Whats your most sentimental knife

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My first knife was a Kamp King, purchased at age 12 when I joined the Boy Scouts. It was my only knife for the next 15 years until I gave it to a girl friend, who promptly lost it. Not long after, I replaced it with a Swiss Army Knife, a much better EDC, but without the dings and scars from the KK that gave it character and sentimental value. Decades later, I reminisced about it to a good friend, a guy I knew since high school. Months later, he presented me with this replacement that he had found at a flea market for $1, a thoughtful gift for which I reimbursed him (always pay for a knife gift) and put it away in my keepsake drawer. Just recently, my friend died, and now the Kamp King does double duty, both as a remembrance of my youth and of my dearly missed pal.
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Awesome, the shell construction imperials are excellent EDC blades and I've got a jackmaster Barlow in my pocket right now,
Btw it's also a sentimental knife because it's what really got me into carrying slipjoints and was also a thoughtful gift from r8shell on the porch.
 
I like'em all but the F series has always been a favorite. The heavier handles makes the feel easier to use for fine work, IMO.

What and where is the actual stamp on your F48A? Mark and pile ricassos? Ricasso and guard marked? Just Mark side ricasso?
 
The SAK my uncle gave me over 20 years ago(1st knife I ever owned)
Pretty much a safe queen now:)
 
This personalized Case Trapper my wife got me years ago. It's being carried so much you can barely read the inscriptions on the blade. The scales are so worn that the engraving is almost smooth and non existent. It still gets pocket time but it doesn't get used hardly at all anymore. I was going to put it up as a keepsake but she got pissed at me. IMG_0444.JPG
 
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- My First Victorinox. It's the small 3" model with a single rounded tip blade with a bottle opener/screw driver.

I gave it to my son when he was eight years old - back in the day when I was still his hero.

He's now 16 so I've been replaced by football, girls, and his iPhone/iPad (not necessarily in that order).

He's turning out to be a great young man and I'm super proud of him but I miss the days when he was just a kid. Looking at that little knife reminds me how special our father-son relationship was and it brings back a lot of great memories.

It was also the spark that lit my knife OCD condition so it's now surrounded by Hinderer, CRK, Olamic, ZT, and the other usual suspects. However, if there was a fire and I could just save one knife I'd grab the little red one with the small cross on the handle.
 
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The summer I was 10 years old, 54 years ago, I spent 2 weeks at my grandparents and helped my grandfather put new fencing around his pasture. We did everything from cutting down some locust trees, making post out of them to setting them and stringing the barbwire. Hard work for a 10 year old boy but when we were done my grandfather gave me a ten dollar bill and a brand new Colonial Barlow. To my eyes that was the finest knife I had ever saw but I ended up breaking one of the covers off of it throwing at a tree and my dad took it from me. Dad passed away not long afterwards and I forgot about that old knife. Decades passed and I lost my mom so being an only child it was left to me to clean out the old home place. Of the several things I brought home was my Dads old tool box that somehow got stuck behind a shelf in my basement. A few years ago I spotted that old toolbox and opened it up. Laying right on top was my Barlow so I sent it to Glennbad and he brought it back to life in stag.

AS I FOUND IT.
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AFTER GLENNBAD BROUGHT IT BACK TO LIFE
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I do have two in my safe that are sentimental:

Both are Emerson CQC-7 BW , brand new that I acquired with a bit of calling around to see who has NOS. One has SS blade with a 2012 date stamp (daughters birth year) and the other one has a black blade with serial # range that places it in 2016 mfg (my son's birth year) as they stopped dating blades after 2014. They will each get one of them when they are old enough.

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I also have an old fixed-blade Puma hunting knife. Mine has wood inlays, my father has the exact same one with antler inlays. He had his for as long as I can remember and he was visiting a house of a close friend who passed away and found 'my' knife hidden behind a radiator as he was attempting to turn it on. He took it and gave it to me... so it means a lot knowing my father jacked it for me from a dead man ;)
 
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well, not exactly a knife but a Multitool.
I went on person to bring my old, beat up leatherman Surge (old model) and the Leatherman Juice XE6 (also discontinued years ago) to the warranty department that the company had in my country (Spain)

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As I entered the building, the staff informed me that Tim Leatherman himself was present in that same building doing a conference press.
They kindly offered me to meet him and show me my well used and worn tools that I carried on me and he had designed. I of course got very excited and went there to meet him.

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The staff introduced me to him and he insisted that I used my tools like he intended them to be used, and offered me to sign them. He engraved both tools and chatted with me for 20 minutes (he is such a nice and clever person) and then my tools were repaired, touched up and their worn implements changed.
I was as happy and excited as I can remember being in my entire life. What a surprising day it was!

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This Cadet is a gift from my Dad and it is the first knife I owned.

By the way... Are all knife boxes of lower quality than they used to be? The above box is from 1999.
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This box is from about ten years later and it is less substantial with very thin
paperboard. Of course the knife is what truly matters but I noticed this and thought it may be interesting.
 
I have an old Kershaw folder that used to cry every time Sandra Bullock was on the screen. :( Got very tedious :rolleyes:. That was my most sentimental knife :thumbsup:.

OK OK I'm being an AHOLE - for the fun of it - just how the OP's question struck me. :D

The knife that evokes the most sentiment from me is my very first real adult knife that came wayyyy too late in my adult life - my Foliage Green G10, VG-10 Spyderco Endura. Still a great knife and in my user rotation but semi retired. This knife started me into "good to great" knives and how I found my way here to BladeForums.

Here with its cousin:



Cheers, Ray
 
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zzyzzogeton said:
I like'em all but the F series has always been a favorite. The heavier handles makes the feel easier to use for fine work, IMO.

What and where is the actual stamp on your F48A? Mark and pile ricassos? Ricasso and guard marked? Just Mark side ricasso?
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Riccasso and guard, which I believe you informed me before would be '68 -'72 ?
 
ThePeacent said:
well, not exactly a knife but a Multitool.
I went on person to bring my old, beat up leatherman Surge (old model) and the Leatherman Juice XE6 (also discontinued years ago) to the warranty department that the company had in my country (Spain)

wiLB76A.jpg


As I entered the building, the staff informed me that Tim Leatherman himself was present in that same building doing a conference press.
They kindly offered me to meet him and show me my well used and worn tools that I carried on me and he had designed. I of course got very excited and went there to meet him.

Jfv8Xhu.jpg


The staff introduced me to him and he insisted that I used my tools like he intended them to be used, and offered me to sign them. He engraved both tools and chatted with me for 20 minutes (he is such a nice and clever person) and then my tools were repaired, touched up and their worn implements changed.
I was as happy and excited as I can remember being in my entire life. What a surprising day it was!

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Wow thats fantastic
 
Before my Mom passed away in 2014 she gifted me a little knife that my Dad gave her when they were dating. They liked to go bowling and this was a Hammer Brand JM-45, acrylic scales shaped like a bowling pin about 1.5 inches long. I found an old catalog with the knife listed for a whopping 25 cents new (early 1950's). The knife is priceless to me, showing the undying love they had for each other being happily married for over 60 years. Dad passed on 3/1/16. I really miss both of them.
 
Mine is my zt 0620. I had my eye on it and was trying to sell everything i had to buy it. And since i just had graduated high school my father bought me it as a graduation gift. I almost never leave the house without it
 
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