What was your very first knife?

If I remember right I think it was a little red Swiss Army knife, the one with the toothpick nail file and scissors. After that I do remember a time that my dad bought my older brother and myself those cheap Rambo style survival knives with the hollow handle full of waterproof matches fish hooks etc.
you can imagine how excited we were to run out into the backyard and start sawing away at branches, I'm sure those knives were as double as a butter knife
 
A 4 blade scout knife, I think. No idea what make, probably an Ulster or Camillus, considering the era. The knife is long gone, it was given to me 55 years ago, when I was 5.
 
This one I've had it over 20 years.
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Mine was a Swiss army knife. Alox, not sure which model. TSA took it away from me. My mom was not happy with me or TSA.

It was in the day you did not need a boarding pass to go to the gate and my Mom was picking a friend up at the airport. Apparently my mom had to "discuss it" for 45 minutes. I was around 8 and had no idea about the rules and my mom didn't think to check what I had since we were just there for a pick up.

First of three I lost to airports because I would forget. The last one was a Leatherman Micro. Took me twenty minutes at the unloading zone to find someone to give it to at LAX. Finally saw some driving a Subie and figured he was practical enough to realize there is no way anything nefarious was in it and he got a freebie from an idiot who forgot to check his pockets before checking in his bag
 
Not sure which was actually first, but both were relatively around the same time, '88 or so;

An old rusty Rambo style knife with a busted tip I found playing at the train tracks as a youngin', cleaned it up with some naval jelly out of my dad's old work bench and chopped everything with it...

And a SAK I believe was a classic, maybe a cadet, can't remember if it had scissors or not, was a gift from my dad, but I sliced my thumb pretty bad that summer stabbing windshields out of my hotwheels, and my mom took it...
 
My very 1st folding knife: Spyderco Cat
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Wow, . . . I got some sleep and looked at your photo again . . . very well done photo.
I'm impressed. Are you a photographer ? (it is painfully obvious I am not). I keep wanting to buy at least a light reflector thing so I can get, at least, an adequate illumination of my subject which I fail to do at every turn now. Phone with a flash you say ? . . . oh that's for all you modern uptown guys . . . I just have my old iPod touch from back in the dark ages. We had no flash way back then "And we liked it that way". Wy I remember walking to school through snow that was six feet deep . . . and . . .
 
Whoa,
There are women in this forum ?
We are not such a dusty, crusty lot after all.
I got to stop saying "You Guys" and such.

Cheers Jill !
(thanks for the photo of your knife; photos of the various knives and sharpening stuff always improve the knife forum for me)
 
My first knife was a 4" Wire jack but soon graduated to a Presto Tooth Pick. I had that Tooth Pick a long time and hid it under the dash of my '50 Cadillac and forgot it was there when I sold the car. I always wondered if anyone found it.
 
Never saw it, so no, but now I'm intrigued, and as a movie lover II now feel obliged and now I am going to have to watch it... Lol...

Strategy was just something my friends called me when I was a teen... We were the "bad kids", always causing trouble, but I was the one who always thought things through and came up with a plan... 8 directions under the sun; (North, South, NW, etc), and 9 to cover the in-between, the direction you didn't expect... Juvenile creation, but it's been my main go2 online alias since modems and dialup, so i just stuck with it ever since... Even 20 years later...
 
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Nice one.
yah about the movie . . . don't expect much but so bad it is fun. Watch the police cars, general body shape, number of lights . . . it's "magic" how they change as they go places . . . or very, very poor editing depending on your perspective.

and lines like : "I'll be in there, and you'll be up there and they will be over there". Or some stuff. You just have to see it to believe/"appreciate" it.

ha, ha, ha it's somethin'.
 
greetings all,
had to be an "imperial" bowie-type in 1962 at 11yrs old. ma bought it at woolworths for all of 1.00, if I remember. made me feel like a regular dan'l boone. can still remember how proud I was of that thing. seemed massive at the time. found one at a show not long ago and can't believe how small it is today. great memories. best to all.
mike
 
jwc1480 said:
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.
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Made in Japan post-war, back when made in Japan was a synonym for "cheap." but, amazingly, the compass still works.
 
This was my first knife given to me by my childhood friend when I was ~8 years old. As I remember it, he offered it to me when I was ~6 years old....my parents made me wait till I was older. I recently reconnected with this guy 35+ years later on Facebook. I'd like to return it to him for his son...I have no kids.

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My first was a slipjoint my grandpa gave me in the 70's. He pulled out a handful of old knives and said "pick one" I wish I had the knife still, even though I have no idea of what it was or what quality it was.

This was the first knife my dad gave to me. Still have it, my most treasured knife.
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My childhood 1972 Buck 309 Companion. Still carry and use it all the time.


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