What was your very first knife

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My first knife was a keychain fob knife (like the one pictured above), which I won as a prize for playing skeetball at Coney Island when I was 5.

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My first was a "Camper" model SAK that my parents gave to me when I was 5 or 6. (When I started backpacking.)

I bought myself a Gerber Paraframe 2 last spring--my first locking folder. After using that quite a bit a a boy scout summer camp, I decided to buy a Kershaw similar to one a fellow boy scout hade. The rest is history, as they say.
 
SAK Explorer I bought as a kid Still have it almost 20 years later. Perfect condition. My first modern style folder was a Kershaw Leek I bought in 2011 when I began my additiction.
 
Camillus USN knife, the multi-purpose stainless folder (sometimes called demo, sometimes utility -- I think the model number was 1070?). I finally wore out the spring and replaced it a few years ago with a USMC model.
 
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Mine was Gerber Sportsman (I believe it was II model?).
It was given to me in late '70s by a company that my father had busienss with.
It was actually a promotinal item with company name engraved on the brass portion of handle.
I had it until late '90s but somehow lost it.
I wish I still have it.
 
SAK! .. put a nice 4 stitch gash in my middle finger with that one. Never looked back (lol)

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My first was a Gerber Ultralight. I picked it out of the stores knife case when I was about 12 years old. I had it until I was about 16, and lost it. At 25, I have gotten a few new blades to replace it.
 
Mine was a knock off SAK.

Next I was given a used up Old Timer by my grandpa, and when I was about 8 a local man gave me a Case Hawkbill after I did a good deed that involved his niece. I had the Hawkbill and Old Timer until my 18th birthday I left my trailer I had recently purchased vacant and moved up North to work as a Painter. I left in August, and when I returned in January I found that thieves had busted out part of the back door and carried my sentry safe out. It only had 3 knives (worth less than 60$ combined I would presume) and about two dozen lighters (bics, not zippos lol). The safe they destroyed cost more, and the damage to the door cost about 4x as much.

I would have liked to have had those two knives back though. Some things you can never get back.
 
My aunt bought me a Benchmade 707 Sequel when I was 13 or 14, but I've since lost it. I think a 'friend' of mine stole it. I really miss it. It is considered by many to be the perfect EDC, and it had real sentimental value also. Oh well.
 
Reading the first few posts about fathers bribing their kids, I thought about when I was really little, 4 maybe, and wetting the bed occasionally.... yes a bribe, but no knife. It was a candy bar! :D I bought my first knife around 6-7 years old at the 5&10 store. It was a little bitty Imperial with multicolored green scales that I thought was cool. In a couple of years, I moved up to a larger Imperial (pearl scales this time) and finally bought myself a Case Barlow probably when I was around 9 or 10.
 
Victorinox Classic SD on my 9th birthday. It was a gift from my parents. My dad has always kept one on his keychain and he got me one to match his. The first knife I bought myself was a Victorinox Recruit about a year after I got the Classic. I lost the Classic at some point over the years, but I still have that Recruit (although I haven't carried it since I was a teenager. Nowadays, my SAK EDC (I always have a SAK in addition to whatever other knives I'm carrying) is an Explorer.
 
Mine was a small, two bladed folder made by the Electric Knife Co. that was in business from 1866-1906, handed down to me from my grandfather when I was 10. I carried it for a couple of years and lost it, of course, when I was field dressing my first deer. I was too excited to remember the small things and too young to be trusted with that responsibility.
 
When I was about 10 years old my step-dad gave me a small fixed blade. It was a knock-off he had won in a ring-toss game at a local traveling carnival. The blade was about 3 inches long, ground like a dagger. Some bright orange opaque-ish plastic scales with an animal resembling a deer carved in the middle of it. If you looked at the blade from a side profile (from the edge) it was shaped like a parentheses. )

Great first knife. Don't have it any longer, can't remember what I did with it. I used it for everything though, it was a prybar / hacksaw. Couldn't cut a piece of paper to save my life, but it was awesome.
 
My second was a multi-tool Boy Scout knife that practically needed an adult thumbnail to pry open. I lost it too but forty years later I still carry a scar on my knuckle where I cut the snot out of myself with it cutting a sapling to make a fishing pole.
 
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