What got you interested in knives?

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Hi guys i'm new here and this is my first post! In fact this is the first forum i've ever joined :eek: I've been a lurker for long enough. Time to join the community:thumbup:

Ever since I can remember i've had a slight obsession with knives. If my memory servers me right, the first knife that really caught my eye was my Dad's old Buck stockman he'd had forever.

Since then i've learned alot about different materials and degrees of fit and finish and have come a long way (not that the stockman is not a superb little slippy). Thankfully, I only ever bought a couple cheap knives before I went for the good stuff:D

So i'm wondering, what is the first knife that got you interested in the exciting and ever expanding world of knives?!?
 
Boy Scouts. My first knife was a Boy Scout type SAK. Fork, Spoon, Knife, etc. - 8 y/o thought it was so cool. I was hooked. 40 (+) years later I'm still hooked (LOL)
 
For me it was a desire to be like Indians and Mountain Men. I had no interest in cowboys whatsoever...probably because I grew up on a farm raising cows. The cowboy had his sixgun while the Mountain Man had his Green River knife in his belt.

I remember there as an old western with Rory Calhoun where he was a man who knew the Apaches very well and while he had to fight them, he only did so when and if he had to. Although the character was attired very much like the standard western figure (sixgun, vest, etc), he had this very prominently carried sheath knife and as far as I can remember, he only ever used his rifle in the movie. My guess it was based on a book where the author did his homework. I thought that was way cool.

So, I guess I'd say for me it was the place knives held in American History, the frontier, that did it. I had a brief interest in "tactical" knives there for awhile but that has passed. Nor am I a strict traditionalist. I'd call myself a pragmatic modernist when it comes to my taste in knives (ESEE, Benchmade, Spyderco, Mora, and Buck).
 
Make all the fun you want, but.......RAMBO!

just always had a fascination with knives as well. My Dad also gave me my first pocket knife for Scouts when I was 8 years old...loved knives ever since.
 
I've owned knives since I was a kid, carried one to school as a kid. Had some flea market switchblades, and a Rambo Knife in middle school.
In college I worked in a resturant, and started backpacking. It took a while, but it was kitchen knives that got it going. I was tired of using the crappy knives at places of work.
Honestly, it was my Cold Steel Outdoorsman, and a SOG Seal that my interest really started. I started carrying a SOG Tomcat, and have carried a knife since. BF is how I wound up owning more knives than I ever imagined, or could really use.
 
For me, it was my son. Several years ago when he joined the scouts, he got interested so I started reading up about knives and got interested myself. My son quit the scouts after a couple of years, but this addictive knife habit stuck with me.
 
I found that Knives were useful, and carrying a leatherman was not doing the job. i wanted something that could be instantly ready when it came out of my pocket, and so i started to carry knives. I also had a friend that helped me get a couple, and so i never started with crap. i would say a JYD II composite is a decent first knife. Besides, anything that goes thunk, click, boom or snap is really cool. the fact that it is sharp is even better.
 
My Grandfather and my Father always carried pocket knives. I got a Vic Classic when I was about 8 or 9 and then I got an Imperial Barlow when I was about 11. My father had some old beaters lying around so he gave me those as well. He used to go to a lot of gun/knife shows with his friends when I was in my early teens so I always tagged along. Because of my age, most of the guys that had tables weren't too keen on me handling guns, but the knife guys had no problem with me checking out what they had to offer. I bought a Kershaw liner lock at the first show I went to. A few months after that I bought a Gen. 1 Spyderco Delica. That Delica served me for a long time and I still have it and carry it every so often. Eventually I bought a Gen. 1 SS Police model which was like my Holy Grail at the time. Still have that one too. Once I bought a Benchmade/Emerson 975 ST I was completely hooked. That BM was beat to absolute hell and sat in its box for years. I just sent it to Phillip Dobson for a complete overhaul.
 
Great question, I dont know why I became obsessed I just did, in boy scouts I got a swiss army knife and ever since then I have hooked.
 
I realized it was a tool I needed on me all the time. When I didn't have one on me , I found there where lots of tasks I had trouble doing. As I got older I found more and more uses especially since my favorite hang-out was in nature. No where is a knife more important than being out in the woods.:)
 
I still say knives are necessary for survival, and that it is only human nature to want the best one.

My dad got us kids some SAK's way back when, I loved that knife. More recently when I found out it was only a Wegner and not Victorinox I was a little disappointed. Now I have plenty of Victorinox models to choose from, and the Vic SAK has become one of my most carried knives.
What got me on here? Cold Steel. All the cool stuff they sell certainly makes an effective entry drug, then you start looking up the competition (and end up a Spyderco fanatic).
 
my father and grandfather always carried knives with them no matter what, i received my first knives at a young age 7-8 i think. my father has and still does have a large collection of knives and when i was little he would take them out of safes drawers etc and show me them. i remember when i first cut myself with a knife too. i was very young and saw my dad rub his thumb against the edge to test its sharpness, being the young inexperienced child i was i tried too when he handed it to me. ouch! my thumb was opened up. when i got my "tootin chip" from boy scouts i was allowed to and always did carry a folder at meetings, camp outs etc. and loved it. the two good to better folders i bought were the benchmade ambush, and the spyderco endura 4 wave. the first quality fixed blade was the sog seal pup elite in black. and ever since i carried and buy knives whenever possible.
 
I'd have to say my dad was the one that got me interested in knives, he gave me my first pocketknife (one of his worn out ones, a cheap two blade trapper if i remember correctly) at 6 or 7 years old. I litterally learned how to sharpen knives at my dads knee watching how he did it. Always carried at least a pocketknife since then and when i got into high school i was lucky enough to have a couple of very cool teachers who were knife nuts and since one happened to be the metal shop teacher, he taught me a fair bit about making knives as well.
 
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