Your first knife

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Eightleggedfreak

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I am always intrigued with the way folks get into a hobby, especially something like knives. With such functionality and utility they also have major collector appeal. For something like a hobby or collection, knives sometimes strikes me as odd(I mean no body is out there collecting power drills or chainsaws....are they? Lol) but nevertheless here we are selling, buying, trading, and fantasizing about "tools." :) I am a complete nut and I know most folks here are too. So my question is what was it that got you into knives? Also can you remember your first knife? Mine was actually a Leatherman tool I traded a kid my calculator watch for in school. I was 13 I think. It was one of Leathermans first products and I remember feeling like a demigod with unlimited powers with that tool in my hand! Then I got a few Victorinox folders and never looked back!

What is your story? :)
 
My first knives were a hand-me-down scouting knife and then later a red-handled Swiss Army knife of some kind when I was a kid. I wasn't into knives and didn't have much use for them. I have no idea what happened to those. That was 45+ years ago.

Later as an adult I had a couple of knives but they were used as tools and when my job changed they ended up in a tool box for 20 or so years. I've still got those (Buck 110, Gerber Bolt-Action, old Schrade-made slim trapper) but don't use them for anything.

My recent descent into madness was caused by participating on another forum (edcforums.com) which is about a broad range of things. I had been more into guns but those get pretty expensive, and especially about a year ago when the most recent panic set in. So folding knives somehow grabbed my imagination, as both useful tools as well as an alternative and less expensive hobby to gun accumulation and shooting. Sort of a methadone, if you will.

I bought a few different modern folders - Kershaw, Boker, Spyderco, and actually was to the point where I had "enough" and wasn't looking to add any, but I stumbled into the Traditionals sub-forum here and decided to pick up a couple of Case folding knives just to have something socially acceptable. I was instantly enamored by the feel, fit, finish, and type of materials of these old-school knives and that was the beginning of a year long knife buying orgy that has only recently run out of steam, to where I again feel as though I have "enough" - in fact way more than I will ever need.

So right now I am somewhat at an equilibrium and a quandary. I still love and am fascinated by pocket knives, but I can no longer ignore the financial foolishness of adding any more tools to a collection that I could never wear out in 10 lifetimes of use. So I'm just trying to focus on enjoying what I have rather than adding more to them.
 
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My very first knife was an unknown next to the register knife in a store that I got when I was like 7, my friends dad bought them for us and man were my parents pissed when I brought it back lol. My mom was mad that I had a knife and my dad was mad cuz it wasn't him who bought it for me :P I had a fascination with knives ever since and had cheapie gas station knives for a long time but then about 4 years ago I bought a mini Griptilian. I thought spending $80 on a knife was unjustifiable but I did anyways. After receiving it I knew I was in trouble, I had to try out more knives with such great quality. Now a days I didn't even bat an eye when I bought my last Strider. Its getting to be an expensive hobby but damn it I can stop :D
 
The first knife I can remember was a German SAK style knife my grandfather brought over from Hungary when he came to visit when I was 7 but what got me into collecting/accumulating seriously was the Buck Titanium 186 folder, that was the knife I read about and actually researched and had to actively search for it, it took me about a year and a half from the time I read about it in a book till I had one in my hands. The hunt was what got me hooked.

BTW, I got the knife before they changed it,(put rivets in it to replace the screws so people could no longer disassemble it)
 
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