What was you first bali?

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What was your first bali that you ever had and what do you have now? Mine was some cheap china, that my brother bought off ebay for about $15. When my house got robbed about 1 1/2yr ago(happened 3 times by the same people)they toke my first bali and over $2000 in stuff the first 2 times.The third time they got caught and were arrested at my school.They didnt steal anything the 3rd time. But back to the subject.Im still mad that I dont have my first bali.But after a few months I bought a jag off line and another china from a store. My latest purchase was my bm42a and I have had it for about 1 month now.:D
 
Man thats bad. Three times.:(
Anyway my first was the cheap bali with the dragons on the handle.
 
I made the 'mistake' of buying a Bali-Song USA custom as my first bali and I've had to live with that decision every day of my life.........;) Just think how many customs would be in other peoples hands if I hadn't stumbled across that dreaded custom almost 20 years ago....:confused: :eek: :D
 
my first I got at a flea market not to far before the 3rd of july. I know that much because it was my now-ex's birthday party and we went to the fireworks. They were trying to open a package and I said "It'd be nice if I had my balisong right now".
Either way, I got it on a sunday at this indoor flea market. There was this deaf guy there who sold various martial arts weaponry. I went there with intent to buy a bali. I got one with black slotted handles. It was pretty good for a cheapy actually, I don't see them too often. I put that thing through A LOT. I never had to re-pin it either. The latch eventually broke off after a few months though, then then I was tightening it, and basically it somehow bent in an odd direction, making it worthless to me.

Now I flip two BM42's and soon I'll be flipping a Tachyon
 
Originally posted by Dawkind
I made the 'mistake' of buying a Bali-Song USA custom as my first bali and I've had to live with that decision every day of my life.........;) Just think how many customs would be in other peoples hands if I hadn't stumbled across that dreaded custom almost 20 years ago....:confused: :eek: :D
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Dudley... I feel sorry for YOU! I was reading a story in Cigar Aficionado about a fellow who's first cigar was a Cuban... now he can't smoke anything else (and they're damn expensive in this country, ya know?).

BTW, my first balisong was a Jaguar... when the pins broke, I sent it back and had them ship me a knew one. I wonder how long I could have kept doing that.:rolleyes:
 
my first bali was a jag. it's been repinned, squeezed, bashed, repinned again, tweaked, pinched, hammered, and repinned. :D
right mow my tippy-toppest-of-the-line bali is my bm42as. we shall see what comes next....
peace.
aleX.
 
I would like to say it was the Pacific Cutlery or the Valor that I still own. I got these about the same time frame in 1985, but I can't remember which was first.
 
Thz for the sympothy Kyui Su Kim, but that isnt even the half of the story. The people who did rob my house was my friend since the 4th grade. Thats how he knew where very thing was. The insurance only replaced 1/2 of the stuff that got stolen. They just gave use some money thats all. Sorry that its off subject.:mad:
 
a POS china cheapy with chromed handles with a black (plastic?) insert.... hahaha... its now sitting happily on my nightstand w/the rest of my (small) collection.....
It is really loose, and rattles terribly when you manipulate it... but it still flips with the best of em... :D
I now have that one and two Jags... I broke my first pin today.. I was just flipping away and all of a sudden it felt funny and I heard a clank across the room... hahaha...
It was a tramatic experience... :D
oh well... now I get to try my hand at repinning...
thanks for listenin
 
My first bali was a Bear. When I do something I do it big, so it was not a pin that broke, it was a handle! :D Then I lucked across a really good jag from SMKW's and it lasted 5-6 years. One pin broke w/in a month,, the other about a month before it gave up completely. 5-6 years in between pins, not bad. Then a brass handled bali as old as I am, then a 42-AS and shortly after a 42-S.
 
My first bali was a Franken-bali I made from a Japanese paper fan I stole from my sister, and a bowie blade I raped off of an old "hobo" style knife. A few pop rivets to attach the blade to the handles, and some solder in the handles for weight. The pins weren't much, but it flipped ok for me. I think that I was about 12-13 years old when I made it. My dad found it and took bolt cutters to it.:(

My first (real) bali was a Compass Industries Black Mantis back in the early eighties.
I also had a Parker, Stainless slabed with finger grooves, and a PC69. All of which sprouted their own legs and walked off...:(

By then, I had the Bali-bug and couldn't stop...
 
In 1985 I purchased my Pacific Cutlery International Series #159.
It has the wee-hawk blade, a very thick one I must say, and the die-cast handles with plastic inserts. Not really the most endearing handle material, the knife as a whole is rock solid. Still tight as a vault after 16 yrs of fiddlin.
Still have a scar under my right index knuckle.
 
My first balisong was a green marble china cheapie, which is still in one piece.:eek:

My second balisong was a BM 42. I don't even want to count how many Benchmade balisongs I have bought since I purchased that BM 42 about one year ago.:o
 
My first balisong was from Tashiro cutlery, which sells Japanese cutlery, gardening tools and does some manufacturing in Seattle.

It was pretty good steel of unknown type, had folded brass handles and pins. They sold these by the ton to Asian gardners back then(1979).

I still have it, I use it in the kitchen for a utility knife. A little worn but still keeps a nice edge.
 
I didn't buy my first bali. I aqcuired it from a friend in a trade after I saw it back in '84 or earlier. It was a brass skeletonized handled Taylor ( I think) I don't remember the blade profile as I was only 7 or 8 years old. The first bali I ever purchased was a BM-239 which broke somewhat recently, but I may revive it. Thank Crom for the 42.
 
My first, and second, were a couple of Jag Classics. They're the ones with the black plastic inserts and oval holes. Solid handles, heavy as all get out. First one, latch broke. Second one, one-way ticket to the dump after the blade gouged a hole in my leg. :eek:
Third one, and my favorite, is my BM-42. :D
 
My first was a FHM beautiful knife nara wood with pearl inlay, bought while in Subic Bay, lost it in a locker search, and I have to wander to this day if the MAA (navy cop) actually trough it away:mad: After a couple of yrs. I got another a Valor 3" the blade was so 440 and so thick i couldnt sharpen it, still have it, the first one I owned in this country.
 
my first was a China cheapy:eek:. Yup, big shock. It was the skeletonized model where there was a circle diamond circle diamond... etc pattern. the handle cracked in a week. Out of frustration, I grabbed the "blade" and bent it right in the middle, folding it into a U.

I reduced two more Cheapy's to scraps before I bought some vintage frost's, then parkers, then valors/taylors/CI's, then the 42 was released and I got a pair....
 
...wow... it's been a long time since i've visited the forum...

My first bali was given to me by someone I was dating at the time. A China cheapie w/ blue marble handles. My second was given to me by someone else I was dating at another time...

My last one I purchased myself. It's got a carbon steel blade, stag handles, and a manila latch. Spanish. I hadn't really heard much about Spanish balis. It's a pretty knife, but it's not put together well, though I really do like the blade.

Trying to save for a nice bali. ...Unfortunately other things keep getting in the way.:(
 
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