What was it? A Buck, Frost, no name brand; What was your very first knife?

Yes! The Dick Tracy Junior Detective, with the Crime-Stoppers whistle. Sweet mother of pearl but that had to be mid-50's and the blade was so dull it wouldn't spread butter, that being the single reason I was allowed to play with the thing. There was this company that was famous (infamous) for making cheap knives featuring TV and radio heroes, and one of my cousins had a Lone Ranger Silver Bullet Special. Darned if I can remember their name, but they also made camping folders that had knives, forks, spoons, toothpicks inside, and broke a minute and a half after first use but looked so darn cool.

My first real knife I picked up at an Army/Navy Surplus store for something like $6; a genuine German Paratrooper survival folder that required a doctorate in engineering to open, but it did have some decent steel that stayed sharp and took one heckuva beating.
 
My uncle gave me boy scout knife when I was eight for for christmas still looking for it was at my moms house when I moved probably in a box somewhere.
 
I sat here a minute before posting and I honestly can't remember my very 'first' one as it would be a toss up between a schrade slippy, a sak the big one, but I still have the sharp lockback that I do remember carrying for a long time as a kid... my son has it now.....
 
My family owned an Army/Navy store and there was a huge display case full of any and all kinds of knives, ranging from just plain junk to all the big names at the time. My first knife, at least the first one I remember was a medium lockback cheapie with black plastic handles. It was about 1962, I was 6. It didn't hold an edge well at all. I soon had several Case, Shrade, and other knives of various kinds and eventually settled on a large Case lockback that I lost when I started driving. In 1980 or '81, I knew a guy who had been warned by the Las Vegas PD to "get out of town", so he came to me desperate for cash to get out of town with. I bought a new Craftsman torque wrench, with receipt, his car's spare tire(over $100 alone), a set of cheap steak knives that I still use today, and the score of the whole deal, a really nice LB7. It's dinged up and isn't particularly pretty anymore, but I still carry it always all these years later: Serial #J5539. I got it all for $72 (All I had until payday), and the LB7 was tossed in at the last second for $2! The butt end is dinged up from being dropped a bunch of times and in one case being used in a fight (I was a bouncer/security guard in a very rough place). I knocked a guys teeth out with it on the first swing and on the second, it went down the stairs and never looked the same afterwards.
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My first was a Wenger SAK when I was 11. I treasured that thing.

My second was a Buck 110. I coveted that one too.

Great memories.
 
My first knife as a boy was a scout knife. My first knife whose maker I remember was a Puma lock back. Comparable to the Buck 110.
 
very first knife was a little bitty SAK w/scissors - I didn't have enough fingernails to open it, so I used my teeth...lol... so my father gave me a Case canoe that I could open with my fingers. I was in the first grade.
 
My first was a SAK given to me by a family friend when I was 5 or 6. I remember losing it while fishing from a tree overhanging a deep pool in the river near my house. I was sick for days over that. I fished or hunted unsupervised every day after school and I know I had a knife with me every time but after losing that SAK, I can't remember what I used. Some time later I got a Camillus pilot's knife that I remember using until I was in college. I miss the days when kids could walk out the door with a knife or a gun and no one thought twice about it.
 
This thread's 7 years old, but still relevant. :cool:

Mine was a very small Imperial, probably DESIGNED to be a boy's first knife at the time. In the photo below, it is the 5th row down, the little black one in the right column.



My grandpa gave it to me when I was about 9, which would've been in 1985. I remember I felt like A Big Boy when I got that, and I carried it every waking second that summer. The one to the left of it was my brother's first knife, another Imperial with mother of pearl scales and a broken-off main blade. The small blade was the same size as the main blade on mine, but didn't look as tough, since it was a spear point instead of a clip. :)
 
A small 2 blade SAK was my first knife when I was 8 years old. I think it's a secretary model. Lost the knife decades ago. Whittled about million sticks with that thing.
 
Nerco thread and there have been quite a few first knife threads since 2011. But.... first knife was a tiny (sub-peanut sized) Imperial that I purchased at the 5&10 (1st grade).
 
It’s so long ago I barely remember, but my first knife was a camping knife with dimpled steel handles, almost certainly a Camillus demo knife. The next was a gravity knife I used to carry around for lack of a real switchblade. For a couple of years there I was real impressed by switchblades after seeing West Side Story on Broadway.

The first one I really remember was this Loewen Hippekniep I bought in Amsterdam in 1970 while backpacking around Europe for a year. I still have it, but for some reason have never been able to take a decent picture of it. It has cut a lot of sausage, cheese and black bread, and on one occasion kept a Swedish ex-con at bay who wanted to “have some fun”.

It doesn’t see much use these days.


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My first knife was given to me by my grandpap it was a well used but sharp Queens Cutlery fixed blade hunting knife. The back story is that it came with a set of kitchen knives that he bought my grandma. I still have that knife along with 2 of the kitchen knives. Cherish them to this dat and use them at hunting camp every year as kitchen prep.

Chuck
 
Many moons ago, mid 70s I was given a white handled Barlow written in script to skin muskrats. It has been lost and found a hundred times at least. I still have it and it is my most cherished knife.
 
Bleeohio said:
Many moons ago, mid 70s I was given a white handled Barlow written in script to skin muskrats. It has been lost and found a hundred times at least. I still have it and it is my most cherished knife.
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What does "written in script" mean? I used a Case Barlow to skin muskrats.
 
Rimfire, I meant to say cursive. Barlow was written in a fancy cursive on the metal end. Now I have to go try and find it lol.
Smaug, what is the long slender yellow handled blade on the left used for? I have one marked ulster and have been told many different things
about what it was used for. Everything from a tomato cutter to a watermelon sample cut knife.
 
My first knife was an Old Timer given to me by my grandfather when I was just a little squirt. I used that knife for everything and any time it got dull, he would sharpen it back up to an edge that would easily shave hair. I had that knife for several decades.
When my grandfather died a few years ago, I slid that same knife under his hands as he lay in his casket and it was buried with him.
 
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