Knife to pass on to your son?

An Amber Jigged bone Queen.

Good knife for a boy, small, non threatening and it'll teach him to be carefull when (not if) he closes it on his fingers because he was stabbing something with it.
 
Yes, if I ever have kids I' ll pass on my Lg Sebenza 21(of course only when they' re older), if One-handed openers are still legal to own then...:mad:
 
I have two sons and two Randall knives I purchased around 15 years ago. A model 5 and a Model 23. I will leave one to each of my sons. Of course they will also receive the rest of what ever I have, but the Randalls I will definetely keep for them. I no longer use the Randalls. They have just become too valuable. In more ways than one.

Bill
 
My Gerber Mark I. I carried this one during combat operations in Panama. It has been a trusty companian.:)
 
No son yet, but I do have a daughter on the way. She's going to get my custom sodbuster, as that particular knife was in my pocket on my wedding day. It even has the wedding date stamped on the inside.
 
Two sons, two daughters. Each son and son-in-law got a Randall (I kept one for myself). Each grandchild gets a Victorinox Tinker (grandsons) or a Victorinox Classic in pink (granddaughters) when they turn eight (all parents have given permission and are knife experienced to manage kids and knives). After that, they can have whatever they need from me on a case by case basis (Boy Scouts, Church Young Women's organization {12-18yrs}, military).

When I "equilibrate to ambient" I will still have a custom Matt Harildstadt hunter in BG42 and green micarta, a CRK Sebenza, a couple of Ray Ennis Entrek models to bequeath. ...but that will be a while. Not yet, not yet!
 
My first born daughter will receive my grandfather's Case Carson knife that made it to the European theater (and back!) in WW2. She will also receive all old straight razors (he was 3rd gen. German barber) and most of the old slipjoints that were his as well. She is already showing signs (turned 4 in Sep.) of interest in blade culture and knows about the pink SAK's that come out during breast cancer awareness and wants one. I'll divy up whatever else is left with my 2nd daughter but i have to guage her interest being she's not yet a week old.
 
I lost my father last year.

Every knife he had is precious to me. Price has nothing to do with it, the value comes from the memories associated with the knife.

The one I value most is his Schrade Old Timer, with delrin handles and which the blades have developed a beautiful natural patina. Used but never abused, and still sharp from the last time he honed them. Very little commercial value, but means the world to me. The condition and care of that knife pretty-much sums-up who he was as a man.
 
My kids will be burdened with all my stuff. If they work hard, and maybe a little lucky, I hope they are in a position to view it all as just old stuff that needs to be disposed of.
 
My 17 year old son is close to getting his Eagle badge in our Scout Troop. I have a nice single blade mid lock with ivory slabs on it. It has file work on the blade and also on the liners. My plan is to have it scrimmed with the Eagle on one side and his initials and Troop 36 on the other side.

Of course he will get all the others as well, but this one is special.
 
I have 4 sons, and they are already divvying up my stuff! The oldest is 10, the youngest 2. Really, my 5yr old is showing the most interest, and always asks if he can have whatever cool thing I'm playing with at the moment, when he is "grownup"

The ones that will probably have the most meaning to me are my Microtech LCC D/A (I'd love to have pearl handle slabs added), Kershaw Tyrade Ti/CF, and my William Henry Gentac Ironwood. Those will probably be the ones they end up fighting over.

My dad never really had a favorite knife of his own, and would use whatever he happened to find. I don't think he ever bought his own knife, but would find them on the work-site fairly often. They are all either broken, rusted or lost. My mom inherited a small puma folder with gold handles from her dad from when he retired, and I'm sure that one will pass on to me, then from me to my oldest. It really looks like the knife legacy will begin with me, though.

Daniel
 
My dad had this knife that his dad gave to him, he told me one day he'd give it to me. It was a slip joint with an eagle head at the end of the handle. Not sure on the brand or the quality, but it was clearly very special to him. When I was about 15 we had a massive argument and didn't speak for a long time. When I was about 16, I found out he gave it to his best friend's son. :(
That would have been the knife I passed onto my son (If I have kids in the future) but now I honestly don't know what I'd give him.
 
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I haven't got any kids right now and based on my age and where I feel I'm at in life, I won't have any for some years to come.

I think when I do though, the first knife I'd pass to them would be either whichever knife I had used the most on a day to day basis so that they would have something relatively simple and practical to learn with.

Then I suppose my collection slowly being shifted to the hoard of one of my children would begin.

As far as I'm aware, I'm the first of any sort of knife legacy in my family.
 
I'll be leaving my Vaughn Neeley Survival Hunter fixed blade...no, wait...maybe I should take it with me, I might need it where I'm going.
 
He gets all the gear including knives in the end. At 7 , he already appreciates them all, and vowed he will never sell any of them.

As it's my most prized posessions , I can't think of anything better to leave behind, except good memories.
 
I'm going to pass this Queen Gunstock to my nephew when he graduates high school with a Kershaw Skyline. Him and his dad are big Kershaw guys! Someday he'll got all of my knives.
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