What Was the First GOOD FOLDER You Got?

Folder Given to me by a friend that I worked with 5 years ago and it still kicks @ss.
: Spyderco Endura erlier model: where even the pocket clip is Zytel
 
I thought I had a good quality knife when I received a Parker Imai as a gift. My idea of quality changed when I bought an Almar SERE.
 
My first good folder was a gift, and was either my Boker Double Tree congress with the dogs on the scales, or my Schrade 7OT. The first good folder I bought myself was a Cold Steel Voyager, one of the smaller tantos.
 
One of the things that kept me from getting a decent knife was what I initially thought was a prohibitive cost. Naturally, not knowing anything about knives, I thought that Cold Steel was the bee's knees in defensive knives. Later I learned that many folks didn't like the Cold Steel offerings, but having learned a bit about knives, I still like them, though I'm no longer really impressed by someone hammering a Cold Steel knife into a car top.

It took me awhile to learn that hardware stores weren't really the place to buy knives. Who woulda thought??
 
When I was twelve, I went into the GoodWill store in Santa Ana looking for a second-hand blanket. They had just taken in a cigar box of knives. I found a folder I liked - a lot. It cost an entire quarter.

Years later I discovered that the New York Knife Company was one of the very top makers of its day. I still have that knife. It's a larger whittler with what I now know are ebony scales. It's still one hell of a knife.
 
Thomas Linton said:
When I was twelve, I went into the GoodWill store in Santa Ana looking for a second-hand blanket. They had just taken in a cigar box of knives. I found a folder I liked - a lot. It cost an entire quarter.

Years later I discovered that the New York Knife Company was one of the very top makers of its day. I still have that knife. It's a larger whittler with what I now know are ebony scales. It's still one hell of a knife.
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Let us see... let us seee......
 
Sorry for digging up a pseudo-dead thread, especially for a first post, but i figured this was probably the best tread for a first post.

I spent quite a while trying to rationalize spending the kind of money required for a decent knife, but after utilizing my 'employee discount' at the pawn shop i work at my first purchase was for three knives:

- Spyderco Endura
- Benchmade 730 Elishewitz
- Benchmade 425 Snody Gravitator

All very excellent knives (in my opinion of course).
 
Like many of the older guys like me, I started out with the Buck 110. It was about the only good folding hunters that I had ever seen. I still have it although I use the Buck-Lite models now. Amoung many others:D The old Buck is 30 some years old now.
 
As a letter carrier, I carried a 4" Cold Steel Voyager. It was my first decent folder.
2nd: Kershaw Chive.
3rd: 5" Cold Steel Voyager. Carried it for years.

Sent my dozier folder to Iraq in a care package. Got a letter a year or so later from an Army captain telling me that he carried it every day he was over there, then passed it on to the incoming company commander. Gotta get myself another dozier.
 
My first good knife was a Spyderco dragonfly! I got it about a year ago after seeing the cook where I work with an endura. and now I edc a Sebenza, so it didn't take me long to get where I am!
 
First good folder I got was the Buck Approach. Love that knife. Still like it, just wish I had a better way to have it as an EDC. I kept it in my backpocket on my keys w/ the carabeaner but.... I dunno. It got something on the blade. Looks almost like rust, but that can't be... Just a recent thing. But since that I took it off. Love that knife though.

Also I bought it myself, wasn't given to me or anything. I really liked it and the Buck.... Uhh... Revolution I think? But in the end I like the look of this blade better and after messing with the revolution in a store, believe I all around like this one better. Basically it came down to me wanting a nicer knife but not wanting to spend a ton. And the Approach wasn't too expensive and I liked it so..... That's what chose it for me :)
 
MaxDuo said:
First good folder I got was the Buck Approach. Love that knife. Still like it, just wish I had a better way to have it as an EDC. I kept it in my backpocket on my keys w/ the carabeaner but.... I dunno. It got something on the blade. Looks almost like rust, but that can't be... Just a recent thing. But since that I took it off. Love that knife though.. . .
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Not sure what "something" was, but "stainless" = highly resistant to corrosion. Pockets can be salty places.
 
my first real pocket knife was a camillus military pocket knife. It was stainless steel and had U.S. stamped on the side of it. It had a can opener bottle opener blade and leather punch....It was basicly just a scout knife...I found it laying on the ground. It was stamped on the blade 1967. I still have that knife and after i found out camillus was closing down, i bought a new one just like it and it was stamped 2001 on the blade. Oh yeah it also had a lanyard. I wish i knew more about these knives. I was in the military and i never got one issued to me. I also had a big ol spoon and fork knife with wood pattern slabs....I still got that one too. From then on i carred SAK knives and still have every one of them....There just retired in a box. haha.
 
Hello, this is my first post on BF. I've seen many familiar names from THR and other forums.

Anyway, my first knife was a cheap, two bladed barlow my father gave me some time in the late 70s. My first good folder was a Victorinox Pioneer I bought back in the early 1980s, back when they came with red Alox scales. I carried it for awhile, then moved on to a small Explorer lock back. Then a Spyderco Delica for several years until I misplaced it. Next up was a Benchmade Griptilian which I carried for a few years until last Fall, when I replaced it with the old Pioneer. The SAK is just more useful for me, since it has more tools than just a knife blade.
 
Thomas Linton said:
Not sure what "something" was, but "stainless" = highly resistant to corrosion. Pockets can be salty places.
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Yeah, that's why I say something. I don't believe it rusted, but that's what it seems to be. I can't scrub it off.... Actually it seems there is less on there now. So maybe I did. No clue.
 
my knife was an SAK classic that myparents gave me when i was 9 or so.

i then proceeded to buy a couple of cheap chinese rippoffs. those eventually broke after a couple of years, and then i discovered a promotional victorinox spartan that became my EDC for a while. then i bought an opinel #7 (coghlans printed on it) and a few days later a case trapper in CV steel with the classic yellow plastic scales.

mixed in with the cheap chinese SAKs over the years were various paring knives and steak knives badly reground into plain edge, carried in substandard cardboard sheaths.

essentially, i bought my first good knife, myself, a few months ago in mid july when i picked up the opinel. i'm only 16, so i figure i have plenty of knife-buying mileage ahead of me.
 
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