What knife have you owned the longest?

Since baptism. As an infant, it was a family tradition to give boys a small (1 1/2") sterling silver two blade pen knife on a circular chain. My uncle gave me mine.
 
My Longest owned knife is my three bladed stockman Camillus (sp?) that was my grandfathers. My grandmother gave it to me when he died in 1957. I still have carefully put away. 50 years. Never did get very sharp but full of sentiment.
Ron Athay
 
A cheap Ka-Bar USMC knock off with a green plastic handle, sawback and bottle opener, and a camouflage pattern fake leather sheath. I have it since I was 11 years old (24 years ago now...). I just keep it for sentimental reasons. With that knife on my belt I was "Rambo". Back then you could carry a knife in the woods without getting in trouble. Nowadays the situation has changed a lot in Belgium...
 
The knife I've had the longest that I personally bought for myself has been my CRKT M16-13M that I purchased while in my Advanced Individual Training at Fort Meade, Maryland. It has been through it all with me and I had thought I lost it awhile back, but I recovered it in my motorcycle a few weeks ago! I absolutely adore this knife and would've lost all my other knives combined to get this one back.

I've had many Henkels, Kissing Crane, Eyeball, and other German knives including an American Queen and others that my dad has bought me for every birthday since my birth. That has been about 22 years and so that's a pretty cool history. My Leatherman that I still have is the ORIGINAL Leatherman that started it all. It works great and that blade is amazing. It's STILL sharp after all those years and I have great respect for that company. My current favorite though is my ZDP-189 Leek of which I look forward to many more years of good abuse.

Great thread... and good posts!
Ryan
 
Although I have carried pocketknives since age 12, they have been serial, replacing those lost, broken or given away. Only in the last 13 years have I kept any knives while acquiring others, and now there are 17, a collection I never intended, but which I certainly enjoy. The earliest of these is a Victorinox Swisschamp, purchased in 1993 to replace a Huntsman stolen from my gym locker.

My last acquisition was an Imperial Kamp King, a gift from a friend. That is the exact first knife I bought with the proceeds of my paper route, kept 15 years through Boy Scouts, Army, college, job, life etc.

In an impulsive moment I gave it away to a girlfriend. We parted, lost contact, but 30 years later happened to meet again. I asked whatever happened to the Kamp King. She lost it the day after I gave it to her.
 
I think the oldest one I still have is my Buck 110 that my parents gave me in ~1968 or 1969.
 
My Victorinox Ranger SAK.

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I bought this in 1975, if I remember correctly. I carried it throughout my 30-year police career, then retired it.

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Out of gratitude, I fitted it with new scales to replace the old ones, cracked when I lent the knife to a member of the public who dropped it within 30 seconds...

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Comparison with the Victorinox SwissChamp which is my new EDC.

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What 30 years of careful sharpening with a Lansky setup does to the main blade profile.

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Where I "sparked" my initials into the main blade using two wires connected to a truck battery.

There are a lot of memories in that steel.

maximus otter
 
Thanks!

It involved 5 minutes, a tree stump in the garden and my digital camera set on "Low Resolution, Auto Everything."

Glad you liked 'em.

maximus otter
 
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