who gave you your first pocketknife?

The first knife I was given was from a family friend when I was about 10. It was a small black plastic handle lock back made by Camillus, I think.

But the first knife I ever had was a small bait knife with a serrated blade and black plastic handle that I found on a dock. I was about 7 and made a cardboard sheath for it. I still have both of them somehow, almost 25 years later.
 
My first knife was a knockoff SAK from the dollar store that my older brother bought for me when I was about 8 or 9. I remember I sliced my thumb open within about 12 hours of having it! it was so cool to me at the time, it was my most prized posession. I couldn't figure out what half the damn tool bits were for at that age, but that thing was my trusty companion haha
 
My Dad bought me my first knife when I was a cub scout. It was a blue handled slip joint that had the cub scout wolf on the handle. I had that for a long time but lost it somewhere a long time ago. I wish that I still had that knife....
 
My Brother, when he came home from the Navy, brought me a 4 blade Imperial Knife, I was 8 yrs old, right away I cut myself and my Mother took it away from me for a few years. I still have that knife and cherish it.
 
Maprik said:
My Dad bought me my first knife when I was a cub scout. It was a blue handled slip joint that had the cub scout wolf on the handle. I had that for a long time but lost it somewhere a long time ago. I wish that I still had that knife....
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The first knife I EARNED was one of those cub scout knives. Sold a metric crap-ton of popcorn to my neighbors and family to get it. I remember promptly closing it on my finger on the ride home from the awards ceremony where I got it.:p

I lost that a LONG time ago. However, I did inherent my father in law's old Eagle Scout knife from 40+ years ago when he passes away. It was found just sitting in a drawer and my brother in law didn't want it. It was well used. I cleaned it up and keep it safe in case my BIL or his son ever want it back. Neat old knife.
 
My grandpa gave me my first knife. Ill never forget it.....and I still have it. One of the old carbon boyscout knives.
 
Hi there, this is my first post. Seems appropriate. My first knife was a blue Cub Scout knife, some time in the 80s. Like this one:

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Myself. I found an old beat up lockback in the park one day. Still have it. I'm not as old as some of you gentlemen, so naturally my first knife isn't as "traditional" The handle used to be black
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My dad went to France and brought me back an Opinel. Got me going on knives that did. I must have been 6 or so.
 
As I remember, my mom took me to the flea market and I bought a small little SAK.. I could totally mistaken on that, but that's as far as I remember.
 
It was a cheap $5 barlow I got from my mother, back in the mid 70's. I I bugged her for months till she finally gave in. I was about 7 or 8 yrs. old.
 
I cant remember exactly how old I was, probably 6 or 7, but my dad bought me a Victorinox Ranger. I carried it with me everywhere, except school of course.
 
:cool: I honestly cannot remember being given my first POCKET knife, but I do know that my father encouraged me in camping and outdoor activities. He was an Army officer as I was growing up, so I remember being given a Solingen steel sheath knife with a deerfoot handle (we were in Germany at the time) when I was about 10 years old, as well as a German-made knife and hatchet combination.

He brought me a Scandinavian pattern sheath knife made in our ancestral Norwegian village once, and I still have it to pass on to my own son. I know Dad also had a hunting knife with my grandfather's initials carved in the sheath, but I know this was lost on a trip to the beach. My own son has been given several pocket knives, including a large lockback when he was sent to Iraq in the Army Medical Corps. So, we keep a tradition of passing things down in the family. My cousin has already been gifted the Japanese Arisaka bayonet my father brought back from World War II. Perhaps someday I will inherit the double-edged theater dagger made for my father in the Pacific as well as the electricians knife that was probably issued to him during the Korean Conflict.

Now that I read these forums and am more aware of the history of knives, I hope to pass on some of my knives to my own children and grandchildren. Faiaoga
 
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little sister. vic pocket pal when I was, oh, seven or eight.
 
My Dad bought me my first knife as well. I sure wish I could find it. With all the moves between college and home and my own place it somehow got lost over the years. I wish I could find a new one to buy but no such luck on that one either. I have this feeling I will find the knife way later in life in a box somewhere though so there is still hope.
 
My dad. Don't know what kind. It was a single blade litte pocket knife. He told me to always carry a pocket knife.
If my mom would have let him, my brother and I would have had machete's. But then what would you expect from a hand-to-hand combat Guadalcanal Marine : ) Semper Fi
 
Got mine in the Cub Scouts, either from a raffle or for becoming a Bear Cub. Not sure what the make was, but probably something local from central Texas. It had one spear point blade, a can opener, a corkscrew, and a two pronged fork. Probably pinewood or mesquite. Wish I could find it. You never forget your first.
 
When I was little (5-6yo) I will have nightmares sleeping....there's a saying from where I'm from is to place a knife under your pillow or above your head...that's why you see some people (culture) have knife hanging on the wall above the bed head board...

That's when I got into knife...my mom got one for my nightmares!!!
 
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