How old are you

How old are you?

  • Under 30

    Votes: 14 7.8%

  • 30 - 39

    Votes: 28 15.6%

  • 40 - 49

    Votes: 30 16.7%

  • 50 - 59

    Votes: 38 21.1%

  • 60 - 69

    Votes: 42 23.3%

  • 70 - 79

    Votes: 24 13.3%

  • 80+

    Votes: 4 2.2%
  • Total voters
    180
Hatchet_Jack

Hatchet_Jack

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It strikes me that I've got no idea if traditional knife collecting is a young or old man's game or a real spread.

Part 2 would be how old were you when you got into traditional knife collecting?

Myself, I'm 32 and have been around traditional knives my whole life. Dad wasn't a collector but like me never had an interest in anything modern so only ever carried traditionals and only for using.
I only started probably 3 years ago, and initially only 18th century replicas based on my interest in history (F&I war era especially). It felt right to have those knives while out with my flintlock.

But I love it now and traditional folders are my niche.
 
hhmoore said:
Great 😖 - I'm the oldest guy in this thread.
For now...
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Now I am. (Or maybe not.)

My maternal grandfather, a retired machinist at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, (and Sicilian immigrant), gave me my first knives in the late 1950's or so. Unfortunately, he died in 1962. Hardly a day goes by I don't think of him. I don't have any of his knives anymore...but I do have his mandolin, pocket watch, and some of his hand tools.
 
70! Got you all beat... so far.
When I was six my maternal grandfather gave my brother and I our first knives. A few days later his daughter confiscated them both. Two years after that being all grown up and matured :) I bought myself a brand new Barlow. It could not be confiscated due to it's legitimate need called work. I began collecting pocket knives when in my late 50's. All other details are pretty much ancient history and most likely completely forgotten. ;)
 
71. I have a life long love of cutlery. I started carrying a pocket knife when I was 6, an old carbon steel equal end jack that my father let me adopt out of the tool drawer. It was significantly older than I was at the time.
 
I'm 79 and have had a love affair with knives and guns - hunting and fishing since I can remember. Been a Buick fan boy since I saw their ads in Outdoor LIfe and Field and Stream in the late 50s, early 60s. I don't consider myself a collector because that denotes buying with a theme or something like that. Since the mid 80s I have been an accumulator and caretaker of many makes and styles.
 
64 started out with a cheap Barlow at age 6 or seven, I had a few hand me down pocket knives after it broke and then bought my own first real traditional at around age 10 a 34OT Old Timer. I’ve had many different models and brands since then but mostly stockman patterns. I do have modern folders but still carry a traditional with them.
 
I'm in my mid 50s and I honestly don't ever remember a time when I didn't have a knife in my pocket. I really don't consider myself a collector, but I've been interested in and aquiring knives since I was a young boy and would be at the feed store or hardware store and found a knife that caught my attention.
 
I turned 72 last week. I got my own Colonial Forest-Master when I was 10 and used it every day on the dairy farm where I grew up until I left for college. Then I rarely carried a knife until almost exactly 10 years ago when my wife gave me one she found that her dad had given her. I had fun cleaning it up and decided to start carrying a pocket knife again. I've probably acquired and average of about 25-30 knives per year since then!
My first knife:
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My most recent 2 acquisitions (last week Tuesday, I officially opened these Christmas and birthday gifts):
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- GT
 
I'm 39 and have loved sharp pointy things my whole life. Never really had a collection or knew much about them, but always had a bunch stashed. Some tradional, some modern, some fixed some folders... Even some mall ninja stuff. 🤪🤪. Haha! Had the scouting type knives when younger.

I carried a Camillus modern style knife ("blaze" I think?) for a long time until the blade snapped doing something stupid. Then bought a Gerber fastback and went through about 3 or 4 of them over a handful of years and got tired of it breaking.

I had no idea about modern knives so asked on reddit and ended up with some civivi knives and they are ok but blah.... Kinda ended up here just looking around the web and realized traditional knives are where it's at after all. No looking back now.
 
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