What was your first “expensive” knife?

[dialton]

Bought this Benchmade somewhere in the 90’s I think at the House of Blades in Cowtown. It cost $100 which at the time seemed really high for a knife. It has been carried and used more than any locking blade I own. I certainly have got my money’s worth out of it! Though I had carried a knife since I was a kid, this kick started things into a level change. Many have come and gone but I kept this one around. What about you?

 

[shane45-1911]

Probably this Strider custom Nightmare GB back in the early 2000's (long before the Mickey shit-storm):

 

[Wolverine666]

Mine was a Benchmade-HK 14210 Snody design with black G10 and tumbled 154CM back in 2007. It was $100 and I loved it. Pic is from online.

 

[Cattaraugus225]

My first job was when I was in the 5th grade in school. I worked in the Summer on a tobacco farm from 6:00 am to 6:00 PM with an hour for lunch. The pay was $.25 per hour! So my first "expensive" knife was probably a dollar Imperial from a card at the local Standard service station. I have always bought task oriented knives, I think that best work knife I ever carried daily was a Kershaw 550sst at maybe $30.00. Most of my life I got by with inexpensive knives until my Son gave me a Griptilian, which is an expensive knife to me today. I have never paid over $165.00 for a knife, and that a WWII blade.

 

[gazz98]

ZT 0200. $160? Everyone was talking about the "overbuilt" and "super tough" knives of ZT so I bought one. I liked it but eventually got rid of it.

It still might be the most expensive knife I've ever bought and that was ... 2006-7? I don't venture over the $125 barrier very often.

 

[Lee D]

My first Benchmade I bought at a gun show in the early 90s. I’d have to look it up but I believe it was a Panther

*photo add…
This was it

 

[TheEdge01]

My first knife that costed more than $100 was the Benchmade Mini Barrage. I think I paid $114 for it from a dealer.
Pic from BM website.

 

[dialton]

Expensive is certainly a relative term but that Benchmade was my first liner lock style large folder. Prior to that I was carrying this Buck. The internet certainly gave knife enthusiasts things to drool over.

 

[LimpCroissant]

Well, this is first real good quality knife I ever bought that started my knife hoarding career. I bought it right after getting into the whole online knife scene and found it at a local gunshow. I bought it from Kershawguy at his table.

 

[DMG]

When I was a kid in the 90s I bought a cold steel SRK and a Spyderco native that seemed expensive. Then a mini Griptillian in the early 2000s.

 

[ac3boyz]

My first knife that costed more than $100 was the Benchmade Mini Barrage. I think I paid $114 for it from a dealer.
Pic from BM website.

Same here. I've bought and sold lots of knives since then but still have that one. Never carry it, but won't let it go.

 

[Triple_D]

My Boye folder. Over $200, and that was just a few months ago. Everything else I have (which isn't a lot), was much less expensive.


Except maybe for these two. They cost me 9 years of my life....in the Navy (and I loved it ).

 

[Bastler]

When I was 11, I took the plunge and spent $4.00 on a Ka-Bar at a hardware store that had them on sale. That was a lot of dough for me then. The original knife is long gone, but a friend of mine found a duplicate and gave it to me.

 

[dialton]

When I was 11, I took the plunge and spent $4.00 on a Ka-Bar at a hardware store that had them on sale. That was a lot of dough for me then. The original knife is long gone, but a friend of mine found a duplicate and gave it to me.

I’m in my 60’s now but certainly remember going to the stores and looking at all those knives in the display case.

 

[Danny Linguini]

I was a late bloomer to this craziness. My first not-cheap knife was this Kershaw Blur S30V earlier this year.



The first (and only) knife I’d consider expensive was an Ochs Worx Solarstorm. I still love the looks of it, but I can’t see beating up and devaluing a $300+ knife, so it never gets used. Pretty sure I won’t ever be spending that much again on a knife I won’t use precisely because it costs so much. I’m just silly like that.

 

[blanex1]

believe or not! my first expensive knife was a CRK's sebenza 21, picked up new in 2019 of witch I still own and vary happy with

 

[Wandering_About]

This Delica, which I've had for probably close to 15 years at this point. Not super expensive in the grand scheme, especially back then, but it was an investment for me at the time.

 

[Hashishiin]

PM2 in S45VN, due to lack of available Millies. Started a long thing with knives and Spyderco in particular. Standard satin/black G-10. Replaced those scales with some Metonboss Ti scales. Very beautiful, should have included sheath in the pic.

Now...just with the PM2s...

(DLT Cruwear, Crucarta, S45VN/TI, fully-milled Rex 45, textured orange full-milled aluminum BD1N, brown G-10 and CPM-10V, Maxamet, and murdered-out Wharncliffe S30V, in case anyone is wondering. I have custom wooden scales on the way, I feel like the stainless S45 fit better with my Ti scales, but a carbon steel that patinas would fit the natural wood look. So, I am thinking of putting either Cruwear, 10V, or Maxamet on the wooden scales.

 

[Arathol]

I bought this Randall 1-7 new almost 30 years ago for the princely sum of $250.....

 

[Henry Beige]

Mini Barrage, $115. My wife had given me a Griptilian, which was my first taste of upscale knives, but it was only $85 at REI. It turned out to be a very popular knife among knife sales persons at Cabela’s, who all seemed to want to show me their knife. I liked the size, but was agnostic on the assist. It didn’t open any faster than the Grip, but I had no objection to it.

A relative with a heroin problem stole it for drug money. Ha later told me that Pawn America had given him $85 for it, which, if true, meant they thought it was about a $400 knife, which would make it by far the most expensive knife I ever bought.