Your first "good" knife

My first good knife was a Buck 110. It was my seventeen birthday gift from my mom. I carried that folder everywhere and it is now retired. I have over the years collected Gerber and knives from other countries. I now carry two knives, a Police G-10 plain edge and a Remington Trapper with a bone handle.
 
In 1980 My Buddy and I each got Gerber Paul knives with cocobolo handles and carried them for years. I still have mine it's in very good shape. It remindes me of My Buddy who passed away in 1990.


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My family has never been willing to suffer with trash knives, and always tried to go with the best that was readily available. My first lockback was a Buck Squire that served me for years. When I accidentally broke the tip, and my Dad reground it for me, and it kept going (maybe thats where I get my tip grinding tendencies from). I gave it to a friend as a going away present. I haven't seen him or it since, but I hope they are both well.


bYeK(the "b"is silent)
 
Thanks for all the input
I guess I'm not surprised to see so many Buck 110s. I think it still is a good knife and the finger-grooved model makes it even a bit more comfortable. Although I'm partial to the Buck 112 (Ranger) myself.
Besides leading the way for lockbacks I think those early Bucks also created the market for Zytel handles. I remember being delighted when you could finally get a lockback that didn't weigh as much as a Colt Python.
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Doc
 
Gee, Doc, I didn't really bring up "details"... I could though if you think people might be interested.
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Brian
 
My first knife was also a Buck 110..I still have it but the blade is a bit thinner from years of sharpening. Because this was my first knife I felt the auto conversion was a must have,so I got it. Boy is it heavy.

Nick

 
Gotta be that Buck 110, Igot mine in about 1981. If you didn't have one you just didn't fit in. Hard to imagine teenagers carrying 110's at school these day's, sad state for sure.
 
Serrated G2 Delica I bought in 1992 or thereabouts. Got it for $25 at a gunshow. They only had serrated.

About 18 months ago, when I was forcibly removed from the diving community, my intereste in knives rekindled and exceeded it's previous degree. Been downhill from there!
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CLay

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First good knife was my old Buck 110. Then I got out of the knife buying business for a while, till I had to have a Spyderco Delica. Its been downhill from there!!
 
Well, like many so far , my first good knife was a Buck 110. I was fortunate to get one way back when I was in the seventh grade.
But I really liked the Bucklite that I got two years later better than the 110. I still have the Bucklite , but not the 110 ! The bug didn't really bite me till I bought a Spyderco Endura a few years ago.
woody
 
The zytel handle, the clip, the serrated blade and the round hole... Spyderco Endura got me into this. That was almost three years ago.
 
a small Camillus folder which, unfortunately, I no longer have. I do remember having several swiss army knives as well. Cut the hell out of my leg with one of them as a youngster, whew did I ever, OUCH!
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"That which does not kill us makes us stronger"

Erin
 
My first "good" knife was a Spyderco Delica II. It is still one of my all-time all-around favorite knives.

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Win
Knife lover, Philosopher, Humanitarian, and All-around nice guy
(all right, so I'm just a knife lover)
 
My first knife, which I think is a good knife. is a 3" bladed fixed carbon steel blade, with a 3" "stacked leather" grip, and a "pinned" silvery metal pommel (aluminum?). It comes (came) with a tooled leather sheath. On the blade, near the guard. it asys:

W E S T E R N
Boulder, Colo
Made is U.S.A.

My Dad gave it to me when I was about five or six, and showed me and my brother how to sharpen. He felt it was safer than a folding knife. I still have it, and love it. I used to take it camping, but I've sharpened it so many times over the last forty years or so that it's starting to look like a filet knife, so now it sits on the "Shelf of Fame" in my bedroom. I don't know what it really is, but I've always called it my "Little Woodsman".

But the knife that turned me into a moden "knife knut was the original Cold Steel Tantos. I had never _seen_ such "tough" knives, and after carrying an old Mini-Tanto (and using it to do _anything_), I was hooked. I knew knives are "good tools" and that I should carry one at all times.

Thomas

(I'll have to take a picture of that old knife and post them!)
 
As I have said elsewhere on this board, my first "good" knife was a 6" Randall Hunters Bowie that I bought in 1961. The price was $25 and my parents were horrified! I was 18 at the time and my previous knives, while OK, were not in that class.
 
My first good knife was a Wenger Ranger SAK, a gift from my stepfather a few years ago. The knife that got me hooked was my first knife, which was a Taiwanese survival knife with hollow handle and compass and all neat "survival-stuff". Many friends of mine had similar knives, I guess those were the "110's" of my generation
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My two bits,
Jani
 
My first good knife was a CRKT zytel lockback. I tried to buy it, but wasn't of age at the time, so bought it through a friend. I still use it, good solid lock, and nice, if soft, blade.
Aaron
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[This message has been edited by amacks (edited 02 February 1999).]
 
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