Who turned you into a knife lover?

My dad. He always had either a Case or Western trapper in his pocket. Used it every day and they were retired when there was not much blade left due to his somewhat aggresive sharpening :)
 
Im a third generation Carpenter I grew up Knowing tools and a knife was just one more in the tool box. Also my Grandfather owned a hardware store for 30 years and he was a dealer for Case. So I would get to see all the new case models every year and get handed down dealer sample knives and tag along to trips to the PA factory in Bradford. It was a nice bonding trip with my grandfather and he would tell me about his time as a B-17 Pilot in WWII. So I will always have that connection to knives. I'm also a believer that we as man evolved with cutting implements and we are all born with some primal understanding and need for a edged tool.
 
My little brother and spyderco.

He bought me a Tenacious for Christmas last year and have been hooked since.
 
My step Dad. He was in the Army and always had a cool folder in his pocket. I also remember his Ontario M7 bayonet, I thought it was the most bad ass thing I'd ever seen. When I was 12 he got me a Victorinox Climber and I've carried a knife ever since.
 
my dad got me my first knife at a gun show before the 1st grade. not sure how old that is, 3, 4?.... i was told that a man is not fully dressed without a knife. there have been very few times in my life since then that i havent had at least one on me. if i pat my pocket and dont feel it then something is wrong.
 
I remember when I was a kid I found a small generic SAK in the woods or something. I showed it to my father and asked if I could keep it. He looked at it and not until he sharpened it.

As a kid I was thinkin' what the heck? My dad will only let me have it only if its sharp! He explained it to me but at first I could not wrap my head around that one!
 
I've always enjoyed knives, but most of the ones I saw via family members were not so great.

I think the EDC site http://everyday-carry.com/ is what really kicked off my exposure to better knives, and then I found BF, which is the best/worse thing to ever happen to my credit cards. :D
 
My grandpa always had a knife in his pocket. When he needed it he would pull it out and use it and I wanted to be just like him
 
My Dad. He used to bring home work knives that they used to cut string, bags, cardboard, ect...They were mostly hooked blades that had been roughly touched up with a steel too many times. I don't know what happened to most of them, but I still have an old boker he handed me one day and said "don't cut yourself". I still have that one 40 years later and dozens of knives later. I also have the one knife I bought him. It was a case sodbuster that he carried every day until he had some major health issues and passed shortly after.
 
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I got this Cub Scout knife when I was about 7 (40 years ago). I remember going to the store a getting it along with the rest of my uniform. Funny that back in those days, us kids were expected to wear your uniform to school on troop meeting days and carrying ones knife to school was expected. The Scouts didn't end up being for me, but I've carried a pocket knife every day since then. I also have great memories of setting with my grandfather and watching while he sharpened my pocket knife for me. I can also remember on more than one occasion, when my grandpa made it to Church only to realize that he had forgotten to shave that morning, so while seating in the car he would pull out his pocket knife and shave dry while using the rear view mirror before we went inside. We also cleaned a lot of fish and game together with our pocket knives, so I guess it was he that turned me into a knife lover.


Thanks Papa!
 
78LilRed said:
No one in my family likes knives, won one at a fair as a child throwing rings. It was game over from then on, still have that knife too.
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Same here. They act like my knives are a waste of money. Waste of money?? Pssht.
 
My dad and I worked in the yard a lot as I was growing up, so we had lots of tools we used all the time. The knives always had a draw for me though. I would go camping and loving using my Swiss Army knives everywhere I went. I guess I turned myself into a real knife nut though, I remember always going straight for the knife section of stores whenever my parents would go shopping!
 
Mother Nature did it. I was driving a tractor slowly thru a dark orchard when a thorny berry vine hung me and pulled me away from the controls of the tractor. I had no easily reachable one-hand-opening knife and hung there for a tense moment until the vine broke. Got a Spyderco, Emerson Endura, shortly thereafter. Better to have a knife and not need it than to need a knife and not have it.
 
Feels like I've been drawn to it all my life without much influence. My family were only into guns, just looked at knives as tools, nothing more. When I was young I always had SAK's. Throughout my youth there was plenty of balis, tacticool chinatown knives, swords passing hands between me and my buddies. I just got into higher end/branded folders two years ago, it kinda sucks that noone I know are into these like I am though.
 
Human dna made me love knives.

I think it is a primal instinct for humans to love edge weapons.

I think Mike Snody said it best in he How to Make a knife flick.
 
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