Your first 5 knives...

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What were they?

I'm curious as to which knives sparked your interest early on in your addiction, lol.

Has your taste and preference changed since?

Do you still EDC any of these?

Here were my first five:

1. Kershaw Cryo
2. Spyderco Persistence
3. Ontario RAT model 2
4. Kershaw Skyline
5. Spyderco Delica 4

I still frequently carry the Cryo, RAT 2, and Delica 4.

My taste hasnt changed too much, however i am starting to get into the $100 plus knives.
I now also have a Benchmade mini grip, Spyderco Paramilitary 2, and a Spyderco Manix 2. So I guess what has changed most for me is the weight of my wallet lol. I still pretty much love all of my first 5 folders, each for different reasons.
 
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A little SAK
Cutco 1891
Spyderco Byrd Meadowlark 2
Ontario Rat II
Esee Avispa

The only one to survive is the Cutco which is the one that actually sparked my sickness. All the others are victims of a purge in favor of better knives like a Grip, Mini Grip, 943, DF2 Salt and a Steel Will Cutjack.
 
Various Buck knives and SAK's when I was a kid. Once I got a little older, a hollow handled Kershaw I ended up with. That equals many more than five, but I don't remember the various Buck models.
 
I am older so I was into knives before the modern tactical knife came along with pocket clips and one hand opening. I remember my first tactical knife was a Spyderco Hunter (circa 1983) but it took me years before I started getting into other tactical knifes.

Then the internet came alomng and...

Then I found this site :( Been in trouble ever since. ..and not just with tactical knives but traditionals, autos ect
 
My first knife was a small Case. I can't tell you for sure what the next four were but as a small boy they were either Case, Buck or Barlow
 
Colonial Coyote at 6 years old
Case 6252SAB at 8 years old

Between 10&12 years old
Schrade fixed blade skinner
Schrade Imperial lockback
Some Paki made dagger I won at a carnival booth.

As a kid I didn't have any idea what knives were out there, so anything I could get my hands was pure gold to me.

Now I have a modest but growing accumulation of Spydercos, and refining my tastes to commission a couple of nice fixed blades. In addition to forging a dozen knives of my own and humbly trying to learn the craft of a bladesmith.
 
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I had a number of SAKs as a kid in HS I had a Leatherman all those got lost and/or destroyed, I think I have the Leatherman somewhere but not certain, then I found a cheap Schrade working a job in retail. I also got an Old Timer sometime from someone and then my father had given me a CRKT Swindle.
 
My first five knives after the scout knife I carried as a teenager were
Gerber Gator
Beretta lw one handed folder
Buck Strider Tarani Police
Buck Strider 880 sp
Spyderco Endura zdp.
 
Just of recent years. My first pocket knife was a dime store multi-blade about 45 years back.

I had a Cold Steel knife for years that was partially serrated and then some of the teeth broke off. I went to my local knife store and they carry a few good brands (no Spyderco?? , lots of Benchmade (but no Griptilians??) Kershaw and ZT) and more.

After about 30 minutes of checking my options I came out with a (1) Benchmade Mini Barrage. Mistake. I hade gone in looking to by a Kershaw Leek, but got upsold to the Mini Barrage. Nice knife, but I did not want an assisted opener. Sold it.

So the search continued. Next stop was a (2) mini griptilian with the Spydie hole I ordered online. Great knife, but now I was hooked on shopping for more.

Next came a (3) regular mini-grip in 154. Great knife. I still carry it from time to time.

Stepping up to Spyderco I ordered a (4) Native 5. in G10. Love the solid feel of the knife. Love to SS back spacer. Love the click of that lockback.

The buying continued. Then a (5) green aluminum Benchmade 940. Love it. carry it often.

After that it all becomes a blur.

The traditional fever hit. 6 or 7 GECs. Northwoods. SFOs. Some small ALOX Victorinox Ramblers and Mini Champ. The Mini Champ is always on me.

More Spydies. More Benchmades, another Spyderco. Some I gave as gifts to family.

Now I have fixed blade Arno Bernard Meerkat waiting for pick-up in Titusville at my Hotel this week for the GEC Rendezvous.

No end in site.

,,,Mike in Canada
 
My first 5 knives were:
1- A cheap copy of a buck
2- SAK victorinox Spartan
3- ZT0350
4- Spyderco PM2
5- BM 943

Still have the SAK, 0350 and PM2
The copy
Of buck has been lost something 30 years ago :)
I am thinking to sell the 943 sooner or later
 
My first was something (I think a conventional slipjoint) that my father brought home to me from the Glynco NAS base exchange when I was about four years old. At least, that's how I have reconstructed the story based on my mother's tale of going into the back yard and finding me with my friend Richard playing with our knives, our hands "covered with blood." (But you know how mothers exaggerate that kind of thing. ;) )
Probably the next one was a boy scout knife.
A friend of my parents gave me a Western L66, which I still have, and also some other nameless fixed-blade knife that I still have but which has been ruined by being stored in a home-made sheath.
For number five, I also recall as a young boy having some kind of "fishing" knife that had a blade and a descaler/hook remover. I don't know where it came from or what happened to it.
 
Schrade 34OT stockman
Schrade 33OT middleman jack
Vic classic
Leatherman micra
Buck 425

Those were my first 5 real knives ( not counting flea market crap ), but my first legitimate edc was a buck 425 + a leatherman micra or a buck 482 + leatherman fuse
I still own them all, and besides replacing the worn out 425 with a 283 I still Carry the ones I did as well as started to really carry the ones I didn't much as a kid.

When I first started to really edc as a teenager I was all about modern type stuff and it was the micra + 425 combo with my latest flea market one hander, now I have mostly gone traditional because my needs and tasks are very basic and I don't see many new moderns I like.

If I hadn't joined this forum I'd probably still be carrying my Buck 482, but seeing all of these beautiful traditionals sparked my interest in them and once I was gifted an imperial Barlow I fell in love with their practical functionality and ease of carry.
 
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Impossible to say what the first five were, since I got them as presents when I was a kid. It was long ago, most were no-name crap so it's not like they'd reflect my preferences anyway.

The knives that got the addiction going are as follows.

BM grip
Kabar USMC
BK16
Spyderco Delica
Mora Companion
 
I'm one of the old guys nothing fancy when I was a kid you had a Case, Buck, Schrade or if you were really lucky a Victorinox.
 
First was a souvenir from Mt. Rushmore. Tiny little folder. Then probably a sak for scouting. Then some 440ss rambo/ninja knives from the swap meet. Didn't get into higher end stuff until later in life.
 
First one was a camillus with a ti linerlock, vg-10, fake carbon fiber, and the flimsiest clip I've ever seen. That one is in the woods somewhere.
Next one was a Kershaw leek that I gave to my sister.
The third one was a spyderco stretch in superblue, which I still occasionally carry.
My fourth was a Benchmade mini Ritter. I lent that one to a friend a while back, probably should ask him about it...
My fifth was a spyderco ppt. I sold that one, kinda regret it.

Not that you asked, but my sixth and seventh were both spyderco's; a mantra and a pm2. I sold the mantra, and I've been edc-ing the pm2 for about a year.
 
My first five were barlows, electrician knives & scout knives bought at the local hardware store in the 1950s. I doubt any of them cost over 50 cents. I thought they were long gone, but while cleaning out my Mom's house after her death a few years ago, my son found a cigar box of my old knives in her attic. Evidently, when I "lost" a knive, it was really picked up by Mom & put away. I gave the whole box to my son.
 
Trying really hard to remember here...

Benchmade Barrage and Kershaw Blur were the first two, got them almost back to back. Next was some truly awful Leatherman pocket knife. What a turd. 4 and 5 were a Surefire Dart and a Kershaw Skyline that I found at a gun show cheap.
 
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