How did you become a knife knut?

Josh K

Josh K

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I was coming back from a Boy Scout summer camp. Decided to pick up a Buck Rush in ATS-34. First knife I got that I actually carried everywhere. Used it so much I wore out the assisted spring. ;)

From there, I got an M21 from CRKT. Fun little knife. That eventually paved the way to a D'Allara from Spyderco. Those two knives really got me going on knives. Once I realized the options available, I guess I just ran with it. Now I'd have to count to see how many I own.

We all have our roots. :) Let's hear yours.
 
Decided I wanted to pick up a leatherman. They had just come out with the skeletool.
It was noted that it had a 154CM blade, and I had no idea what that meant. Along came some googling...made my way to blade forums. The rest was history. :)
 
My grandfather always told a knife is the most important tool was can own or carry. I still have his old lockback knife. He got me my first knife when I was 8 and Ive been obsessed with knives ever since. I have a couple knives ready to give to my son when he is 8.
 
I felt that I needed something more than a SAK when I was about 12 or so and my father handed my the Smokey Mountain Knife Works catalog...its been a serious addiction since then.
 
When I was 12, my uncle brought be too the gunshow in Austin. I liked the Chinese knives but they kept breaking on me. My dad bought me a machete he found in Iraq, it was made in pakistan, but he didn't know, but I still have it, and like it. Then my brother did the same with a katana that broke in 2 days.

I was in to airsoft much more then knives then, about last summer. I lost intrest, and went back to knives. I found nutnfancy and cutlery lover. I looked up the brands, and looked up the steels. I bought my first kabar that month, kabar short in CE. It's beat to crap, not because I use it, but I dig holes with it and throw it at walls. Very tough knife.

I saved about $100 and bought a RAT, but I didn't really like it. My uncle bought me a spyderco native for Christmas. In january I made over 1000 posts and I asked my dad to upgrade me to membership. Right know I'm trying to save for an al mar sere fixed blade. So I guess this is me starting out right now.
 
i'm born to be a blades lover.
It's genetical...my father is,grand father was & i imagine ancestors too.
 
When I was five or six my dad gave me a buck110, which started it. I just loved using it to cut open fish when he helped me back than. Ever since that first cut I have wanted to ovtain more and more..
 
As long as I can remember I've been obsessed with knives, I've got around 80 or so now mostly production and a few custom. Can't really remember exactly what started it.
 
Well I guess it really started with my father having an old Victorinox Spartan (Marlboro logo'd), it was so old that it didn't even have the tweezer / toothpick slots, that he always carried. Whenever my older brother or I had a new toy that needed opening or something cut, he was there to with his knife to liberate the treasure from it's plastic cage. I always somewhat admired the knife from afar, but never was enthralled with it.

Fastforward quite a few years. I was/am in my early 20's. My older brother bought a couple of cheapie folders, then a couple CRKT money clip knives (all the while I'm thinking he's stupid for buying knives). After he buys the CRKTs, he stops carrying the cheapies - he just leaves them on a table and never touches them. After a while, I just start picking one up (an Eddie Bauer one, still have them at my local Target) and fiddle with it. One day, I decide to slip it into my pocket when I go to class that day. I do the same the next day, the rest of the week... It just becomes a habit. Finally the knife breaks, my brother feeling bad decides to buy me a new one. Cost him about $30 at the Army Navy store, but it was another cheapie (Fury?). After a month it ends up in the laundry and breaks (I thought the drier sounded awfully weird with that CLUNK CLUNK when I turned it on :P)... Again my brother feels bad so he buys me a Buck Parallax. To me, this knife was two shades of awesome! Tough blue metal handle, deep pocket clip, a weird finish on the blade (bead blast)!

Come last November or so my brother decides that he really wants a balisong (butterfly to us at the time) and he wants a nice one, so he orders a BM32 Morpho. Me, being jealous of his new $100+ pointy object decide I want to get a nice knife as well. Knowing absolutely nothing about knives, I just look at Benchmade because my brother says they are a good company. I google, I youtube, clicking random links from things I find... I stumble upon Nutnfancy and cutlerylovers videos and I watch damn near their entire catalogs of knife reviews and decide to get a Griptilian, Tenacious, and FRN Cara Cara... And a couple Buck Bantams (Hey look at that, all highly praised knives from said youtube viewers :P).

So anyways, I'm thinking my brother and I are going to knife collecting as a hobby, so I don't mind buying quite a few knives to start my collection... Little did I know he had no such intention - he just wanted that one knife. So I'm stuck with these knives, and I get caught up in the "EDC" craze and mindset... Leatherman Charge, Fenix light, SAKs, paracord here and there - oh and don't forget more knives... I think it's a sickness to be honest, I can't stop :D

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Edit: And to make matters worse - I live in the city of Boston... So chances of actually needing a cutting implement and not having one somehow attainable in the building I'm located in is rather rare. At most, a small SAK could easily get me through any possible encounters I may have :P
 
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Around 1970.
Victorinox offered a SAK with a whopping 9 INSTRUMENTS!
Of course, then I had to get the one that had 12, then 15, then 30…

Then the 80’s.
Buck came out with the Buckmaster and I HAD to have one of those.
Tekna knives broke new ground and I had to have their knives. Their dive / survival knife had one of the best designed sheaths ever made.
A strange company with butterfly logos, Pacific Cutlery, got me hooked next.
Cold Steel offered the first tanto-laminated blade-kraton handled folder ever. They were way ahead of their time, expensive too. Bought one of those.

Then leathermans.

Then exotic metal blades.

And so it goes.
 
I went fishing, our friend had a rainbow kershaw centofante, it was love at first site. Now I have a s60v blur, best $60 I spent, and an Od-1 that I won here on BF. I love them now, but my knife fund is tiny so I can't indulge.
 
Started in the 1970's with hunting knives / skinners.

Evolved into Vics after that.

15 years ago I got into folders.

Downhill ever since.

I am a gadget freak and a survivalist at heart...
 
I don't know, that was 50 years ago. Do you really expect me to remember that?
 
maybe its an evolution thing, humans needed spears and blades and such for everyday life for so long, maybe its become ingrained in our dna somehow. if you look at little kids playing on the playground, they will pick up every stick and piece of bark that resembles a knife, sword or gun of some sort and pretend its a weapon.
 
I've been a knife carrier since high school after my sister gave me a personalized Swiss Army Knife from her trip to Europe in 2000. But I really didn't become a knife knut 'till I got my hands on a Spyderco Delica 4 a year and half ago. Afterwards, a good friend of mine directed me to a very good Knife store in Lansing and it's been downhill from then on for my checkbook....:D
 
I've been a knife carrier since I was 10, when my older brother gave to me a SAK, wich I used in my fishing and hunting trips, a couple years ago I began to navigate in the net looking for a new multitool and I found Bladeforums...now I am into knife collecting as a hobby...
 
i had christmas money, and i went to texas to see relatives, my mother told me any money came back with went towards books and rent, so i bought an s30v blur at a gun show, and i jsut went fro mthere.

this was in january, i now own 7 folders and two multi tools, wiht no plans to stop.
 
I had a little folder when I was 10 or so, I would carry around w/ my buddy.

When I was 19, I was sleeping with my spanish professor, she gave me a K.I.S.S. in the dark as a valentines day gift (pretty badass woman).

After collecting a couple crkts and low grade types, I did my RESEARCH for once and bought a full size spyderco Manix, PE. Damn I love that knife, still my favorite. After hearing I bought a spyderco, my grandfather gave me one that he picked up at a gun show in TX - A factory second Tuffram Civilian. Been a "knife guy" for a while now, and I always will be.

DC
 
I honestly think I was born that way. Ever since I can remember I have loved knives. When I was just little I would get scrap wood and build swords, knives, and tomahawks. For birthdays and at Christmas, I would always ask for knives. I was lucky because my folks never saw anything wrong with this and in fact my dad really got into it with me and we had a good time going to pick up knives and just going to look sometimes. Now my son and I do the very same thing and it really gives me a very happy feeling!
 
When I was ten or so my Dad gave me his Buck 704 and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. A couple years later I bought a cheap SAK knockoff. A few years after that I bough an S&W SWAT - been hooked ever since.
 
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