What knife have you owned the longest?

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KennyB

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Mine is a Buck 119 that was made in 2000. I think it sat on the shelf until about '01 , but still I'm just going to say I've had it 14 years. :P I have older ones but this one is the one I've had for the longest.

Pretty cool considering I got this knife when I was 10-12 and it's went through hell and back. You know how young kids treat stuff... It makes me wonder about kids these days whose parents won't even let them have a pocket knife until they're 13+

I need to get a new sheath for it, all scratched and cut up to hell--don't know when (or if ) I did that.
 
I was digging through my junk drawer the other day and found an old pen knife I bought in Italy in 1977. It is really cheap and I would never carry it, but it is the knife I have owned the longest.
 
Simple two blade Swiss army style knife. First knife my father ever gave me, nothing special or expensive but very meaningful to me.
 
BM Mini-Barrage. My first "nice" knife. I have older ones but they are SAKs and cheap penknives.

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Late 30's Primble. It's a treasure Gramps gave me in 1971. In 1973 my friend dropped it through the planks of a bridge while we were fishing and I thought it was history. Muddy 'ol creek but we saw a flash in the sun. He scurried down the banks, jumped in and got it. That's a damn good friend. It's the only knife I wouldn't trade for anything.

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I have a Schrade fixed blade that a buddy bought for me in 1969. It is USA made that has "Hunter's Pride" etched on the blade, which you can only see these days if you hold it in a certain angle of light. He got it for me in a PX while he was in the Navy and it came with a fairly rugged leather sheath. It has a wooden handle shaped like the Camillus Military knives, has seen a lot of sharpening and holds a pretty decent edge. I carried it as a hunting knife way back when and it has dressed out a few deer. My friend told me he paid somewhere between $2 - $3. These days it is tucked away only to be stumbled across when searching for something else. No idea where my old friend Billy is these days.
 
Thats an easy one for me. I carried a 3.5" Gerber, the first Buck 110 style to come out in the early 70's. I found it when I was a teen in '76 embedded in a dirt road where most likely some ole country boy was working on his truck, cleaning the battery cables, and left it under the hood until it finally rattled out. It was missing the wooden scale insets but under the black stain I knew I had an expensive heavy locking blade knife, my first. I hit it with WD40 and steel wool and quickly brought it back to it's brass and shiny stainless glory. I then cut out a couple of scales from a deer antler to replace the missing wooden ones and it was a knife to be proud of. With practice I had learned to thumb it open fast and it always gave me some feeling of security when travelling some rough areas.

When I was boarding a plane in Cozumel in 94' to come back to Texas it caught the envious eye of a Mexican airport police who tried to say I couldn't board the plane with it and I'd have to leave it with him. I told a ladyfriend she was going to have to go home alone 'cuz I wasn't leaving Mexico without it. We finally had to put it in one of her carry on luggage bags and stow it in cargo.

It was my EDC for most of my adult life until 06', after 30 years of many chores and dressing deer and hogs, the blade would no longer lock open and there were more modern designed knives on the market. In 07' it was stolen in a burglary along with my Colt Series 70 .45 but luckily I caught the burglar and was able to get them both back. It's now officially retired in a place of honor in my safe, it's once white antler bone scales now matching it's bronze. To this day I don't know what model it is or even researched it.
 
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I have a handmade fixed blade my grandfather made for me as small child. He made one for me and one for my cousin who was 2 years younger than me. He put them up out of reach until we were old enough to use them. I remember when I was really young seeing it in his gun cabinet when we would visit and wanting to get my hands on it so bad.
Oldest production knife I have is a Gerber gator I got as a teenager for skinning deer. Still use it to this day.
 
I still have a buck 110 that I had engraved at the Great Western Gun show in the early 70s, had scroll work with my initials done so I can't sell it, nobody would want it my inititals so I'll leave it to my son. its been sitting in my safe for over 30 yrs..............talk about a safe queen..............
 
I'm not really sentimental about things so when I get bored with them they get given away or sold. But, I was at my folks house a month ago or so and my Dad handed me a knife off the tool board to use and it was my old Buck 119! I thought it was long gone. Brought that knife with me when I went in the military after HS and it traveled with me everywhere for 13 years before I probably shipped it home with the rest of my gear and was forgotten for 20 years, obviously. If it could talk...I'd probably get locked up. :rolleyes: Nice to have it back.
 
Only pic I have of it that I could find,LOL,but bought this Smith and Wesson H.R.T. Urban back around '98,was my EDC (even after slicing my left index finger into two with it on the job in 2001-nerves,tendons,bone,joints...all of it :( ),only recently retired it from EDC when I went on a knife buying binge and picked up some kinves I like better for EDC :p (with my Gerber Suspension,Kel-Tec P11 9mm,and EAA Windicator .357 Magnum,one of which is also an EDC on any given day,along with the Gerber)

 
Wow i can see I've got a lot of years to catch up to some of you guys!

I have had some pretty old knives though. But I'm just counting the years I've actually had one. I have an Old Time Dogleg Jack that my grandpa gave me that is probably older than I am ( 25 ).
 
Had a Kershaw Black Colt for 22 years, went all over the world with me. Wife snapped the tip off two years ago and the rubber handles disintegrated last year. Finally chucked it!
 
An old Wenger my father gave me when I was 6 or 7. Found it again in a toolbox a couple months ago, after cleaning it up its now in my desk drawer at work, in case I forget to take a knife with me (yeah, right lol). So I had it for 22 or 23 years now.
 
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