Were you guys alowd to have knives as kids?

The men on both sides of my family always carried pocket knives. My grandfather had a drawer full of them and he knew I liked to look at them etc, one day he gave me one of his more worn out slip joints. I must have been about 8, maybe younger because the memory is so faint. I've been carrying pretty much ever since. I can even remember dates by the knives I was carrying at a certain point in time, like a reference or something. I have many heirloom knives (well, not of much value other than sentiment) from my grandfathers and my father that are precious to me and they will go on to my kids when they are ready for them.

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I was around 6 or 7 when I can clearly remember carrying a slip-joint. That was over 50 years ago and if as a boy you didn't have a folder on you, you were looked at as a little strange.
 
Yeah, i got my first knife when i was 7, and have had one in my pocket every day since then. It was a little red slipjoint, which, along with a few SAK type multi tools is all i really carried till i was 13. Thats when i started buying larger folders that locked and could be opened one handed. I think its a good thing to allow a young kid to carry a knife if they can be responsible with it. Same view i have about teaching young kids about firearms.
 
When we were kids we traded knives at school about like we trades baseball cards. In high school we did alot of knife and gun trading at school, and a couple of times with a teacher. Its not that way here now, but back in the 70's no one thought a thing about kids having knives, or if we brought them to school.
 
Every boy carried a slippy of some type when I was growing up,unfortunately that's not much the case anymore.
 
Just following the dark ages... What ever the age you are when you start cub scouts (7 or 8). I got my first 'real' knife from the scout store in Epherta, PA - a Camillus that my mother bought for me. Shortly after that, I bought 'my first' knife at the 5 & Dime store - a brown shell handled Imperial Barlow. I actually still have both of those knives. The Barlow is a piece of crap - but it's my piece of crap & going nowhere. The Scout is pending my first cub scout grand child.
 
I bought my first knife, a stag-handled Solingen fixed blade, when I was around 8 or 9. I carried it on my belt around the neighborhood.
 
5 or 6. started with just a small pocket knife. 8 or 9 Had straw bales in the back yard to shoot my junior bow, throw knives, home made spears at.
 
When I was 6 or 7 (35 years or so ago) a family friend owned a local hardware store, and as I recall he gave me a Case slipjoint pocket knife one day when my father and I were in his store. I carried that for a few years, but eventually lost it. A couple of years later I traded a cap gun to a neighbor for a small single blade locking knife that I carried for a few years, and then switched to a Swiss Army Knife when I was in my teens or so. Carried a knife to school much of the time growing up, and back then, it just wasn't an issue.
 
I got my first pocket knife when i was like 6 i believe, if i remember correctly it was a gerber lst. My first fixed blade was an old steak knife with a handmade leather sheath at like 8 or 9. When I have my own kids im am going to teach them knife and gun safety at a young age unlike most kids these days.
 
I grew up around, knives, guns and rough dogs. (powerful dogs need to be respected and handled correctly as well) You didn't even think about having a knife they were just part of life. Nobody made a knife out to be "dangerous" or "evil"on it's own, the person behind them was held responsible and any misuse was an embarrassing shame, no honorable young person would suffer willingly. Knives and firearms were tools and useful. You respected them and learned how to handle and use them. (as well as care for them) Nobody ever thought they had to lock things away, from others. Instead all of us kids grew up educated, with great care and none of us ever mishandled any of the many knives and firearms in the house.
 
All my rents let me have until I was around 16 was my SAK and boy scout knife. Then I started bringing home all kinds of sharp things.
 
I had several knives when I was a kid. I didn't have one of these, though...
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But then again, we lived way out in the country. The nearest mall was 75 miles away!
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I was 11 when I started carrying a knife full time. It was my scout knife, I don't think it left my side from the day I got it until I bought my SAK huntsman. Now I can count on one hand the number of days I haven't had a knife in my pocket since I was 11.
 
elkins45 said:
I had several knives when I was a kid. I didn't have one of these, though...
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But then again, we lived way out in the country. The nearest mall was 75 miles away!
:D

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Hahahaha....that video is amazing. I need to go find my own death dealer 2000 clearly

I got my first knife when I was 8. My grandfather gave me a grafting knife from his time at a tree nursery.
Great little slipjoint that I whittled and injured myself with for years, not sure of the make.
 
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My parents were very pro-knife and they got me a Wenger SAK when I was like five however I don't actually remember regularly carrying a knife until I was 8 or 9 maybe.
 
My dad always had two knives. I Case or Western trapper plus a Buck on his belt. I grew up with my first knife at 7 years old. Even back when we were in the cub scouts the first thing we all did was to run out and buy a scount knife.
 
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