The knife that got you hooked?

Shreddedfingers

Shreddedfingers

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So I Became a knife addict on my own with my purchase of a Gerber Armor when I was 14, So that would be.....let me think....2006-ish. I fell in love with it at a local REI. Saved up for 4 months to buy it, and was immediately hooked! Did not have the funds to feed my addiction at the time, but this knife kept my fire burning for a long time. Now it sits with my other knives seeing no use, but still warms my heart every time i see it. I beet the crap out of it, like a 14 year old would. it still has a bit of pine pitch on the tip from where I baton-ed the but of the knife, driving the tip into a pine tree.. I love this thing.
I have sense gotten many people addicted by letting them use my Buck Nobleman. (I consider getting a friend hooked the greatest gift you can give)

So I was wondering, What knife got you hooked? I don't want to hear a bunch of people say Sebenzas, I want to hear what came before that! Something must have led to your Sebenza, or mid-techs. What was it? (If it was really a Sebenza then so be it, but I don't know anyone personally who jumped strait to mid-techs without being bitten first.)

Finally If you still have it Lets see some pics! This is my well loved baby!


 
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Spyderco Manix 2 Lightweight. I had knives prior but that one really meant something to me. It changed my views on price and showed me the value of buy once, cry once since at the time I hadn't spent more than $30 on a single knife. It also changed my mind about Spyderco designs and hooked me on them solidifying their place as my favorite production company.
 
My Grandfather gave me a Cub scout Knife similar to a SAK. That was the knife that introduced me to cutlery, but It was not until that first Gerber I purchased that I really got the bug.
BTW +1 spyderco as Favorite production company ;)
 
Enlan EL-01B

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CRKT Voodoo. I had never seen anything like it in a knife. I grew up with SAKs, so this baby was revolutionary to me. I got bit right there.
 
Emerson cqc10. I bought it in 2004, and haven't looked back since! I had a SAK when I was scouting, but I wouldn't consider that the knife that started me down the I have way too many knives slope.
 
My grandfather got me hooked by giving me some of his old case and old timers. But the knife that I first got that started my collection was my Spyderco Wayne Goddard sprint run clipit.
 
Both knives i would consider crap now but still bought one of the fixed after it was siezed, and if i ever see the folder i will purchase it on spot.

Folder- some schrade from around 2005ish plastic handle that was black with about three or four greyish dots on it in a curved line, had a "thumb triangle" opener and was a liner lock, black blade plain edge. I had two of them and the bothnwere stolen. My father got them for me for a first fishing knife on my first "real camping" trip.

Fixed- gerber basic & gerber warrant. Gotten for my 16th birthday

In the time between getting these three addiction starting knives my young mind was occupied with flea market crap that looked "crazy" and "tactical".
 
survival&weapons IT doesn't matter if it is crap. My first love was not perfect either! And I definitely started out buying craizy looking tactical blades that I would never have a use for. It's about having fun!
 
My grandfather's knives. A barlow and a bowie were my favorite. Also my first knife, Camp King or Kamp King, can't remember exactly. It was handed down to my brother 45 years ago.
 
Oh, I carried a Benchmade and a Caly3 for several yrs when working, but it was the Sebbie that hooked me big-time.
 
It was a Parker Edwards Damascus single blade pocket knife followed by a special Case Peanut. I still have those knives and many, many more. Over 200 to include a Sebenza and many customs.
 
Found a SAK Spartan half-buried in the lawn edging at a public swimming pool in around 1965. Have never been without one since. Tried out lesser and more features SAKs (including a locking blade version), and even a competitor's version over the years but inevitably return to the original.
 
In the late 60's when I still believed I could grow up and live like Tarzan, this was in the bottom of my Dad's gun cabinet.
It was the fist knife I fell in love with. Never got to use it, but I always liked its looks.

About 20 years ago he finally gave it to me.
It's not much really, but I still feel like a kid when I hold it.
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