What knife started it all for you?

33 years ago on my sixth birthday when my father handed me my first knife,A two bladed Imperial, which I still have. That started it for me and I have never looked back .

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I used to be disgusted .Now I am just amused....I feel much better now that I have given up all hope
 
I can remember my first knife, and still have it today even after 25 years. It was a Khyber lockblade with micarta handles. (it looks like micarta) I got this knife with a leather sheath with my initials burnt on the flap, and have both tucked away in the safe. When I had enough money saved up, or went on a trip with my parents, they thought I should spend my money on something that would last me. God bless them!! I usually had to ask them to cover the difference, but I have to thank them for getting me started. I just had to watch my older brothers, that liked my new knives more than I did. Thats when dad installed good key locks on each of our doors, that of course he and mom had a spare key. Hey, it worked!!

As for the first knife I lusted after, it would be the PC Bali that is also resting in my safe. Today it is a Sebenza!!

Good thread,

RattlerXX
I seem to remember a Lile Rambo knife that I really wanted to order out of SOF many moons ago. I ended up with an Explorer Wilderness, an Imperial M-7, and a Gerber BMF. I still own them today!! Wish I had the Lile!
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mnblade,

Mmm, Delica in my right pocket. -check-

Wallet in my left pocket. -check-

SA(c)K... -check-

Nope, it was my Swiss Army Knife that she got.

/Colinz
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An uncle (who has since passed away) gave me an old timer slipjoint when I was about 8. I don't know where it is, but I'd give anything to have it back!

I guess that started it all, but since then I have had so many....
 
A boyscout SAK tinker. However, the knife knut gene really remained dormant until I bought a PECK. It was then kindled into the full force that it is today.
M<att
 
My first time buying a knife, I spent $200 CDN on a Buck Buckmaster. Man I was cool! Then one day I took it out of the sheath only to discover .. EEK.. RUST!!! I immediately returned it to the store, completely appauled, and they actually took it back and exchanged it for a BMF. I still own the BMF, though it's heavily abused. But the buckmaster, as goofy as it was, did the trick for me!

JET
 
That's a good question! I must have been around ten when my Grandfathers brother got a Loewenmesser "pig knife" (for castrating pigs) A small, elegant black handled knife (looks a tiny bit like a WH Lancet). They were cheap at the time, but could be sharpened as nothing else. I lived in a small village and these were sold in the general store.
That kicked it off for me. The next great love was when I saw a Puma White Hunter in s a shop window five years later! Man, I was totally in love! I envetually bought one three or four years later and still have it. My knife "nuttyness" was dormant for many years, but just a couple of months ago, the knife bug bit again and this time it looks like a real bad infection!:-)
A Benchmade 813 and a 720 in two months and a lot more on the "must have" list!:-)

Cheers
Bo
 
My dad bought me a Helle when I became old enough to go hunting whith him. Last time I used it was to field dress a cape buffalo. My first high end knife was a AFCK.
 
for me it was a edge mark lock back folder, similar in style to some of the current CRKT M16 style knives w/the dagger looking blade, not the tanto - had about a 5" blade, single edge, and boy was it ever heavy i bet it weighed 10 ounces - or heck maybe more

 
The first knife I bought was a Cold Steel small San Mai Tanto folder. About 6 years later I bought a BM 812. That's the knife that started my lust for knives. I ended up loosing that knife on a deployment to Korea. I have replaced it with a full size 800 which I carry every day. I figure it'll be harder to loose the bigger one.
 
At age 13 I started going to an army surplus store,and there it was!A S-F British commando knife,the old WW 2 kind.I threw it at trees for a year and broke the tip.I used my Dad's grinder to put a tip back on it,Dad was watching and didn't let me get it hot.I threw it another year and a 1/2 before it broke at the guard.
Dennis Phillips
 
Camillus Cub Scout knife.

The first I can remember buying for myself (10, 11 yrs old) was a no name (Imperial ?) stockman. Funniest thing was, I was trying to make the large blade "flick" out, and no matter how much WD-40 I put on, it wouldn't flick!
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I was fixated on one of the "fishing" knives they sold on the cardboard display in the 5 & dime stores. I wound up saving my money and getting a "007" (wood handle, red lanyard), which was the first flickable, and was very common on the streets of NY in the 70's.

Sold that in high school, bought a used "Romo" butterfly off my friend. He died a few years ago, I will never sell or trade that knife away.

SIFU1A, I guess I'm not the only one with an Edgemark in my past! Actually, it's right here in front of me. It's a 3" lockback, bought in a sporting goods store about 15+ years ago. The plastic scales are long gone, but the steel liners are strong & intact. Locks up solid, But I can't get the bugger sharp for anything.

Then a long run of knockoff POS "tacticals", and finally the real thing - Spyderco's & CRKT's.


Oh yeah, forgot the Buck 110 my Dad gave me for hunting at 16. Size, sharpness, and lock tension scared me then (& now). Still NIB.
 
Originally posted by extremefishin00:

Then I bought a serrated Police model a year later. That was the sharpest knife I've ever seen out of the box, and have yet to find a knife to match it.

extremefishin00 - Do you attribute this sharpness to the use of GIN-1 steel? I am just about to buy a Police model and wonder if I should spend some time looking for one in GIN-1? Are they (in your opinion) superior to the current ATS-55 versions? Thanks for your help and the benefit of your experience. Jeff/1911.
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Emerson CQC7. Fit right into my addiction for firearms. Now my firearm collection is stagnant (but with some pretty nice pieces) and the knife collection takes all my time. What's next? Answer: more knives! and maybe high-end wrist watches.
 
A CS twistmaster that my dad bought for me a a show when I was 13 or 14. I've since lost it and replaced it with the same model, but it just isn't the same.
 
I got my first knife on my 4th birthday, the scar is still very visible.
So: since 66 years I buy all the knives I can afford to teach them, that I am the BOSS.
(Well: mostly....)
Happy sharpening
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Ted
 
For me it was an Old Timer slip joint, the one with three blades. My father gave it to me for Christmas when I was seven. I prompty opened the box, opened a blade and then opened my thumb testing the edge.
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I used it all the time, but eventually lost it somehow. I wish I still had that one.

After that, I was never without a knife of some kind, usually some poor quality slip joint that I lost just like my first Old Timer. The one that got me started on highter quality blades was a Benchmark Moray that never really fit my hand, but I still have it to this day.
 
It was a small red, celluloid handled jack knife. Dad gave it to me when I was 5-6 years old. Carried it for about a year before I lost it. Been hooked ever since.

Paul
 
When my grandfather dies I was about 5 and a year later I inherited his Victorionox penknife. I broke off the fingermail scraper tip while trying to pry something. I've still got that knife and every other knife that I've ever bought or was given.

Pivotal knives have been:

1) An old boy scout camping knife that was my dad's as a kid.

2) A scrade barlow style knife with scrimshaw handle that my mom gave me when I was 14.

3) An early leatherman that was also a gift from my mom about 12 years ago.

4) A Kershaw Blackhorse lockback that I lusted after a bit and then finally got only to have it fail and cut someone's fingers.

5) An Italian switchblade my dad gave me.

6) The first high end knife I lusted after and then bought- CRK small Sebenza.

Now I'm into customs mostly....and whatever else looks interesting!

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Peter Atwood

email: fountainman@hotmail.com
 
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