What Knife You Bought Have You Owned The Longest?

I bought my first fixed blade knife back in 1973-74. saved up my money and finally got approval from my dad to buy the one I'd been look at thru the glass display at the hardware store. I'd had pocket knives for a long time, but never a sheath knife. Still have it, but no pictures since its in a safe about 1200 miles away. Still remember getting it. Bright shiny Case with the leather stack handle. I didn't know much about knives though. It's more of a skinner than a good woodcraft knife; carried it all over with the Boy Scouts. Carved my initials in the back of the sheath and everything. As I got older I carried it less. It's been years since I took it out.

Funny thing is, a couple years ago I was at an estate sale. Guy had been a Scout, had all kinds of old badges and stuff. He was older than me, so it must have been in the late 50's - early 60's. He had an old fixed blade with a sheath. Initial carved in the back just like I'd done. Same initials as mine. It's an old Kabar, with the original BSA sheath stamp. Damned if it didn't come home with me. Some day I'll find a kid in Scouts with the right initials and he's going to get a heck of a knife.

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Somewhere in the early 80's I bought 2 knives at a gun show. I suppose I was around 11 years old so maybe 1982. I had many Case knives given to me by family already at that point and one Parker Canoe knife as well. But I kept my summer chore allowance and planned to buy a new pellet gun. I went to the gun show with my Dad and was quickly distracted from the goal of another pellet gun when I saw this cool knife unlike anything I had seen before. My Dad negotiated and threw in a couple extra dollars to get a deal done that scored me an extra knife in the deal. I think he was more than happy to see me with more knives rather than a air rifle that he knew I would break and he would have to fix.:oops:
The knives were both lightly used I think since there were no boxes but they both were in very nice shape. One was newer and one was older but very clean. They are not quite as nice of shape anymore.:eek:
I was far from having decent knife sharpening skills back then and the knives bear the scars of my youth. The Buck 110 rides in my tackle box and after retrieving it for pictures , I realize it would be lucky to cut fishing line at this point.:rolleyes: So I have some work to do on it before it goes back in the box. It appears that it much older than the 111 as the 110 has no dots. I don't know my Buck markings well but that should put it in the early 70's maybe?? The 111 was the knife I was after the day I got them. It was so cool looking. Still is cool looking. It has 3 dots so probably was close to new when I got it.
They have been there and done that and back again.:cool:
Are they ugly? Yup! But not really , not to me.
Gutted my first deer with the 110. Used to show the 111 off to everyone. Not sure anyone else was as impressed as I was.:)
Anyway , here are the warriors that survived my youth.
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Burnt Stag said:
Somewhere in the early 80's I bought 2 knives at a gun show. I suppose I was around 11 years old so maybe 1982. I had many Case knives given to me by family already at that point and one Parker Canoe knife as well. But I kept my summer chore allowance and planned to buy a new pellet gun. I went to the gun show with my Dad and was quickly distracted from the goal of another pellet gun when I saw this cool knife unlike anything I had seen before. My Dad negotiated and threw in a couple extra dollars to get a deal done that scored me an extra knife in the deal. I think he was more than happy to see me with more knives rather than a air rifle that he knew I would break and he would have to fix.:oops:
The knives were both lightly used I think since there were no boxes but they both were in very nice shape. One was newer and one was older but very clean. They are not quite as nice of shape anymore.:eek:
I was far from having decent knife sharpening skills back then and the knives bear the scars of my youth. The Buck 110 rides in my tackle box and after retrieving it for pictures , I realize it would be lucky to cut fishing line at this point.:rolleyes: So I have some work to do on it before it goes back in the box. It appears that it much older than the 111 as the 110 has no dots. I don't know my Buck markings well but that should put it in the early 70's maybe?? The 111 was the knife I was after the day I got them. It was so cool looking. Still is cool looking. It has 3 dots so probably was close to new when I got it.
They have been there and done that and back again.:cool:
Are they ugly? Yup! But not really , not to me.
Gutted my first deer with the 110. Used to show the 111 off to everyone. Not sure anyone else was as impressed as I was.:)
Anyway , here are the warriors that survived my youth.
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Ain’t nothing ugly about those knives . Better than an air rifle!
 
JTB_5 said:
Ain’t nothing ugly about those knives . Better than an air rifle!
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Thanks. They definitely went on more adventures and took more abuse than an air rifle would have survived. I went through plenty of those as well...lol
Close up will show you some of the UGLY that was my sharpening skillz (or lack of) back in the day.:oops:
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The longest for me (that I still have) would be my Buck 110 that I bought around 1976. I carried it so much that I wore out the original sheath. I found a replacement sheath sometime in the late 80s in a store in Jackson, Wyoming. I've slowed down enough that that sheath is showing much less wear. :p

Next up would be my Buck 703 Colt from 1989.
 
Burnt Stag said:
Thanks. They definitely went on more adventures and took more abuse than an air rifle would have survived. I went through plenty of those as well...lol
Close up will show you some of the UGLY that was my sharpening skillz (or lack of) back in the day.:oops:
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I had a small dagger growing up and used a round flint stone that my dad had to “sharpen” it. I was really just scratching the blade into oblivion, but it was part of the imaginative life of a child that you cannot get back and wouldn’t want to trade. Those scratches might be like laugh lines that come with age—they show how much enjoyment you’ve had with them.
 
It's been a long time since I bought my first knife, so I might be remembering this wrong. Prince Albert tobacco had a promotion going in 1964 or so (my 14th year). My dad used to smoke and I noticed the ad on a tobacco tin that he had. I scraped together the 2.00, he came up with the proofs of purchase required and we mailed it off.
Here's the knife, which I still have, and a pic of a tobacco tin from the promotion, which I don't have.
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I bought a few other knives over the next couple of years, a Mercator K55 was one and I also bought a stiletto. If I still have them I have no clue where they are.
 
Peregrin said:
It's been a long time since I bought my first knife, so I might be remembering this wrong. Prince Albert tobacco had a promotion going in 1964 or so (my 14th year). My dad used to smoke and I noticed the ad on a tobacco tin that he had. I scraped together the 2.00, he came up with the proofs of purchase required and we mailed it off.
Here's the knife, which I still have, and a pic of a tobacco tin from the promotion, which I don't have.
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I bought a few other knives over the next couple of years, a Mercator K55 was one and I also bought a stiletto. If I still have them I have no clue where they are.
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Now, that's cool!
 
leghog said:
Now, that's cool!
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Thanks, leghog. It amazes me that I still have it. I wish I had my first knife, an official Cub Scout knife made by Camillus. I got it at 7 years old, when I joined. My mom was a den leader and held the meetings at our home. The lady was a Saint.
 
I still have both my first pocket knife and my first fixed blade. Since I am in the younger demographic of traditional enthusiasts on the Porch here, it may not be seen as quite so impressive that I still have these knives. But teenage years and the inherent dumb stuff not withstanding, I do find it remarkable that I hung on to these blades...

My pocket knife, an Old Timer 340T, was given to me by my dad. A few years later, when I was 15 or 16, I think (I was working full time at a nursery at the time (home schooling has its benefits...)), I went into a local Bi-Mart and purchased a few different knives. I had been eyeballing a Buck 119 for awhile and so that was the first one I had the guy behind the case pull out for me. That, followed by a Gerber Gator lockback, a Gerber Multitool, and a Buck 450. Considering that I had been told to go pound sand by a previous gentleman when attempting to buy a knife due to me being under 18, I was quite surprised that this guy was letting me purchase quite the haul...

I still have the Buck 119 and aside from my Old Timer, it is the knife I have had the longest. I also still have my Gerber Multitool but I lost the Gator lockback and Buck 450 somewhere down the line...

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I bought both of these knives in 1985. They were the beginning of a love of knives that lasts until today (not my first knives though).

The Case is a 1970 6308 whittler; I specifically bought it as my first collector knife. So it may have been my second purchase.

The Uncle Henry is an 897uh. This one has a story. Technically, I did not purchase it as it was a free replacement for the one I did purchase before I got the Case. I lost the original but Schrade at that time had a free replacement for a lost knife. So, I count this one that they sent me as a purchase. I carried it for about 20 years.

They are both great knives and are still very much loved.

 
Cool to see so many Bucks!

This was my first ever, Philadelphia Eagles Vic Classic, and I don't remember if I bought it or if my dad gave it to me. Might have been a Christmas gift or I might have bought it with allowance, but I had been wanting one for a while, was about 7 or 8, so 1992 or so. Cool thing about this knife is I lost it on a camping trip. It turned up some years later in the back of my Aunt's vehicle.

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Burnt Stag said:
Somewhere in the early 80's I bought 2 knives at a gun show. I suppose I was around 11 years old so maybe 1982. I had many Case knives given to me by family already at that point and one Parker Canoe knife as well. But I kept my summer chore allowance and planned to buy a new pellet gun. I went to the gun show with my Dad and was quickly distracted from the goal of another pellet gun when I saw this cool knife unlike anything I had seen before. My Dad negotiated and threw in a couple extra dollars to get a deal done that scored me an extra knife in the deal. I think he was more than happy to see me with more knives rather than a air rifle that he knew I would break and he would have to fix.:oops:
The knives were both lightly used I think since there were no boxes but they both were in very nice shape. One was newer and one was older but very clean. They are not quite as nice of shape anymore.:eek:
I was far from having decent knife sharpening skills back then and the knives bear the scars of my youth. The Buck 110 rides in my tackle box and after retrieving it for pictures , I realize it would be lucky to cut fishing line at this point.:rolleyes: So I have some work to do on it before it goes back in the box. It appears that it much older than the 111 as the 110 has no dots. I don't know my Buck markings well but that should put it in the early 70's maybe?? The 111 was the knife I was after the day I got them. It was so cool looking. Still is cool looking. It has 3 dots so probably was close to new when I got it.
They have been there and done that and back again.:cool:
Are they ugly? Yup! But not really , not to me.
Gutted my first deer with the 110. Used to show the 111 off to everyone. Not sure anyone else was as impressed as I was.:)
Anyway , here are the warriors that survived my youth.
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That 111 is just plain cool. I've never seen a 111 before. I have got a 110 in 1973 and a 112 in 1980.
 
My CRK Zaan was my first EDC knife, purchased maybe eight yrs ago. I carried it about two yrs, and since then have pretty well carried a CRK large Sebbie of one variant or another.
 
I have this Case Mini Trapper with a pen blade that I've carried since 1973. The pen I've used for everything from cutting boxes to fish; the clip I sort of saved for surgical stuff like picking splinters and such
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I put this up on the "Longest run" thread I think back in November
 
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These might be older than the Sabre I posted first. I probably bought the jack before I'd read in Kephart that "the jackknife has three blades". I really don't remember whether I bought the Camillus for best, after tiding myself over with the Sabre, or bought the Sabere after being disappointed that the Camillus wasn't stainless.
The Camillus was so expensive that I kept checking it for lateral play until I gave it some, then I tightened it up with a nail-set, which subdued the walk and talk a bit.
 
During the family's first and only pilgrimage to the old country, Eire, in 1971, my Irish cousins had fixed a dog race. They took their bitch off her feed, she lost her last races and thus she dropped a class. She was then bred and when it came time to sell the dogs, they got her in shape again. She was essentially racing a class below her potential. A good win would not only help sell her pups but make for a family windfall at the betting window. At my cousin's urging, I bet on the family dog and won. The winnings went to a Swiss Army knife bought in the duty free shop at Shannon Airport. The knife is about the size of a Tinker, with two blades, scissors, long nail file, awl, screwdriver, can opener, tweezers and toothpick. Carried it all the time for about 10 years. Still have it, but don't carry it due to sentimental value.
 
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