My first knife!!!

mrbear

mrbear

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OMG!
I'm out in my garage today organizing (got the bug) and I came across this!
It's the first knife I ever received!
My Parents got this for me as a birthday gift when I was in first grade. (7 years old?). MY FIRST KNIFE EVER!
Its a Wenger Swiss Army Knife. It had a chain lanyard attached at one point and an engraving of a musket. It had an insert of the Swiss cross but that fell out long ago from hard use. ;)
I remember the exact day I received this. This knife went into the woods with me Constantly and to school (back when you could pocket carry a knife to school). You can see the years of hard use it had.
I use to carve into trees with this in addition to many other uses at various "Forts" and "Lean-tos".
Do you have your first knife and if so post up a picture.
If not do you recall your first one?
:thumbup:

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Cool find !

This is actually my second knife. My first was part of a kids adventure kit complete with water bottle, compass etc but I lost it. My dad shouted at me for losing it and my grandad seeing how upset I was bought me this Victorinox as a replacement. That was about 32 years ago and I have never lost a knife since !!!

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That was a great find mrbear. I don't know what ever became of my first knife, but I still have the scar on the end of my ring finger. It was a small fixed blade that my grandfather used to carry and I was seven. One minute I'm re-creating a scene from West Side Story and the next I'm in the ER for stitches. :o

Jeff
 
My first knife was the blue handled Cub Scout knife....I lost it over the years but bought a replacement.
 
I'm going to refinish this and put it back into service.
Standby for updates. :)
 
My first was a big Old Timer I believe hunter model. I had it in my pocket every day from around third grade to high school. It's probably somewhere in my parent's house. I hope some day I find it.
Can you imagine a third grader carrying a four inch folder to school today?
 
That is a very cool find and nice project. My first knife was a cub scout knife that is long gone now. I wish I had it.
 
That's what scares me, my son is going into 1st this year and he has just acquired not my first knife but my second that I carried from 11yrs old to 14 or so, also gave him a set of three.. Of course I tried to tell him they are to stay in the drawer.. In hopes he'll never take them to school and play the old I forgot it was in my pocket if he were to get caught with it..

Rob
 
My daughter has all my old knives, including my first, an Imperial Camp King. When I see her tomorrow I`m going to ask her to bring them over for photos.
 
Stomper said:
My daughter has all my old knives, including my first, an Imperial Camp King. When I see her tomorrow I`m going to ask her to bring them over for photos.
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Sweet.It's hard to imagine we use to carry these regular and now Kids would be suspended for that.

We use to have Scout meetings after school.

Common sense out the window.:thumbdn:
 
Hi mrbear -

I recall my first knife being a Buck Folding Hunter. I saved my paper route money as I remember it (my parents would not buy me a knife), and bought the Big Buck. It had a black leather belt pouch.

I lost that knife pretty quickly (or someone took it - regardless, it disappeared).

The next one I bought was a Buck Ranger - I had already decided a smaller knife was better for carrying.

I lost that one at an all-night beer party in a forest south of town (I think).

I don't have any pictures of the knife, nor do I have pictures of me with it on my belt - I was not one to allow too many pictures of my person back then.

best regards -

mqqn
 
Finished this one today. Reground the blades and sharpened/polished.
Then I refinished the scales and they are glue setting in my vise now.
Will post pics tomorrow.
I may carry this for a while!
 
Here's she is with the blades reground, polished up a bit, and scales touched up.
Pocket carry soon.
Blades show the wear they went through but they sharpened up damn nice.
I can't believe I found this in a box of my stuff in the garage.
Talk about a memory.
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