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

I first off was given a Swiss army knife as a kid by my uncle for every summer when we went fishing. We were young and forgetful as kids and when we got there we would have forgotten them. My uncle would get pissed because we would be fishing and trying to cut line anyway we could, especially with our teeth :p My brother and I wouldn't hear the end of it all summer. As I got older I began to notice how inconvenient it was when I didn't have one. II began to grow interested in them and had a small Gerber pocketknife and sum cheap fury throwing knives. I lost my Gerber a few years ago and when shopping for a new one online found the kershaw leek and fell in love. Ever since then it has been a love and a collection has grown. I use all my knives at work in the military and just bought a zt0780. I would love to hear from the ladies also :) I was using "guys" just as a general term. Thanks for all the responses!
 
July 22nd 1969 4:20 pm EST or when I got my first pocketknife an old German made SAK clone... ;)
 
I remember seeing the movie The Black Stallion in 1979 when I was about eight years old. The boy in the movie is given a pocket knife and told "a person should always have a knife" shortly before being shipwrecked.

It seemed like good advice. A couple of years later I saved up and bought a SAK - a Huntsman - and I still have it (along with a few other knives ...).
 
I think my first knife was a standard swiss army knife when i joined the scouts, i was only there for a few years but still remember all i learnt and how useful a knife can be in a much needed situation. However my first real quality knife was only back in 2008 when i bought a benchmade griptilian :)
 
The moment for me came when i was 12 and read one of my dads military history books specifically the section on the gurkhas saw a khukri for the first time, reinforced when i saw under siege (movie was crap) the knife fight scene with tommy lee jones, sealed when i saw the hunted with Tommy and benecio.
 
Mine was when I realized that I was spending more money on knifes then I was on prety much everything else.
 
When I was 12 I begged my father to buy me a WWII German bayonet when we were on vacation in Norway.
Still have it 41 yrs later.
 
My dad gave me my first knife on my fourth birthday. It was (actually is) a serpentine stockman. I remember for a long time he would sit with me and we would carve soap, or soft balsa wood together until he felt I would be safe with it. Times were different back then. When I started school, even in the first grade, you carried your knife to school to sharpen those big thick pencils they made you use. :).

Pretty much a normal kid that lost, broke or blew up a lot of things, but still have that knife and with thanks to a kind member here one just like it that was brand new when he sent it to me. Both of them still get carried. It is my dad's fault and we still laugh about it. :D
 
With my grandad using his case to take out my splinters, to my dad using a knife to open up a new toy for me for Christmas, I grew up thinking a man carried a knife. When I was maybe 8 or so I got my first SAK as a present. I've always had a knife since.
 
My dad became interested in acquiring a "survival knife" after watching more than a few episodes of Man vs. Wild in a week's time during 2008 :rolleyes: and I immediately got sucked in as well at age 14. Approximately $1,500 later, I'm a knife nut. I regret nothing! :D
 
When I was about 5 years old I started asking for a new pocket knife for every birthday or Christmas. When we went on family vacations, I always demanded I get a new knife as a souvenir. By the time I was 10 I probably had 50-100 knives in my collection (most of them consisting of inherited used up slip joints from my grandfathers). I'm 25 now, so I'd say I knew about 20 years ago.
 
Grandfather worked for railroad and always carried a pocket knife. Worked for him, works for me. He gave me my first watch back before quartz or before I heard of them anyway, was a manual wind and he said always wind it at the same time each day. I still prefer mechanical to quartz or automatics.
 
Bastid said:
My dad gave me my first knife on my fourth birthday. It was (actually is) a serpentine stockman. I remember for a long time he would sit with me and we would carve soap, or soft balsa wood together until he felt I would be safe with it. Times were different back then. When I started school, even in the first grade, you carried your knife to school to sharpen those big thick pencils they made you use. :).

Pretty much a normal kid that lost, broke or blew up a lot of things, but still have that knife and with thanks to a kind member here one just like it that was brand new when he sent it to me. Both of them still get carried. It is my dad's fault and we still laugh about it. :D
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Things have changed since then.
 
I don't know when it first happened. I remember being very young and wanting a little keychain swiss army knife at the store. My dad got it for me and from then on I was always collecting knives. Other kids had pokemon card collections, I had my knife collection.
 
When i started to care what kind of steel my knives were made of.

Ive always been interested in knives ever since i was little and always had some kind of knife or another but it didnt go beyond that. It wasnt until i started researching different types of steel that i realized how into them.
 
When my Dad gave me a Japanese officer's dagger that he brought back from the Battle of Okinawa. That's definitely what started me on the path.
 
Dad always carried a pocket knife. I bought my first knife when I was in the 2nd grade with my allowance money. Went through a couple Imperials until I got my first Case when I was probably 12. To me fixed blades looked cool, but it was all about the using and I had little use for a fixed blade. Then my future brother in law enters the picture. I was out of college and he had a couple Randall's and some other knives to show us. I liked them and it wasn't long before I purchased my first Randall which happened to be at one of the early Blade Show's in Knoxville TN. That probably represents when I moved from simple user to "nut". Randalls were common and available at most gunshows at about retail price. That is not the case any more.
 
Even though I got my first pocket knife in first grade, I knew that I had arrived when my 6th. grade teacher asked to borrow my 4 bladed scout knife to sharpen some pencils. It was the class tool.
 
One of my best childhood memories was when my siblings and I got our first pocket knife (a Wegner:grumpy: My kids will get a proper Vic SAK), and I promptly cut my finger open just above the second knuckle on my middle finger. I can still see the big blob of blood growing on my finger (I clot very nicely), and doing my best to stop mum from cleaning the wound. Ahh, good times. Funny how that experience didn't make me any less attracted to the thing, just very nervous about opening and closing it.

It didn't really sink in until I was in my late teens. I seem to have this habit of picking a hobby, learning as much as I can about it in a month or so, and then spending all my free money getting the best gear available. Trouble is knives took about five years worth of time and money instead.
I'm hitting cameras right now, and guns are next on the list. My financial future looks pretty grim.
 
back in the late 80's and early 90's when I was a kid all of the older kids in my neighborhood carried switch blades and balisongs, that's how I got interested in knives.

I remember the leader of the gang in my neighborhood back then carried a nice stilleto with a white pearl handle. I know it wasn't a cheap knife.
 
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