What knife have you owned the longest?

Ontario Pilot's Survival Knife

Manufactured in '81, I bought it sometime in '82. I love this knife.

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bdmicarta said:
The little Schrade on the far left of this photo has been with me almost 50 years.

The yellow scaled knife next to it was handed down to me about 42 years ago.

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Thats my oldest knife, third from the left, Buck Squire. My dad bought it for me mid 70's and stenciled my name on the bolster. That little Buck has seen more use than all my collection combined. Great memories.
 
I can't hang with any of you guys. I've had Schrades and basic multiblades over the years, but never got halfway serious about it until pretty recently. Carried a 690 BM for a couple of yrs and a Spyder Caly 3 for several yrs.
These days, I'm primarily CRK...Sebbie or Zaan, but I like to try out a lot of stuff.
 
Not my oldest knife but the one I still have that I've owned the longest, Original BM AFCK

 
Bought for me by my grandmother around 1982. Camillus boy scout

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I don't think I even have pics of them - need to take some.

Western clip-point lockback "mini westlock" Pheasant and Western fixed-blade hunter.
As far as I can recall, I bought the westlock for myself and received the hunter for Christmas in 1979.
Not my first knife - that was a girl scout knife I bought for 50 cents in 1977, which I gave to my cousin in the early '80's when I bought my first SAK (which my brother subsequently misplaced.)
I've also had a Buck Woodsman since around '81 or '82. I loved that thing, but have barely used it.
 
The first knife I bought myself and still have is a gerber RIPSTOP I . Its that knife that first got me into knives so I keep it solely for sentimental value
 
The longest owned one I have pics of is this Western L46-5 (middle knife) my grandfather gave me back in either 1966 or 1967, before he developed kidney cancer. So that's 46 or 47 years. I have some older, small slip joint folders (Schrades/Imperials/Camcos) in a drawer somewhere than I got sometime between 1960 and 1965. I was given my first knife, an even older, used 2 blade, by my grandfather when I started first grade (1960). He said that since I was starting school, I'd need a knife to take. I took that knife to school every day up through sometime in the 5th grade when I upgraded to a "brand new" knife.

Dang it. Now I'm gonna have to go find those knives. :D

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The story behind this knife is in this thread:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1086041-Your-Important-KA-BAR-My-Papa-s-KA-BAR
 
This is my every-day-user, I have been using it since I found it in a gun shop in Sydney Australia about 1973.
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i received this one as a gift for my thirteenth birthday, in 1980.
It still sits in my tackle box and goes with me on fishing trips yearly.

Picture is from their website

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It is a Brusletto Hunter.
 
Here it is, I'm not sure of the brand. This was my first knife and I've owned it for 26 years. When I was 4 I was helping my parents clean out a 68 Mercury Cougar that my Dad had just bought and I found this under the passenger seat. They saw the look in my eye and later after dinner my Dad wrote out a bill of sale and sold it to me for a penny! LoL This is an interesting little blade, it has a little bar that rolls around inside the handle and catches in the notch in the tang to lock the blade closed. To open it, you have to hold it tip up and push the blade in to release the bar and the blade pops open just a bit. It still has perfect snap and zero blade play. If anyone could help on the possible manufacturer I would greatly appreciate it.

 
It looks like an Imperial of Providence, Rhode Island. Usually called a trick knife or mystery knife.
 
I have a small sheath knife that was given to me on my 4th birthday, in 1950, so I have had it for 63 years. It is a made-in-Japan (in 1950 that meant inexpensive and shoddy) pot metal knife with a real plastic imitation stage handle with a still working compass inset into it. The sheath is long gone. I can honestly say that I have continuously owned and carried a knife since I was 4 years old.
 
Outside of the local ones, a Vic Explorer from 1985 which I just passed down to my nephew last month.
 
Buck 110, 1986. Bought it with birthday card money :) Promptly broke 3/32" off the tip doing something stupid :o
 
Sonnydaze said:
I can't hang with any of you guys. I've had Schrades and basic multiblades over the years, but never got halfway serious about it until pretty recently. Carried a 690 BM for a couple of yrs and a Spyder Caly 3 for several yrs.
These days, I'm primarily CRK...Sebbie or Zaan, but I like to try out a lot of stuff.
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It doesn't happen over night unless you're loaded with money.
 
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