Oldest knife you own

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Kyui Su Kim

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And by oldest I mean, what is the knife that has been in your collection the longest and why? Mine is a Microtech Mini Socom(M), that just seemed to sit in my knife bags. I remember trying to trade it off at one point but didnt find what I wanted. After awhile I really grew attached to the knife and especially so after microtech changed the design to what IMO is not a clean looking.
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So let's see some your alls oldest:)
 
My Schrade Uncle Henry I bought when I was in my first year of my Millwright apprenticeship. I needed a good knife and it served me well. I have pretty much retired it because I would hate to lose it. It's a great knife.:) I've had it since 1982.
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The knife I've owned the longest is a Case two-blade Hunter, that I got in a trade in my high school English class. (Yes, we traded in school; those were good days. :) ) Case re-bladed it for me a few years ago, and she's got literally decades of life left in her.

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I guess it would be the SAK Champion I got for a Christmas present around 1975 or 1976. Lost the thing in a lake and a buddy found it exactly one year later. We still use it in the kitchen all the time though the toothpick is a bit sketchy.
 
Its either vic spartan bought around 1992 or Schrade USA 34OT 3dot which is still in mail.
 
mmarkh said:
My Schrade Uncle Henry I bought when I was in my first year of my Millwright apprenticeship. I needed a good knife and it served me well. I have pretty much retired it because I would hate to lose it. It's a great knife.:) I've had it since 1982.
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My oldest would have been my Schrade Old Timer with the green handle, but my father didnt understand my knife hobby back when I was 13. He confinscated it and has long since misplaced it:P
 
My parents gave me a Buck 110 when I was a teenager in the 60's. I still have it.
I also have my father's hunting knife that dates from the late 30's.

I don't believe I still possess any of the knives I carried prior to the 110.
 
I'm pretty sure it's a Case stockman that my grandfather gave me in the early 70's when I was in middle school.
 
This is the oldest one I have, a Friedrich Herder that my parents gave me when I was 14 or 15.

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Coxon Folder w/Mother of Pearl scales and Sterling Blade. c.1840
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I had small pocket knives as far back as 1967 or so, but the oldest one I still possess is an Imperial Barlow I bought new at a Ben Franklin store about 1970. It was $2.99 or something like that. I shined shoes in a Barber shop 2 Saturdays in a row to get that baby! Not long after that my Grandpa gave me a John Primble that is probably 60 years old.
 
I have a Buck 112 that I gave to my father for a present in the 70's. When he died in the 80's it was one of the things He left me.
 
The Leatherman Wave in this pic (taken 4 years ago). It's the only one out of the pic that I still own today:

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After all the lusting over expensive and fancy knives, after finding some new "favorite" and then selling and buying some other one, the Leatherman Wave has always proven to be my most useful folder. I treat it like crap, it's never my favorite and it continues to get the job done when my "favorites" can't, due to the tool options.
 
BM 630 I waved and double edged back in 06.
 
A friedrich herder.

I saved it from the trash when i was a boy.
I think i was about 10 years old.
The knife was old at that time.
I own it for about 25 years.
I think the knife will be at least 35 years old but could be older.
I however never used it because the spring is missing.
Always kept it.

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I have two A. G. Russell knives I got back in the mid-90s. One is a lockback folder with damascus blade nickel silver bolsters and liners, and Quince handles. The second is a Titanium-bolstered liner lock with quince, and a beautifully hollow-ground ATS-34 blade. These were my first "Real" knives. and are more valuable to me than gold.

I have a small knife coming to me, one of these days, which used to belong to my grandfather. It's a 14k gold handled Puma "Classic" SAK with a diamond in the handle, that he got when he retired from his job way back in the late 70s. After he passed away, my mom had been carrying it on her keychain!:eek: I convinced her it was more valueable than that!
 
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The oldest knife I own is a well used fixed blade i inherited from my gandfather.

The one I have had the longest.....Spyderco Delica3 VG-10 full serrated.
 
A WWII Kabar USN given to me by my Father in law. No picture required, you have seen Kabars.
 
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