How did your knife obsession start?

singularity35

singularity35

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I have liked knives since I was little but with my various interests and activities I really was not able to focus on knives. As a Filipino I have carried a fairly capable butterfly knife on and off. I also have several cheap generic Chinese knives in a drawer.

Recently, a couple of friends gave me a couple of knockoffs of some S&W folders and I started carrying one of these. At first I was attracted to "tacticool" folders. Since I knew that what I had were knockoffs, I soon started searching the internet for pictures and I started to try to find where I could get a "real" knife.

I then started lurking in this and other forums and soon realized that I wanted a Tenacious. I couldn't find anywhere to buy any Spydercos but I found one gun store stocking the one and only tactical knife in our small city. This folder was a recon 1. I couldn't help myself and I bought it in spite of its tactical appearance. Soon after, I found a Spyderco dealer and immediately ordered a millie. within a week I also ordered an endura and a sharpmaker. I now have a manix 2 and a tenacious on order.

How many knives I accumulate will depend of course, on the availability of money. I am already thinking of selling of some guns since I'm not taking the time to fondle them between spending my time on the forums and looking at pics. This has gotten bad enough that I did not go to the range last Saturday and Sunday since that's when I got my sharpmaker and i wanted to play with it.
 
Mine started when I discovered jeff's (cutlerylover) videos on YouTube. That's what first got me interested in knives so I dug out my old cheap SAK.

It just kinda grew from there.
 
used to be really big into guns and i am subscribed to nutnfancy and a few other people on youtube and i would periodically watch their knife reviews and one day i went out and bought me a knife since then ive been hooked. went to all knives and no guns now lol
 
From my childhood hero in the 60s...:)

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It started when I was a kid growing up. My dad and I would go to the pawn shop and he would buy me a cheap Pakistan folder. I graduated to Old Timers, Bucks, then to fixed blade and thats when it really started. My first real fixed blade was a Becker BK7, then Ontario knives, then Scrapyard and then Busse.
 
I blame boy scouts. Trying to build a shelter or Klondike sled with an imperial BSA model can be done, but man is in uncomfortable! :) Bought a cheap furry at the surplus store, then a gerber gator and a few others. Started working at the boathouse years later and cutting rope daily became the norm, ended up on these forums looking for a good life jacket knife, ended up hearing that BM disco'd their h1 knives, and saw spyderco for the first time...
 
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Mine started when I discovered jeff's (cutlerylover) videos on YouTube. That's what first got me interested in knives so I dug out my old cheap SAK.

It just kinda grew from there.
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+1 for cutlerylover...i was looking up zippo tricks and then started watching all his knife reviews and then i found BFC and then it really kicked off:D
 
I guess watching my dad sharpen his case knife, getting ready to skin some coons for their hides to sell.
 
When I was a kid (4-5 years old) I started to made my own cutting tool with some piece of cork and some piece of metal... don't know why, but it was the begining !
 
Loved weapons since as far back as I can remember, thought knives/guns/swords and stuff were the coolest things ever. I remember sneaking knives out of the house when I was like 5 years old and messing around with them in the back yard.

Got my first pocket folder when I was maybe 7 or 8, it was a cheap Pakistan lockblade I got from a carny at a local fair.

Some of my fondest memories are from back when I was around 10, I would go to the local Goodwill second-hand store and buy big kitchen knives for like 50 cents a knife, then I'd make sheaths out of cardbord and ducktape. ...Spent alot of time out in the woods chopping on trees with meatcleavers and learning to throw with butcher knives.

When I was 12 I bought a little Taylor-seto Balisong knife and fell in love with it, I EDC'd that knife for about 7 years until it was stolen from me!

Always have spent way too much money on blades and guns, I probably had dozens of cheap to mid-range knives by the time I was in my late teens, and now that I make decent money it just means that I get more expensive toys. :)

I always loved hiking and camping and shooting when I was little too, and I plan on sharing those kinds of out door experiances with my own kids when they are old enough!
 
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technically I got started when Dad gave me a SAK (a Wegner) back when I was 6 or 7.
Then a Cold Steel Voyager in my teens.

I didn't get sick with the disease till I started looking for something better than the Voyager.
The first batch of knives I bought was a bunch of Cold Steel stuff, right when they went heavy into 420HC.:thumbdn:
After learning that I had bought a bunch of overly thick kitchen knives, I was gently pointed to Bladeforums by my brother, who already had an advanced form of the sickness.
My next purchase of real knives was the Kershaw Boa and Benchmade 140HS.

The rest is history (mostly Spyderco).
 
Mine started when I lost my first real knife (an SAK) that I'd been carrying around since I was little and I started looking into getting a replacement.

Since I generally research like crazy before I buy something, that meant I ended up watching every youtube review I could find of any knife I was vaguely interested in as well as reading paper reviews, requesting catalogs from knife companies, etc.

By the time I had finally decided on a knife, I had this huge mass of knife-related info seared into my brain from all that research, and I was hooked. :p

I could have saved myself a whole lot of money if they hadn't discontinued that limited run of SAK years before...I probably would have just bought another one instead of looking at other options. Funny how things work out, idn't it? :rolleyes:
 
It all started in the kitchen, using a paring knife to cut some meat, I was pretty young and wanted to help my mom cut up the food.
 
My knife collection started out when I thought:

"I think it would be handy to have a knife on me. I only need one, though. I will never need or buy any other knives.".

Then I joined bladeforums to see the recommendations.

Well ****, I was wrong.
 
I had various pocket knives from about the age of 8 or so and never thought about them much. Then, as a young airman, I found myself on temporary duty at Saigon Tan Son Nhut during Tet '71 with no flak jacket, helmet, or weapon other than the dagger I brought with me from the Philippines. Never had to use it (and wouldn't have known how, really) but knowing it was there was comforting. Since that time I have been obsessed with knives. My present job has a zero tolerance no knife policy but they don't search or use a metal detector so I carry an old clipless Spyderco Delica deep pocket. My last job required lots of airline travel and I always stuck one or two in checked baggage to be retreived and stuck in my pocket at the first opportunity.
 
I guess it all started for me in the mid to late 70's. Seeing my brother whittle a stick on the front porch. A lot of people carried knives back then, and well I guess I wanted to also. So the amber was lit, but watching MacGyver in the 80's and Rambo, ignited it. And Iv'e been going strong ever since. :cool:
 
My grandfather had this knife, which he sharpened almost daily when I was a boy. He's gone now, but this is mine...

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He also kept a old Buck 301 that he traded with the Queen knife above for EDC. In my tweens, I had a few cheapies that I liked alot - a butterfly, my own Buck 301, an old bayonette, etc. In the last couple of years though, my sickness has really gone into overdrive - starting with this...

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And currently a slave to this....

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Help me, someone...
 
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Always was into blades since I was a little guy. Always carried a knife since I was around 12 or so. Usually was in my back pack, but it was close at hand. It wasnt very special or anything but I liked it. Eventually, I decided to take a course for landscaping and it recommended a knife, so I decided to treat myself to a new blade. It went downhill from then:)
 
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