How did it all start?

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res1cue

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Describe how your passion for knives began!

I'll start..

In high school I ordered something online, can't remember what, but it came with this free POS: http://compare.ebay.com/like/290068...ed4e38c&itemid=290068853172&ff4=263602_263632

to me, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen..

I remember being late to class because I couldn't figure out how to close the damn thing!

I spent the next two years collecting other brandless pieces of junk made in china, and then in college, I had a job and was able to buy for myself my first brand name knife! A taylor cutlery smith and wesson for 30 bucks

got a few more smith and wessons, then jumped to CRKT, got a few of those, and then in the same month I got like 5 benchmades, 3 spydercos, 2 bokers, 4 byrds, a zt, 4 cold steels, 2 sogs...
 
I got my first knife from my dad when I was young, and had gotten a few more over the years...

also, it's nice to see another person who likes S&W knives.
 
first started out with a knock-off SAK, then got a real SAK, then I got this crappy little S&W knife that I paid $30 too much for, carried it for 2 years, and then I was unexplicably compelled to buy an Spyderco Endura 4 G10. then, I bought a Benchmade 960, because I knew I "needed" a smaller knife to complement the Endura. a couple of months later I found an XM-18 from a dealer, and that got me into higher end stuff.
 
stealthchaser13 said:
I got my first knife from my dad when I was young, and had gotten a few more over the years...

also, it's nice to see another person who likes S&W knives.
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mm i wouldn't say i like them.. but i would put them on the same level as gerber.. performance is sufficient for the average person, priced for the average person, nothing fancy, but will do the job

i think taylor cutlery gets played down more than they deserve.. no they don't have supersteels or sprint runs, but within their price range you could do a lot worse. but then again, they don't do bad at all so i don't feel too bad for them. them and gerber both market rather aggressively, and i'm sure it pays off. a few of my buddies have S&W's and gerbers, and they like them, and i'm just glad they carry a knife period, can't expect everyone to be a knut

personally i haven't found the time to carry a S&W for a few years.. my pockets are in high demand ;)
 
Many years ago (about 35 years ago) - started because I would hunt with my father and brother - always looked forward to carrying a skinning knife on me and whittling with my SAK while in the tree stand.

Collected and carried Vic SAK's from there until about 1995 when I bought my first "real" folder - a Benchmade. It's been downhill since then.
 
i was just thinking about this recently.

well it goes back to when my grandfather called our family. he said he wanted to give me and my little brother all of his knives! :eek: now being young i didnt know all that much about knives. we get there and there was a big box full of frost cutlery he had bought on ebay, it was the thought that counted ;) ,

anyway when we get home my brother and i divided our spoils and were examining what we had. my dad walked over to my brothers pile and picked up and old, sharpened with the grinder buck 110. he said "wow you got a good one!"

immediately i was dismayed to see he had outdone me! in the next few days i went to the hardware store closest to me and bought a gerber mini paraframe 2. "but it isnt a buck! it isnt better than his!" i said to myself. so i went back and bought a buck bones and yet again i said "his is made in America and mine is Chinese!" so i went back, again! :eek: , and bought an American made buck, model 433, and was content for a little bit. then i figured i needed a multi tool and bought my first SAK, the camper model, the set up of buck bones, buck 433, and my SAK was a great combo, i carried it for years.

enter a couple years ago. i am wanting something better so i buy my first benchmade, the 530, carry it use it until it breaks then another benchmade, a spyderco, 4 more spyderco's, an ESEE a CRK then another ESEE :eek:

so i guess that is how i got into knives. (sorry for the long story)

the funny thing now is that i have the buck 110 that started it all, so in the end i win? :D
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My grandpa always, and still does, carry a little money clip with a knife/file/scissors, and that always fascinated me. Finally when I was 10 my dad bought me a Victorinox Spartan, which I've still got, and that was it. Been buying knives ever since. :)
 
I was born?

Seriously, some of my first memories are of myself playing with toy guns and knives, and being totally fascinated with them.

Dad took me camping and shooting when I was little. Started learning gun safety and how to shoot when I was 5. But since I always seemed to treat knives like they were toys, I wasn't allowed to have one unless we were out camping.

That didn't stop me from having them though. I was poor, but I still mannaged to get ahold of some $5 lockblades, pluss I would go to GoodWill and buy used kitchen knives, like lrage cleavers and butcher knives and such. I'd make sheaths out of cardboard and duct-tape, then take them into the woods and chop on stuff, carve things, and I taught myself to throw them. :)

I'd say that since the age of 9 or so, you would never find me without some form of blade stashed on my person.

Now that I've grown up, and have more income, my knives have gotten nicer, but I still tend to "play" with them in ways that are dangerouse to my health. But I love it. :)
 
In the kitchen, cooking with my mom as a kid, I remember my first cut, pretty sure it was while trimming a steak.

After that it was cheap lock backs, spyderco, gerber and no name stuff.

Got my first Benchmade at a gun show, paid $120.00 and was hooked on the quality, a decade later and I'm hooked even harder now.
 
Last October I was looking at Kitchen knife vids on youtube. I ended up coming across a nutnfancy vid (believe it was the Delica). I was interested. At the time I didn't know any better about S&W and picked one up at the local knife shop. Pivot screw got so loose by the end of the day it fell out. Haven't used it since.

Since then my tastes have expanded and here I am flicking open my Strider with my small sebenza 21 and Delica 4 FFG not too far from me.
 
It started with our frequent trips to the local flea market. I'd always look at what the vendors had for sale. After a while my grandparents gave in a bought me one. Been looking and buying them ever since.
 
Ive always liked knives, but it started with my friend getting a big CRKT m16, and i wanted one, so i got a smaller one, and carried it for a while until it fell apart on me...that same friend got a tenacious, and i loved it, so i looked around online and found other spydercos but settled on and endura g10...since then, around a year ago, ive had tons of different nice knives, but my favorites are still the spydercos:D
 
I have always liked knives, but wasn't that passionate about them. Then on day at a gunshow, my friend had this knife on his table. It was beautiful. I looked at it through the glass for a while but knew I could not afford it. Come the next gunshow he still had it. This time I asked him about it. I still did not have the money, but he let me take it home and I was able to pay him later.

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When and where I grew up, most men carried pocket knives. My father let me adopt one out of the tool drawer when I was somewhere between 6 and 8. It was an old slipjoint with carbon steel blades. I've pretty much been carrying a knife ever since. About 50 years worth of EDC'ing.
 
My knife fixation was evident in earliest youth. Fingernails and teeth were not sufficient to cut, whittle, open packages and make stuff. Enter the boyscout pocket knife and the Totenchip.

It fulfilled a savage and prime-evil need for power. It was all down hill from there:o



To paraphrase Zardos, "The knife is good."
 
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i always had knives kinda laying around my fathers garage that id take out into the woods. its a wonder i never cut myself.

but it wasnt until i was about 20 that i really started to look at knives. i still remember laboring over the decision to spend 24.99 on a S&W homeland security or some such silly name. after i had bought about all the knives i considered worth buying at my local store, i turned to the internet.

well im sure you know the rest....
 
I had a pocket knife as a boyscout, always liked them. Then sort of fell out of them for a while, and my interest was reinvigorated when a friend drew a knife to cut an apple when we were hanging out. It dawned on me that I had a lot of situations where a knife would be handy and I recalled my love for them as a kid, so a couple weeks later I had a knife again!
 
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