Were you guys alowd to have knives as kids?

BryFry said:
Ok, just got alook at your collection that you posted......

Yep, that's about the same kind of stuff I was into at your age as well! haha... that kind of stuff isn't very popular around these forums though, so don't be surprised or offended when people start throwing out names like "mall-ninja" and calling your stuff crap. :o

Personally, I think it's perfectly normal for young collectors to go through a "cheep mall-ninja" stage. Any interst in blades is good in my opinion, so long as you're not hoping or trying to actually threaten others with the stuff.

Stick around here for a while and your knowledge and interests will be expanded!
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O well i think its kool and idc it is cheap stuff but its all i can afford id rather have 10 diffrent things than one nice knive because all those things do is get abused in my woods lol my swords are machetes and i climb trees and stuff ha
 
Profounded said:
O well i think its kool and idc it is cheap stuff but its all i can afford id rather have 10 diffrent things than one nice knive because all those things do is get abused in my woods lol my swords are machetes and i climb trees and stuff ha
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Like I tell my kid, more is not always better. I'm sure if you saved your money, you could buy higher quality items in a matter of no time. Cold Steel makes some items you might take a liking to. ;)
 
Vanguard41xx said:
Like I tell my kid, more is not always better. I'm sure if you saved your money, you could buy higher quality items in a matter of no time. Cold Steel makes some items you might take a liking to. ;)
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Ya ik i have a recent cold steel catalog from an rna convention and im having a bday party soon and hopefully ill get some money to buy something nice. but on the other hand why spend alot of money on stuff thats just going to be abused?
 
I probably got my first knife at 6 in cub scouts, a used slip-joint with the boy scout emblem on it. I never had any of the stuff that you have but that does not mean that at your age I wouldn't have enjoyed the ninja stuff. My first good knives were a Victronox Camper and a Spyderco Delica. The Delica was a Christmas present when I was 16 and I still have and love that knife.
 
Profounded said:
Ya ik i have a recent cold steel catalog from an rna convention and im having a bday party soon and hopefully ill get some money to buy something nice. but on the other hand why spend alot of money on stuff thats just going to be abused?
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For many different reasons. Higher quality items are a great investment. They also hold a better edge, come with an even greater warranty, and are made with better materials. If you like to use your knives, Esee and Kabar have great warranties. They aren't real expensive, either. But hey, if you are happy with you buy, keep buying what you like.
 
Vanguard41xx said:
For many different reasons. Higher quality items are a great investment. They also hold a better edge, come with an even greater warranty, and are made with better materials. If you like to use your knives, Esee and Kabar have great warranties. They aren't real expensive, either. But hey, if you are happy with you buy, keep buying what you like.
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You are right haha those swords are extremly cheap ha i was looking into geting the cold steel two handed katana machete
 
My dad bought me my first pocket knife when I was probably 11 years old...used it for my landscape job through my teen years. I'm 24 now and in all honestly my "knife addiction" has only really gotten bad in the last year or so
 
I can't remember how old I was. Probably 8 or so when I got my first SAK for Xmas. My mom had an issue at first, but Grandpa's always right :)

"if he is old enough to climb trees, he's old enough to cut out his own splinters"
 
I started carrying a micro leatherman when I was 8 or 9. I've always had some sort of knife.
 
When I was a kid I was in boy scouts and had all sorts of slip joints (and of course many of them were SAKs). I also had many hatchets, multi tools, and replica (cheepo) swords and daggers and stuff.
 
yes I had knives when I was a Kid, from about the second grade, when I was in 3rd grade in Oak Ridge Tennessee, I took a shoe box full of both pocket and fixed blades to school for show and tell, My Mom had to drop them off with the teacher and come back and pick them up after the show and tell. Man times have changed, that would never happen now as far as can tell. The knives came from family members to me, and I collected them and kept them in a shoe box under my bed. The knives came mostly from my GrandFather on my Mothers side, I had two big Western fixed blades from my Dad, that I wish I had now but they are long gone.
 
I was five when my Dad gave me a little 'Western' Boy Scout fixed blade--about a 4" blade and sharp as hell. I learned to sharpen it right away (although I don't think I ever cut myself with it). It's forty years later, and it's hard to believe my 10 year old daughter has had it now for a couple years, and it's still in VERY GOOD condition (she doesn't use it too much). I just picked up a Cold Steel Mini Hunter for my three year old, but it'll be a couple years before I can give it to her (can't wait)--she already likes to look at knives online!

I also have a 21 year old daughter who carries a CRKT M21-14SF--the boys jaws really drop when she whips that out! She also likes to shoot and prefers the bigger stuff (e.g., 12 gauge and 45 ACP), so she's a lot of fun.

I do have a 22 year old son who, of course, loves weapons (firearms more so), but you kind of expect that. What I didn't expect was how much I enjoy introducing girls to knives and guns and seeing them enjoy it too.
 
9-10 years old I had a buck 110 as my "fishen" knife but I pretty much carried it everywhere. I'm only 25 btw and even when I was a kid people seemed put off by a child with a knife.
 
I started carrying a SAK classic (grey scales) in 3rd grade. My 4th grade teacher took it away the first day of school when I used it in class (it's a tool, not a weapon...), but I had it back by the end of the day after a short talk with the principal (new teacher needed to learn the ropes I guess). I've been carrying pocket knives pretty much daily ever since (when not disallowed).

I moved up to bigger and better as I got older. Somewhere I still have an old 3-blade Old Timer my Grandpa gave me which saw a lot of pocket time. I carried some of the early Spyderco's after that, starting with the ladybugs, and then I carried a first-gen partially serrated Endura during most of my high-school years (less than 5 years before Columbine mind you) which I purchased at the local Costco (which was either Pace or Price Club back then). I had quite a collection of oddball stuff in junior high, but I have no idea where it all went off to.

edit - Wow, now that I think of it, my oldest kid is just about ready... :D
 
Got my first knife at 5 or 6. Have had one in my pocket almost every day since then.
 
We took guns to school. They stayed out in the parking lot, in the gun rack in the cab of our pick-em-up trucks. Some of us went hunting before we went to school in the morning and a lot of us went hunting right after school - so bringing our guns to school was a normal thing back then. :)

I still remember showing the school superintendent my just aquired .243 bolt-action one day when a bunch of us were comparing toys. He was a rather rabid hunter himself, so that kind of thing was right down his alley.:thumbup:

As for knives: I don't recall how old/young I was when I got my first knife. I'd guess I was around 5 or 6 years old. I don't remember the brand either, but I know it was a "pocket knife" (as we called them) and almost certainly a stockman (since that is what my dad always carried). It wasn't a big deal at all - everybody carried one, everyday. It was a tool that saw considerable use on a daily basis. We didn't think of it in any other way.
 
I got my first knife when I got into cub scouts. So that puts me around 9-10 maybe? Then around age 12 or so (boy scouts) I got more into knives. My first "real" knives were a Gerber Gator, and a Gerber Multitool. I carried those things everywhere, and they were great. At first my mom was a bit worried about it (I only have sisters for siblings, so she was unused to having a child that slept with trucks instead of dolls at age 3, wanted slingshots instead of tea parties, etc), but she quickly overcame that fear.

By that time I was fixing all sorts of little things where ever I was with the multitool, and the gerber was there whenever anyone wanted to open a package. Once my parents knew I treated it as a tool, they were fine (even if I would "play" with them when not using them as a tool :)).

And also, make sure you don't get confused between "cheap" and "inexpensive" knives. Cheap knives are just that, cheap. They probably won't take a great edge, and probably wont last a long time. Inexpensive knives will likely still be cheap, but won't break prematurely, and can take an edge. Check out the Mora Knives, and the Condor knives for fun blades out in the woods. My Mora cost me $8, and it cuts like all get out.

Good luck man :).
 
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