just wondering...

I carried a shrade old timer for a long time. I carved some small sculptures with it.

as a young kid, I don't remember the name, they were yellow, thin bladed and for sale in drug stores. We used to play a game called stretch with them.
 
mtnfolk mike said:
how many of you folks grew up carrying a knife..... no, i'm not talking about fishing on the weekends with dad and grandpa... i'm talking everyday....:)

i have been a self-proclaimed knife nut, just about as long as i can remember.... and yes i was one of those kids, that always had a knife, sometimes 2.....:D

i started packing a blade (EDC) when i was in THIRD grade...:D lets just say, i grew up on the other side of the tracks... in a not so nice little town, which has grown a ton over the years....:o

what about you guys....

mike
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The other side of the tracks is exactly right...My first knife which I carried everyday through school from the 4th grade on was a Ka-Bar from the Korean War that my grandad gave me. It was always in my pack, always (outside of school) on my hip or always carried "mexican style" in SOB when deemed inappropriate viewing for people of higher social function.
 
great stuff guys...:D looks like we're all in the same boat.... i think second or third was the start for most of us....:thumbup:

keep em' coming....
 
I have been carrying for as long as I can remember. I always had a knife on me from about grade 4 on. Back then the schools said nothing about knives except for one day that I remembered back in shop class, when the teacher asked that we had a knife for class for the sharpening tutorial. A couple kids didn't have a knife and this teacher really got angry and lashed out, needless to say they made sure they had a knife for the next sharpening seminar.

And today, nothing less than two ride with me, and usually its 3.

1 knife is okay, but I feel somewhat under knifed
2 knives everything is fine.
3 knives is optimal
 
Bufford said:
I have been carrying for as long as I can remember. I always had a knife on me from about grade 4 on. Back then the schools said nothing about knives except for one day that I remembered back in shop class, when the teacher asked that we had a knife for class for the sharpening tutorial. A couple kids didn't have a knife and this teacher really got angry and lashed out, needless to say they made sure they had a knife for the next sharpening seminar.

And today, nothing less than two ride with me, and usually its 3.

1 knife is okay, but I feel somewhat under knifed
2 knives everything is fine.
3 knives is optimal
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That is really funny you mention it, I brought my knife to school and pulled it out in shop to buff out the edge. The teacher thought is was the greatest thing since sliced bread that a 7th grader carried as he deemed "a real knife". I ended up being his assistant the whole next year! Man, things have really changed. Now I give my little brother his first knife and he is in High School, he took it out at a break to cut his shoelace shorter and gets hauled into the prinicipals office for, get this "brandishing a weapon in a zero tolerance area". It was nice though he got the next two days off of school and we took off on a hike through to the Mt Baldy summit.
Lesson learned, never trust authority.
 
My dad gave me my first pocket knife when I was 6, and I have been carrying one ever since. I even brought it to school on accident a couple of times, I would forget to take it out of my pocket :)
 
I got my first knife when I was 6. A little "pearl" handled 2 blade pen knife. I always carried it, my scout knife, or some other knife all the time; even in school. In high school I had a little Old Timer that was used to cut down all the card board we used on our home coming float. It was my "sheeple friendly" knife to complement the balisong in my other pocket. I carried a knife every day until I started working in prisons. They don't like knives there.
 
A SAK Fisherman was my first knife, around 3rd or 4th grade - then I bought myself a Kissing Crane Stiletto when I was a little older probably 5th or 6th grade. I carried the Kissing Crane to school - most boys carried knives. It wasn't a big deal back then.

You'd never think a stiletto makes a great knife for cleaning squirrels - but it does! :thumbup:
 
I had a cheap little taiwan buck lookalike lockback that I carried everywhere, I was about 8 I guess. I carved my name into my dining room chair with it and it was rounded and dull as a butter knife in short order. Then came a sak, a wenger huntsman maybe? one for me and all my bros for christmas, and that thing I had until university, someone stole it I think.
For some reason as a kid I did not not know the difference between cheapo blades and the real deal, probably because noone had the real deal.
But I did know that wenger was top quality, and it was a prized possesion.
 
Assorted cheap pocket knives from age about 7, first one bought by my father I think. Somewhere around 9-10 he bought me a 6" sheath knife, not expensive but nice with a leather washer handle and a sharp, bowie-shape blade. That went just about everywhere with me until I was about 14. Then I lost it.

I've rarely been without a knife on me since those days. As some have said, it's a tool and sometimes (not often for me, fortunately) a weapon. Never a weapon since I learned Karate though, as my fists are better now, and they haven't banned them in the UK yet.

Edit: thought to add: the 6" blade went just about everywhere because from 10 I was schooled at home by my parents, so I didn't have to worry about carrying at school!
 
Been carrying a pocket knife nearly ever day since 1st grade.

Started out with Swiss Classics and an "old timer", moved on to Spyderco Ladybugs when they first came out (got my first I think in about '87 or '88 at a hunting/fishing show here), then bought my first Spyderco Endura at Costco (was Price Club at the time) in '91 which I carried throughout high school (mind you this was only a handful of years before Columbine).

I've since moved on to bigger Spyders, Benchmades, Kershaws, and Chris Reeves. I usually carry at least 2 now (not including the 2 mini multitools); one smaller and one larger one.

In the western suburb of Denver where I went to school, Cub Scouts and Boy/Girl Scouts was a big thing in our school so many boys (and some girls) did carry some sort of a pocket knife every day. The one thing I remember the most was we had this one 4th grade teacher that was a real sheep (and other things I won't comment on), and over the course of the first week or two of school she proceeded to take away just about everyone's pocket knife in her homeroom class.

Unfortunately, I knew the principal of the school all too well, and one day while talking to him about something I shouldn't have done, I mentioned how she had taken all our knives away in class. He immediately walked me back to the classroom, and made her give everyone their knives back right then and there (they were locked in her desk at the front of the room). Whatever it was I was in trouble for was completely forgotten, and I was left back in class and not in trouble. It was a very good day. :D
 
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