How old were you.......

I started late. When I was 13 I traded one of my skateboards for a cheap POS balisong. Bad trade on my part, considering my skateboard was worth around $140. Good thing is it got me very interested in knives.
 
Daft Slice 1986 said:
I started late. When I was 13 I traded one of my skateboards for a cheap POS balisong. Bad trade on my part, considering my skateboard was worth around $140. Good thing is it got me very interested in knives.
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It would of been the coolest thing ever then though!
 
Yeah, I was pretty stoked on it. I had no idea of quality, I was just happy to be playing with it and showing it off.
 
I believe I was about 8 years old, when I got my first fixed blade. A little younger for my first folder...
From then of I was always easy to find Christmas and birthday presents for...
 
RobStanley said:
I was around 10 or so. A Wenger Swiss army knife it was. Both my brother an I got them for xmas one year. We used to use them to kill cane toads.
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Oh, the memories! I got my first knife at about 10 from my Grandparents (my Mum was horrified). It was a cheap SAK copy. The one with about a hundred different blades/features. I used it to dissect cane toads. Must be a Queensland thing.

Chris.
 
My parents took me camping at NMLRA Muzzle-loading shoots and rendezvous for as long as I can remember, and I went to fleamarkets often with my grandfather. My first knives were probably fleamarket junk when I was not very old at all, but I remember always having a patch knife my father let me use when shooting. I started shooting longbows when I was 2 or 3, my dad made me my first and I think I had "my own" muzzleloader when I was 8, which I used under supervision. The first real knife that I was really given by my parents was an Old Timer 2 blade folding knife, which I wish I still had. I was probably about 10 years old or so. I grew up around "dangerous" things and have had a pretty good understanding that they are not toys. I'm not sure that everyone gets that same mindset while growing up, especially with how things have been going with youth lately, and, mind you, I am only 21 as I type this and already see the problems there. Just make sure that they know it is not a toy and what can result if they treat it as one. I think that the only way to promote the knife and firearm lifestyle is by teaching it and passing it on at early ages, but with care in doing so.
 
I don't think age matters. Is the youg'in "ready" to carry a knife? That's the question.
I think I had a Sodbuster on me when I was around 8 yrs old.
Have fun, Garth.
Rolf
 
My dad gave me a 3 blade folder when I was 6. I could use it at home as much as I wanted but my dumb ass brought it to school one day......

So then it was a large fixed bladed after that . He had it I his tool box and was a bit junked up. Rusty / dull and the stacked leather ring handle had about 1/3 of the rings dry rot off ( I later replaced with electrical tape in my youth) but he figured I was too big to sneak to school and could handle anything my young self could do to it .....

I still have that knife in all it's glory.

My son and daughter (4 and 9) have "knife lessons" as they call it, i tell them the parts of the knife, how to sheath and unsheath them properly, proper cutting and chopping technique.
 
Hi Garth -

I was about 10 or 11, but my dad did not give it to me.

Things were different way bacj then, and a small scout knife was perfectly fine for a little nipper, folkd not giving it much thought.

I don't really remember carrying a knife until I was older though, maybe 15, and then it was a Buck.

best

mqqn
 
I got my first knife when I was eight.......it came as a set with a hatchet from Sears.
Had it a couple weeks..........got in big trouble..........folks took it away.
Got it back when I was in my early 20s when we were cleaning out my fathers workshop.
He had it hidden up on a shelf...............it was a rusty mess...........cleaned it up a bit (pictured below)

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Clarification on the above post..................the knife really had nothing to do with the trouble...............they just knew how much I loved it and used it to punish me.
 
My son received a great toy SAK I found on the intranetz when he was 3. This past summer, he made a small fixed blade,sheath knife his. It was crafted by

Alan Davis and he had it on his paracord belt all summer long! Of course, he was NEVER left to his own devices or unattended but used it for cutting his food

to little twigs and peeling bark off zebrawood branches. He loved showing it off and called it his "knife that stays open all the time".He is 4.5 at the moment.
 
I got my first real knife on my 4th birthday. My mother brought it out of storage and gave it back to me about 4 years ago and I now have it. I told her that I supposed that they only let me use it with close supervision, and she said, "Oh, no! Your dad turned you loose with it." We were poor as dirt, but my dad, not having had a real childhood due to working through the great depression, was determined that his kids would have a good one. Although not in matertial goods, he spoiled me rotten in freedom to roam the woods at will. Then and in the 62 years since I have never gotten in trouble with a knife, or even significantly cut myself.

The knife resides on a bookcase next to my PC. It is a made in Japan (in 1950 that meant cheaply made) three inch fixed blade with a plastic fake stag handle and a compass inset into the handle slabs. Not real good metal, but capable of taking a decent edge and once had a sharp point.
 
Georgecatl said:
I got my first knife when I was eight.......it came as a set with a hatchet from Sears.
Had it a couple weeks..........got in big trouble..........folks took it away.
Got it back when I was in my early 20s when we were cleaning out my fathers workshop.
He had it hidden up on a shelf...............it was a rusty mess...........cleaned it up a bit (pictured below)

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I field dressed and skinned my first deer with one of those, with a Craftsman label on it, 50 or so years ago. Still have it, along with the original sheath wrapped in black electrical tape since the stitches long ago rotted.
 
six years old bought by my grandmother, a small 3 blade slipjoint. Mom hid it on me, got i back when I was about 8

jeff
 
Got my first one at 5 from my Grandpa when I started school. It was a small 3 blade Old Timer and I carried it everywhere I went, school included. It never left my side until some how I lost it at around 9-10 yo. I then saved up enough to get another one very similar to the original.
 
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