What did your addiction start as?

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brutalcamo

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I'm new to quality knives and I was wondering what were the first knives and/or knife related things you bought? I got a Skyline after Thanksgiving just cause I thought, "Hey I have carried cheap knives for years and now I'm 18 and i can legally buy knives and i have some spare graduation money..." now no more money but I haven't stopped using it since I got it, but now I figured it needed a tougher friend so I just ordered a BK11 and along with a Sharpmaker. So I was wondering if you remember what knife started your addiction and what where the first things u bought with it. And maybe how your taste has changed over the years if at all.
 
This ducks unlimited folder my brother had. I totally abused that blade, chipped out about an inch square section of the blade from prying a branch. Then after that happened, I was like "Is that a finger hole thing? Was that there before?".
 
SAKs. Then I decided I don't really like folders. Don't dislike them by any means, and once in awhile I come across one that I love, but by and large, folders aren't for me.
 
The first knife I ever bought was a SOG Fielder. I bought it for defensive reasons after I had an incident during my first night in college. The SOG was pretty dull and had some pretty bad up-down blade play, so I upgraded to a larger and more tacticool S&W Oasis. I loved that thing, I was solid as a rock and had a friend sharpen it up. Later on, I got a job over the summer and decided that I wanted to buy a nice knife. I dropped $100 on a Benchmade Griptilian Tanto and my addiction was in full swing.
 
Mine started with the Becker BK-2. Until then the only knife besides kitchen knives I had was a cheap S&W folder. After I got the BK-2 I thought "Well, now that I have a quality fixed blade I need a quality folder". It was pretty much over from there.
 
brutalcamo said:
... so I just ordered a BK11 and along with a Sharpmaker.
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Funny you should mention the BK11.
That's what really kick started my collection of decent knives.
Before that, I just had a Gerber Gator for years. Still have it actually.
The Sharpmaker is a great investment. The diamond and ultra fine rods are worth the extra cash imo.



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I'm always fascinated with switch blade....but in Cali it's illegally to carry...I first started with a Swiss army, then I order a cheap A/O off eBay...love how it assisted open with a flipper. Had a few cheapie off eBay, them saw a Kershaw compound for sale at $14 ship.... Once I held a kershaw I know u would never go back to cheap stuff... Then got my first Benchmade oh man, that was it.....I'm hold my self down to buying 1 or 2 a year.... I hope...
 
Well i used to do be addicted to crack and decided to try out knives...I had more money when it was just crack...
 
For me it was wanting a spring assisted knife. I was with my friend and he had a Gerber Fast Draw. To me it was the absolute coolest thing in the world. So I went to REI and bought one. Then it took off from there :)
 
For me it was a BM Mini-Barrage, just bought it on a whim and could not get over the speed of the assisted deployment. That was a year ago, and 8 knives ago. I shoot for different kinds, but tend towards gentleman's folders because of the legality in most states.
 
I got my first knife when I was 6. It was a simple sak and from that point, I bought a knife (cheap gas station knives) everytime I got money. Then a few years ago, I saw a cold steel recon 1 on some TV show my friend was watching. I looked it up online and thought "WHAT?! $100 for a knife?!" but I ended up buying it. After a year of buying nothing but cold steel knives, I realized that there are WAY better companies out there. So now I'm trying to buy a little of everything from every company. Its an expensive addiction :p
 
Hmm the knife that started making me want more was a cheap Ridge Runner Rainbow Frame Lock I carried.
So I continued to pile on more and more knives. They're weren't really good knives but I thought they were cool.

The knife that started me in on the knives of quality was Kershaw Nerve. My friend had one and I wanted it. He ended up trading it and a CRKT Warncliffe Minimalist to me. After that I was pretty addicted. Especially to Kershaw. Then I got a CRKT Pazoda 2, and kept going until I had expensive Spyderco's and Benchmade's, etc.

I've really calmed it down by refining my likes and wants in a knife and have been able to not buy or trade as much. However, I get itches and there are still ones I want to try. =]
If I'd have known I was going to take a roll downhill and want tons of quality knives worth more than anything else I own, I probably wouldn't have gotten that Nerve(yes I would have) lol.
Knives are a great and fun hobby. And on top of it all they're useful. And I believe in getting the most enjoyment possible out of my money so I use them all.

So a little $20 Kershaw Nerve started it lol. After that I wanted more. And kept wanting better and better. Saying this with Sebenza in hand.
Best way to settle it down so you don't go overboard on buying/trading, is to really find what you like in a knife, and go for your likes and preferences.
If you like almost everything about all knives.. you're out of luck. Lol.
 
Would you guys be completely disgusted if I said Bear Grylls?
Early last year I was couch potatoed out when I had my tonsils removed.
Watched 5 seasons of Bear Grylls and started to pay attention to his knives, wanting a Gerber Gator. I didn't get a Gator but I did order a Bear Grylls Folding Sheath Knife then a Cold Steel Pendleton Lite Hunter.
Weeks later I started trying harder and bought a Skyline and a Tenacious!
 
I've had many knives since I was a kid. First one was at the age of 5-6. Some cheap folder given to me by an uncle. I didn't get the bug until I bought a Microtech Combat Troodon (tactical for me!) from BladeHQ.

My first love will always be autos (they are straight up magical), but I'm on more of a flipper and fixed blade bender right now.
 
I'm an outdoorsman, hunter, and fisherman. When first doing these activities I used passed down knives - a Remington bullet pocketknife and various Buck fixed knives & folders. That got me to wondering what else might be out there. It went on from there.
 
zl1 said:
Would you guys be completely disgusted if I said Bear Grylls?!
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Not at all, as it's exactly what got me going. My nine year old is an avid Man vs Wild watcher, and I commented to my wife one day that the one common piece of kit BG always seems to have is a knife. That led to Google searches, thoughts of buying the BGUSK, then came across this forum and the rest is history. :D

My first real knife was a Buck Bantam followed by a Buck Nighthawk. Then discovered Beckers, Spydercos, Bark Rivers and more. Good times. :thumbup:
 
I've had knives since cub scouts, but the real bug hit when I got a gerber guardian, the smallest version and in camo. I actually got the harness system that allows one to wear it on the leg/forearm/like a shoulder holster etc. I wore it everywhere, reminiscing now leads me to realize how tight society has become, today, I would now, even as an adult, not be able to wear that knife and carry it as freely and to the same places I did then as a teenager...getting that knife was a financial and otherwise big deal at the time, a real step up from the cheaper jap stuff I had, wow that's neat also back then it was a different Asian countries stuff considered cheap and crappy...
 
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