The Knife that made you start collecting

3rdWound

3rdWound

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Just wandering what knife out there made you start getting into knives in the first place. For me it was the BM 800, and Spyderco Police about 6 yrs. ago.
 
Gotta say it was a little Gerber folder with a maroon micarta handle..Don't even know the model number, but it was about 25 years ago, and the knives were still made in Portland, or at least the blade was stamped Portland. Small (under 2" blade), lock back, with superb fit and finish.
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About 30-odd years ago, I found a stainless steel multi-blade in some field. It was engraved British engineers 1952, or something like that.

The blade fascinated me and it started me on the road to knife collecting.
 
Benchmade/Boguszewski 640 mini spike that I bought 5 years ago. I have since gotten rid of it and I am trying to find another.
 
I started to be interested in knives when I saw the Kershaw Rainbow Leek on the cover of the November 2002 "Blade Magazine". Although I wasn't able to purchase that knife until months later, it was instrumental in starting my knife collecting endeavors. About 90 knives later, I am still at it.
 
carried a Buck Cross Lock for years..... about 3 years ago I bought a Willaim Henry B & T T10 Lancet from Mr Gary Graley.... the rest is history.......


thanks G2 !
 
The boy scout jack knife my grandfather gave me about 35 years ago for X-mas. I promptly threw it at a tree just like Daniel Boone would've done and broke the knife. Daniel never broke his knife though.:rolleyes: It started the knife itch.

Bruce
 
A SAK.... the Swiss Champ and (getting red in the face...) UC Rambo II.....

Thinking of buying a Swiss Flame to replace my still-going-strong Champ but can't seems to find it anywhere here in Asia (Singapore)!
 
I guess this started when I was about 8 years old. I sliced one of my fingers open with a Swiss Army Knife after not heeding the advice of my father to be careful. I had not realised the spring was so new, or that the blade was soooo sharp! Needed 3 stitches if I remember correctly - nothing major really - but I've been crazy about knives ever since :D
 
A Kershaw model 1050 folding field knife I bought off my snap-on tool dealers truck around 1980. It was too good looking and cost way too much (at the time).I already knew about not storing a knife in the sheath for long times. I knew buying it I wouldnt be using it so much as just looking and admiring it.
 
There were two, a MT LUDT and a Socom. Still have and carry both after six years.:D
 
A cheap Chinese framelock bought at a seaside shop, you know the kind that sell cheap junk - the knife was to!

Before that when i was 10 a victorinox swiss army knife.
 
5th bday, sheffield slipjoint from before my father was born... gotta love grandfathers for starting the itch!

14yrs later, it's only getting worse. Start on high qual was summer after grade 9 (aug 99), bought a pe frn delica... went from $40 rango to $100, and now $150-200 is normal.
 
I've been interested in knives for as long as I can remember but the Emerson Commander is what really started a serious "wave" (excuse the pun) of collecting three years ago....I'm up to 30 knives now :)

RL
 
Buck 110 in 1968 (with a subconcious boost from an ancient, tiny auto that lived in my Dad's dresser drawer in the 1950's). Also, my first fixed blade...can still remember the deer head on the handle...guess I was about 10. Where I grew up, an old expression admonished: "Don't trust a man that doesn't either carry a knife or wear a hat." I started early with both.
 
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