How old were you when you got your first knife?

when I was 11,I won a cheap kriss blade,about 8" long ,at the county fair. my parents promptly impounded it and told me that knives were nowhere in my immediate future.Ditto for motorcycles.
Of course,after I got married,I bought and sold about every motorcycle imaginable.This frenzy passed, but the knife frenzy never did.Thank goodness.I never did get back the kriss,though.
David
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My first knife was a birthday gift from my grandfather on my 5th or 6th birthday.It was a Roy Rogers folder I'd asked for but hadn't had much luck with mom.
 
The first one I remember I found on my way to school when I was 6. It was a funny all-metal flip-flopping type of folder. First you rotated the blade and a sheet metal cover 180-degrees cross-wise then you rotated the metal cover 180-degrees side-ways over the handle. The 2 inch blade was held rigid when you gripped the handle. It may have saved my life when I was about 9 or 10 and had to dig a "ladder" to get myself out of a hole. I think I broke the knife when I stabbed it into a large board and picked the board up by the blade. Recently I found another one in an antique store, it was made in the 1940's.

On the other hand when I was about 13 I was getting something out of my mother's top dresser drawer and found 4 pocket knives. She told me that she had taken them all away from me when I was younger. I don't remember getting any of them so I must have been awful young when I got them. My folks gave up trying to seperate me from knives by the time I was 7. I've carried a scout knife or SAK continously ever since then.
 
I've had knives ever since I could remember. First it was those cheap (10 cents) folding knives with a sheet metal cover that I used to cut paper and my small stubby fingers with.

The first real knife (sort of) that I got was an army surplus jack knife for a camping trip with the Boys' Brigade. Then I fell prey to the Rambo knife syndrome that pervaded all young kids around that time. Thank God it didn't last long enough for me to waste my money on it. From then on, it was one knife after another, either as a gift from my brother or through my own pocket. I now own several Victorinoxs, Bucks, Shrades, Kabar, SOG and even a couple of cheap "made in Thailand" blades. BTW anybody heard of a company called Tramontina? Picked up a couple of blades bearing that name when I was no wiser. Now I'm trying to save my hard earned cash for better stuff. You wouldn't believe how rare it is to find good blades where I come from and how expensive it is.
 
13 years old. It was a Taiwan made folder, i think its called Panther. It was quite a knife back then for me, black powder coated blade gives it some tactical look. It was a childhood fantasy to be one of those elite forces but reality kicked in as i grew older...Oh well, at least i had a dream.

Power to the blade, 'Panther' and lightsabre.
 
I got my first when I was 4, but my grandfather dullet it. My first with sharp edge I got at age of 5. It was an old Swedish Mora. It is still at my grannys summer cottage in Lapland.
 
Yeah, seems like 8-11 is the age most of us get knives. At 8, mine was a Victorinox Huntsman, but without the toothpick/tweezers feature. Just didn't have the slots for them. My dad brought it back from a business trip for me and I carried it every day after school. Only had it taken away once, at a friend's birthday party when I offered to cut something. His mom gave it right back when it was time to go home, though.

Lost that one when it fell out of my pocket on a dock and into Ocracoke Harbor in NC. Bought another, loaned it to a friend, and HE lost it on a day hike. Guess NC has eaten a lot of my knives.

First fixed-blade was a Hackman puukko designed by Tapio Wirkkala, which the Hackman company tells me has been out of production for many years. Still have it and love it.


 
techniclly my "first" knife was one I made from a switch blade comb and an old metal handled kitchen paring knife blade I broke of with the purpose of taking out he comb and inserting the blade and crimping the metal around the spine of the blade. It was on my thirteenth b-day and I was showing it of to my friends when I was caught by my mom. She promtly took it and told dad. After a sore butt, My dad took me to buy a new knife to replace the one I broke and get one for me.
I ended up getting a Mauser folding knife( made by Victorinox) with a drop point blade, clip piont blade, a saw blade, an awl and a cork screw and green handles.
I still have that knife, but it's somewhere at my dad's house. I cut alot of stuff with that knife and it never went dull(back then).
The knives that started me on my way to collecting knives was a Gerber EZ out, and Buck Cross lock.

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PRIGGER


 
It was Christmas, 1949. I had recently turned 7 (12/3) and my brother received the first SAK that I had ever seen. He was 11 at the time. He gave me the old Barlow that he had been carrying. I wonder how many of people today even know what a Barlow knife is.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh


 
FullerH,
I know what a Barlow is, I have one I bought at an estate auction for the stunning price of $5. It's old but it's not pitted, and has some sort of bone handle(that shrank, and sort of splintered). I can't remember what the tang stamp reads as I lost some where around the house.
Oh well

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PRIGGER


 
I was about 4, my brother 3, when my father gave us a mini-khukuri each that he had gotten made for us. Blade approx. 4", really neat. Real sharp too - cut myself promptly when I rushed to unsheath it before dad could show us the proper way to do it!

Sadly, when I was about 10, gave it to a visiting uncle (what was I thinking???) Last I knew, it was hanging on his wall - will have to try and get it back (if it's still there) when I go back home next time.

- Sonam
 
After the doctor cut the umbilical cord, he must have given me the schapel ...
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I really can't remember when I got my first one....seems I've always had one.

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"No Dear, that's not another knife in my pocket...really, I'm just happy to see you!
 
Sorry that you lost it, Prigger, mine is also long gone, Heaven knows where. I am accustomed to blank looks, even from knife knuts, when I mention a Barlow knife. If you have read "Tom Sawyer" and/or "Huck Finn", Twain mentions them in both.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh


 
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