How did your knife obsession start?

I was born. Got my first real sword from my Navy Captain Grandfather when I was 4. I remained blissfully too poor to mess with the good stuff till recently. Now I'm in real trouble. :-)
Sculpted mammoth Ivory mounted jewel studded folded steel pirate themed goodness. Aaaaah.
 
My dad had a schrade lockback that i really loved and ended up that my grandfather bought me a minichamp because he brought me to a mil. surplus store and told me to pick out any knife. At the time i wanted something i could hide from the parents, but how could i hide such a sweet knife! I had that one for a few years before i got another and now regularly get 1 or 2 a year.

This is what the knife looked like, except it had an armadillo on it. He brought it fishing, camping, wherever. I never realized it, but he knew a lot about the woods & although not a knife collector always had a knife or multitool on him.
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It didn't say schrade scrimshaw on it and the sheath is a little different, but almost the same. His is numbered.
 
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I've always liked knifes. But thanks to beavers, cubs and scouts I know how useful they are. Then I started getting more into bushcraft, I wanted to see more what you'd do with nothing but a knife. It grew from there really. Ray Mears hasn't exactly stopped me liking knifes either. I would love a Woodlore, just haven't got the spare funds.

Since I was probably about 10 I've thought that everyone should own a good knife. Not for defence or anything like that, but for just the fact that life gets very hard in the big out doors without one.
 
Mine is inherently genetic. My dad loves anything sharp. When I worked for him doing construction it was apparent that I needed a good blade since the razors would just go dull after like 20 boards of sheetrock. I was his best and fastest hanger and that meant I needed a good blade. From then on I just had to have a blade on me and every time I wanted something better and better.
 
I'm not very old, it all started with a Victorinox Spartan my dad gave me for my 10th birthday. I still carry it everyday, along with a locking folder.
 
A crappy chinese pulp military novel. It detailed the exploits of a band of ragtag mercenaries who were so intolerably flawless they couldn't have been worse characters if they had spiky hair and used swords in battle. One of the guys blocked crossbow bolts by flexing his abs, and another guy literally carried a minigun by hand like he was in Predator.

It also had pages of specs for some military weapons and knives, famous & obscure. The two that snagged me were an Aitor Jungle King I (with a survival kit so complete it might as well come with a tent), and the Strider Tiger - which, upon further research, I was hugely disappointed to find that it wasn't actually used by anybody within shooting distance of a real army.

Then there was research, forums, window shopping, and some hilarious questions to a gunstore manager ("so uh, what does this knife do?" "...whatever you want."). The rest is history.
 
I think my knife obsession began after my uncle bought me a Gerber at Wal-Mart when I was 14 or 15. I got into balisongs, and soon after, got my first Spyderco (an all-stainless Native II, I think). It picked up big time a few years ago, and I'm now seriously over my head. I need to get rid of some of mine (but can't bear to)!

To the OP: Where in the Philippines are you from? :)
 
When and where I grew up, a man carried a pocket knife. When I was somewhere between 6 and 8, I asked my dad if I could take possession of an old pocket knife I'd found in the tool drawer. He said, "yes". That was about 50 years ago and I've been pretty much carrying a knife ever since.
 
I've always had an interest in blades. As a young boy I would frequently carry a stick around pretending it was a sword, I suspect a lot of people here did as well. My obsession started for two reasons, The first that my Grandfather always carried a little slip joint on him, Like Queen cutlrey or camillus. Growing up I always saw him using them. I feel that when he died I picked up the same practice in his honor. So, I always had a little pocket knife on me as a young kid. Then when I was about 12 or 13 my Best friends father bought a Benchmade 710. It was the coolest knife I had ever seen. as soon as I was old enough I bought one, but you know how it is one knife is never enough. So, here I am hundreds of knife purchases later.
 
I remember seeing a knife catalog (Smokey Mountain maybe?) a long time ago and started buying a few of the el cheapo's until I learned the difference in quality. I still have that first China made folder I bought....a "Jaguar"...whooaaaaaa......$4.95!
 
When i was younger my dad always had his huge Swiss army knife his father gave him and i was always wanting to play with it with all of the tools it had. I made a fire with the magnifying glass, i sharpened spears, used the tools on it. Trouble is i was really young when i did this and was not allowed to use them. I used to always sneak in and take this little knife he had and i would use it around the house for random things. Then once i was around 13 i finally bought my first knife. A Gerber Truss 2.0 and then it was just all down hill. I bought multi tools, slip joints, swiss army knives, and then my first "real" knife was my Spyderco Tenacious
 
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Been carrying a CRKT Carson M16-12 in my front jeans pocket for years. Used it all the time for small, odd cutting tasks which was mostly opening boxes, cutting tape, etc. From being buried in the bottom of my pocket, it's created quite a wear spot on the outside of my jeans, so I decided to drop into a local knife shop I'd seen for years but had ignored - to look for a different knife that might not be so heavy in the pocket. (I had never even thought to use the clip on my CRKT M16- duh!). This was just a month or so ago.

Anyway, the wife and I go into this knife shop and she (surprisingly) takes quite a liking to a black BM 643. I take a liking to a Barrage. Out we go about $300 poorer. Then to learn more about the knives I found this site online. Sunk me deep into a blade frenzy ever since. Since then added: a mini Barrage, SS Leek, Sage 1, G10 Dragonfly, 960SLV Osborne, 551 Griptilian, Persistence. And I see a 707 Sequel and 940 Osborne in the near pipeline. I could have just put the CRKT M16 in my pocket with the clip and gone on for how many more years, but no... Sheesh... I really only need one or two EDC pocket knives for basic things like opening boxes, cutting twine, tape, etc.
 
When I was about 16 I started to get more into hunting/fishing/outdoors and after a short time I understood the usefulness of a good knife. The rest is history...
 
i used to do a lot of sail training as a kid on square riggers and the like. a knife isn't a luxury on a boat, it's a necessary piece of safety equipment.

my mum bought me a SAK for my 15th birthday and i've carried a knife on me ever since.
 
The big, square, glass topped knife display case in Abercrombie & Fitch called to me every time I tried to walk by.
 
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