What knife started it all?

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sharpstick

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Sorry if this has been done before....What knife started your love affair with knives. For me it was the Benchmade/Emerson CQC7. I received it a a present from my family when I graduated the police academy. It was the first knife I ever owned that didn't come from a flea market. I still have the knife but have retired it from duty use. Once I felt this knife in my hands, I immediately saw the difference between crap and craftsmanship.
 
Spyderco Delica II
It was the first good knife I ever owned. It was serrated and now you couldn't pay me to carry a fully serrated knife, but it looked damn cool. Now it belongs to my girlfriends sister, and since she has started to collect knives as well.
Kyle Fuglesten
 
A Sykes Fairbairn daggar my Grandfather gave me when I was 12. He didn't realize what it was and gave it to me for a fishing knife. Unfortunately it didn't last to long as I was living in Florida and I ended up dropping through the slats on a fishing pier.
 
I stole a butcherknife/ short machete from my neighbor when I was about 4. I don't know why. When I was about 8 I got in trouble for lugging my grandfathers Ka-Bar USMC around the neighborhood. I got a Buck 112 when I was 12. That probably sealed the deal. I still have that and a number of other Buck knives. Of course as I was growning up, they were just another local business. I'll be very sad to see them leave San Diego.
 
The first knife that got me into the hobby was a Gerber AR 3.00 that I received for my 16th birthday. However, once I bought myself a Benchmade 905 for my 18th birthday, it was all downhill from there.:D
 
In my scouting days it was a KaBar USMC which I unfortunately underappreciated. Then a Schrade Old Timer slip joint gave me plenty of joy. It set the stage for buying lots of folders, though not in carbon steel.

But customs - the first was an immaculate hunter made by Bruce Crawley, a very well-respected knifemaker here in Melbourne, Australia. That one not only got the ball rolling with more customs to come, but prompted me to make knives too.
 
... it was a Compass Industries Balisong which, also, was my very first knife purchase. I sold it because I couldn't figure out how to use it. :rolleyes:
 
A cheap little switchblade I bought over Czech Republic. It's one of those NATO one's. Would you guess, it broke:rolleyes:
Anyway after that it just got a little more expensive.
 
a BUCK 102x started it for me, i have it sitting no more than a few meters from me right now...great knife indeed :).
 
It started with a fixed, drop point blade with metal sheath, when i was about four. I recieved this from my father. Then several little swiss pocket knifes as i grew up.

Earning money regulary, i took a herbertz folder but replaced it by a Puma. Then for jears nothing. It restarted with a Gerber AR 3.00, because i found out, i was paying too much. Then i discoverde Benchmade.... Actually a 806D2 and a Swamp Rat Bandicoot (i let the thick convex angles grind away, it´much better on these short knives).

My first custom, self-designed but inspired by the AFCK, is now in produktion.
 
First quality knives were the Gerber Mark I and Mark II.

Those were the first snowflakes of what has become a big rolling snowball.

Jubei

p.s. I'm planning on going to the Blade Show in Atlanta next month, I'm curious as to what that snowball is going to look like afterwards.
 
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