What knife got you addicted to knives

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What knife was your gateway drug knife? What was the one knife you bought that made you say to yourself "this is cool, and I must have more of these pointy, sharp objects."? I know for me it was the Kershaw Blur.
 
It was the Buck 186 Titanium Folder that got me started, I wanted that knife from the day it was introduced and I spent 1 1/2 years tryin' to get one and I finally did, that was the beginin' pf the end for me. :)
 
I am new the knife world but it all started with a ZT0350TS and it has been down hill since then
 
The blue Cub Scout knife. The original is long gone, but I bought a replacement. The rest is history. I was hooked.
 
No idea, it was too long ago. I do remember being reawakened to knives years back when I bought a Becker Brute. I was in rough country and had a fear of being gang raped by a herd of adolescent black bears. The Brute also had useful characteristics like being able to chop smaller trees down, and whack the wings off of Ptarmigan.
 
CRKT M16 for me. Too bad it had serrations that I got hung up on whenever I tried to slice anything
 
I have always been into knives. Probably the Rambo series or the spyderco police model in the movie hard target or the al Mar sere in the movie on deadly ground(still looking for that one). Gerber BMF in an episode of Kung fu
 
Hard for me to say if it was the USN Camillus folder (the simple cheap one with a spearpoint, can opener, bottle opener) that my retired CPO uncle gave me in 1967 -- or the AG Russell Arkansas Toothpick folder I bought for my self 15 or 20 years ago....
 
Emerson Mini CQC 15. That was going to be my only knife, but i started finding excuses/reasons to buy new ones after that. Now i just buy knives that i like and need no other reason.
 
I think my Swiss Army Knife and a Pilot's Survival Knife. Each was about $10 back when.
 
I carried a Victorinox Spartan that I bought at a yard sale for years until losing it. My wife and I even named the knife, we were both so use to having it around. But once I bought a Spyderco Delica, it was all over. I have been hooked on the quest ever since. And I still think the Delica is one of the best.
 
I've always had SAKs and have carried one daily for as long as I can remember. A few years ago though, I got sick of my wife's dull, chipped kitchen knives. This led me online to start researching blade steels & sharpenening methods. After a while I found this site and things starting going downhill fast :D

My "gateway" knife into high quality knives and the general addiction was the RC-4, purchased just before RAT became ESEE. Since then a variety of fixed blades, folders, and Japanese kitchen knives have been arriving in brown packages at my door at regular intervals. Thanks guys!
 
Kershaw Chive... Funny thing is, I accidentally cut myself with it within 10 minutes of paying for it. :-)
 
Probably my Pop's SAKs when I was super young. Most of my knives were either multis or not very high quality until at 19 I ordered a Boker canoe knife (16 years ago. from 1SKS.com). It was easily the most well made knife I'd had.
At the time my buddy had a Benchmade/Emerson CQC7. That was the knife that started it all for me. I couldn't afford one (I obviously hadn't learned to "prioritize" funds yet!) so I bought & carried a CRKT KISS for years. I never forgot how nice that BM CQC7 was though.
When I joined Bladeforums around 11 years ago it was for one reason...To find the "Best Benchmade!" It turned out that the knife I was looking for was not a Benchmade and cost 2x expensive! I decided to buy it. A Sm. plain Reg. Sebenza.
I guess you could say the BM CQC7 started the addiction and the Sebenza sealed the deal!
 
Knives were knives until I bought a Puma Sargent lockback folder. It changed my view on symmetry and fit. Though styles and materials change, I am always conscious of those two principals regardless of price. Not to say that only those qualities work for me these days because steel type has become a primary factor too.
 
I know some of you will laugh but most of you probably owned one too when you were young. This was the exact knife that got me hooked around 1989. It was a birthday gift the year I saw all the Rambo movies and got obsessed...I was 7,lol. Once I got somewhat in 'the know' I realized how much I wanted the actual Jimmy Lile knife...some day:rolleyes:

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I've carried a knife regularly since just after high school, but I would only buy a new knife if my current one broke or got lost. I didn't start buying multiple knives until I got my first Manix 2 about 3 years ago. Around the same time I started buying guns... coincidently
 
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