What knife got you addicted to knives

I don't know what it is about knives in general (really folding knives specifically) that I go so gaga for...but I do...it just hits a special pleasure spot in my brain that makes me very happy!

I got my first knife at about age 7 from my grandpa. It was just a little folding Buck or Case (like a Peanut or something similar sized). It was his & I wanted it so he gave it to me (grandpas are great! :) ). I had that knife until I was about 12 or 13 then LOST IT!! :( :( :(

I have never forgiven myself. I can still remember the last time I saw it/had it. After losing it I looked for it endlessly...no luck! :( I would trade all my knives just to have that very one back!

Oh well...anyway, it sparked a love for knives in me early on. And even if I never really had a "collection" of many diff ones until relatively recently, I always had a few (SAKs mostly) and just dug them nonetheless!

Then I bought my first pocket folder, a Kershaw Vapor I (with AUS6A steel no less :)) and carried it daily for over a decade. Beat the hell out of that knife (still have it). So I guess I'd have to say it was a combination of my grandpa's knife and that cheapo Vapor!
 
The Imperial Boy Scout's knife, circa 1985, made in Rhode Island. I was around ten years old.

These were my first knives, they have been retired to my knife drawer.

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When I was little my cousin was in the Marines and he let me hold his Ka-bar....I was hooked from then on.
 
Probably the SAK, being that it was my first knife, I think.

As I got older and had my own money to spend, I think it was a Kershaw Blackout and subsequently the Kershaw Avalanche.
Assisted opening was so cool to me when I was 16. ;)

Oh wait, no... It was probably my Schrade CH7 with the awesome ClipHanger quick-release lanyard that I got when I was ~10.

I don't really know... :p
 
Case small stockman my Papaw gave me when I was little. Then a Cold Steel Voyager that I got in a gun swap about 30 years later got me into one-hand-opening folders. Still have both.
 
jkwithawave said:
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.
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Thats a nice first knife to get you into the hobby. Most don't buy a knife like that unless they have been in the hobby for a while!

What got me hooked was a Tenacious my little brother bought me.
 
Well, I am probably a little older than a lot of you, but back in 70's I saw the A.G.Russell ads in back of my Dad's hunting magizines. I saved up some money & join the Knife collectors club. My first knife was Daniel Boone commemorative ( cost like $17) Form there it was on...I then found Crawford knives in ARK. I ordered knives from Pat from Mid 70's to mid 90's. I have always loved my knives..
 
The Cold Steel Tanto was it for me. Can't remember which catalog had it, but I drooled over that thing quite a bit. Of course, being 12, I couldn't afford one, but that was the one that started "knife lust" for me. Years later I got one, and I did like it... but by that time I had learned enough about knives that the thrill of acquiring it didn't last all that long. I ended up giving it to a friend who was doing some knife training in a japanese style as a birthday gift, and he loves it. :)
 
For me it was my dads Gerber mk2 that did it. I still to this day ask him if hell let it go every time I talk to him. I am now 31 (I was 5 or 6 the first time he let me look at it. ) I will get it some day I am afraid when I do though I'm not going to want it..
 
Buck Nighthawk about 20 years ago, before they were Buck/Tops. I remember ordering it by mail on a form page from a magazine and a check. No online orders then.
 
An old Vietnam era Kabar (best guess as to it's age). It's in need of some restoration work as well if anyone can point in the right direction to get started on that.
 
Full size usmc ka bar with green kraton handles. Now i have kershaw scallion, zero tolerance 0350, gerber bear grylls scout, benchmade 551, cold steel ak-47, emerson cqc-7, spyderco r nishijin, chris reeve large sebenza 21, strider sng!! And im planning on many more ;)
 
Has to be the SAK Super Tinker, purchased around 1988-89. The sales man wanted to show me how sharp it was and sliced a strip of skin from his palm to the finger tip on his pinky. LOL, It freaked me and my wife and him out, I don't think he realized how sharp it really was (me either). I said I'll take one, just not that one, LOL.
 
Vic SAK. First knife was a Vic Spartan. Still carry a SAK regularly (Vic Super Tinker).
 
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