How did you become a knife knut?

I have been into knives since I was a very little girl. My Mom used to take me camping & fishing, and she taught me the importance of having a knife. I have carried one ever since.
 
I think looking through a Herters catalog put me over the edge. If you can remember that catalog, well you're not so young either.
 
I don't think I was born a knife knut. I'm pretty sure I was okay until I opened my eyes. After that...
 
O C D. Knives have been on and off for the past 30+ years. In between the knife collecting was comics / hotwheels as a youth. Cars / Motorcycles / Helmets / Die cast / Guns / Wives / Cameras / Cell phones & Gadgets / stupid dumba$$ friends that never have any money. But knives have been the ever constant collection. I get em, use em for awhile then sell or swap and start over. I really enjoy them.:thumbup:



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wow this just brought back some great memories.

When I was six or so I visited the USS Nautilus museum in Groton, CT with my father - he bought me this teeny tiny folder that was faux white marble with the red Nautilus crest. I was hooked.
 
when my dad gave me his old barlow around age 5 or 6. 2nd grade teacher stole it from me for carving my name in the desk. snuck in and got it back during recess but lost it somewhere afterwards! fishing or something.
 
bearcut said:
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.

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man i wanted one of those buckmasters!!!! i think i was 12 or 13 around that time, and rambo was fresh in my mind. i ended up with frost cutlery models, which at that time weren't relatively that bad (from what i remember).

also remember those cold steel ads with the tantos through the car door. i thought that was the coolest thing ever!! never did get one, though.


as i said, i had lots of cheaper stuff when i was a kid. my first nice knives were a buck hunter (still have it, a gift from dad) and a sak.

bought frn and stainless spydies (delica sized) in the late 80's. then a benchmade pardue auto around 1999.

went nuts with the knife buying around 2003 or so. ive always loved and owned knives, but this internet thing sure makes it easy to feed the addiction.
 
When and where I grew up, 1950's - 1960's foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, guys carried pocket knives. Never got out of the habit.
 
It's nice to see another thread like this, except rather than focusing mainly on slipjoints, it encompasses all knives.

I guess I've always had an appreciation for sharp objects ever since I was a kid. Perhaps it's just animal instinct, or man's desire to cut things, but I've always loved and understood the usefulness of a properly sharpened knife. Just a few days ago, I picked up a ceramic stick to help me get that hair-shaving edge that I've seen with so many Spydercos NIB. Getting closer...
 
As a young boy back in the 60's, my father would buy me these small fixed blade knives that were made for kids. They were usually sold in hardware stores , but sometimes as souvenirs when we went on family vacations.

Back then, if you were a cub/ boy scout , you were allowed to wear your uniform to school on meeting day, and this included a knife.

As a teen in the 70's, I always carried a pocket knife.

I agree with Baba, knife accumulating is probably a form of OCD, I accumulate a lot of things, but knives are constant.

This is the lone survivor of one of those knives I got as a kid. I had others that were much better.

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Well, I got involved with knives at a Very young age.

Now, What was the name of this thread? I forgot what I was about to say.:o
 
When I was student, my x-room partner collected knives. He ordered knives every now and then and I thought I could use a folder too.. and the rest is history.
 
I was raised on a farm in Louisiana. That and my dad being an avid hunter, means knives were just a fact of life growing up. However, it took me going into the Marine Corps and being exposed to Spyderco to make me a full blown knife knut.

I still remember seeing my first spyder hole in a knife (cannot remember the exact model) and thinking "What is that?", "Why would they do that to a knife?". However, after looking at it some more and handling it I understood that "they" knew way more than I did about knives.

Now that I am a bit older and can afford my addiction, I stepping back into the crazy world of knives.

Thanks for the great thread,
STICF
 
It came in stages.

Stage 1: I have practiced kendo and iaido since I was in high school. And having to handle swords, I got interested in knives as well. I went to the local dumpstore and got myself some cheap folders and a Gerber.

Stage 2: during my college years I went to Hungary with a girl. To impress her, I bought some knives on a market in Budapest and my collection went from 5 to 10 blades. I lost the girl after the vaction, but my knives are still with me.

Stage 3: I got more and more interested in high-end knives and began to 'collect' Fällknivens and Extrema Ratios since one and half years ago. They are still my favourite European production blades.

Stage 4: except for Hinderers and Bradley Alias, I am done with folders. I am interested in top production fixed blades.
 
When I was 4-5 yrs old I closed my uncle s slip joint over my thumb.
Steel get in contact with blood and I get steelifected for life.:D
 
Honestly. at about 9/10 years old after i saw First Blood. I've been hooked ever since. :D
 
It was my destiny, growin' up the son of a mechanic who could do everything from build a house to rebuildin' a car from the ground up includin' rebuildin' his motor and fabricate all his own parts.

Knives, tools, gadgets of all kinds always occupied our time but it was the huntin' trips that made me the knut I am today, my Oldman would go up into the weeds of upstate NY near the Canadian border and then we'd pack 2 days deeper into the weeds, we used machetes to clear abandoned trails, camp knives usually to build shelter and get a fire goin', sometimes to set up trip wires to alert us to bears nearby.

We even used knives to skin and prepare our food, (when we caught or shot something).

It was the culmination of all these things that led to the exposure to different styles of knives, this quickly turned from fascination to obsession.
 
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