How did you become a knife junky?

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dragonsprayer

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I could not remember my first 2 non boy scout knives, after my classic scout folder, folded on my thumb/fingers a couple times - i got dad too get me kbar lock back.

i finally remember, a few years later i wanted a sheath knife, we called, you call a fixed blade. i found my old knife! they still make 47 years later! i got 3 years on that knife!
i went too kershaw classic when i was 18 gift from da wife then GF, now #$%^@, i miss that buck.




Buck Special 0119BKS Hunting Knife Fixed Blade (6" Satin Plain) 0119BKSbuck-knives-fixed-0019bks-b-special.jpg


thx BHQ for the image!
 
I have always had knife for as long as i can remember, but my knifenut days started when i bought a Spyderco tenacious. Now knives are 80% of my daydreams haha
 
When I was a child, a friend's mother would order us knives through a catalog. Budk it was called.

became a sushi chef and grew fond of single bevel chef knives, one of the sharpest of knives you can use.

I wield a yanagi 6 days a week at least 8 hours a day.

this 12" blade is an extension of my arm you could say.
 
Way, way back I would go fishing with my Grandpa and he had a fix blade with stacked leather washer handle (Marbles?) knife in his tackle box. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. And my dad had a switch blade in his dresser draw, that I would sneak out and play with as much as I could. I was about six years old at this time? Been a knife nut since.....:D
My older sister has the switch blade, I'll get it from her some day? I got a few guns from my dad, that's how she ended up with the knife. I'm always on the look out for something that I can trade her for it?:rolleyes::D
 
I've always had knives and over the years I accumulated a few for functional reasons - pocket knife, fixed, etc. for fishing, hunting, work. You guys know what I mean. I probably had a dozen or so that I bought over the years, almost all traditional. Then, back in 2005 (IIRC) I purchased a Kershaw Blur. I was sucked in. So I started reading about knives and buying knives that interested me for their own sake. The Blur was my gateway knife.

Now I stand on street corners holding out my "Will work for knives" sign. I just can't quit 'em...
 
We went to Smoky Mountains and on the way there I bought first bowie in Kentucky and I couldn't stop since :) My first knife was junk but...($30 knife) Now three years later I Have $30k in knives . Needless to say we never made it to SM :)
 
How did you become a knife junky? Otherwise known as movin' on up. My interest in knives started when I was a kid after I purchased my first knife (Imperial folder) in the second grade. As I grew and my hands got larger, I bought other Imperial brand folders which were inexpensive knives ($0.50 to perhaps $1.50 each) at the local "5 & 10". I can recall two others until I got to normal sized knives. I moved up in quality or what I thought was quality to a Case Barlow knife probably about age 12 and that came from the local hardware store. Hunting was the driver for that purchase as well as just having a better cutter. Dad always carried a knife. Learned from him and learned the usefulness of having a knife in your pocket for whatever cutting task developed and there were many since I lived in the country.

I went for years essentially stable with one or two slip joint folders. I never had an interest in switchblades as a young person or anything that might be considered primarily for self defense. In my 20's, I got a large Schrade two blade folder for a field knife which I used and abused for years. It was a great knife but a little big for everyday carry. I probably had a Case or similar folder (Jackknife) in my pocket too and used the Schrade for larger tasks. I bought it from a knife salesman in a 24-hr restaurant in Laredo TX (Sambo's as I recall.) for like $20.

Things picked up in the 1990's with exposure to my sisters husband to be who was a knife nut and like "expensive" fixed blades. Never even considered buying a fixed blade until I met him. I bought Randalls and other more expensive knives after that primarily at gunshows. With the internet, the hobby grew with the convenience of buying and the interest.

The one thing I can't get past is a total bias toward folders for using regardless of how many expensive fixed blades i have.
 
It started with surplus bayonets in my early teens I believe. I was heavily into firearms and some of the mil. surplus catlogues had dirt cheap bayonets that I couldn't pass up.
 
Got my first pocket knife at ten and then started to go the mall Ninja route. I then started learning real martial arts and joined the military and have been carrying since then.
 
I've had a few knives since childhood, but never was particularly fascinated by them. About 4 years ago I received a gift certificate to an online sporting goods dealer. In their catalog they had a Kershaw OSO Sweet for $19, so I used part of the certificate for that, and then I was hooked.

Since then I've spent far more money on blades than I ever thought I would, but what a sweet addiction it is!
 
god you guys bring me too tears

god bless america ....well the one when i was kid. not bad as long you do not live in: IL, NY, CA, CO. CT, NJ, etc......list grows. Wow what happened to WI used have 18 year beer age? IL was 19.

after there done with guns next will be knives! so you better start preparing now.

if spit on a teacher you got punched out, then the teacher got let go, not arrested. black kids got treated just fine w/o special bs. the jocks and freaks got along fine 90% marry jane rates.

then the hippies too over the goverment, elites, rest of us well we should all have the same stuff, money, and health care.

family of 4 making 40,000 pays taxes, family 3 on the goverment collects 60,000k.

wow did i screw up my thread!
 
My grandfather was the vice-president of Utica Cutlery for many years (and long, long ago; I'm 62). He was always sending us kids small knives over the years (I still have many of them) so I guess I grew up in it. I'm not a serious knife guy and a couple Fallkniven F1's are my most expensive blades but I'm a serious user and have, probably, 40-50 decent and sharp assorted knives, almost all folders.

My daily carry is a Mini-Grip and a SAK Ambassador with a Classic on my key ring.

These days I'm mostly about the sharpening of what I've got with not much interest in acquiring more. I've got a fullsize Grip, a couple Buck 501's, a Folding Hunter, and a mess of SAKs. I've also got a Buck 119, a couple F1's, an older USAF survival knife (Ontario?), and then some misc. autos, folders, and a collection of Utica Cutlery stuff including the set of full tang Kutmaster steak knives my granddad gave us when we got married in 1978.
 
When I was a kid growing up in New England (early 60's) if you didn't have a "jack knife" you weren't normal. At around age 12 or so many of us also had sheath knives (we called them Bowie knives) which we used for carving our names everywhere we could get away with. They were also used in games of skill. That morphed into SAKs as I got older and it's been downhill ever since. Even though I carry a pocket knife I'm not normal though.
 
Some children idolize sports figures, firefighters, or astronauts but I idolized cowboys. At 4/5 I already had the cap guns, boots, belt, and hat (black of course). I guess I was drawn to the freedom they had. I read books when I was older most of which were of fantastic adventures and quests. I guess the step came naturally, I was more into knives than guns because I grew up in the suburbs with a nice patch of woods in the back.

First Knife...

Second....

Third (first fixed blade)


I mostly stuck to ebay blades until about 5 years ago (20 years old currently). I was buying so many my dad limited me to 1 every six months.

It would be interesting to compile a series of pictures of the progression. Maybe when I get some spare time.

If you are interested this was my last :)
 
Myself becoming a knife junkie started when I was turning eighteen. Pretty much all my life I had wanted a USMC Ka-Bar. Particularly because I saw them used in the military. Well, I always like to watch/read reviews before I buy something. I watched TheCajunBlaze's video on his. I had no idea he was a semi big name in knife Youtuber's.
Anyway, one of the comments in the video said, "That knife is not that sharp, my Sog Seal Pup Elite 2000 would slice my finger to the bone if I ran my finger along it.". Of course everyone knows what they are talking about on the internet :rolleyes:. So I had to have that instead.
When I got the knife, it really wasn't that sharp. I had a pull through knife sharpener I used to get it semi decent (to me back then). My quest for getting it sharper brought me here. And it quickly went downhill from there :).
 
2nd grade, I went to the corner store to buy some now & laters ended of getting robbed by some punk gangbangers, my older brother found out and gave be a small folder from who knows where. I think I was more into playing with the knife than I was about protecting myself, lol. Been carrying ever since...
 
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