What was your first woods knife?

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mneedham

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My son and I were messing around with an SAK and a Mora 780 that I gave him and I was thinking about how he will look back on these blades when he is older. When I was growing up in rural NC, I had an Imperial Wildcat Skinner, one of those USGI all-steel folders with the can-opener, a Buck Stockman (I broke the tips off a couple of the blades and carried it anyway) and I also recall having a barlow pattern with black delrin-type grips. When I was 8 or 9 I got a Sharpfinger and a Buck FB (it might have been the Pathfinder model, but I'm not sure). The Buck had a black leather sheath with the flap that folded down over the grip. I carried those blades everywhere and did a lot with them. Sadly, I don't have any of those knives anymore, but I still do carry an old Imperial Wildcat Skinner (and a Sharpfinger sometimes..) that I bought some time ago out of nostalgia. What were your first blades? Do you still got them?
 
I had a set of Kamp King knives: pocket knife, hatchet, and fixed blade. I still have the hatchet around here somewhere. I used then for years! Got plenty of hard use in the woods near my house. I built so many debris huts, cleaned many fish, and destroyed legions of vampires with them. Got them around age 8 and they were the envy of my little friends. Thanks mom and dad!
 
my first fincional duo was a puukko that my grandpa made and a schrade 8OT. In the begining there, I also had a can opener knife that I used for the knife, and I had a rambo knockoff that I used for a little while :D
 
My first real woods knife was a Grohmann no. 1, followed shortly by a no. 4 survival knife. I still use these knives, and I find them hard to beat in terms of form and function.

All the best,

- Mike
 
That all steel, USGI pocketknife was known as the "Camillus" knife by my Dad, Special Forces guys referred to it as a Demo Knife. My Dad must have bought me three or four of them, I don't even remember how many.

The Kamp King from Imperial! A Camillus Cub Scout Knife.

The Camillus Demo Knife and the Cub Scout and BSA/GSA knives along with the Kamp King are very similar patterns.

Whenever I could "borrow" my Dad's Case pocketknives. I still have his two.

All of these I grew up with and later on, Buck 110 folders and various fixed blades, etc.
 
I first had a GI pocket knife, then a Boy Scout knife, but the biggie for me was a Marine Ka-Bar that my dad gave me. I beat the holy living heck out of those knives (and cut myself, too -- but I learned). Those knives were replaced by others over the years, but I wish I had those three back for sentimental reasons.

I've been carrying a pocket knife for well over 50 years, and owned a number of other knives, too, but they're not the ones that my dad gave me.
 
Not really sure it would be considered a woods knife, but it was a Buck 110, as I loved it because of its heft. I actually found a hollow handle knife when I was young, but I don't remember ever even bringing that home when I did find it. :o
 
Wow, I don't even remember, I'll have to go to my storage unit to check (yeah, I'm new to knives). Did Craftsman used to make knives? - I know they made (or contracted for) decent straight razors. The first knife I bought for myself - under supervision - was a Buck Hunter (3.5"?) in the late 70s/early 80s. Cool thread. :thumbup:

Edit: Ooops, I didn't see "woods knife"....never mind.


Jordan
 
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My first knife that was truly mine was a Vic Ranger that my dad gave me for Christmas when I was young. I closed my hand in the saw a couple of times and my brother skinned the pad of his finger off with the blade. It was my most cherished possession until I gave it to a friend when he left for his mission to Brazil.
 
my first pocket knife was a frontier three blade from walmart about 15 years ago(made in ireland, not china). my first fixed blade was my dads old buck(not sure what model, close to the pathfinder)both were awesome and both were gifts from my dad.
 
It was around 1962 or so. My dad gave me a US Marine bolo machete for my treks into the swamps and marshes around Beaufort, SC. That knife and my GI "Boy Scout type" pocket knife were all the cutlery I needed for camping on the little islands around there.
 
my frist woods knife was a benchmade rant great knife then i got a camillus bk-7 this i strap on any time i go out my back door.love the bk-7.
 
An old carbon steel butcher knife my grandmother was going to throw away, that I put an edge on and kept for years.

Unless you count the "Rambo" survival knife when I was about 5. Which was one of the things that got me into the woods to begin with.

So I guess I had two.
 
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