What Was Your First Knife?

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VorpelSword

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Mine was a Boy Scout pocket folder. I do not recall the maker. It had the usual four tools, blade, punch, can opener and cap-lifter/screw driver.

Don't remember what happened to it. Later on I had a similar Boy Scout pocket knife, but it was in stainless steel and had a Philips head driver tool as well. Don't know what happened to that knife either . . .life happens.
 
The first knife that I bought back in the early 80's as a young teenager was an Anvil brand stockman, made by Colonial. I loved that thing, cut myself with it of course. I lost it somewhere, assuming it slipped out of my pocket along the way. I have always wondered what happened to that knife.
 
Dad gave me some little spare slip joint pen knife he kept in his parts sorting box. Might've been a 2 blade. I'll never know the make, but the badge on the pale yellow scales said Washington D.C. I gathered it was some souvenir he picked up on one of his bike trips. I was just shy of 10, bet I lost it before I turned 12, somewhere in the creek or woods. I didn't want to tell him. I'm sure now that he already knew.

Embarrassingly, I think the first knife i ever bought with my own money was a bayonet knockoff out of the Smokey catalog. I had a small collection of maybe half a dozen "normal" knives by then that I either won at the fair or traded for, so of course, I needed something weird. It's junk. I still have it. I remember being so disappointed when I opened that turd after waiting on the mail, but since I never bothered to put an edge on it, out of spite, it became my favorite letter opener.
 
My first knife was probably some ozark trail from walmart. My first entry into the more expensive knife market was a Spyderco persistence with the 2.75" blade. I had to get that knife because my job had some stupid rule where blades had to be under 3 inches it is now under 2.5 inches so I have to use a civivi baby banter or a mini kabar dozier.
 
A little Mora type FB in a flimsy leather sheath my folks got me at a Wisconsin Dells souvenir shop, if I recall. Lost somewhere along the way, alas.
 
Believe it or not it was this:

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My dad brought it back from WW II and it was the only outdoor type fixed blade in the house. I carried that big knife as a skinny little kid hiking, camping and just playing in the woods of western Pa. I kind of beat the heck out of it, not realizing what a valuable artifact it could have been. I still have it!
 
There used to be an Argentine brand called "Biselcorte" , quite popular here in the '70s (it closed in the '80s), they made fixed blades and folders. Some were pretty good, others not so much. Usually copies of European patterns. Anyway, my grandad bought one just like the one in the picture and handed it to kids in the family as their first knife. We learned to use it and care for it. I come from a rural area of my country, where everybody walks around with big fixed blade knives, so it wasn't unusual for a child to have one.

My brother has it now, since he's the youngest on that side of the family.

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My first NIB knife was a SAK.
 
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