What was your first slipjoint pattern...

My first slipjoint, nay, first knife, was a no name knife I got at a swap meet for 5 bucks or so in the late 80's. It was SAK type, with swirled brown and yellow celluloid scales. It also had a ~two inch pen blade, a pair of scissors, a dedicated nail cleaner (not integrated with a file or anything...it looked kind of like the spatula you see on the SAK Mini-champ, only longer), and another blade, maybe a screwdriver or cap lifter. It was a piece of junk, but it was a prized possession. I haven't the slightest clue what might have happened to it.

I also had a fishing knife that was sized roughly between a Buck 110 and a Buck 112 It had plastic Mother of Pearl handles, a long clip blade, and a fish descaler/hook disgorger. I never descaled a single fish with it, but I did pretend that it was a saw when I was younger. Like my earlier POS pen knife, this one has been lost to the annals of history.
 
I used to borrow my mom's Vic Camper from her purse, but she never let me run off with it.

The first knife of my own I can remember was a Camillus stainless US-marked scout-pattern issue knife I bought myself when I was ten or eleven years old. I lost it a few years later somewhere in the woods.

Jeremy

Edit- I still like SAK's (mostly for the corkscrew and tweezers), but scout patterns haven't really captured my attention yet. I have a rusty old Camco somewhere I need to clean up and use a bit.

A tremendous part of the appeal of the Camillus was that it was "official military issue."
 
my first knife was a slipjoint, but it was not carried much really, twas too heavy... a SAK knockoff, rather nice one with walnut scales... but it was like 5 layer, and I was 7 or 8... too heavy!

The next slippie I had was a small stockman, but I never carried it, so i don't count it..

Honestly, I say trapper was my first, because it was the first one that left the house with me more than 3 or 4 times...

As to stayed with it? I did for a while, I EDCed a trapper, and then its replacement as my only knife for about 1.5 years total, until I discovered the moose... now, every time I start back to a trapper, I end up with the moose... With the same blades, and size, my preference for the stockman or equal end frame wins out.
 
A Boker 2 blade Jack. I am 61 yrs old and got the knife in my early teens. It has redbone grips and is hair poppin sharp. I feel fortunate to still have it. I also had a Camillus Boy Scout knife but broke the blade playing mumbly-peg.
 
My very first pocket knife was a cheap Imperial barlow. One of those made in the 50's with the crimped on metal shell scales that fell off in a month or two. My grandad bought it for me with the deal that if I didn't loose it, or break it, in a year's time I'd get a real knife for either Christman or my birthday since they come close together. He was a man of his word, because I kept real careful watch over that barlow, and come Christmas dad gave me a Camillus scout knife. I carried that scout knife till I was 19, left it home when I joined the army. My son is carrying that knife today.
 
First slip-joint? well I guess the SAK's may count but the first I liked enough to carry,and still do,was about two years ago-stainless Douk-Douk.

I find myself eyeing the French Laguiole knives now......
 
I believe it was A camillus but certain it was scout pattern - got it when I was about 8 or 9. Had until my junior year in college had kept in my the glove box of car until the car was broken into one night. My then girlfriend's mother bought me a SAK Climber to replace it which has been my glove box knife since.
 
My first knife, first real knife, was a Barlow given to me by my Dad. I had that for many years and in fact gifted it to a nephew a while back.
 
My first was a cheap Imperial barlow with carbon blades. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I still have it, but the cheap plastic scales are starting to shrink and curl a bit. The blades have developed a wonderful patina and are in great shape. The snap is as good as it ever was- it was probably a $5 knife back in the early 80's- so it's nothing to write home about. It's one of the most important knives in my collection, purely for sentimental reasons.
 
My first was an Old Timer 12OT, it had some heavy patina on the blade and an older friend decided to clean it up on a grinder and over heated the blade. My then finance, now wife, gave my a Camillus 881 pen knife while we were engaged that I still carry in my suit coat when I have need of dressing up.
 
The stockman and for the most part yea. My first knife was a small Imperial Stockman I found it the back yard while playing when I was 7 yrs. old.
 
The first one that I was aware of was a pen-knife with tortoiseshell scales(badly cracked with a piece missing showing the brass liner underneath)very worn down 2nd blade and a deal of patina(wouldn't have known the word then but it wasn't rust, a grey blackishness instead:D)

It had been laying around the house for years,neglected in some drawer with all sorts of other fascinating bits&pieces that I aged 8 chanced upon.Allegedly it had been grandfather's pipe reamer and general pocket knife but he died years before I was born, my brothers,uncle and father were born in the house so it was full of stuff from a bygone age(even had loads of old brass gaslights piled up in the cellar, from pre-electric days, a real treasure trove for a small boy!)

Eventually, it vanished in a move but I've always remained partial to a slim pocket knife: The Slimline Trapper, Queen Utility, CASE pen-knife,Böker pen-knife are all much liked knives.:thumbup:
 
My first knife was one of those Camillus camp knives that were stainless and said "US" on the side.
 
My first knife was a single blade pen knife with Davey Crockett on it. Of course, I was only six years old. Now I carry a Case medium stockman and a Spyderco endura.
 
The first knife I remember was my Cub Scout knife, it was only used at the meetings. The first one I bought and used to any extent was a Case medium stockman 4318. I got it when I was in high school. I loaned it to my Dad when we were working calves and when it came back, the main blade had been broken. I would like to find another like it someday.
 
The very first knife I got was a Case of some description. All I recall is that it had yellow handles, but I'd wager it was a small stockman or trapper. I lost it, sadly. And then I got a SAK when I was in the Scouts, but I have no idea what went with it. I do still have the first knife I bought with my own money, though.

James
 
not necessarily my first knife, but the first one I managed to hang on to for any length of time... a 9 dot that I carried just about everyday from 2nd grade up until high school... still tote it every now and then. :)

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Mine was a little chrome plated, three blade TRIM knife. I "acquired" it from my dad's dresser, and it made a perfect parachute weight. He later found it stuck in a tree, and from the sound of his voice when he found it, I thought I was going to die. He took it back, gave me washers to use as weights, and that was that. (I think he actually growled at me too. Maybe that was just a six-year-old's imagination.)

A little while later - a few months or a year? He gave it back to me to keep. I took it everywhere, and got it loose to the point that it wouldn't stay closed anymore. I miss that one.

thx - cpr
 
My first and still one of my favorite was a Case bone moose.
From my granddad still have it. Second is the trapper pattern.
still love the patterns.
 
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