What did your addiction start as?

I started off liking knives just about as much as any kid, I would borrow my dad's and run around the yard finding uses for them, widdling wood, and accidentally cutting myself too often.

I've always had a couple but just recently got into collecting higher end knives and valuing all of the characteristics of them. My friend bought me a SOG Trident after he joined the SEALS a year or so ago and it really sparked my interest to what is out there now opposed to traditional lockbacks like I had always owned. I bought a Twitch 2 and a Cold Steel SRK and then took a break for awhile.

After getting my most recent job the fever has really kicked in and I bought myself as Spyderco Chapparel as my first "real" knife. This was a couple weeks ago, and then right after I bought a BM Nimravus off of the same friend from earlier in the story. Currently I'm in the process of narrowing down my next purchase, its just a matter of how long it takes me to decide on one or maybe two :rolleyes:. All I know is these forums aren't doing any good to keep money in my pocket :P.
 
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Would you guys be completely disgusted if I said Bear Grylls?
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Yes :D

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My first knife that I put a lot of research and thought into was Fallkniven F1 second was Fallkniven A1 but I just could not limit myself to two knives
 
I guess it all started with sampling Marijuana, and then the downwrd spiral to Toad Licking, Jimpson seeds, and glue sniffing.
 
I always liked knives, and spent hours looking through old Smokey Mountain Knife Works catalogs when I was a kid. My neighbor gave me a Schrade Cave Bear. I broke the tip off of it when I was a kid, and reground one on with a sharpening stone. Couldn't get that knife sharp to save my life. I think my dad had gotten me a Colonial Daniel Boone single blade junker, I think it might have been made in the US though.

When I was a teenager, a local junk shop had a knife dealer, and I bought a ton of no name Chinese junk knives. After one bent backwards on me, and almost turn me from a righty to a lefty, I finally bought some good knives. That was it.

What brought me here was the Cold Steel Ozark Hunter. Still haven't found one, but they do exist, I thought they didn't reach production for a while.
 
I wanted a new knife to replace my old folder. I did research, and came across the blur. It all went downhill from there. M4 grip, salvo, rake, carbon fiber blur, cuscadi scales for the m4 grip, and soon to be many many more.
 
It all started with benchmade for me , I was at a gunshop/benchmade dealer, and i had only owned kershaws,bucks and el cheapos before , and the guy who owned the shop was a friend and he told me i had to try out one of these knives, and i was like no way am i spending like kinda cash for a knife, he said trust me and handed me a full size skirmish. It was love at first touch I loved that knife but at the moment i didn't have the cash to buy it so i bought a griptillian and the skirmish went on layaway. From there I got the skirmish off law away, bought a few more grips I liked (i had one in every variant), my full size skirmish, my mike snody benchmade, wharncliffe folder(forgot the name), then I got a full size infidel. I had every benchmade the gunshop carried, I had a nice nice collection, that i loved to show off to anyone who came over, well one day i came home to the front door wide open , All our jewelery was gone all my benchmades were gone , the only knife i had left was a nitrous stryker and the cqc-7 that I had hid in a closet safe that i carried with me in Iraq, I even had that benchmade balisong that I see pop up every now and then for around 500 bucks and they were all stolen. It's all good though I been spending the last 7-8 years rebuilding my collection. They also got my buck strider the one that looks like the sng, Me typing this story makes me sick, but it justifies me buying more knives and making my knife collection bigger and better, and never showing them off to anyone again.
 
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It was the first knife I bought with my own money. A Case Barlow, around 1970 when I was 10.
 
I think my love of blades started with a "Swiss Army Knife" my dad gave me as a 6th birthday present. I promptly took it outside, stabbed a tree, and closed it on my finger cutting it to the bone. That's OK though. Now I have the scar to show my 5 year old the dangers of knives. I used that cheep little knock-off till it fell apart in my hands.
 
For me, it was going to gun and knife shows with my step father. If I was good that day, I'd get to leave with some Chinese Pos. but I was young so I was happy. About a year ago, I got my first Benchmade and was blown away by the quality. I wanted to see just how nice knives could get.... Needless to say, 3 sebenzas and a lot of money later, my addiction has just really taken off!:)
 
I blame Bladeforums for my addiction.
I was quiet knifelover, who carried SAK for many years. Than one day I saw Gerber on clearance for $8 at Target. Couple days later I decided to buy it, but it was gone. Check Gerber website, got confused with various steels. Started to research cutlery steels - found BF. After that down the hill. Still have my SAK. Mostly used for trips to NYC. Three Spydercos and one Moki in my pockets now plus one in a car.
 
I remember being about ten years old and my "cool uncle" gave me a SAK. I remember thinking it was beyond awesome. Over the years as a teenager I went through some Gerbers and I even remember a Kershaw or two thrown into the mix. But a couple years ago was when I really got into EDC concepts and having a knife on me as utility tool as opposed to cool factor. I actually did some research. I knew I wanted something that was good quality, not too expensive and of course it had to look cool. I decided on the Spyderco Endura 4 with the saber grind. I was blown away by what I got. It was awesome. Felt great in hand. Carried well in pocket. It was shortly after that I joined Bladeforums. Then the addiction really started. I got a few more knives. Got a Sharpmaker. Got a few more knives. So as a kid my uncle got the ball rolling. As an adult the Endura lured me in.

Tl;dr - got a SAK as a kid. Spyderco Endura really got me into the addiction

Cheers,
Zack
 
A benchmade triage got me started this, my first year, of collecting.. I quickly ordered a spyderco Manix 2 that made me realize that I didn't like the triage at all and sold it to a friend. then came the embassy, limited edition grip with the cpm m4, hogue ex01, Emerson cqc7, then finally the zt 561.
 
Being a kid in the 60's got me started. Every one had a jack knife in their pocket. Been downhill ever since.
 
As a kid, a buddy of mine had all sorts of knives, "ninja" weapons and whatever could be bought via catalogs with his mom's credit card. Meanwhile, one relative or another used to bring me and my cousins knives from who-knows-where, which were of questionable quality but seemed amazing at the times. I still have a couple of these, which were made in Taiwan, presumably by United Cutlery or someone of similar caliber. I also bought a couple of Explorer tantos, which were my last purchases before "moving on" to other hobbies.

A couple years ago, I got back into buying knives, and it has since turned into a collecting addiction. Nothing fancy - a ZT here, a few Kershaws there - but I'm as fascinated as ever.
 
I never really knew it but I always loved knives I always had cheaper knives around my house when I was a kid into my late teens but it really started when I was reading a book by Brad Thor and the main character who was an ex navy seal turned secret service agent pulled out a knife called a Benchmade Auto Knife so I looked ( I don't remember the exact name) up the brand and the knives, I wanted to buy the auto but obviously I couldn't so I ordered a Benchmade 810 Contego and I bought it from Benchmade's website because I had no idea you were suppose to buy from a dealer but that was my first higher end knife now I have a collection of Benchmades, Spyderco, ZT, Esee, and my favorite right now is my Small Sebenza 21 I got last month, but I am about to buy a Large Sebenza 21 with Micarta Inlays which I am really excited about. My only advice is watch the spending for me I couldn't stop thinking about getting more knives you see people on youtube and the forums with these amazing knives but those usually took them months if not years to get. i would also say keep reading as much as you can on the forums I only joined in early October but I have already learned so much but anyway goodluck with the addiction.
 
When I was a kid, my grandpa carried a jackknife everywhere and he still does. I remember reading "the little engine that could(older version)" when I was 6 or 7 and how one of the things it was bringing to the boys was pocket knives. I thought that was amazing because I wasn't allowed to have a knife at the time. Then I began to fondle our kitchen knives...
 
Western and Schrade slipjoints as a kid in the 70's, Custom's and a Schrade LB7 in 86', and the one that got me here was a Kershaw Leek in 2004.
 
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