What knife started it all?

6" carbon steel bowie knife with plastic stag handle scales made in Pakistan. Tough knife that took everything a 14 year old could do to it. In the end, about 1/4 inch of the tip was broken off from throwing the knife into sheetrock and concrete.

Approximately the same size and shape of my Swamp Rat Camp Tramp.
 
Gosh, I don't remember what knife I got first but the first one that I can remember that I really liked and used all the time was a K-Bar that my dad gave me when I was around 8. He had purchased it from the base PX. Funny thinking back to those days. A young group of boys with knives didn't even think about using them for anything bad and this was in a big city. Unfortunatly not so today.
 
Leatherman PST II -- gift from my dad.
I just loved the mechanics of it. No wasted material either.
 
My first knife was a small red celluloid handled pen knife that my Dad gave me when I was 6. I lost it shortly after. I carried (and lost/broke)many after that. When I was 16 I bought my first quality blade, a Buck 110.
I wish I still had that little celluloid.:(

Paul
 
COLUMBIA RIVER KNIVES
The crawford casper large and small :) and the pointguard .
Or way way way back The buck 110s or 112s or the buck lites !
But I would still say COLUMBIA RIVER KNIVES got me into collecting!
 
I bought a 6" Buck Special (I think, long gone) when I was about twelve, for about $12, out of my lawn mowing money. My oldest keeper is a Buck 4" Folding Hunter. Got it in Wurzburg in '74 at the tender age of private.
 
Uncle Roy's KaBar WWI knife...12 years old and my first deer hunt, at age 16 I worked for our local hardware store and was able to purchase knives (everything the place sold) at cost. Old Timer, Case, Buck, yes those were "the good old days".

Uncle Roy is gone, despite all his relations I have the knives now. Not sure how it happened but I am both happy and proud that it did. And to honor my uncle Roy, who was an outfitter and guide, I completely process my last Colorado elk with that knife, gutting, skinning, even had to remove the head and neck at the shoulder to get the animal to the pickup...no re-sharpening required. This is a knife with some character, class, and history.
 
The Buck model 500 that my Father gave me many years ago. That knife has literally been around the world with me when I was a crewchief in the Air Force.
 
I carried a spyderco endura and a merlin on and off duty until I could afford a cqc7. I still love the cqc7, it will always be one of my favorites, but now my edc knife is the chinook. And I don't think that will change anytime soon. Well, maybe the chinook II, but we'll have to wait and see.
 
Um...
I've been into knives since I was 7.
Swiss Army was my first. Buck lockbacks after that.

When I got older the CRKT Commander Doolittle got me good and used to having a knife clipped to my pocket for about 4 years.

The Benchmade Ares was probably the knife that broke the seal and actually got me REALLY into knives. It's still in my top 3 favorites.
 
I have been fascinated by knives ever since I "won" my first knife playing skeetball in Coney Island. I was about six years old at the time and I can still remember the tiny 1-1/2 inch single bladed knife bob at the end of a key chain. That tiny knife stayed with me for many years and by the time it was gone, there were many others to take its place.

Then about twenty years later I was in a knifeshop looking at the latest and greatest when I came across the newly released Indiana Jones Khyber Bowie from United Cutlery. I guess it had caught my attention because I couldn't remember seeing anything like it in any of the Indiana Jones movies. So I read the side panel on the box.

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"Yesterday, during a period of intensive research on ancient medieval weapondry, I began to notice the significant appearance and re-appearance of one particular knife style. The khyber. I became so intrigued with this design that I rushed to the archives to find a particular knife I had acquired in Egypt. It served as a machete on one of my expiditions in the jungles of South America..."

I was now intrigued; bought the knife, and immediately set off to research "khyber knives". By that point I already had a decent collection of knives and even a few antique and ethnographical pieces, but I had never heard of a khyber knife. It was my turn to hit the archives.

My interest in antiques never recovered from that, and today it is one of the main driving forces behind my collection.

n2s
 
Mine was a Hammer Brand jack knife which at the time (45 yrs ago) cost approx. 50 cents.Cut my fingers all up and my Mother took it away from me.Sure wished I knew what ever happened to it.tom.:confused:
 
Ironically, while I never bought one, the CQC7 was also one of my first knives to attract me into the world, but the very first was the Benchmade 710 McHenry & Williams (another knife I haven't gotten around to buying yet), the first knife I actually bought (for myself) was a Kershaw Blackout, a knife I treasure to this day.
 
It would have been a tortoise shell handeled, two bladed jack knife given to me by my Grandmother the day of my Granfathers funeral 1973.
 
I was redoing the first aid kits for my home, cars and backpack. I did a little online research and stumbled accross Doug Ritter's site www.equipped.com. His advice on first aid and medical kits made sense to me, as did a lot of his other advice. As a result of my exposure to his site, I started looking for a decent fixed blade and folder. I ended up getting a Gerber Yari and a Benchmade 806D2. Later I got a Benchmade 550, which I liked better than the 806D2 for EDC despite the 440C blade and Noryl GTX (plastic) handles.
 
The knife that converted me into a total knife knut was the P14 Enfield bayonet that I bought when I was 13. It had a 17" blade and I used it as a machete. I spent hours reprofiling the edge on that thing and getting it shaving sharp. I would wear it whenever I went hiking or was close to a place that I could go hiking. It's funny I was never stopped by the cops.
 
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