Knives you wanted as a kid ?

I grew up in a town where there was a Case Shear Plant so there were Case knives in just about every store. I guess I didn't know there was any other kind of pocket knife because the Case knives were cheap and if you knew someone that worked at the plant you could sometimes get seconds for free. When I was about 12, that would be 1959, I was going camping and convinced my father I had to have a hunting knife so I picked out the shiniest one in the case. Turns out it was a Queen Steel and I still have that one. I think the Queen Steel was the only knife I ever really wanted as a kid and it must have been pretty cheap or Daddy wouldn't have bought it for me.
 
My uncle was a Buck collector and I remember when he bought the 184. Seeing that at 11 or however old I was blew my mind.
 
When I was a teenager with internet but no spending money in the early/mid 00's I was always looking at Benchmades online. The 710, 730, and 615 in particular caught my eye, though I remember also checking out the 960 and 720 and 806 and whatever that ridiculous folder with the handle extender was (LFK, maybe? think it was a red class).

I'm a little older with a little more money in my pocket now... teenage me would be pretty jealous. :D

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I'm more into Spydercos in general now, but if I ever have to start liquidating I think those three would be about the last to go, along with a Gayle Bradley 2 and M390 PM2. Gotta hold on to those teenage dreams.
 
Swiss army knife for me. Finally managed to save up enough and buy a genuine one from the local army surplus store when I was around 12.
 
As a kid the Randall model 18 was, and still is, a dream knife. There were various others I liked and eventually picked up but the Randall dream is, as yet, unfulfilled.
 
I've always wanted a switchblade since I was a kid... only one I ever saw were the "combs." Saw one or two auto's later on.
Since the internet availability, I was able to purchase my first couple of Stilettos. The Frank Beltrame models were flimsy, with lots of blade-play... proved disappointing. Later on I got a Campion from Maniago which was better, and better yet an Italian Superior (well-built aside from the rough craftsmanship, adds character though) and a Bill De Shivs (a good knife as well.)
Not practical knives at all, but fun and they eased a life-long need to finally own a few... occasionally I'll just flip 'em... a total kid-thing.
The limitation of these knives stopped any further purchases, as since then I concentrate on knives I can actually USE everyday.
My fav of these is the Superior knife, with black buffalo scales... real traditional looking stiletto, a real Mafia type look to it. Lots of fun.
 
Since i was 7 i always wanted a switchblade and balisong.
And i live in Canada, FML haha
 
As a kid, I had my camping knife, which in retrospect had to be a Camillus demo knife. I never wanted or needed anything else, until I saw West Side Story and had to have a switchblade. What I got instead was a gravity knife that looked like a switchblade.

In my twenties, I started touring and camping on motorcycles, and bough a fistful of SAKs and a few Opinels to stash on my bikes. I saw guys using Kabars in camp for everything you could think of, and thought I wanted one. Finally, at age sixty-something, my wife gave me one for Christmas.
 
Ha... switchblades..... the novelty and the fact that they were illegal to carry attracted me during my gunshow days (beginning in the mid-80's). I bought a number of them for the fun of it. I could never see what the big deal was about them. My Dad had a switchblade tucked back in his man-closet and as I kid, I used to go in there and dig through some of his stuff. We stored our bows and guns in there, so it wasn't like I was sneaking. He always simply said "They're illegal." Knew nothing else until I was an adult.

I had a switchblade (Italian Stilleto) in the box in my field brief case that I traveled with by air a lot. I forgot all about it until it was discovered in the airport metal detector. I laughed.... it had fallen behind the lining of the hard cased brief case. I checked that bag in at that point and was on my way. Took it out when I got to my destination in Ohio. It never traveled with me again. :D
 
As a kid in the 70's I wanted pretty much everything in the Case knife display at Kmart. When Schrade introduced the LB7 I wanted that..and my dad let me buy one with the understanding that I wouldn't carry it to school. Sorry Pop but I carried it everywhere.

Of course I also wanted switchblades but they were completely unavailable around my way.
 
started with any knife, then swiss army knife, then any buck knife. then a buck 119 or 120. air force pilots knife. then, 80s survival knives. Kershaw amphibian, buckmaster gerber mark 1, 2 and tac2. pacific cutlery butterfly and fixed blades. ek models. many hours spent looking through catalogs and staring at knife cases.
 
The higher end survival stuff from the Al Mar line were quite the objects of knife lust for me I remember. Sadly, they were just a bit out of range for my teenage wallet :).
 
Most of my kid knife-lust was towards multitools / knives like SAK's and Leathermans but I do remember wanting (and FINALLY getting for my bday) a spyderco Bill Moran trailing point as a gift when I was headed off to be a BSA camp councilor when I was 14.
 
Enjoyed again reading through the comments on this thread. The Spydie Moran is a nice knife and one I got like most of my blades now... on a whim.

I don't think the kid in us never really leaves us. It is kind of wonderful that as an adult... like 40 years old, you can get excited about buying some cheap piece of "knife junk" and play with it.
 
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As a young man I really wanted a Buck 110. In the area of Canada that I was raised in the only Bucks I ever saw were in magazine ads. But there were Schrades in every hardware store, or so it seemed. I carried an LB7 for a few years and then left it on a tractor fender while cutting twine. Christmas time in1988 saw me buy a 7OT for 23 dollars in a home hardware store in downtown Saskatoon. That was about all that I could spare. As time went by I came to have many, many knives. None have meant as much to me as my first Schrades.
 
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As a young man I really wanted a Buck 110. In the area of Canada that I was raised in the only Bucks I ever saw were in magazine ads. But there were Schrades in every hardware store, or so it seemed. I carried an LB7 for a few years and then left it on a tractor fender while cutting twine. Christmas time in1988 saw me buy a 7OT for 23 dollars in a home hardware store in downtown Saskatoon. That was about all that I could spare. As time went by I came to have many, many knives. None have meant as much to me as my first Schrades.
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A friend had a Buck and never could get it sharp. That jaded me against Buck for years. Even now, I hesitate to buy any Buck knife although I own a couple 110's and the Cabela's version of the 192. I clean out repo houses from time to time and trash the Bucks I find... so the perception stuck. I bought a Schrade from a knife salesman at a restaurant (Sambo's which is long closed now) in Laredo Texas (250T) in the 70's and carried it for years. Really liked that knife for work and using while hunting. I was cheap and and I thought it expensive at the time. But I actually got a really good price and didn't know it.
 
I took a shine to the Puma bowie, and got one like the one in this pic, circa 1972. Has a tiny dimple where it was Rockwell hardness tested.

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