The knife that got you hooked?

herbigguy said:
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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Was certainly very well cared for, or is an early stainless. If she be carbon steel it'll field-dress an elk or moose with the best of them! Dunno about stainless. Who and/or where was it made? Typically knives of that era had stacked leather handles.
 
I would have to say that the EKA Normark ''Swede'' line got me hooked in the 80's. I started out with a Swede, then I got a ''Big Swede'' and eventually a ''Super Swede''.
 
300Six said:
Was certainly very well cared for, or is an early stainless. If she be carbon steel it'll field-dress an elk or moose with the best of them! Dunno about stainless. Who and/or where was it made? Typically knives of that era had stacked leather handles.
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Thanks!
Yes it is carbon steel. Dad didn't use it much, and I cleaned her up after I got it.
The tang stamp says it was from Olsen Knife Co. In Michigan, but the sheath is stamped with Solingen Germany.
 
The first seed of insanity was planted when I saw the spyderco scene in cliffhanger. My first two knives were a SAK and a hunting knife stamped "soligen Germany" that my dad bought for me when I was a kid. I still have both knives and cherish the memories they inspire.
 
3 knives did it for me. My first real knife was a Henckels Professional 'S' chefs knife. That one actually started me down the path to my current career. My folder addiction started when I lost my EDC (although, at the time I had no idea that was what it was called) a SOG Vulcan. And the addiction started peeking out while researching for it's replacement. After I got my new knife, a Benchmade 940, I was hooked.
 
Spyderco delica 4 was the first high end knife I ever had. Before that every time I saw a knife on ebay or in a gas station I wanted to buy it. Now. I came a long way in a few moths haha
 
The Benchmade 275 was the first knife that got my knifenut senses tingling. 80% of the knives i have are Benchmades now.
 
For me I think it was the RAT 1. I was so surprised that I thought I found my dream knife for a meer $25...little did I know I was headed down a slippery slope and the following year I'd buy a Sebenza. :D
 
My Ontario XM Strike Fighter was the knife that got me hooked. I had been collecting knives since I was a kid, but the Ontario really took me in the right direction.

 
Kershaw Blur. It wasn't my first knife, but it is the one that really got me to start collecting.
 
Growing up I had both a Vic and Wenger SAK. as well as a very large folding knife by Case. I carried an SAK everywhere through high school. Summer after I graduated high school I was at this outdoors shop at the mall. They were moving their store and everything was on sale. Got a SOG Pentagon Elite for $35, normal price had been $75. (This was 1997). It was pre-arc lock, so was a liner lock. ATS-34. The next year for Christmas I got a SOG mini-xray vision (ATS-34 as well) but had the new arc lock. Carried those two until I lost them sometime in 2004. Was devastated. For the next several years I bought and used cheaper knives, as I had just finished my associates degree and didn't have the funds for nicer knives. I ended up with 3 CRKT's which sucked. My sister found my mini xray vision in 2008 in between the back seats of my dad's SUV. I'd forgotten how much I'd loved my SOG's and went right out and bought two of them as I was hooked again. Got a Black bladed Trident tanto and a black bladed combo edge aluminum handled Flash 1. Both were disappointing.
 
The spyderedge Delica and Endura I bought what has to be over 10 years ago now. I didn't even know Spyderco when I bought them I just knew I liked them. When I started to get more serious into knives I was pleasantly surprised to find that Spyderco is about 30 minutes from where I live now (I originally bought them when I lived in Ohio).

Those were the best knives I had for several few years until I saw a Sebenza in a YouTube video and that eventually took me to the next level.

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A Buck 110 did 20 years ago. I now have all these expensive as heck high tech folders and have come back full circle except this time it's the 112 and my 24 hour old Buck 500 which is now tied with my Spyderco CPM D2 Para Military for all time favorite locking folder yes 420HC and all! I couldn't be happier! When my nephew graduates collage, year after next he'll get a great head start on his collection!
 
I guess if you mean the very first one that got me liking knives it would be a fake pearl handled pen knife my Father give me,
The one Always Think of when I think of the best knife I had was a Buck110, I got at 11 or 12 years old,,,,,I bought it with my own money from working in the CA Almond orchards. Almost cried when I lost it.
Even with a few higher priced blades I always have a few 110's and 112's around.
 
As a kid I had a boy scout knife. Like most all kids I always liked shiny, sharp, and loud things. Guns took over for a number of years in my adulthood.
In my late 30's My brother gave me a small Kershaw Scallion (assisted).
I thought wow, is this legal? I used it and carried it loose in my pocket that summer. Unfortunately I lost it while wearing some slick basketball shorts. My wife tried to replace it with the larger Kershaw Leek but I soon misplaced that too.
Fast forward 2 years and I find the small Scallion in my wife's car.(go figure) The Kershaw Scallion re-ignited my knife fever. EDC started to become normal routine.
That little knife carried me into Blade forums and introduced me to a man named Chris Reeve, who is apparently the master of mind control.
 
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For me it was a Byrd cara cara. It was just thrown in with a gun purchase. I figured it was junk because it was just given to me.
It was razor sharp out of the package and had the stainless handle......and was hooked. I still have it.
 
The first SpeedSafe [me thinks] out of Kershaw, the Random Task, was too cool at the time.
 
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