What was your first fixed blade knife?

A wooden handled Mora from the flea market.
Guy sold it to me as a “Swedish throwing knife” 😂

So i threw it (it actually threw pretty good imo), and found it was good for other things too. One day i threw it at a stump, missed and never found it :(

First new knife i bought was a buck 119.
 
My father made this for me in ‘61 as a get-well gift as I recovered from chicken pox. Quite a memorable gift for a 6 year old. As a depression era kid born in 1920, he never wasted a single scrap but always found a way to reuse most everything. It’s not fancy but was a dear camping knife over the years. There wasn’t anything he couldn’t do, but being a terrific dad was his highest achievement. 💝
 

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While I cannot be absolutely certain -- the passing years have made the specific sequence a bit fuzzy -- this may have been my first-ever fixed blade knife. It is a late-war Kinfolks 5-inch knife that had lost its pommel. My father installed a "field-expedient" pommel and an additional leather ring:

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He gave it to me when I turned 11 and became a Boy Scout. I still have it, and will always treasure it.

BTW, the sheath in the picture was not the one I actually used, but a more period-correct one.
 
Choctaw Dan said:
While I cannot be absolutely certain -- the passing years have made the specific sequence a bit fuzzy -- this may have been my first-ever fixed blade knife. It is a late-war Kinfolks 5-inch knife that had lost its pommel. My father installed a "field-expedient" pommel and an additional leather ring:

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He gave it to me when I turned 11 and became a Boy Scout. I still have it, and will always treasure it.

BTW, the sheath in the picture was not the one I actually used, but a more period-correct one.
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Correction/Update:
The above was my second knife. My absolute-first fixed blade knife was just like this one:

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Strictly speaking this image is not mine. However, because I just acquired the knife....!

This is an Imperial Sportsmaster knife. Mine was part of an axe-knife combination. The "axe" was pretty useless, but the knife took and held an excellent edge. I carried and used it A LOT as a Boy Scout, up until the day it and the belt it was on, including an excellent hatchet, were stolen at Boy Scout camp. Go figure.
 
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No idea where it is now or what brand if it even had one, but I'm pretty sure I ordered a diving knife from an ad in the back of a comic book, it had very rough finish. Mostly mentioning this because that ad existed and a kid could order one. I'm pretty sure I didn't have a checking account yet or even knew how to write a check.
 
ShaiHulud said:
kitchen knives from a junk container at a local thrift store. Guess they were fixed-ish
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I actually just got one of those, got a coupon code for that automated knife sharpening machine and now there's a sharp knife in the kitchen drawer at work. The sharpening was definitely not perfect even after going over it a few times with a re-scan but you can imagine what the ones already in the drawer was like, people don't think anything of them being chipped etc.
 
Summer of Senior year of high school. 2011
I bought a Benchmade Nim cub II or mini Nimravus.
154CM or CPM 154. Don't remember which steel exactly but it was awesome.
Used it for an entire weekend. Then realized my then Girlfriends birthday was soon. Had to return it.
Great little knife and the heat treat was rock solid. Just cleaned the knife and poof. Went back to knife center looking good as new.
 
As a kid I used a couple of my dad’s 1960’s Case XX belt knives. With a Buck 110 on my belt, I didn’t feel the need for a fixed blade of my very own until I bought my Ka-bar in 1995 and carried it across four continents.

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