What knife started the addiction and do you still have it?

Reading this thread has been great. It makes me realize that if someone has just discovered this hobby, they showed up at a fantastic time, the quality, innovation, materials, availability and ease of purchase is the best its been. Of course, prices are the highest theyve been, which sucks.
 
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SOG Pentagon Elite mini tanto tip. The liner lock. Bought at an army surplus store in Grass Valley, CA late 90s. Wish i still had it.

ETA just remembered the "Rambo" type knife my dad gave me in the 80s... with the fish hooks and waterproof matches etc in the compass-topped hollow handle.
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UPDATE: Cleaned out the old safe. Really putting the OG in SOG, I found her... my first real knife purchase! I couldn't be happier to find this one.

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The rare liner lock on this one, albeit a little rusty!
 
I'm a recovering knife collector addict.

Decided to stop buying any more knives just after Xmas 2022. Haven't bought a new knife yet but I could easily relapse. Still planning to sell off at least 100 of the 360 knives in my collection but still have other things to deal w/before that.

Stand by for lots of knives to be posted for sale. If they don't sell here they're going straight to EB (or to Reddit or, worst case to ACK, for the autos/balis now that JD is no more).
 
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Mine is in better condition.
Wonderful knife that makes me smile when i hold it.
I got to wondering, what else was out there?
Did some Two Sun, and others like Rat2

Eventually i purchased a BRS E-Volve Minuteman.
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The knife that changed everything for me.

Have progressed to the point, i do not buy knives that put digits into the blade path.

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As a child, I was always drawn to the locked glass display case in a local dime store. The one that contained the just out of grasp treasures like Scripto VU lighters, and of course cheap fixed blade and folding pocket knives. I found the knives to be especially appealing, what with my child’s imaginings of adventuresome derring-do, and heroic exploits.
Anyway, at around the age of 10, I saw an offer on one of the comics that used to come with a piece of Bazooka Joe bubble gum. For the redeeming of a few hundred of the comics, or for a modest sum plus a couple of dozen or so comics, you could order a knife, similar to the one on the image of the comic attached to this post. I ordered the knife.
Little did I know, then, where that would lead to, nearly 60 years later...A911EE8E-621E-45E9-AA2C-0D3D5AB93BD4.jpeg
 
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Growing up I had the usual cheap stuff. Barlow pocket knives, buck knives etc.

And then I purchased my first spyderco. Wow. That funny hole in the blade made opening a knife much easier, faster and only required one hand. Yes I still have it.
 

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My 1968 original Camillus Cub Scout knife. about 5 years ago I had it reconditioned by Wallace Rockwell or Rock USA Cutlery, he has since retired. Awesome job and now in the EDC rotation.
 
For me it was an Old Timer 80T stockman. I bought (Dad handed money to store) it when I was 10 with my birthday money. Lost it when I was younger, then I picked up a Buck stockman and then another, and another and so it goes.
 
I had a cheap Sabre that I got from the Katz drugstore, but I lusted for something better. That led me to pay $4.00 for a Kabar like this one. Soon my desires turned to Buck knives, but it was a long time before I could come up with $13.00 for a small stockman.

I started replacing the knives of my youth when a friend found this one for me.
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My father gave me these years ago
I thought it was a metal comb :) Sort of!
And what he called a prison shank made from a dug out bar taken from an inmate in Philly in a 1913 jail where his Uncle worked.
Not sure it is true but it sure is cool and started my interest in collecting.
 
It was probably my original Buck folder, I can't remember the model number. I got it back at a carnival in my early teens. Unfortunately it's long gone. I have no idea what happened to it. And then I had my grandpa's hunting knife in the bottom of my tool box. I think while it was in the garage it got stolen by some of my sister's skater friends. If only I could catch that idiot nowadays, but knowing them, most of them are underground now anyways. Or worse. Still would like to have it back though.
 
My first kukri was purchased in 2009 or 2010, a Jungle model made by NKH and it completely changed me. Before it I always had knives as simple tools that we used hard, mostly for work on fishing boats and then in the Marines. But this one I would just hold and feel the indentations the hammers made in the blade. I definitely got hooked.43C8B3C2-7EF3-4451-A303-219214857237.jpeg
 
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