How old were you when you got your first knife?

I think I was about 5. It was a folding pocket knife from the battleship USS North Carolina. Turns out it had a nice, carbon steel blade. I still have it. Man, it would get sharp.

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iktomi
 
I think I was about 6 years old when my uncle gave me this tiny little knife (the blade is 1.5") and the scales are yellowish-pearl-like. I can't read the maker's name.
It now sits on the mantle with some other keepsakes.
 
I was just turned seven when my eleven year old brother gave me his old Barlow knife after he got the first Swiss Army Knife that I ever saw for Christmas in 1949. But I came from a knife carrying family. My wife refused to let me give my son a pocket knife until he was twelve. My personal opinion is that a child is ready to own a knife when he/she shows the responsibility to handle it carefully. My son would have been ready at about seven or eight, but my daughter is not ready at nearly fourteen.

Whatever you decide, please remember that the rules about what is allowed in school are so very different from what I or we knew as kids. My friends and I all carried at school and nobody cared as long as we didn't hurt anybody with them.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller

[This message has been edited by FullerH (edited 10-10-2000).]
 
You know, everything before the age of 13 is really foggy so I have no idea how old I was, but my first knife was a Buck #305 and I still have it in an old cigar box at the top of my shelf. It was a very good knife for a small child but I never knew the pleasure of a 'full-sized' folder until I was about 15.

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Disco Stu
A Finger Saved, is a Finger Earned
 
I think I was about 5 when I got my first. It was a cheap multibladed folder that had opening action that was so crappy I couldn't even open it. I hope I still don't have it.
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Dave
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My collection
 
When I was around 9 I was given a SAK, but I consider my first real knife to be my AFCK which I got just two years ago, at age 13.

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"I'm out there Jerry, and I'm lovin' every minute of it!"--Kramer
 
I received my first knife on Jan 20th 1968. My sixth birthday.

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All it takes for the forces of evil to rule the world is for good men to do nothing...Edmund Burke
 
"Earned" my first knife at age 6 in first grade by selling magazine subscriptions for the school.

phantom4

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