The Knife that Started it all for me...

Mine was a Scout folder that my Scoutmaster gave to me probably 20 years ago. I wish I still had that little knife.
 
It was one of these three, I honestly can`t remember, but I keep thinking it was the fishing knife. The fish knife, and camp knife are both Colonials, the little one is a Kent.

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My first real knife was a Buck 110. Bought it and a medium arkansas stone with birthday card money when I was 16 or so. Still have it, although we won't discuss why the tip is kind of rounded instead of pointy :o. I have several knives now that are better then the Buck in various ways, but I hope never to lose it... lotta memories and a quality piece. Even today, for folks who aren't as rough on/picky about their knives as we are, you could do a lot worse than a Buck.

"20 years in front of printing presses and guitar amps... and people wonder why I say 'huh?' alot..."

JT -- formerly known as GibsonFan
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one of my early FB knives was a Buck 639(mid 80's) but what actually got me into knives was a Simple Stockman medium folder "Uncle Henry" USA....I carried it eveywhere,wish I still had it....it was lost
 
Not my first knife, but the one that made the biggest impression on me, the one I really lusted after and the one that made me know I was a man when I got one, was a Buck 110.
 
Buck 112. Bought at Goldstocks sporting goods, Glens Falls, NY in the very early 70's. It rode on my belt for at least a decade...still have it.
 
Don Rearic said:
Yeah, the Bantam Flashlights were very cool. Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and everything from Dick Tracy to Batman were printed on them. And, yes, that is a Camp King, remember busting your fingernails trying to get that one open when you were a tyke? :D

Some of you have already perused these pages, but, for you...here you go Rockywolf:

http://www.donrearic.com/kstuff1.html

http://www.donrearic.com/kstuff2.html

http://www.donrearic.com/kstuff3.html
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Good stuff Don! I was surprised to see how many of those items I used to have: the opera glasses, some of the can openers, the little folding knives, a barlow, etc. Ah the good ol' days. I had many adventures and built debris huts as a kid, never worrying about ticks and dirt and anything else, with my trusty Kamp King and flashlight by my side.
 
i have been a knife junkie just about as long as i can remember... i defianetly remember having SAK's at a young age, but i think the knife that started it all for me was my Benchmade AFCK mni... i scored one when i was in high school... it never left my side, until i got my current EDC.. benchmade mini griptillian...:D
 
I'm the same Mike. I remember having a Buck 110 for years. I should go buy one, or a 112. I usually drag around a Leatherman on my belt and a Becker necker in my pocket, but the Buck would be excellent, and more sheeple friendly.

Ok back on topic, anyone know where a guy could find an old Kamp King?
 
Mine was one of those cheapo rambo knockoffs that I eventually broke. I always admired the buck119 that somebody I looked up to wore during camping. It wasn't until about 3 years ago that I actually bought myself a 119 and shortly after joined BF.
 
Found it! Not my first knife, but my first fixed blade. It was hiding in the back of my gunsafe, I was worried when I could not find it before. This one has a lot of miles on it.

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Rockywolf said:
Good stuff Don! I was surprised to see how many of those items I used to have: the opera glasses, some of the can openers, the little folding knives, a barlow, etc. Ah the good ol' days. I had many adventures and built debris huts as a kid, never worrying about ticks and dirt and anything else, with my trusty Kamp King and flashlight by my side.
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Those articles are about two years old and I get about one E-mail a month just like your post above. If we could somehow guide all of these people into one group, maybe no one would really have to be concerned about keeping a knife concealed at their job or whatever. It's more than what we used to have, it's what we have been robbed of being able to do in some cases. All you have to do is ask yourself a question, are we any better off now than we were then? When it comes to some things, we are, but in general, we are a much less free society than we used to be.

The other thing that was cool about the articles is how do people think now that they are adults... When we were kids we wanted the pocketknives and the fixed blades and the folding binoculars and collapsible pocket telescopes and the two-way walkie-talkies with the obnoxious feedback-sounding Morse Code button on them. Now, most us are carrying around an incredibly advanced version of those communications devices and if I want to foot the bill for the call, I can call England on my Motorola Razor if I want to. I'm not a Trekkie by any means but it seems to me that someone at Motorola (or whatever company came up with the clamshell-flip-phone type of device) was a Star Trek fan and thought that a Star Trek flip-cover Communicator would be an awesome thing to bring into the real world. As a matter of fact, Star Trek had been out of production and been in reruns for years and in the mid 1970s I had a pair of flip-cover walkie-talkies with the horrendous Morse Code feature and they were Star Trek Communicators...all of those things used to operate on Citizen's Band Channel 14, IIRC.

Penlights, USGI Angle Head Flashlights, the little Cub and Boy Scout Bantams and all of these lights...man, look around at what we talk about on this forum or a forum like EDC Forums, nothing has changed, we're still looking for the same stuff as adults. Some people would say that makes us boys looking for more toys, I like to think of it in another way, maybe as boys we had a lot more common sense and we were more like adults.

Anyways, it's good to take a stroll back into childhood sometimes, good for the soul. :D
 
I have a SAK Champion, given to me when I wasn't even 10 years old yet (I'm now 36). I still have it. I don't (really) use it any more. I'm thinking I'll get it refurbished some day and give it to my two-year-old boy.
 
Buck 112

Late 70's vintage

Carried it all through High School, including IN CLASS.

That was back when you could carry a knife in school but got in trouble if you took it out in class.
 
My first real knife, a Schrade Sharpfinger, carbon steel. Boy scout knife was my first folder. Unfortunately I don't have either anymore.
 
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The very first one was whittled out of wood by my Dad.
The second was a World's Fair souvenir that seems to have an aluminum blade.
Ah the hours I spent sitting in the dirt, rock in hand, trying to get that thing sharp.
Notice the hole in the sheath where the tip would poke out.
After I outgrew wood and aluminum, there were bunches of pocketknives that are lost in time.
Along with 2 Imperial fb's that I won at Rockaway Playland... much to the chagrin of my Dad.
They both rusted away in a tackle box.
Who knew?

My first quality purchase was a Buck 112 followed weeks later by a Buck 110 in the mid-70s. Still have them :D
 
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I was 13 and, unlike my folks, I was a woodsbum. Saved my money and after drooling at this thru the glass for weeks, came home with a 15OT (on right). Look on my parents faces - priceless :)

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