How did you get into the hobby of Knives?

Watching Rambo at too young of an age Maybe?
I was always fascinated by knives as far back as I cam remember. Starting with saks and then buck lockbacks, it grew. Well my first was a plastic knife replica from the Rambo movie. Hey I was maybe 7 so it counts.
 
115Italian said:
Watching Rambo at too young of an age Maybe?
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Watching the Rambo movies certainly gave me the survival knife mindset. To that point, I never owned a fixed blade knife. I didn't need one. To be honest, I still don't need one. But you can't take out sentries with a SAK. So, the fantasy began.... Things changed after the first Rambo movie, slowly at first, and then accelerated.
 
Nothing romantic or nostalgic in the way i got into knife collecting.
I have an addictive personality( thank G, never with substance abuse), and has always into collecting things, from an early age, whether its trading cards, comic books or just free toys from McD, i just buy,buy and buy.

When im older, and starting to be able to afford better things, i start collecting camera gears, hi end watches and hi fi gears....
then some career set back and i no longer can afford to buy a Rolex just because i feel like it.. so i stumble onto knives a few years ago, first was kitchen knives then i quickly ran out of storage space, so i moved on to folders. The truth is i get a high every time i received a new knife, and the euphoria quickly fads within a few hours and so on to the next one!

But apart from that, i do like knives, pointy, cool and with endless variations...a whole drawer full of these shiny yet functional object and still cost less than a few Rolex submariners. whats not to like:-)
 
I carried a leatherman mini that i won from cub scouts a way long time ago. When i was in cub scouts. I lost it while in boyscouts. I picked up sevaral crappy knives and lost them too.
I then went an bought a Buck Rush, and really liked it. It was sharp and was an assisted opener flipper. I then learned how to sharpen knives while in boy scouts. I got really good at it very quickly.

I then started looking up better brands once i was in high school. My favorite company was benchmade at the time. Senior year after achieving Eagle Rank i bought a Benchmade Mini Dejavoo. And i loved it. It was a grail ever since i say it in the catalogue. I carried it for years daily. Improved my sharpening skills with it too.

College came and i still loved benchmade and nicer companies. But i was a broke college kid. So i bought cold steel stuff because it was cheap and usually fun.

From high school through college i wat hed Tuffthumbz and Gavko knives on youtube. I was obsessed and would check nearly daily for new vids. Then one day in college i was like, i xould try building a knife. I love working with metal. (Went to a vocational school)
So i went on line and ordered a small piece of CPM D2. And took a week to come up with a design. It was called the famine. 4 inch blade 4 inch handle. Worked awesome once i finished it. Ugly as hell but worked

Now, nearly 5 years later im still making knives. And much much better knives than when i started. I have surpassed many goals i thought i would never achieve when i started. Working with 3V, making a convex grind, working with steel over 60HRC, scandi grind, making a kukri.
I didnt finish college, but i wouldnt change it for the world.
My next step is to go full time as a maker. I have a goal and a date.
 
ShannonSteelLabs said:
I carried a leatherman mini that i won from cub scouts a way long time ago. When i was in cub scouts. I lost it while in boyscouts. I picked up sevaral crappy knives and lost them too.
I then went an bought a Buck Rush, and really liked it. It was sharp and was an assisted opener flipper. I then learned how to sharpen knives while in boy scouts. I got really good at it very quickly.

I then started looking up better brands once i was in high school. My favorite company was benchmade at the time. Senior year after achieving Eagle Rank i bought a Benchmade Mini Dejavoo. And i loved it. It was a grail ever since i say it in the catalogue. I carried it for years daily. Improved my sharpening skills with it too.

College came and i still loved benchmade and nicer companies. But i was a broke college kid. So i bought cold steel stuff because it was cheap and usually fun.

From high school through college i wat hed Tuffthumbz and Gavko knives on youtube. I was obsessed and would check nearly daily for new vids. Then one day in college i was like, i xould try building a knife. I love working with metal. (Went to a vocational school)
So i went on line and ordered a small piece of CPM D2. And took a week to come up with a design. It was called the famine. 4 inch blade 4 inch handle. Worked awesome once i finished it. Ugly as hell but worked

Now, nearly 5 years later im still making knives. And much much better knives than when i started. I have surpassed many goals i thought i would never achieve when i started. Working with 3V, making a convex grind, working with steel over 60HRC, scandi grind, making a kukri.
I didnt finish college, but i wouldnt change it for the world.
My next step is to go full time as a maker. I have a goal and a date.
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That is awesome. Great story that can resonate with a lot of people.
 
Strangely, I didn’t REALLY get into knives until last year... and at 48!

Since I was a kid, I always had a cheap butterfly knife or a Buck 110 knockoff. Later on in my life I had a few Chinese Gerbers and Kershaws. Typically the Canadian Tire or Dick’s $20-30 knives when on sale.

Last year we bought a place in the woods and I soon realized that my crappy old Gerber Bowie and cheap Gerber folders wouldn’t cut it.

A Spyderco Manix 2 and a ESEE 6 were my first “high end” knife purchases and since then I haven’t looked back.i have bought another 60 or so knives since. :eek:
 
SharpieB said:
Strangely, I didn’t REALLY get into knives until last year... and at 48!

Since I was a kid, I always had a cheap butterfly knife or a Buck 110 knockoff. Later on in my life I had a few Chinese Gerbers and Kershaws. Typically the Canadian Tire or Dick’s $20-30 knives when on sale.

Last year we bought a place in the woods and I soon realized that my crappy old Gerber Bowie and cheap Gerber folders wouldn’t cut it.

A Spyderco Manix 2 and a ESEE 6 were my first “high end” knife purchases and since then I haven’t looked back.i have bought another 60 or so knives since. :eek:
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Never too late to get into knives. Everyone has hobbies, we as knife enthusiast just have an expensive hobby. Unfortunately, I have a lot of expensive hobbies (golf, knives, and fitness)
 
Carllewis12 said:
Never too late to get into knives. Everyone has hobbies, we as knife enthusiast just have an expensive hobby. Unfortunately, I have a lot of expensive hobbies (golf, knives, and fitness)
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Same here. It was wine, guitars, cigars, snowboarding and golf, but I have all the stuff I need for years with those hobbys.

Knives are a fun thing to buy/collect and actually useful! I use all of mine. Now if I could just get my Ping 2/3 irons to work.... ;)
 
SharpieB said:
Same here. It was wine, guitars, cigars, snowboarding and golf, but I have all the stuff I need for years with those hobbys.

Knives are a fun thing to buy/collect and actually useful! I use all of mine. Now if I could just get my Ping 2/3 irons to work.... ;)
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Definitely agreed. Knives are definitely very useful haha unlike my Ping driver haha. I am good at hitting homes in the neighborhood around the golf course with it haha, just not the fairway.:D
 
ARTT1 said:
I started off with firearms, and it was a natural progression.
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Carllewis12 said:
Definitely agreed as many are weapons lovers. A lot of people start as lovers of guns then migrate to knives.
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Siety338 said:
Same
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Count me in. I probably should’ve mentioned that above. I’ve had to suppress shooting sports as a hobby for years [politics withheld] due to geography, so discovering knives has been an outlet.
 
My story is probably a bit strange and unusual compared to most here. When I was in my 20s, I received a simple but nice Victorinox Swiss Army knife as a groomsman gift for participating in my friend’s wedding. I had never had one before, but it soon became something I carried on a daily basis, although I can’t say I used it very often, but it came in handy once in a while.

I’m now in my 40s, and last year I decided it was time for a new one as the old knife is quite beat up. So like I do with most things I plan to buy, I decided to look at online reviews. I guess I never knew there was this whole world of knives, including all the expensive and custom knives. After watching a number of YouTube reviews, I decided to purchase a $115 Benchmade knife, which was actually quite a bit more expensive than I had originally planned on.

After having the Benchmade for 6 months and continuing to watch knife video reviews (I’m now addicted) on YouTube, I decided I wanted to get a much nicer knife, and last month I ordered an Olamic Busker, which I’m now using as my EDC.

Will I continue to buy more and more knives? Probably not. I’m somewhat of a minimalist in general, so I can’t imagine having (or needing) more than 2 or 3 knives. I’ll probably sell the cheaper Benchmade at some point, and buy something nicer to replace it. I’ve been eyeing some of the smaller Medfords. I think I could be very happy with my Busker (as a smaller knife) and a nice Medford (as a larger option). :)
 
Eric5273 said:
My story is probably a bit strange and unusual compared to most here. When I was in my 20s, I received a simple but nice Victorinox Swiss Army knife as a groomsman gift for participating in my friend’s wedding. I had never had one before, but it soon became something I carried on a daily basis, although I can’t say I used it very often, but it came in handy once in a while.

I’m now in my 40s, and last year I decided it was time for a new one as the old knife is quite beat up. So like I do with most things I plan to buy, I decided to look at online reviews. I guess I never knew there was this whole world of knives, including all the expensive and custom knives. After watching a number of YouTube reviews, I decided to purchase a $115 Benchmade knife, which was actually quite a bit more expensive than I had originally planned on.

After having the Benchmade for 6 months and continuing to watch knife video reviews (I’m now addicted) on YouTube, I decided I wanted to get a much nicer knife, and last month I ordered an Olamic Busker, which I’m now using as my EDC.

Will I continue to buy more and more knives? Probably not. I’m somewhat of a minimalist in general, so I can’t imagine having (or needing) more than 2 or 3 knives. I’ll probably sell the cheaper Benchmade at some point, and buy something nicer to replace it. I’ve been eyeing some of the smaller Medfords. I think I could be very happy with my Busker (as a smaller knife) and a nice Medford (as a larger option). :)
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Awesome. How do you like the Olamic Busker?
 
It’s great. I like the really small size and it’s definitely a fidget item for sure. It was a ton of fun ordering, as there are so many different combinations of colors, textures, styles, etc. I still look at their website weekly at all the newer ones they create and always wonder if I should have gotten one with different options LOL.

Here is mine:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/new-olamic-busker.1564837/
 
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