What was your very first knife

R.c.s

R.c.s

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My dad gave me mine when i was about 6 it was about a 2" bone handle with a dear carved on it i thought at the time it was the best thing since sliced bead . I lost it when i was about ten and i wish i had't . So what was your first knife and do you still have it ? Ps please feel free NOT to coment on my spelling
 
R.c.s said:
My dad gave me mine when i was about 6 it was about a 2" bone handle with a dear carved on it i thought at the time it was the best thing since sliced bead . I lost it when i was about ten and i wish i had't . So what was your first knife and do you still have it ? Ps please feel free NOT to coment on my spelling
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Very tiny no-name pocket knife, I think I was about 6. My dad used it to bribe me into using my crutches in church that day, which I was self-conscious about and did not want to do.
 
Bedlam 8600 (my first serious knife)

a chive from my pop as a non serious knife as I think it got lost the same day I got it.
 
When was about 7yo, looked like a buck 112 but was a brand called SHARP. I did a little research because I wanted to buy another of my first knife and found out was a kmart brand. I LOVED that thing.
 
Damn...memory lane. My first was a copy of a Buck 110. Found it at my grandma's house and fell in love with it. She was cool enough to let me go home with it. That thing was beat up, dull and rusted but I was so proud of that knife. I must have been about 7 or 8 so naturally I lost it after a few months. Bummer! To this day I still look at 110s, but never pulled the trigger on one.
 
Mine was a no name lock back that my dad gave me. My brothers got the same ones as well. I must have carved at least 25 little canoes with that thing.
 
Swiss Army knife all day. I think it was my fathers "camping" model from the 70s or so. Had about 6 tools in it. All got used at one time or another.
 
SAK. Don't remember which one, but I got it for Confirmation. Honestly, I was disappointed! I had no use for the thing. Then I tried to sharpen it on the electric kitchen knife sharpener and burr'd the point. No idea what happened to it. I'd like to have it now, though.
 
As for many people my age there was only one thing we all wanted, and which I got for my ... oh well, I think it was my 10th, not sure though ... definately somewhere betweek 9 and 11 (1986-1988) ... Birthday:
The famous Viktorinox Tinker! ;)
 
Looked just like this one, still have it.

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IMG borrowed off net.
 
The first knife that I bought for myself as a teenager (rather than gifts of SAK as a kid various of which I lost) was a Buck 102 (4" blade) which I had for 18 years until my car was stolen (car recovered but contents cleaned out). Of the knives that I still have I've had my Spyderco Native II C42 SS for over 13 years now.
 
True Value used to have a big bucket of Imperial Barlows and a big yellow-scaled folding fishing knife, for a now unheard of $1.99, right next to the Case XX display. I got the yellow knife and my little brother the barlow. At the time, I remembered being jealous because his had two blades and mine had one and a scaler/disgorger, although the main blade on mine had to have been 4". We were probably 10 and 8. The yellow knife made all the sense in the world once I started fishing with the older kids that summer, though. You had to be a certain age, or boys being boys, you didn't get to come along. I distinctly remember me singing "The barlow Bunch" instead of "The brady bunch" to my brother to torment him that he was stuck with the kids with "little pocketknives". I'm glad you brought this up, I had forgotten all this. I may have to call him later and sing the song, he's due for siome fresh annoyance from big brother. :D
 
My first knife was given to me about 40 years ago by my granfather, a stag handled hunter/skinner by York Cutlery. Still have that beauty, although it does need some tlc at the moment.
 
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