How old were you when you got your first knife?

I was 5 or 6. It was a three bladed stockman type knife with imitation brown bone scales.

I lost that knife 48-49 years ago and still mourn its loss.

One of these days I really need to get a life.
 
I was 6 years old when I "won" my first knife (a key chain knife) playing skeetball at Coney Island.
 
I shoud be about seven or eight and the knife was a two blade pen knife, metal handles, very old. i traded it with a slightly older neighbor, can´t remeber what I traded it for.
Shortly after I buried it in the backyard and never found it again...

Ivan Campos
 
Boy Scout knife here too! 12 yrs. old, got it selling Scout-o-Rama tickets and sending away for it out of the prize catalog (It was a big rip-off IMHO). Had to have it for camp. Immediately ruined it throwing it in a tree. Spent the next few years perfecting my throwing skills, got pretty good too.
 
45 plus years ago I had the assorted cub scout knives. Also somehow got a small folder that had a risque picture of the opposite sex. Still have that knife, others have dissapeared decades ago.
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Also still treasure a hunting knife I inherited when my father died. (I was 12)
Jim

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What? Another knife? Don't you have enough of those things already?
How many does one person need?

 
All this talk about trades really made me thinking...I used to think my first knife was one of these hollow-handle survival knives with a compass and the usual bells and whistles, but I once had a nail-clipper with a folding blade and a can opener in it. It also had the COOLEST keyring ever, a tiny C-cassette (not a real one) with a pen in it and I traded the whole thing for a little box cutter with some guy at the neighborhood. It was the worst trade of my life (got the nail clipper from Dad), but I didn't mind anymore after one time when the going got little rough while playing King of the Castle and I got to throw him in the head with a huge block of ice.

I got the survival knife because "Rambo-knives" were the hottest thing we knew back then. I think I wasn't even as old as six at the time.

Jani

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Two important questions in life:
Do they have a catalog?
Did you know there's a town called "Batman" in Turkey?
 
At age eight, a victorinox camper model SAK. Still have it, still use it. Someday I'll make a trip out to the factory take the tour and get some new scales
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Jeff
 
A green rubber handled Buck, about 5 1/2 inches long with sawteeth. Wonder what it is called.
 
8 - 10 years old. My father, a machinist, made it from a piece of broken power hacksaw blade. The blade had a Wharncliffe-type pattern. The handle was made by dipping it in some kind of coating material for forming handles on industrial tools. I used it for a great many years for building model airplanes out of wood, until I could buy my own X-Acto knives. Learned to sharpen knives on that one. It must have been really hard since there were quite a few chips in the edge and it never flexed. He probably still has it in his workshop. I still have a larger one, with linen micarta handles that he made.

I had better get on with learning knifemaking so that I can give my son one.

 
My first knife was a small Case with two blades that my dad got me on my 8th birthday. I had this knife a long and took good care of it, and then I lost it. About 35 years later my mon died and while I was getting rid of a old chair I checked deep behind the cushion and there was my old knife that my dad gave me .. still in great shap and a little jewell.

I have this knife in my collection with some heavy duty fixed blades and other tough bad folders, but this little Case is my favorite.

wll
 
8 years old. A Camillus scout knife my father bought me for a wilderness camping trip. I learned to play mumbley peg with it. I'd bet boys don't play that any more.

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Fred
Knife Outlet
www.knifeoutlet.com

 
It was about 11:00 at night and my dad woke me up, and told me to come with him. So I got up rubbed my eyes and wanted to kill him for waking me up, for what I thought was some stupid crap on TV that he thought was interesting. But I was wrong. Him and his good friend were driving home and they hit a red tailed fox. So they took it home with them. (cause my dad wanted to stuff it) When I greeted my dads friend handed me something in a tin foil wrapper. So like a little kid on Christmas I opened it. It was a little fixed blade knife, with fiberglass handles and maybe a 4" blade. I really liked it, they even used it to clean the fox that night. I forgot the name of the knife and I'm really sorry to say I lost it, but one day I think it will show up. I must have been 8 years old. My next knife was a Wenger Swiss Army handyman. Witch I still have.
-NAN-
 
Fred, how do you play mumbley peg?

Jani

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Two important questions in life:
Do they have a catalog?
Did you know there's a town called "Batman" in Turkey?
 
Hey Fred, mumbley peg here too! Now that brings back memories of scout camp. You start with your feet spread apart as far as you can still stand up. Your opponent throws the knife into the ground, between you legs, and you have to move one foot to that mark (if he misses sticking it you don’t have to move). Then you do the same, then he does the same, and then you do the same until someone quits, usually the better knife thrower. It's a game of chicken where the less dexterous person usually wins. The real daredevils (idiots) do it stabbing in between their fingers timed.



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I was so young that I can't remember. Since the day my memory starts I have a knife with me. I think one of my first knives was a small souvenir folding-knife with the picture of a church on it.
During school a pocket knife was the way to go (my father needed to fetch it only once from the principal). I discovert the pocket clipt in 1988 and use it since then.

red
 
I was 7 years old... got a brand new Camp King from my Dad. Still have that knife, too! (all luck, though, as I've managed to lose several other blades in the past)

AJ
 
I guess I was born with knife in hand. No, not literally, but my grandfather, actually made one for me the year I was born. It is a traditional lappish knife with carbon steel blade, birch root handle and a sheath made of reindeer fur and stag. I guess this sort of knife is more known as a "puukko". I still have it.

Ciao

/Henrik

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Tea drinker and hellraiser from Northern Sweden, above the arctic circle.

 
My grandfather gave me my first knife when I was 7. It was this 2" pen knife. It had black scales and both of the blades were automatic! (Same mechanism as an italian stilleto) I thought it was the coolest thing. About 2 years ago I found it in an old chest and it was all rusted shut. What a shame, it would go great with the rest of my collection
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