Knife that got you started/led you to bladeforums

Down hill for our wallets lol
marcus52AR said:
Spyderco caly 3 zdp-189 was the gateway knife. After I bought that one I started researching my next knife. Found bf and it's been downhill from there. Haha
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While a kershaw boa got me into knives a long time ago, it was the Benchmade nitrous blitz that brought me to blade forums.
 
I don't have it anymore but it was a 3 dollar frost cutlery jarbenza bought off of eBay. It was a k I k off ladybug and the steel wasn't tempered properly. Went to some Kershaw and crkt product then the mini grip, jumped to Spyderco and it was all over after that. I was hooked.
 
My Dad bought me a SAK many many moons ago and I picked up a USA made Old Timer I carried for years as a kid. Once I got some money in my pocket I bought a Buck Crosslock and a Kershaw Chive. Those two were my "gateway" knives, but I haven't spent much more than a hundred dollars or so on a single knife since. Knives are tools to me. Tools I like and appreciate in a mechanical sense, but tools never less. I've learned gobs on this and other forums but would still never spend big money on a knife. I'd rather pay off my mortgage or retire early. :)
 
Wandering around the city, i found one stop knife shop and bought a bm mini grip. Didnt care for it all that much once i got it home, traded a guy on bladeforums for a spyderco endura4 se.....been downhill since. - learned about forums from Spark.
 
I literally found a "Shrade+ CH18" in the street. It got my interest up in carrying a pocket knife daily and finding something "better". That led me to searching the 'Net for this new term I kept seeing in reviews at the time... an "EDC knife"... and brought me here for opinions on the Kershaw Blur S30V. It's been fun ever since. :)
 
Nice, thank you for sharing. One thing we all have in common is this great place.
mambro said:
I literally found a "Shrade+ CH18" in the street. It got my interest up in carrying a pocket knife daily and finding something "better". That led me to searching the 'Net for this new term I kept seeing in reviews at the time... an "EDC knife"... and brought me here for opinions on the Kershaw Blur S30V. It's been fun ever since. :)
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I came to Blade Forums via a Google search for information on the "Super Steels".
I was looking at buying my Spyderco ZDP-189 or maybe I had already bought it. Anyway, I'm a metal rat so any overly detailed discussion of metal and the manipulation of said material can keep me out of trouble for hours.

For quite a while there I bounced between the Wikipedia blade steel list and
:thumbup: Ankerson's Ranking of Steels in Categories based on Edge Retention cutting 5/8" rope. :thumbup:

Trying to get a good handle on them hard/tuff things I feel I learned a lot and look forward to getting some of the really tuff stuff.

Then I started lurking in the other forums here and couldn't help causing my fair share of trouble from there on out.
 
It wasn't a knife, I was hangin' out with Mike Turber and Kevin Schlossberg, Steven Dick and a lot of the old timers on rec.knives.com the precurser to BFC when Mike, Kevin and Steven started to pull it together. I was invited to come over and check out the site by Mike so I lurked and hung out here and rec.knives till they pulled the plug at rec.knives then I finally just committed to become a contributin' member.
 
Very cool piece of history, and even cooler that you were there to see the birth of bladeforums. Thanks for contributing man
T. Erdelyi said:
It wasn't a knife, I was hangin' out with Mike Turber and Kevin Schlossberg, Steven Dick and a lot of the old timers on rec.knives.com the precurser to BFC when Mike, Kevin and Steven started to pull it together. I was invited to come over and check out the site by Mike so I lurked and hung out here and rec.knives till they pulled the plug at rec.knives then I finally just committed to become a contributin' member.
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jpm2 said:
Just got through telling this in another thread.
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shinyedges said:
I read it, good story. Copy and paste it here, it's perfect for this thread.
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jpm2 said:
I got that knife in '98. Paid $100 for it at a gun show, my first locking folder.
A vendor there had a huge display with hunderds of models and dozens of brands. Spent an hour looking through all of them, holding them, open/close, etc. After deciding on an AFCK, couldn't decide on the size, so bought both the 812 & 800. It didn't take long to figure out the 800 was too big and clumsy, it's set unused ever since.

What you see there is ~15 years of everyday carry and use, and it was the only knife I carried and used during that time. That means hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, work, home, etc. It lived clipped to my pocket during all waking hours, and sometime sleeping. I worked, and still work a job where knife use is required most every day. It's been used to do things that I've learned here, would give some a heart attack. It never phased me in the least. Just a different mindset I guess, it's just a tool, and a damn good one.

Last year I decided it was time to get another one. To my dismay, not only did they stop production of them long ago, no one even offered a knife in that steel anymore. On top of that, I've never seen one come up for sale, ever.

So, that's what led me here to bladeforum, to research present day knives and blade steels, to find an equal or better replacement. So far it's been failure.

Side notes:
Bought a '67 Camaro SS in '76. Paid $1200 for it. Drove the shit out of it for 4 years and sold it for $1700. Then bought a '71 vette for $5500. Drove the shit out of it for 2 years and sold it for $5700.
What really hurts is the convertible '69 Camaro indy pace car I passed on, thought $1500 was too much at the time.

If we only knew then what we know now...
Ah well, at least I've had the pleasure to actually experience using some classics.
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I can't remember, but when I first joined BF, I became into SOG knives and hung in that forum a good bit. Knives that I purchased totally because of BF chit chat were the Kabar Becker BK-2, Spyderco Native, Moras, Fallkniven F1, and Kabar Dozier folders. Don't get me wrong, I had customs and a fair variety of knives before I joined BF. As I recall, I was looking for a "hunting knife" which is humorous because the SOG I purchased for that purpose wasn't the knife for me at all. It was the Northwest Ranger as I recall. Still an okay knife but at that time, it was partially serrated.
 
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