What Knife You Bought Have You Owned The Longest?

[rarreola]

my 1978 victorinox camp multitool knife

 

[Burnt Stag]

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.

Thank you. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen when I first saw it and for many years after.
Does your 112 have a sheath?

 

[christusvictor]

Schrade 108OT, a Christmas present from my Grandfather-in-law many years ago. For a long time this was the only knife I ever carried.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

Thank you. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen when I first saw it and for many years after.
Does your 112 have a sheath?

Yep. Standard black leather Buck sheath, including where a mouse decided to chew on it while it was on a gear belt hanging on a wall in the workshop.

 

[Burnt Stag]

Yep. Standard black leather Buck sheath, including where a mouse decided to chew on it while it was on a gear belt hanging on a wall in the workshop.

If you would like a Buck 112 black sheath without chew marks on it for your 112 , just shoot me your shipping addy and I will send you this nice one I have no knife for. You are welcome to it.
Burnt Stag.

 

[glennbad]

I bought this baby back when I was young and stupid. I'm not young anymore....





I leave it hanging in my shop. Whenever I get to thinking I know it all, I just look at it hanging there...it keeps me humble, LOL!

 

[zzyzzogeton]

If you would like a Buck 112 black sheath without chew marks on it for your 112 , just shoot me your shipping addy and I will send you this nice one I have no knife for. You are welcome to it.
Burnt Stag.

I appreciate the offer, but my sheath is still very usable since the chew marks are relatively minor. They just give the sheath "character" and make it readily identifiable as being "mine".

I probably have 30 or 40 sheaths that the damn rodents have chewed on at one time or other. I can't keep the little bastards out of the workshop and catch 5 or 6 per month. They never eat much of a sheath, just enough to "leave their mark" on an edge. It's like they take a few nibbles and decide it isn't real edible and go on to their next snack.

I've had a knife sheath sit on a work bench for weeks and never get touched and then I'll leave one on the bench and it gets chewed on overnight.

 

[mykel m]

my 1978 victorinox camp multitool knife

Same here R rarreola , but from around 1980, maybe 79.
It's retired now, relegated to chair side duties, but served me well when I was a GSE mechanic in the Marine Corps.

 

[rockman0]

I bought this Buck 102 in 1969. I would have to do some digging but I believe it's the only knife left from my pre teen years.

 

[Getahl]

My knife collecting affliction began in October 2007, but didn't get my first traditional until mid 2008, a Chinese Buck mini trapper, with the brown wooden scales. I forget the number designation. Great fit and finish. It's currently in a box in the garage.

I have older, a Tinker from my teenage years, but that was a gift from my grandparents. I think the Buck is the oldest I've purchased for myself.

 

[btb01]

I must have missed this thread back in January. It's an interesting question. I know the knife that I've owned the longest is this Colonial "Royal Ambassadors" scout knife that I've shared here a few times, but that was given to me by my dad when I was a kid, so I didn't buy it myself.

The first pocket knives I bought for myself as a teenager were modern folders, which of course don't count here because this is a traditionals thread. The first traditional knife that I bought myself would have to be this Case Russlock, which I bought at AG Russell's old store in Springdale, AR (before they moved to their new building in Rogers).

This Loewen Messer hippekniep, bought in Amsterdam in 1970. I have only carried it a couple of times. It always resided in a backpack or in motorcycle luggage.

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That's a good looking knife! Reminds me of this J.A. Henckels Sodbuster I won in a GAW hosted by @Campbellclanman (thanks again, Duncan!)...

...and also the Maserin Plow that Mike at CK recently had made.

 

[Txjohn]

112 from my navy days c1990