What was your very first knife

I bought a SOG Fielder a couple months after my 18th Birthday. If I would have known the sickness it caused, I never would have bought it. :D
 
I was about six and my dad bought me a 99 cent Frost Cutlery "tacticool" folder. I beat the crap out of that thing and I have no clue what happened to it.
 
I had a few knives growing up but wasn't really into them. I'm not sure where they got to. The first one I remember buying as an adult was a Smith & Wesson Extreme Ops. I thought it was an awesome $12 knife. I obviously wasn't a member here at that time. :)
 
My grandfather gave me what, at the time, appeared to be a huge folding monstrosity of a multi-tool type of knife. He said he was issued it in the Navy in WWII. He gave it to me in the late 70s. I was 6 or 7 years old. I brought that thing everywhere and used it like it was nobody's business. Back then, you could bring these to school and no one blinked an eye. I used to keep in my school bag. I remember using it for show and tell at school. It was incredibly difficult for my little hands to open all of the various tools. But I was determined and accomplished it. It had wooden handles and looked something like this:

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Image taken from the web.

I don't have it any more. It was at my father's house and lost in hurricane Katrina.
 
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My dad bought this Sharp lockback for me when I was around 6 or7. As you can see ( or maybe not cause a cell phone pic) I spent a lot of time sharping it. I still have it and plan on passing it down.
 
The trusty Barrett Trim Trio I think was my first but my uncle gave me a hobo knife when camping around then. My memory is shot.
A school teacher of mine used to clean his nails with the Trim Trio and was the biggest fan so he was responsible for my first cheap knife. His logic was that they were so cheap there would be no tears shed when it was lost or destroyed, just pull another out of the drawer or spend a buck for a brand new one.
I carried one of those for a long time till I graduated to a Buck 110.
I really miss those simpler times. Ignorance was bliss...and cost me a lot less.
 
My very first knife was a two blade Swiss Army knife given to me by my uncle. Which I think was weird because I consider him to a techy
 
Imperial sheath knife my parents bought me with Green Stamps. That was about 38 years ago and 250 knives or so earlier. ECB1
 
I just dug out my first knife. It was given to me around 25 years ago. It is apparently a Richartz Degen made in Germany.

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My first knife was an old Imperial Barlow that I bought in a hardware store.
 
I got my first knife when I was 7 or 8, it was a Cub Scout knife.
Pretty sure it had 4 or 5 blades and the main blade was a drop point and it had a brass liner type lock.
One of these days I may research it and see how hard they are to get today.
 
My first was a Mini Buck when I got some award in Cub Scouts. I really wish I didn't lose that thing in a move.
 
When I was probably about 5, I found an old yellow Ranger brand stockman out in the yard of my parents' old house. The blades were rusted so bad you couldn't open it so maybe that's why my mom let me keep it. I actually still have that knife. First knives given to me were both a small and micro Case stockman on my 6th birthday. Still got em, will never get rid of em. Doesn't the govt haul away parents who expose kids to such dangerous things nowadays like pointy things and pastries shaped like guns? :p
 
I wish I could remember. I can remember several different knives in my early memories, but I couldn't tell you which was first.

A few friction folders, at least one was a Case I think.

There were a couple of good fixed blades, my favorite had no brand on it. One of the others was a Marbles, I think.

And there were a couple of crappy hollow-handle survival knives.
 
My 1st knife was a Barlow. A Case, I think but really can't remember; It was about 1956 or so when I was about 8 yo . I thought at the time that "Barlow" was all there was to know about it. Dad showed me a 2 sided whetstone and I went to town on that one and many thereafter before I finally got the detail of finesse, about 1980. I left some wrecks behind.

I've got many more tools now so I don't use a pocket knife for nearly the many arduous/foolish/dangerous tasks I used to.
 
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