What started you on the "Traditionals"..?

When I grew up and started buying pocket knives, that was all that was around. As far as I am concerned, that is still true.
 
My first knife when I was at 6 was a hardware store Barlow. At 52 I like both traditional and modern knives and usually carry them in combination. Usually my large Sebenza with a slip joint. I rotate through a bunch of them. Nothing like peeling an apple with a slippie.:)
 
My first was from my grandfather as well as my second traditional. The first a small two blade pen or peanut like knife. Hibben Spencer Bartlett and I'll never forget it. Still have it tho it was hardly usable for anything by the time I got it which was why I got it. The second was quite nice and quite user friendly, a Ulster Electricians which I also used and beat up until retiring it for a Boker, then a Camillus, to the present STR-EK in my pocket now. I've always carried a traditional in my left pocket. A clip type one hand opener on my right. Many times the traditional in my pocket was a single blade electricians. Then the blade was the clipped model.
 
What started me? Simple, it wasn't a question of age or Traditionals being the only norm, my family weren't interested in knives either. When I was very small, 7 or 8 I found some broken worn-out pocket-knives in an old tool drawer, I was fascinated by them because I thought them beautiful. I still do, and that's how it'll end :D

Regards, W
 
G10 is so practical, has a great feel in the hand, grippy etc. etc. etc... A modern knife is a very pragmatic item. But if I want to ENJOY cutting something, the feel of jigged bone, the grip of stag, the warmth of wood, that's what I want. :)
 
I started out with slipjoints, and progressed into the more modern stuff, and lost interest in them. I started collecting GEC, and Queen, and the rest is history. My resurgence in interest in them was very natural, I feel like my carrying of a fixed blade as a main EDC, has negated much value of more modern folders.
 
I had a SAK when I was around 8 or 9. When I was 12 I went to summer camp and bought this guy



It never left my pocket until I saw the movie Cliffhanger and saw Stallone use a spyderco on rope. Just like that the whittler was sent to the bottom of my scout pack and I travelled down the modern path. About 2 years ago I was goin through some boxes and found that old scout knife. It didnt take me long to find this sub forum and now the rest is history.
 
Well, I'm sure my first knife we a sak classic. But recently it was pictures of the gec sheepfoot charlow in smooth bone on here.
 
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