Show me your very first traditional knife

[Kevin-B]

Show me your very first traditional pocketknife!

For me it's this little Boker Barlow. This is when i got it around 5 years ago.

Edit: i love all the knives and stories that go with them!

 

[CujiWuji]

Oh boy, I dont have a picture but it was this crappy off brand buck knife made in china. I think I may still have it somewhere.

 

[Ernie1980]

I don’t have a picture of my old SAK from 30+ years ago! However, here is a picture of the Ulster that started me down the vintage traditional rabbit hole!

 

[afishhunter]

I think it was one of these, round about 1961.
The original is long gone. No idea where it went.
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I got this one when I tried to join the Amy Reserves, back in '74. Navy, Air Force, Army, and Marines didn't want me.

 

[JohnDF]

I wish I could remember what my first knife was, much less have a picture of it.

 

[CelloDan]

5 years ago this week actually

 

[Just Tom.]

Not my first (I was 5, who knows what happened to it…), but maybe my 4th or 5th. I was probably around 10 when I got it in the 1970s.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Oddly enough I found a picture of what mine looked like. Mine is at my Dads in a keepsake box he has. Anyways when I was about 7 I was given one of these cheap pen knives, like the red ones. I graduated to a Victorinox camper model at age 10, carried it until I lost it in my early 20s.

 

[black mamba]

Got this one nearly 60 years ago when I first entered the Boy Scouts. Still in use, almost daily here at home.

 

[huntnfishin]

I wish I could remember what my first knife was, much less have a picture of it.

I can’t remember either. But I bet I cut myself with it.

 

[sceva]

An Imperial Kamp King; My Grandfather gave it to me when I was about 10 years old. It unfortunately suffered a broken back spring thru the years; this is a later replacement.

 

[kfalk]

I got this Boy Scout knife probably when I was 6-7 in 1970-71. Still in use.

 

[sf fanatic]

Got this one nearly 60 years ago when I first entered the Boy Scouts. Still in use, almost daily here at home.

Wow, mine was the same. Carried it from a Tender Foot Scout through becoming an Eagle Scout.View attachment 1663226

 

[Riz!]

This is such a sore subject for me. I had two. An American made schrade stockman and a Boy Scouts of America camp knife with blue scales and the BSA logo. I lost then decades ago. I wish I was more responsible. Ide love to still have them.

 

[sitflyer]

Borrowed image from web:

These were what me and my friends used to carry back in the 60's/early 70's. We'd buy them off the cards that held I think 12 of them in every convenience store or gas station back in the day, cost maybe 2 bucks. We would use them and abuse them, and clean a bunch of fish for the table with them. I always thought that the shell knives were kind of junky but they did what they were intended to do, they cut stuff. They got used and tossed as a kind of disposable useful item. I remember even at the age of ten or twelve thinking I would like a better knife than what was available on the local level at that time, a quest that has been a lifelong one...

 

[khopesh]

No sure if this was my first but I’ve had it ~30 years or more. Can’t tell you what it is. Maybe I should dig it out of storage and try to find some markings.

 

[Bastler]

This is a duplicate of my first knife, as best as I can recall, it was a little while ago. I bought it at the Katz drug store for a buck and a half.

Later, I upgraded to a Kabar, just like this one.

 

[abbydaddy]

I can't show you any pictures of the first half dozen or so of my traditional knives, because I lost them all as a boy. I can show you a picture of the first traditional fixed blade I was given. I lost it too, but it came back to me.

It is a long story I don't feel like retyping on my phone, but the knife was a gift from my grandfather. I lost it on the tundra, and then it came back to me in an astronomically improbable fluke. I'll never stop being amazed to have it today.

 

[dsutton24]

I couldn't begin to tell you what it was, let alone where it is.

One of my fears is that when the final reckoning comes, is not that I be burdened with my sins, but rather the things I've lost. Seventy or so pocketknives, 3800 socks, numerous coins, paper clips, the back seat out of a '74 Maverick...

 

[JB in SC]

No way I remember, but I had a knife of some kind in my pocket since the late 50’s.