My first pocked knife

[J D Wijbenga]

Yesterday I cleaned up and sharpened my very first pocked knife. I must have gotten it when i was 7/8 years old. It was made in Czechoslovakia by Mikov around 1980. East block steel. I the evening I used it to cut up a tasty apple with it

If you still have it, please show your first knife!

 

[scruffuk]

I like that, funky looking stripes! Were they the original scales?

Sadly I no longer have my first pocket knife, nor my second....

....however as chance would have it I am carrying my third today....but its not traditional, its my Victorinox Rucksack.

 

[topper607]

You were a heck of a lot more responsible than I was as a kid... I bet I don't have my first 10 knives anymore
Very neat knife you have there! Kudos for keeping up with it!

 

[Blade_Crazy]

I would love to show you my first knife, but alas as a child i had no understanding of responsibility, so I will instead tell you how i obtained it.

I actually remember it quite well; I was fishing with my grandpa and dad off of a rock shore, being the "active" child of 8 or 9 i was I wouldn't sit still long enough to actually catch anything. So instead I was playing around looking for stuff and low and behold I found a knife. It was a small lock back (although I didn't know that then) that was pretty worse for wear. I excitedly showed it to dad whom confiscated it from me. So I sat down and grumpily went back to fishing. Well later that night, back at grandpa's place, I was about to leave when grandpa pulled me aside and gave me the little knife that had now been all cleaned up and looked pretty good now. He told me it was our little secret and to make sure i was careful with it.

Really wish I had that knife still... but its still a fun story to remember. Hope you guys didn't mind my sharing.

 

[Humppa]

That´s a nice looking knife, J D. Mikov is a good cutlery from CZ. Their aluminium fish-knives are pretty common and nice to collect. Though I don´t have one.

My first knive was a Victorinox (what else). I got it as a gift from my dad while we were visiting Switzerland. I got it, when I was six years old. I still have it and don´t carry it anymore as a sign of sentimental value. I think this is one of the reasons I got interessted in knives. In school I was the King because I was the first who had a pocket knife. I took it everywhere. It has my name "Andreas" engraved in the red scales. I might have a pic somewhere. I need to look through my album.

 

[eKNIVES]

This is my first post but great topic cus I was just thinking about this last week. Great looking knife, I lost my first one years ago in a move. It was a rambo style knife my dad got it for me in 1983 shortly after the first Rambo movie, I was 8. I think he got it at a flea market but I remember it had the compass in the pommel and the sheath was black made of plastic. Wish I still had it for sentimental reasons

 

[Stich2442]

Great thread, you beat me to it, I was going to do this one yesterday but never got around to it.

My first knife was this Imperial Kamp-King, I was six years old (1978) it was my birthday present along with a fishing rod & reel, tackle box. Probable the best presents ever, I had moved from New York to Connecticut at the end of the previous summer months and we lived on a trout river opening day was also on my birthday.

It was the last time I had a empty pocket, the rod was a great gift also, I spend many hours fishing once the fresh water season begins, I am fishing most days.

I also still have my second knife a Case 6201 (1980)

 

[Campbellclanman]

Wow...to still own your first knife would be just incredible!!!...I would have loved to grow up with knives-unfortunately I didnt, so I am making up for lost time, with the help of the great guys and gals here, but after these years to still have your first pocket knife - just great.

 

[J D Wijbenga]

Thanks for the replies! Great looking knives Stich!

The face side used to have a picture of a Bohemian hunter with his dog on it. But that got lost in the mist of time.

Still sharpened up nice

 

[Stich2442]

My Kamp-King is a testament to how low maintenance carbon steel really is, I don't remember ever being concerened as a kid about the blades rusting, keeping them dry, or keeping them oiled. I lived close to saltwater and I remember using on my dads boat fishing for Blues. To be honest for probably the last 25 years it has been sitting in a box untouched and I live even closer to saltwater now, about a five minute walk to the ocean, so close you can smell it and the seagulls use my vehicle as a outhouse, still no rust.

 

[Groove]

My first knife was also an Imperial Kamp King, I still have it too. My Mother found it in a drawer a few years ago and mailed it to me, along with a few of my Father's and Great Grandfather's knives.

 

[rune1279]

My long-since retired first knife, leaning on one of its modern cousins for support...

It was a gift from my father, who had them as giveaways from his office. It's utterly clapped out -- the scales fell off years ago, the blade wobbles, etc, etc. Still, thanks to the superpowers passed on to me through three generations of hopeless pack-rats, I still have it.

 

[bladeboss]

No-name gas station knife given to me by my parents.
This led to other no-name knives.
Then Gerbers.
Then BUCKs.
Then Kershaw.
And then it all went downhill.

 

[wouldestous]

not sure what my first knife might have been. i remember a 'boker tree brand' type barlow but dont know what happened to it. i *do* have an old 'parker cut. co' trapper pattern in stainless that i 'liberated' from my dad when i was little. doubt it was my first knife but who knows. its the one on the top right;

also in that pic on the bottom right is a barlow a friend of the family gave me when i was about 13. it has 'the ideal' stamped on the tang.