*The moment you knew you were a "knife guy"*

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Hello everyone, I know we are all fans of blades, but when was that defining moment you just knew you were a "knife guy" what's your story?
 
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Watching Tarzan reruns on TV when I was a kid...

Confirmed by watching Yul Brynner in Ultimate Warrior.
 
When I decided to start designing my own.

Now I need to finish a few....
 
When I was a young kid and I received my first knife and my mother told me what ever you do don"t run the blade across your hand. Of course the first thing I did was do exactly that.
Resulting in my first scar.
 
I knew early, the other kids liked forks and spoons but I just felt different...

Actually it kind of happened in stages. I grew up on a farm so I used knives all the time and made a few wooden models. Given I also made catapults, cars and bow and arrow sets :) I got MY first knife at 7 (a small SAK) but the real tipping point was when my Dad was giving out semi-custom knives as Christmas corporate gifts. I was 13 at the time and he felt a large hunting knife for a then town-kid wasn't a good idea. That was the day I made my very first steel bladed knife. The first time I ever found a knife shop was heaven - the first knife I ever bought myself was a Kershaw Whirlwind. Only got worse as I made inroads into the handmade side, still remember who made the first custom I ever held. Also remember the first Blade mag I ever got, couldn't believe there was a whole magazine dedicated to it :D
 
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for me it was the first time I skimmed through a catalog. I owned one or two knives before that but they didn't mean any more to me that a hammer or any other tool would. then lie I said I skimmed through a catalog and thought to my self "my god......... I want ALL of these!" got the bug ever since
 
When I purchased my first ZT and was trying to justify it to those around me... Everyone who knew me said almost the same thing "not surprised, you have always been into knives". Haha everyone realized it except me until that point.
 
It all started when I was a kid and made off with one of the kitchen knives while I was still in diapers. I kept taking the knife until my father simply had to file off the edge and let me have it. Later in my school years I went everywhere with a knife of some kind. Then the obsession turned to collecting folders and fixed blades. About 30 years ago I got into knifemaking, in part because I needed a hobby, and partly because I could no longer find knives that I wanted and had to make them. More recently this thing called the internet developed, and with it came this site. I had always thought that my interest in knives was a rare fringe thing. I guess not, knife fever is far more widespread than I thought. The world is full of knife nuts.
 
It started when I was a small kid helping my grandfather garden and he carried his old camillus USN knife from when he was in ww2 in the navy, I just loved the way that knife looked with a leather stacked handle. I admired that and a old school trapper he carried everywhere.
 
I was five years old in 1954 and my grandpa gave me a wore out pocket knife. I went out and promptly lost it!:mad:
 
The first time I realised that I was a 'knife guy' was probably the first time I went to grab my wallet, keys and then actually paused to consider which knife to take for the day. And then there came a time when I started thinking about a better way to store/organise the knives I had acquired... :)
 
There has never been a moment in my 35 years that I haven't appreciated knives. My first memory of using MY first knife is 1981. I was 4. The knife was a (likely cheapo) all stainless keychain knife not unlike a SAK.
 
I always was a one knife kid, and carried the one until it was lost or stolen. It wasn't until I stopped by A. G. Russell's shop in Springdale when I was a teenager, that I realized, as posted above, I wanted ALL of them!
 
My dad was in the military so I spent my early childhood jumping around here and there. He would always have some sort of knife on him when he was around and it fascinated me. I guess it stuck. I can remember getting a SAK Classic when I was real young and it was with me everywhere I went for a long time. So I guess as long as I can remember I've been a "knife guy".
 
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