What was your "gateway" knife?

I'm new here, but I'll chime in. It wasn't my knife that sparked my love of knives. It was my Grandfather's old Case yellow handled trapper. Wish I knew where it was now.
 
Buck 112 Ranger with chrome bolsters started it all in 1990. Used it for almost 20 years and I still have the knife but it has been retired.
 
Navyblu said:
Doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, or what your preferences are...there's one thing that unites us all: we (knife guys) are addicts. From the most ignorant of novices (me) to the grittiest of knife vets, our addiction to blades binds us together. So which one started it all? What single knife can you blame for the years of abuse your wallet has undoubtedly endured? I'll be interested to see how many people answer the spyderco tenacious.
Have a good one
-Blu
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Hello all. First post here. Anyway, my first knife that got me into it was a Buck 110 I got for Christmas before my birthday that I got my first rifle on. It was my (gasp!) Sweet 14.
 
When I bought my first car in 2003, stuck in between the seats was a Spyderco Delica in all stainless and with the fully serrated edge. It was ground down quite a bit and had the previous owner's last name sloppily "engraved" in cursive in the handle, but it was still the knife that showed me there's a lot more to a knife than how many blades they can fit in one handle.
 
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Had a lot of crap knives I was fond with but the Buck 103 started my "expensive" and quality knives. Ahh... a Buck.
 
For me I don't think it was a particular knife, but a brand. I had access to SOG and bought a few of those. Then moved on to ZT, benchmade and spyderco. Then...on to CRK and so the familiar story goes....
 
I used knives for decades as tools (e.g., Boy Scouts). But the knife that got me really hooked into this hobby was the Spyderco C-01 Worker in the late 1980s. I've been a SpydieFanatic ever since.

TedP
 
My Dad was/is a knife nut. He's got a drawer full of knives going back 50 years. But even though I had stockmans and the like growing up, the one that flipped my trigger was an Emerson Commander that I won on the other forums. I sold it, but it was too late for me.
 
Swiss Army Knife...it was my first and I've loved knives ever since. However, I just recently had the money to play with "good" knives.
 
Like some of the others I have always had knives. The knife that pushed me from user to collector/knife nut was a William Henry B30 Gentac with a Damascus blade. My wife got if for me for a birthday present. I remember opening it and thinking it was a watch with the wooden box and all. When I took out that knife I was hooked. Must have opened it several hundred times in the first night. That knife will always by in my EDC rotation.
 
It was a Kershaw Skyline for me,........but now the one handed knives have all gone, replaced buy Traditional slipjoint goodness,.....

Kris,.
 
In 1992, as a new USAF 2nd Lt, I bought a Swiss Army Knife (could a USAF officer carry a Swiss Army Knife?). Then I bought an original Leatherman tool, then a first generation Spyderco Endura. At airbase defense training, I bought a Buck 110ish knife with plastic, camo handles. It only got worse from there.:)
 
Mine was a Benchmade Nitrous Blitz. Was satisfied with just that until two years ago, now I'm up to 28 or so with some Leatherman items as well, about 8 of their products.

The Ti Charge is a really nice one, with a good blade on it made of S30V.
 
Mine was a spyderco a looong time ago.,I don't know if they make that model. I think it was around 1984 or so. I had that knife until around 1993 when a policeman took that away from me.


But even before I bought my first spyderco I hung around the store in Santa Monica calif that had it in a display case way before I finally had the funds to buy one. So I guess I was hooked for a year before I could afford one. You could tell by looking at one that Spyderco was just in another world when it came to production knife quality.

Before the Spyderco I had various knives like Buck and even a victornox I bought in switzterland in 1966. So I go way back to the good ol days when we used to bring pocket knives to elementary school
 
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