only recently gotten into knives and I keep them down in the den. One night my wife caught my 4 year old son sneaking upstairs to his room with a plasitc bag full of something. My wife asked what he was doing, and his answer, "nothing," prompted her to look in the bag. You guessed it. Full of knives. Now I'm sure to keep them up high or in a foot locker. But I'm also making him and his sister rounded, wood pocket knives with balsa blades. Gotta start them somewhere.
 
We were in church a week or two ago and my two year old had the fidgets. As a last ditch effort to settle her down I took my knife from my pocket and handed it to her. She must have turned it and shook it in her hands for 20 minutes. Of course afterwards my wife got into me for handing her a knife in church. I told her it was a slip joint and there was no chance of her opening it. My wife came back and said "I wasn't worried about her cutting herself, but not everyone in church is a knife person." :eek: Could there be a conversion taking place!

Chuck
 
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