How did you get your start collecting/accumulating knives?

I can't really say what got me started. I've always had a "thing" for knives. Especially folding knives. Through the years my search for the perfect EDC has brought many knives to my pocket, and taken many dollars from it. :rolleyes:
Once again, I have "come home" to where it all began. The "pocket sized" folder. I still have several beaters lying around, but my "collection" has gone through it's most recent rebirth. At present it stands at three knives:
Victorinox Settler
Case Mini Copperlock
CRK Mnandi
Others are in line, but few will meet final approval.

Paul
 
For as long as I can remember I always had some interest in knives and tools in general. I can remember going on vacation at around eight years old and buying a cheap SAK knockoff and crowbar as "souviners". My dad gave me a Buck 110 clone, that I thought was probably just about the coolest thing around. I bought a bunch of cheapo knives in between that time, and learning of actual quality knives.

The thing that got me really started was finding, accidentally I should add, a copy of Tactical Knives at the bookstore. Just browsing thorugh the magazines I spotted it, and decided to buy it, as I did like knives already. Well it really opened my eyes as to what a good knife was, and that the world of knives expanded beyond SAK's and Buck 110's. In that magazine I also found something I had been wanting to get for the longest time, an automatic knife. Up to that point I had just assumed they were not made any more, and I would never find one. Well that issue featured an Al Mar Auto SERE. Did some research online, found this place, and got that switchblade! The rest, well we all know what happens. :D I am now hooked for life!!
 
My Father, who passed away when I was 12, had about 30 knives at the time of his death. My Mother gave a few away to his friends so they could have a small remembrance of him and the other 20 or so went to me. I still have them and over the years I have built my collection as well.
 
I was about 10 or 11 when I basically "took over" my Father's small collection. There were (and are) several interesting knives but the one that really caught my imagination was a 1918 USMC trench knife with the spiked brass knuckle handle. Great to hold that knife in your hand...

SCDUB
 
My mater grandfather, Ernie. He gave me my 1st knife when I was about 8 or 9 years old, and it's been on since then. He owned a couple of pretty cool second hand stores, so he usually had a knife waiting for me at about one every couple or three months...Sometimes they were gifts, sometimes I had to "work" for them in one of his stores sweeping up, washing the windows, etc., but he always taught me to treat those knives with respect, and he also taught me how to keep them sharp and cared for.
 
My father gave me my first real knife when I was 10 or 11--a 6 inch fixed blade. Or sheath knife as they were called way back then. I realised that I was different from most of my friends fairly soon, as I kept on wanting more knives when they were satisfied with the one they had.

Officially I became a "collector" a few years after that when I realised that I had knives I didn't use any more, but didn't want to get rid of them. Sometime around then I had to declare hobbies (at school??) and the knife collecting became official.

I still have my first knife--and just about every one since. The collecting has speeded up since I gave up shooting--shoulder problems that the knives don't bother.

Greg
 
My father never gave me a knife. But it was my aunt who purchased my first fixed blade.. An Okapi! :D

Sam
 
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