Where It All Began...

jideta

jideta

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Knives have come and gone but I still got one of the originals that started me off down this expensive road:

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I don't even remember when I got it, but I think it was a new model.
Spring broken so long ago, I forgot it was an assisted blade.
I can't reference the time, my guess is 10 years or so ago.
I have older knives, but the Emissary is one where I was conscious that I had started 'accumulating' knives.
Most of those original knives have come and gone; I would have sold it too if not for the broken spring.
So I just keep carrying it as it is the only folder I have in that size.

So where did you begin?
Which one started it all?
 
jideta said:
Knives have come and gone but I still got one of the originals that started me off down this expensive road:

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I don't even remember when I got it, but I think it was a new model.
Spring broken so long ago, I forgot it was an assisted blade.
I can't reference the time, my guess is 10 years or so ago.
I have older knives, but the Emissary is one where I was conscious that I had started 'accumulating' knives.
Most of those original knives have come and gone; I would have sold it too if not for the broken spring.
So I just keep carrying it as it is the only folder I have in that size.

So where did you begin?
Which one started it all?
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First expensive knife I bought was a ZT0700 many years ago at a local gun store. I had loved knives since I was a kid, but never spent more than $20 on a knife. I saw that 0700 at the gun shop and couldn't stop thinking about it for days. I ended up pulling the trigger on it, I think it cost $120 at the time. It was all down hill from there.
 
I started to work at construction site so I decided I want a knife, I went to the store and got a Recon Tanto in SK5, partly because woman working there spoke very highly of it, and partly because it was one of the cheaper knives they had.

That knife made my job easier, I was mainly using it to cut pipes, plastic sheets, scrape and so on...
I also remember that plastic utensils would be melted despite the fact our food was cold by the time it arrived, so I was regularly washing it and using it to eat with it.
I used it to cut large hamburgers in half before eating them, to eat more like a gentleman. Or lto cut arge pieces of lasagna or to cut up entire roasted chicken.

I really liked it because of the size. It was my actual work EDC for a while, there's no law about blade lenght here, you just have to be able to justify the use of it. And nobody was even bothering to ask a dirty construction worker about his knife that's on a toolbelt next to hammer, pliers, screwdrivers and so on... it was obvious why I'm carrying it.

It was dark period of my life, and that knife made it more bearable for me.
 
Most expensive knife I've ever bought is a SK Blades Buck SFO 110 with a CPM154 blade. Just under a C note.
I'll never spend half that much for a knife again.
For one thing, I was forced to retire three years ago, and lack the required funds now.
Second, there are plenty of sub $20 knives that will do everything I've ever needed a knife for during the last 60 or 61 years. :D
Third, I have more than enough knives to last the rest of my time on this planet (unless I'm a freak and live to be 600 or 800 years old) that I don't need to buy another one. I probably will buy another one, just because I like it -- not because I need it.
 
Blown away when I first saw this knife, around 2000. Don’t remember ever hearing of Spyderco before. Prior to getting the POLICE, I had carried the Case Canoe for over a decade. Stockmans before that. Texas Toothpicks and Barlows as a boy.
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I got a Milwaukee fast back knife. Then decided to upgrade to a Kershaw tone (academy exclusive). Then a cryo and cryo 2, and finally, the one that really got me started, the spyderco tenacious. After that it's been a whirlwind and I'm up to Hinderers as my most expensive. Also getting into fixed blades now, mostly Beckers.
 
GB940Rookie said:
Blown away when I first saw this knife, around 2000. Don’t remember ever hearing of Spyderco before. Prior to getting the POLICE, I had carried the Case Canoe for over a decade.
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thinking hard about an older police...kinda hard to find in good shape
 
My very first knife was a tiny folder (like the keychain swiss army knife) souvenir from Mt Rushmore. I think it was lost before we got back to the motel.
 
My obsession with knives started in 1969. I bought a stainless steel folder that could be opened with just one hand, very quickly. It was a Gerber Paul knife, very technical and well constructed, designed by an aviation engineer. It was my fidget knife for many years. Eventually I purchased a German parachute knife. Then the Spyderco family appeared and I have been carrying their knives for many years. My current EDC is a Spyderco Gayle Bradley ver. 1.

Show & Tell -- Gerber Paul Knife: A Legend in Complication - YouTube

Gravity Knives - YouTube

Spyderco Designer's Insight Series: The Bradley Folder - YouTube
 
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