What was your first knife

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Ferahgo

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My first pocket knife was a victorinox, Swiss army tinker.
First fixed was a Buck Nighthawk. Amazing piece, signed by Chuck Buck back in '09.
 
I believe it was a Gerber Mini Paraframe or a Victorinox Swiss Army Classic SD
The first fixed was an ESEE Izula
 
A Frost Cutlery "Flying Falcon"
Found it in 1995 at Montauk State Park under a bridge while attempting to trout fish with my great grandpa. Still have it to this day! It fit better in my hand when I was 12...
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C'mon. I'm old. I don't remember what I had for breakfast today.

My grandfather gave me my first knife when I was a kid--a long, long time ago and another galaxy from the world we know today. It was assuredly a low priced slip joint popular at the time.
 
SAK Victorninox Huntsman, 1977, without the "package hook," which it didn't feature then. Lost at sea, August 1985.

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First sheath knife (no one said "fixed blade" when I was a kid--any knife was either a "sheath knife," a "pocketknife," or in the case of the 110 Folding Hunter and its ilk, a "lockback" or occasionally "Buckknife") was a Hackman puukko, Tapio Wirkkala design, purchased from Leichtung mail order catalogue in 1983. First knife I bought with my own money. Still have it. It's my best bird and trout knife. I've since bought another in mint condition so I can have one for "museum" purposes. I'll see about getting a pic of it up later.

Zieg
 
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I'm pretty new to owning and collecting knives...it started last Christmas with a Kershaw Blur tiger stripe blade
 
My first knife was over 40 years ago, it was some sort of small pen knife, I want to say it was a Schrade Old Timer. The first Fixed Blade I remember was my Gerber MK II that cost me a whopping $35 out of my first paycheck at the Camp Lejune PX in 1979.
 
A chinese knock-off of a Swiss Army Knife, I thought it was the coolest knife in the world. This was back before internet so I did not know what I was missing out on
 
Imperial "KampKing" scout pattern folder (as if it needs introduction) 1962. Fixed was a made in Japan Cheapo Bowie knife 1965. regards Henry
 
Camillus Cub Scout, 1973, Vic "Explorer"(I think), 1977, fixed: Russell Canadian Boat, (with my initials engraved & from the AGRussell catalog), 1977-8, Handmade: stag Randall 8-4, 1978, all down hill from there.
 
I got a Canadian centennial knife for Christmas in 1967 from my grandparents. I had just turned 8.
 
My first was a USA made Imperial M7-s Survival Knife. I got it when I was 5, and I still got IT, along with two of its twins :)
 
It was an old German SAK style knife my grand father gave me back in Hungary when in was about 10, before that it was one of those key ring Trim Trio knives you could buy in the rest area bathrooms on the interstate, they used to sell them in the machines for 50¢ next to the balloon machines :rolleyes:

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Schrade of Walden Stockman on my 10th birthday in 1958...everybody in the family had a Schrade because I had an uncle who worked there.
 
I got a $5 springy keychain multitool when I was really little. After that, I got all sorts of knives like Winchesters and Gerber. I've always liked knives.
And then Christmas time was coming and I asked my parents for a Cold Steel Mini AK-47 and it was all downhill from there.
I joined the forum and started finding out about all the different brands and steels and here I am.
It took me a while to get some "forum etiquette", but I'm learning. :)
 
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