What was your very first knife?

A 1985 Case pen knife for Christmas. I was 5 and lost it less than a month later. Im pretty sure I left it one of my forts I made on the woods behind our house.
 
CS GI TANTO , and i still keep it .

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Dad was a dairy farmer in south Florida. The first one I remember was a Purina checker board folder that he got from a salesman and gave to me, guessing around 1965. Been hooked since.
 
A pot metal fixed blade with genuine plastic imitation stag handles and a compass in the handle, for my fourth birthday in 1950. I still have it.
 
an off brand SAK tinkerer style model when I was like 7 or 8 or so. Loved it so much but it rusted so fast.
 
To MikeH:

I think my first one was the same knife! Only they had cut down the production cost by eliminating the compass! I'm talking '55. $.99, Right? And I managed to cut my knee with a swipe at a cypress weed the first day! Over the years I have managed to cut myself quite a few times on the first day of owing a new knife. I don't wanna talk about it.
 
A small, probably Imperial or Hammer Brand, slipjoint novelty/souvenir knife from Boldt Castle in New York. White plastic scales with 1000 Islands, NY stamped into one of them. I was probably 10 YO or so. I remember because I cut my thumb on the boat ride back from the castle that is on an island. :p

Nothing bad. Just enough to get my attention.

After that, my first real knife was purchased years later. It was a Gerber LST Magnum Jr. that came in a blister pack with a Gerber Tool from one of the warehouse clubs back in the early 90's.
 
Welcome Crickettwilight, my first knife that I can remember was a German SAK knockoff/copy, my grandfather gave it to me when I was about 9 or 10, maybe 1 each year as I remember losing a few of them.

First real knife I remember buying was a Schrade Old Timer 51OT. I bought it for a work knife and it stayed with me for 30 years till I retired it when Schrade closed their doors in 04? I still have it, I'll have to dig up a pic or take another one.
 
I’m glad you asked that question. I almost posted the multi tool in another similar thread but didn’t.
That gave me time to remember the other, little, knife and include it in your thread.

So
my first knife was probably the little green guy but it actually could have been the multi tool. I started going fishing with my Dad (and actually fishing not just making noise and causing trouble; I remember shopping with him for my rod and reel). Pretty soon we were night fishing and all that meant many cans of Vienna weenies and crackers were being consumed. He would busssout his special cool guy multi tool that you see here folded and in the sheath.

I thought THAT IS SOOO COOL. I want to get one of those when I am a big guy. Then I saw one in a shop window and learned that a person could BUY one. Heck I probably thought such a cool thing was bestowed from on high on the deserving big guy when he got big guy enough.

But here was one in a shop window just waiting for me. After much saving of my pennies, and begging and pestering and wanting to go look in the shop window every Saturday on the way to the construction company’s “YARD” where my Dad would go and take me . . . where the totally hot secretaries were working away and the big guys were all shooting the bull and banging the table about one thing and another . . .

. . . some how or ‘nother I secured a big guy kit for myself.

OHHHHHHH YAHHHHHHHHH
I got me a big guy knife now.
I must have been six or eight.

Dad passed away many years ago so now I have his in the collection as well.

The little green knife seems to say “Imperial Phenolic” under the spot of heavy russssss. . . . er, herumph . . . I mean patina. I can’t make out all the letters.

PS: You know how one pairs wine with certain foods and every thing has to be the proper temperature so as not to bruise the pallet etc (or some stuff like that)?

Well the ONLY way to properly bring out the full complexity and flavor of Vienna weenies is to eat them out side, by a lake, with just a “hint” of smelly old fishing tackle box wafting near by . . . and . . . in the dark with a chill in the air in the light from a Colman lantern just brings the whole experience to PERFECTION. And the accompaniment of Saltine crackers goes without saying.



 
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My first knife was a Camillus Cub Scout knife my parents gave me. The first knife that I ever purchased was just a few years later. A small Boker stockman. I still have it, somewhere.
 
My first was a very small Biltong khukuri gifted by my friend. I still have it under my pillow.
 
First "good" knife was a Buck PBS Crosslock that my dad got me for my 12th birthday to be my hunting knife. Before that I was always messing around with cheapo folders and SAK's.
First "good" knife I ever bought was a SOG Seal Pup Elite.
 
My first real knife was probably an old 007 folder that my grandfather gave me when I was about 10. Anyone remember these?? It was like a 5" blade in a 7" wooden handle and couldn't cut hot butter. Years later I found out that it was specifically listed in the city of NY as a prohibited weapon! Lol oh well!
 
My very first knife?? Cant even remember that far back.

The first knife that was ever given to me was a K-bar leather handled sheath knife that was given to me for Christmas way back when.
Wish I still had it.:(
 
My first knife was a coca cola branded keychain knife shaped like a switchblade. I think I was 5 or 6.

My first real knife was a small Gerber lockback my uncle Gerald gave me. I was around 8.

I remember my Mom asking my uncle if I was ready for something like that. Uncle Gerald just laughed and said "of course he is. Let him have a nice knife to put in his collection".

Yes, I had a "collection" of knives that young. My parents ALWAYS supported it and gave me money to spend on them.

That little Gerber was the one that started me on my path.
 
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I guess that was Buck Woodsman but can't recall the 30 years old memory well......
Being in Japan, I am quite sure though that I was the only teenager having a Buck (brand!) sheath knife in the entire city.
It was a beautiful knife with a nice hollow ground blade and a wood handle with a leather sheath, although I couldn't get it sharp at all back then.
I believe that there was a turquoise line embedded in the handle.
Unfortunately, I lost it, when I moved to the US together with a Gerber high-speed steel knife (Shorty?).

But man, this is a great time now for a knife lover with a huge variety of knives after all.


Miso
 
It was one of three, can't remember which was first, too young. Either a broken tip Buck 110 that my dad was done with, a fake stag handles POC fixed blade that I got from a gun show with the family, or one of those multi blades with the knife/spoon/fork combo. Still have all three!
 
My first pen knife was a discarded pipe knife that belonged to my father. It fell apart from over use. This was replaced by a horn handled ring-pull-lock knife that I got for my birthday while on holidays in France when I was about 12. Maybe a 3 1/2 inch blade. By the time I was 20, it would jump into my hands, blade open, without a thought, the second I needed it. Eventually the lock wore out, and after being stuck in a drawer for a few years, the horn handle dried out and flaked. I was looking for it recently, thinking I might restore the handle, but I can no longer find it.
 
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