How did you get into knives?

I've always had and used different knives. I just never thought of collecting them until AG Russell kept sending me catalogs. Then one day the light came on. Now I can't stop.

Jeff
 
I posted my answer as a topic, to which no one responded, a week ago. I blame Dick Marcinko !

Actually, I've always been enamored of knives, always had one in my pocket since high school or before (a cheap "007" or a butterfly at the time). It was a couple of years ago, reading one of Marcinko's books, that he piqued my interest in something called a Mad Dog Frequent Flier, and an Emerson CQC6. Never having heard of them, I started looking for pictures on the net, and eventually found BFC. While I may have been a recreational knife user before, now I can 'mainline' here 24/7 !
 
Ditto Glockman99

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Ron,
Bremerton, Washington
 
Hey Guys...

Muzzelup..

I was just headed here to say the Exact same thing...

Knife people are born,,not always made...
I think the majority of us here have had an affliction with knives since Early childhood...

I pretty much know what got me started,,although I can't remember completely..

I picked and old broken knife out of a trailer of trash headed to the dump at a friend of mines house. After asking if I could have it,, it went directly home and my father reground the tip and put an edge on it.

It was a small fixed blade knife with some tools in the handle.Cheap piece of junk,, but you know what... I've still got it,, just seen it last week in a box of other crap at my parents..

The knife didn't have a sheath,,but I had a leathersmith a craft show make one for it...

That bloody knife went with me Everywhere.I still remember carving sticks with it,,and that was some 28 years ago...

Funny how we can remember the important things in life Eh!

Now shoot,, when was my wedding Anni ?? LOL

ttyle Eric....

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Leading The Way In Quality Synthetic Sheathing
 
I spent much of my grade-school days finding and losing cheap knives. I bought a $12 survival knife when I was ten. It was the coolest thing!!, with a compass in the handle!! I never bought anything nicer than a Frost knife, 'til college, where I saw a Cold Steel catalog, and got a subscription to Smoky Mountain Knife Works, Haven't stopped buying Since.

Daniel D.
 
My brother (9 years older) got me a SAK for Christmas when I was 13 or so. I used that knife for everything for a while, until I decided to branch out and start buying knives of my own, starting with a trusty old Buck 110, which I carried throughout high school and still have. By the time I got out of high school I was scouring junk stores for knives with whatever nonexistent funds I had.

In college I started buying Spyderco knives. An Endura went everywhere with me, and I kept a swedish mauser "1896" bayonet under my pillow.

After college I started working for a software company as a salaried employee. Then I found this place. It's all been downhill from there.
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Looking around my room this morning I saw: two khukuris on the floor next to my bed, a Shadow IV in my bed, a Benchmade and REKAT Carnivore hiding under the bed, a broken Spyderco Endura, the bayonet, and a Leatherman tool scattered in various corners, and a sebenza clipped to my pajamas. And that's just the stuff I have lying around because I haven't cleaned for a while. I have a sneaking suspicion that there are throwing knives on the coffee table.

So -- ten years, several dozen knives, and some dollars into the habit... and don't intend to stop any time soon.

Hey, it could have been beanie babies, right?
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[This message has been edited by Novadak (edited 09-07-2000).]
 
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