How did it start for you ?

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For me it started in 1978 with the boys life magazine , in the back you can order a Swiss Army Type Knife for $4.50. When that thing came in the mail after waiting an eternity (three weeks) I was hooked ever there since. Still have that knife and the addiction that came with it. Then there was first blood , which was the point of no return.


Whats your story?
 
I think a swiss army knife was the first knife I bought. Still got it. Local hardware stores used to have big displays for Swiss Army Knives, Buck, and the old Gerbers. My first mail order was a Camillus Pilot's Survival Knife.
 
My Dad gave me an old stockman as a kid. My knife addiction started when a customer on my mail route gave me a BUDK catalog a few years ago. I know, I know, pretty sad. Then, the worst part of it was when I discovered this forum and all those knives I have been missing.......
 
My dad gave me (I think) a swiss army huntsman......it went down hill from there..
 
Boys Life magazine around the same year 1977-78. I ordered a G-96 fixed blade knife from one of the ads for a canoe trip. Hooked on sharp tools ever since.
 
My parents gave me a swiss army knife (I think it was a Bantam or something like it) when I was little...now, here I am, many, many knives later.
 
I have carried a SAK on my keys for almost as long as I can remember. But I didn't know that it needed sharpening (or how to) so I discarded all knives as useless. Then I saw a guy at my first job pull out a pocket knife and open a package of lighters by drawing the edge across it. (IDK what knife it was probably a dull my current standards offshore)
Then I found a Kershaw Needs Work at a local pawn shop and the rest, as they say, is history!
 
My dad gave me a Mora of Sweden scout, luckily he is a knife guy and he started showing me his high end stuff. I have been hooked ever since!
 
My story is much more recent. My father-in-law got me a Kershaw Storm 2 for Christmas a few years back. I liked it okay, but wanted something nicer. I saw a ZT 350 on Amazon and thought it looked awesome so I bought it. I knew nothig about knives, steel, or brands at the time. I thought Schrade was the upper echelon of knives so when I got my 350 I literally thought it was top of the line, maybe the nicest knife out there. I soon found out there was a lot more out there thanks to Bladeforums, and now I have a nice collection. The 350 is still one of my favs though, and since it was a flawless example with no flaws I was spoiled for a while as I compared a lot of my much more expensive knives to it and many didn't stack up!
 
For me it was a SAK when I was 5 or 6. I think everyone should have a SAK as an introduction to pocket tools in general, and knife safety in specific. Then again, I carried a knife on me ever since, long before it was faux pas in schools and such.
 
It started for me when I turned 18 and found an outlet to rebel against my parents. I got a pellet gun a few weeks after my birthday, and a SOG Fielder a few months later.
 
Boy, for me it was a long time ago. Early 70's, I was 5 or 6 years old. My Grandfather had an old tool box in the basement that had 20 or 30 small "sample" knives in it. I would open the tool box and stare at some of the old pocket knives. At around 6 years old, I was "gifted" one of them. From then 'till my teens, it was buy slip joints at the flea markets, or outdoors stores, my Grandpa gifted me a few more fixed blades, and in '83 I was given a Zippo lock back for Xmas. The first "high end" knife I bought was a Spyderco Wegner. I still have it, and still scared to use it, even though I have several costing many times more. I guess what I'm saying is the addiction, for me, started way early.
 
Way back when, my grandpa gave me an old Imperial Barlow. That started the love but it just smoldered until I hit adulthood. My boss when I worked at a gunshop gave me a Kershaw Sapphire which I carried everywhere for about 5 years (still have it) before I started looking for a replacement. Ended up with a JYD 2.2. Dozens of knives from almost as many makers later, here I am. My lust has calmed and I no longer wish to own every knife I see, I've gotten a lot pickier- but I'm always on the lookout for the next buy.
 
Regardless of your story its a good feeling none the less. No mater how old you are the excitement is still the same.
 
I was given a swiss army knife when I was about 10. It was a super cool one with a saw, and a corkscrew, and lots of other tools I would never use. I carried it everywhere, and the story goes on from there.......
 
IUKE12 said:
Boys Life magazine around the same year 1977-78. I ordered a G-96 fixed blade knife from one of the ads for a canoe trip. Hooked on sharp tools ever since.
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Do you have a picture of the knife , I don t remember any other knife other then the Swish Army Knife in the back of Boys Life. Then again I think I was only interested in multi
function blades back then. Can you post the add if you have it.
 
My great grandfather gave me a handmade skinner after i shot my first deer. A man named Claude A. Oxford made him the knife to settle the ballance of a loan. I have all but quit using the knife because it is one of the few things that i have to remember him by.

My great grandfathers knife that started my habbit.
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I was 12y.o., and a foreign exchange student from Switzerland gave me a SAK that belonged to one of her friends who was active duty in the Swiss army at the time. That started my attraction to knives. I carried it every day (even to school :eek:) until I lost it my senior year. I replaced it in college with another one as close to that as I could, and bought my first "real" folder in 1999 -- a Benchmade 710sbt. I've been hooked on nice production folders ever since.
 
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