What was your gateway drug?

17 tool SAK when I was 5 years old and my dads Hibben Rambo III with custom leather sheath is what did it for me. been fascinated ever since.
 
Mtech.

I know, but they were inexpensive, and I didn't yet understand that there was a difference. It was actually a good way to get into knives: for less than twenty dollars, I could pick up anything that looked interesting to me, and decide what I liked.

After that was Columbia River Knife & Tool. Maybe not a long step up, but the quality difference was huge, to me!

I still have a few CRKT's but all the Mtechs got sold/traded or given away (mostly given away). No, wait, there's that one. I think it's only one.
 
a boy scout knife about 1970 ish and momas old hickory butcher knives and my granddads knife don't remember the brand, just know that I did not get it as promised by family...
I would love to have some of my great granddads knives as he made them in his own blacksmith shop
 
panzeron said:
I seem to be on the same path as you . Mine was also spyderco , specifically the paramilitary 2 . Even though I have a sebenza and umnumzaan a strider on the way . I'm also planning on getting a hinderer xm 18 soon .. I also have a couple zt's . My love for the pm2 hasn't diminished. It's an incredible knife and at its price point it's hard to beat . At some point in the near future I'm gonna examine and trim my collection down to 5-6 knives . That's gonna be difficult because I love them all ..
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I am not finding trimming down as hard as I thought I would. As my interests shift to other brands, I am finding that I am just not carrying certain knives in my collection at all. That said I am glad to have them as they are easy to trade or sell to feed my current addiction. In short, although I don't collect any super expensive knives, my focus is shifting to quality over quantity.
 
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I was given a Cold Steel Recon 1 by my brother-in-law, and I loved how solid it felt. I started looking into the forums and liked reading about different knife makers and steels.

Luckily, a bunch of my stuff got stolen on an official trip with my work, and I had renters insurance and got a huge payment. I bought some nice flashlights, a Dragonfly II in ZDP and an XM-18 (quite the entry, right?).

I loved it and had read so much about Chris Reeve, so I had to try one if his knives too, so I bought an Umnumzaan and then went out from there. Now I have to save for months and months to buy new knives, but deciding what to spend my money on, and waiting for new releases is half the fun.

It is a great hobby.
 
I'd owned a few crap knives before, but my father bought me this for my 18th birthday.

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Kershaw 1050, 35 years ago...

It was all up hill from there. :D
 
bld522 said:
Swamp Rat. I was looking for a bullet-proof camp knife and stumbled into a review of the Camp Tramp by Cliff Stamp. That was quickly followed up by featherstone45's famous Jeep extraction story (http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/289315-Hello-everyone) and I've been a Busse fan ever since.
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Yep; remember both of those: D.

Grew up with knives in the woods of Minnesota, then some time in the Navy with my Buck 110 always on my belt.

Broke a few K-Bars, SOGs etc. in SAR...:o

Was working with Greg Davenport when he got a Camp Tramp; super impressive!
Got one of 'em, then the Ratweiler came along, and have finally landed on the Fusion Steel Heavy Heart as my do-all be-all SAR Knife.

Also came across Bill Siegle's knives that fill other niches...:thumbup:

Good stuff!

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Milk.... oh wait knives.

It would chris reeve that brought me into the hobby world of knives. Before that, I wasn't into folding knives too much, just chef knives.
 
As a kid - Buck;
As a young adult - Spyderco;
Nowadays - Bark River.

Just keeps getting better...
 
I started out with a couple of cheep kerahaw's from the pawn shop. Then a tenacious and it went downhill from there.
 
A leather handled K-Bar that was a gift many, many years ago.
Wish I still had that knife.
 
As a kid I owned Saks and random slip joints but then I tried this company that carried knives with large but comfy handles, a big hole in the blade and a weird little spider "bug" on it. It was a good company.
 
Had Victorinox Swiss Army Knives since I was a kid but a Buck 112 was what made me flip to the knife side. Then a 110, then it was all over.
 
Spyderco Native, a gift from an ex. I had previously known about Spyderco and Benchmade, because my uncle had used a Spyderco Police in his service and some family carried Benchmades. But what brought me here, and really started my interest, was the Spyderco Native. Actually, the ex came here to research what would be a good gift before I ever visited this site. Currently I own 3 modern knives: that Spyderco Native, that I can't get rid of for superstitious reasons, a Spyderco Titanium Fluted Native 5 given to me by my brother, and a ZT 0561 with a white g10 frag scale. I will probably sell the 0561, and plan to buy a Gayle Bradley 2 once they're out. So yeah, I still buy them.

Edit: Not that that was my first knife. She gave it to me because I had lost my Caly 3.5 while orienteering, and I'd had Victorinox Saks as long as I can remember.
 
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