The One That Started it All for Ya?

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brians

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If you still have the one blade that got it all started for you, I'd love to see it. Here's my Schrade Deerslayer15OT - 13 year old heading out for days on end in the bush with my friends. You should have seen the stunned look on my parents faces - priceless :p

All my buds had Grohman's (we were canadian maritimers), but I couldn't resist that Schrade - just called out to me at the local Canadian Tire store.

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His little brother (152OT) came along later to help with the skinning. Another stunner for the folks.

I find myself migrating back to them even now. 1095 and have lasted for over 25 years.
 
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Don't have it anymore, but it was a Buck Pathfinder. I can still remember the smell of the sheath!
 
Mine was a scout knife, I wish I still had it. It was a pretty ugly knife but it would be nice to have.
 
Swiss army tinker. Long gone though. Lost it at big bear lake when I was 12. Wish I still had it. Probably still in the woods where I lost it, buried.
 
Earliest fixed blade I can remember was a Coleman Western with the rubber handle and finger grooves. I think I got it at Meijers.

I wasn't very good at maintaining or keeping my knives as a kid.
 
Cub scout knife (blue handle). Buck 110 was second. Both are long gone, but they were fun while they lasted. Now I'm broke!
 
my first was a victorinox classic...

long gone. i did hang onto that one for several years though...pretty good considering how well i kept track of my things when i was 10...then again a knife was a big deal for me back then...i had been begging for more than a year.
 
Here it is

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I ordered it from an add in the back of a magazine back in 1974. It quickly became my woods companion over the next 3 decades. It has been used to chop fire wood, build shelters, drive tent stakes, skin everything from fish to deer, prepare food, ect. ect.
I often went out with just this Skachet and a little Buck two blade pocket knife. It is perfect as an Ulu, hand axe, skinning knife, hatchet, tomahawk, and light hammer.

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You can carry it on your belt or in your pack. When you need it just cut a correct size limb, taper it and the head screws on the limb. Sounds cheesy but put on properly it will not losen or come off.

Later I supplemented it with a USAF Pilot's survival knife but the Skachet is still one of my favorite tools.
 
my first knife was a buck 110, which i got growing up as a kid.

is that just me or does that thing look awfully like an atax?
 
SAK Tinker my grandfather gave me at 13. I had a couple beforehand, but they were lost within a week of buying them. Swap meet POSes. I still have that Tinker too. It's not too beat up, but it's definitely used. Just replaced the toothpick/tweezers in that sucker. It's also long been retired, for sentimental purposes.
 
I still have the Buck 110 I got when I was 8. God, my oldest is 6 and I can't imagine her handling a knife in 2 years, yikes.

That knife went everywhere with me. When the principal of my middle school told me I couldn't carry it at school, my dad pitched a fit. It ended up riding in my sock.
 
can't say it was just one knife - my grandpa was a gunsmith but he had a love of knives. by the door he had a peg board with a small collection hung up - everything from a nazi dagger he'd lifted off a dead luftwaffe soldier (he had his stories :cool:) to a khukri to a kabar. i probably liked his pocket knives the best though - he'd pull some of them out only occasionally to show as if they were treasured jewels. never forget the puma lockback he showed only a few times. he even made a pocketknife he was especially proud of - a lockback with aluminum bolsters and cherry handles he'd gotten from a cherry tree stump in the yard.

brians said:
All my buds had Grohman's (we were canadian maritimers), but I couldn't resist that Schrade - just called out to me at the local Canadian Tire store.
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you got good taste! :thumbup:
 
sak camper....I loved that knife....the scale fell off and it got lost on one of my cross country journeys...the next knife I owned was a buck 112 which I had from 10years old till I was 20 when my best friend lost it while camping...I recently replace it with a new on but it just wasn't the same...
 
A classic black Victronix swiss army knife for me, I wish I still had it, I have no idea what happened to it.

My first fixed blade was an old timer skinner knife like yours that I found, I loved that knife, but again it dissapeared somewhere down the line. It is really nice to see the ones you posted.
 
Victorinox SAK. Not sure which model, but I think it was a Hunter or something like that. Carried it until I dropped it in a mudhole in a pasture while checking cattle. Got my dad to buy me another one. Ended up finding the one I dropped a year or two later. It's still in a drawer somewhere, pretty corroded and ugly though.
 
Love the Skatchet- never seen that before- kind of like the Tops ulu axe (can't think of the name)

My first was a miniature puuko from Bodo Norway. The handle was the head of a fish and the sheath was the body of the fish. I had to earn it by filleting a fish, the custom for the knife that came to my father from his uncle. Unfortunately I lost it gopher hunting as a teenager, and looked for it for ages to no avail. I have recently been planning on making it for my child(ren) in its memory. Sucks to loose an heirloom.

If anybody ever sees one of these please let me know- it is worth a paupers ransom to me!!
 
There were many a .25 cent serated kitchen knife I bought at a flea market when I was proabably 8 or 9, a plastic handled phuko I found in a Jetty on the beach when I was 10 or so and a folding knife from my grandfather that he got from his work accomplishments at the US steel mill, that one is proabably my favorite it's all steel and beautiful I've always loved knives since before I can remember they are the purest form of a tool purest form of anything so useful and simple. It's the simplicity of the beast that gets me!
 
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