What was your first fixed blade knife?

Mine was a Gerber Freeman Guide with a black handle, bought when i was about 19 or 20 I think, so about 10 to 12 years ago. The rubber handle has been replaced with some very crude wooden scales and the blade has been aharpened often and often times with not much care, so it looks really really beaten up, which it actually is. I think apart from my Leatherman Wave the Gerber is the one knife that I've used the most in my lifetime. Haven't really touched it for a while now though, I got into higher end knives a while ago, and while the Gerber definitely isn't a bad knife, it's outshined by pretty much everything else in my collection :) still have fond memories of it though
 
You know, now that I think of it...I'm not sure I can actually remember? Might have actually been the Gerber Mark II I bought when I was in college in the late 1980s, surrendered a few years later to the NJ State Police, because I had no idea double-edged knives were illegal in NJ. I bought it at The Sharper Image retail store in downtown Pittsburgh when I was a sophomore in college, so it never occurred to me that it might not be legal to carry it. I was young and naive.

I used to use it at college and at work in Atlantic City, working on stage crews, for demolishing sets when we were done with them. The serrations were effective at going through canvas. I think up to that point, probably every knife I owned before that was a folder, or at least, I don't recall owning any fixed-blade knives before that one.

During high school, my brother had got himself a Gerber Blackie Collins Frisco Shiv, which made me impressed with Gerbers.
 
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It was a Ka-Bar that my dad gave me to use when I went into the Boy Scouts back in the 70's. He had gotten it from one of the GIs that stayed at my grandfather's property in the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte. He was around 10 years old then, about the same age I was when he gave it to me. He got that knife, and a bunch of Hershey bars, and he still had some of the wrappers that he flattened and saved in his stamp album with a faded pic of himself and my uncle with several soldiers. I left the knife there when I came to the US.
 
I can't really recall which was my very first fixed blade, but I'm pretty sure it was this one:

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A Craftsman Brand skinner made by Schrade Walden. It was my Opa's and he gave it me when I was about 11 or 12. Thin and slicey.
 
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An old Pilot's Knife, it's still at my parents' house somewhere. No clear idea who made it, but it MIGHT be an Ontario model because I seem to recall that metal sheath embellishment some of them had. I'll need to track it down the next time I'm there. 🤔

Dad gave it to me and would kick me out of the house on weekends when I was like ten or eleven years old and I'd use it to make little hideouts in the woods right behind the house. Good times.
 
Danny Linguini said:
Estwing knife and hatchet set, gifted to me a few thousand years annd another lifetime ago from my ex father-in-law. The knife sat on a shelf in my shed for several years until I dug it out last year and cleaned it up and put an edge back on it. It’s now comfy and warm in my office. The axe has been in my workshop staying nice and dry, though it hasn’t been used for a number of years, either.

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Who made the knife? We we talking about a set like this in the Buck forum recently.
 
My first love's name is Yukon Gear XL Hunting Knife. I bought it long before I knew anything about knives, but it appears that it wasn't complete garbage for the 17 Canadian dollars I paid to get it.

Specifications:
  • Blade length: 6"
  • Overall length: 11.5"
  • Two-colour injection handle
  • Grind: flat
  • Weight: 205 g = 7.23 oz
  • Blade thickness: 0.14" = 3.6 mm
  • Full tang: NO
  • Blade material: 420 stainless steel

I still have the knife. As you can see in the picture, I have used, and abused it, a lot (chopping wood, batoning, etc.), but it has not let me down. I don't use it anymore because I have better knives now, but, out of respect, I will always keep it and I will always remember it as my first knife.


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