Whats you knife history?

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Pietje010

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We all like knives and there as many reasons way you like them. But when did you knife enthusiasm start and what was your first knife you bough or received? Folder and fixed!

I bought my first folder ten years ago when I was 12. A Vic Budget-Camper, beat the crap out of it and it still works flawless. The knife I learned my basic knife skills whit, the hard way by lots and lots of finger cuts. I got to love it ;)
I bought my first fixed on a holiday in Finland. J.Marttiini 10 inch hunting knife (a bit like the Buck 102), a very good outdoor knife but I only used it a few times (sentimental value).

The knife madness started around a year ago am ever since looking for THE ONE, not to expensive, OUTDOOR knife. From a, cheap but not useful, Ontario SP2 and Glock 78 till a CS kukri machete I now use the BK7 and a Mora for fixed and the Vic OTH for folder (and the new LM Wave for EDC).

Like the BK7 and Mora a lot but the in-one-knife-combination of those two is on its way, a SRKW Howling Rat ! Probably that is what I always are looking for….me and my wallet hope!

So whats you knife history? list them and tell us the why and when!

(Maby this topic is already around, if so let me know!)
 
I grew up with my Grandfather. He always carried a pocket knife and it never failed to get my attention when he used it. He worked out of our house. My first knife was the blue Cub Scout knife in 1972. I was hooked from there. By the time I graduated High school I had probably bought/lost/sold/owned and or gave away 50 or 60 knives of varying Asian cheapness. My best knife to then: Schrade LB7. These were the days of 'Beau and Luke Duke'. During and after college I collected Case knives. Then came the Edge Company...auto Heaven. By about the mid 1990's it became strictly automatics. :)
 
All the men in my family carried a knife. I grew up down on Marylands eastern shore in a family of watermen. I got my first pocket knife sometime around 7 or 8 years old. It was a barlow knife like most carried then, about 1949 or 50.

I've always had a pocket knife or two on me ever since.
 
My first knife was a small fixed blade knife made for kids that my father bought at a hardware store. I was probably about 6 or 7 , I lost it pretty quickly and he replaced it with a slightly larger one with a compass in the handle. I don't know what happened to that one either.

I bought my own first hunting knife , a generic German fixed blade with a stag handle. These were common in the early 1970's.

My father and mother bought me a Case stag handled Shark Tooth Folder for Christmas when I was about 16 or 17, my father said I should at least have one good knife. That one I still have.

I Pretty much spent the next 30 years buying whatever production knives caught my eye. I bought my share of junk too...

My favorites ( other than the Case knife) are knives from Buck, Benchmade, Gerber and Camillus. I own other brands too, but I seem to prefer the four I mentioned.
 
I started carrying a pocket knife when I was about ten. It was the old "Black Cat" the German thin lockback that was famous in the 1970s. I still have it and it was great. I have brought a few thousand knives since and have a large collection as it has been a hobby for over 35 years now. I recently found a dealer with the old Westbury Sales line still new in the box and bought about 25 of these.....they are not quailty as they are the 1970s Japan models, but the memories.......
 
I grew up in Oregon at the age of 5 my father gave me a little 2 bladed pearl handled slip joint. I promply cut myself whittling :rolleyes:, a few bandaids later and the stick was sharp LOL. I eventuly lost that one and a couple more. At 7 I recieved a case 2 bladed Texas Jack with carbon steel blades. I took good care of it so I still have it and cary it once in a while it's a great knife. Bought, traded and sold a lot of sharp things since then.
 
My Mom got me interested in knives when I was like 7 years old. I belive my very first knife was a Buck knife. And I have been hooked ever since. i have also carried and collected a knife ever since.
 
Men in family have always loved knives. My dad taught me with a Boker scout knife and his fixed blades. Most of my hobbies from an early age required the use of knives.

I can't really remember when I got my first blade, I seem to have always had one. My dad kept a few "loaners" in a drawer and I was allowed to use any of those, but my first personal knife was a SAK.
 
This is going to date me. I grew up during the late 50's/ early 60's, when
there were six or seven war surplus stores in town. Me and my brother and my friends would go to these places and buy stuff like gas masks, gun belts and holsters, dummy grenades, etc, all the better to play war with.

Once we even got one of those four man life rafts and took it to the local duck pond. The one thing will all bought were Mauser 98k bayonets. Very cool looking, not very sharp, but cheap. Usually 1.50 or 2.00 dollars apiece.

After that, with growing older we all looked at the Westbury ads,and I believe one of our group got that black cat knife mentioned above. I also had several pocket knives, usually the "Electrician" model, A SAK, and one marine knife with a folding marlin spike.

Now I'm getting back into the hobby, and I still like the long fixed blade knives. I must be reverting to the days of my youth.
 
As far as I can remember I was only 5 or 6 when I got my first pocket knife from my father, while we were on a holiday in Czechoslovakia. It was a very simple one but I loved it :)
The next one was a fake (Chinese :D ) SAK. Later butterfly-knives were my favorites, and I got a couple of Muela huntig knives too :) But I was 20 when I bought my first "serious" knife, a full-serrated Spyderco Police.
 
The first knife I rember getting, about about 7 years of age was one of those with screwdrivers, awl, blades, fork, spoon you name it. It was huge and all my friends thought it was great. Lost that one and had a few slipjoints and a SAK before getting a Spyderco Delica back in the early 90's. In the last 2 1/2 years I really got into knives and have several Spyderco's and about 4 fixed blades with those numbers always changing.
 
My grandpa would bring me one now and then when I would see him so I always had some and liked them, its been so long I don’t recall what any of them are but they were all folders. Recently I’ve just gotten into them more since my best friend started telling me about some he had, since then I have been slowly expanding my collection and have come to appreciate them more.
 
My first knife was a Kamp King, purchased with paper route money at age 12. That was my only knife for the next 15 years, during which time I carried it every possible day until impulsively giving it away to a girl friend, who promptly lost it. I replaced it with a Wenger SAK, don't remember which model, that eventually fell apart and was replaced with a Vic Swisschamp, carried for the next 20 years and still in EDC rotation. During all this time, I had no interest in knives as a topic, let alone hobby. I carried a knife for utility, period. Because of this, I couldn't imagine why anyone would choose a pocket folder with blade only when in the same package you could be packing a bunch of tools.

In 1996 I became aware of multitools, which I thought was a majorly cool idea. Because of recent access to the internet, I started doing research among the various offerings. I wound up with a Leatherman Super Tool and, in the process, developed a fascination for knives and bladecraft.

Fast forward: I now own 14 pocket knives, including 3 Spydercos, and I check Bladeforums every day for infromation on blade steels, knife design, maintenance, product opinions etc.

The point should be obvious. :)
 
My grandfather was a knife knut, as is my father. My first knife was an Ulster scout knife that my parents got for me in the late 60s. At about the same time, I made my first knife purchase, a PIC stag handled fixed blade. It has been a downward spiral (at least for my wallet) ever since.
 
Like most peoples fathers my Dad always carried a knife, his favorite was a stockman style folder. My first knife that blew me away and started my hobby was a Rambo Style surival knife my Dad ordered for me off the TV, over 20 years ago. I've collected and had a fascination for blades of all styles and sizes ever since.
 
Continuing my tread, here is my list:
- Victorinox budget Camper,
- Wanger Ranger,
- J.Martiinni Lynx knife 129,
- Leatherman New Wave,
- Ontario SP2 Air force survival,
- Mora carbon whit wood handle
- Glock 78 Field knife, ColdSteel Kukri machete, S&W boot knife in one mail order,
- Victorinox One Hand Trekker
- Mora stainless plastic handle,
- Becker BK7,
- Mora carbon plastic handle.

And around 20 of pour quality knifes, especially a lot of folders.
 
I got into knives when I was less than 4 years old. My mother was terrified to see me playing with a kitchen knife on the back lawn. So they took it away from me, but I would keep stealing it from the kitchen. My dad solved the problem by grinding off the edge and rounding the point and let me keep it. I was told that I was always facinated by anything shiney back then.
Since then little has changed, 20 years ago I caught the knifemaking bug and mastered the art of fine polishing (what a dirty dangerous chore) and still love that mirror glow. I am basically adicted to knives and can't go anywhere without at least one. Usually I carry 3.:D. Then there are the knives that are within reach in every room of the house and two more out in the pick-up truck. There is no such thing as too many knives.:thumbup:
 
My dad was a butcher as was his dad before him and his father before him, my mothers father was an arc welder/farmer he made his own edged tools I saw them all used on a regular basis, I got my 1st blade at age 5 an old bayonette blade with a false edge about 7 in blade 5 in full tang 2.5 in false edge, when I got it out of my grand fathers out bhouilding it was being use to stir paint. Its edge was duller than a butter knifes. about 3 years later after many Sunday sharpening sessions it was sharp enough to cut my finger to the bone without me feeling it (I was wiping off the wire edge with a paper towel at the time it went thru the towel and my flesh and the only reasn I noticed it was a drop of blood on the towel) the cut sealed and I havea nice scar, had the blade till I was 12 years old when somone stole it out of my parents car. Still wish i had that one. learned to throw knives with it and use it for all kinds of things the only hande it ever had was a lot of cloth athletic tape wrapped around the tang.
 
My grandfather collected old knives and he gave my my first little lockback when I was six. I still have it. I stayed interested in them (just looking at photos) and carried my cheap Buck ripoff lockback that I got later everywhere until it finally died. I saved up all my money to buy a Buck 560C when I was like 10 I guess (which I still have). After that, it tapered off, until Samurai Dave here gave me a little Lightfoot urban shark. Not too long after, my grandfather died and I inheireted half of his collection. Then Samuraidave and I went to the local super gunstore and I saw a Benchmade 921 Switchback and had to have it, but didn't have anywhere near the cash.

I took trig a couple summers ago and it took every single hour of every single day to make an A (I'm not especially talented at math). So I'd get up at 7, go to class at 8, get out at noon, study till 12:30 at night and go to sleep. I started to lose my mind with nothing to look forward to. That's when I got on bladeforums and started ordering knives more seriously, just because the weeks it took to get to my house gave me something to wait for and a reason to get up the next day and hope there was a knife in the mail.

It's tapered off a little since then, but the more time I have, it seems, the more interested I get now.
 
Was given a Case Whittler Patter (I think) at age 8 by my Grandfather. Been downhill on knife obsessions ever since.
 
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