What Knife or Knives brought you here ?

Aitor Knives; their U.S. importer had recently gone out of business and I was trying to find a new source for these knives. My Yahoo search took me to the Knife Forums which brought me here.

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I believe it was a Spyderco Native FRN in those days. Then a Endura, after that, all H&ll broke loose.
 
Was in the process of replacing a lost Gerber fast of some sort. Settled on either a Tenacious or Blur. Bought them both after reading about them here.

Now I have "too many" knives - from CRKT to ZT with a couple of customs thrown in for good measure.
 
I was researching the ESEE 5 vs. BK2 debate. I ended up buying the Becker. This is has become my go to resource for all things sharp and stabby.
 
I feel like I've answered this before, I guess not in this thread since it's new. The knife that brought me here was my good old tried and true Spyderco Native.
 
It's sort of a tossup between the original Schrade Golden Spike, the Becker BK7, and the tragic events affecting gun owners throughout the US.

I have always been very active in the shooting sports. I have also always liked knives, though I was not a real student of knives until relatively recently. I believed in carrying a quality knife, but my perception of quality was the best knife in the glass case at WalMart. I didn't venture out of that bubble, because the closer a knife got to the $100 mark, the more I'd convince myself I was entering the territory of gun money and stopped. When the Newtown incident occurred, and ammunition and other shooting accoutrements became either unattainable, or ridiculously overpriced, I decided to not participate in the constant monitoring for a good deal or price gouging. It allowed me to explore other interests that had been largely neglected like knives and traditional archery.

My father's hunting knife was an original Schrade Golden Spike, though occasionally he used his trusty Buck 110. Somehow, after his death, the spike disappeared. Also unfortunately, Schrade was sold to Taylor Brands and a true Golden Spike was hard to come by (they seem to pop up on ebay more now than then.) I had heard of a custom maker in a gun magazine whose style I really liked and I approached him about making a special recreation of the Golden Spike. He accepted, took a down payment, then got out of knifemaking a few months later, before I could take delivery. But the seed was sown. I had never really considered buying a custom knife until a few years ago. I had made my own, but back then my equipment, knowledge, and abilities were not up to snuff in taking on a project like recreating the Golden Spike. I began studying in earnest in hopes of one day gaining the ability to recreate it myself. I searched many knifemaking topics on the boards then, but was only a lurker and never posted.

Concurrently with those events, I bought my first Becker, a BK7. It really opened my eyes to the capabilities of a knife with the appropriate forethought in design and execution. This further spurned my interest in both production knives, and knifemaking. Since then, I've delved entirely into the realm of edged tools and traditional archery. Emphasis on the edged tools. It borders on obsession (healthy obsession if there is such a thing. I'm still able to pay my bills). It has been a fun ride. I've really missed out. I definitely wish I could have struck a balance with knives and guns years ago. Better late than never so they say.
 
As best I remember, I first became aware of bladeforums.com while reashearching a Kershaw Storm via nutn-fancy.
 
I browsed for years beforre I made an account, mostly for knives to use in the bush.

My knife that made me make an account was..
Becker BK9.
 
I've had an interest in knives long before I owned a computer. Hell, long before there were any computers normal humans could operate. That interest waxed and waned over the years with periods of knife-buying, sometimes related to other interests. Somewhere along the way, I discovered internet forums on virtually every subject in existence with lots of information and multi-tons of opinion. I think I joined here after finding a lot of good information on knives in general, not based on any one knife in particular. I haven't posted a lot in the 9 years or so I've been a member but I do manage to visit and read often.
 
My first knife was a folder with a 1" blade purchased for me by my parents during a visit to the Alamo gift shop when I was about 6 or 7 years old. It had an graphic of the Alamo stuck on it.

I've carried ever since, though that knife is long lost.

What brought me HERE was an epiphany I had a while back while fondling my long time go-to bush knife, a J. Martinni leuku (also purchased by my parents for me during their visit to the Martinni factory in Finland in the mid-60's). I realized how I had taken for granted all the places that knife had been with me during decades of travel, extreme backpacking, motorcycle touring, etc., It made me realize what a taken-for-granted 'friend' a knife can become.

I'd say that was the moment I developed the addiction.
 
Esee 4; researching the knife led me to BF and since I'm familiar with forums it was easy to recognize that people here carry much less pettiness with them and give straightforward advice. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
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