Your first knife

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If you're like me in that you enjoy reading about everybody's first pocket knives, here are links to a couple of similar threads:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1240360-Your-FIRST-POCKET-KNIFE-as-a-kid-Show-em-if-you-still-gott-em?highlight=first+knife
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1152768-Your-first-pocket-knife?highlight=first+knife

Here's what I posted almost 2 years ago in the thread in the first link:

I got this Colonial Forest-Master around 1960 when I was 8 or 9. I carried it every day on the dairy farm until I left for college in 1969. Used it to cut a LOT of baler twine from bales of hay and straw; whittled wiener sticks and apple slingers and little shims and "guns" and "knives" and cars and boats; carved initials and other important messages; opened bottles of pop, cans of paint, grease tubes for the grease gun, oil cans; drove screws and pulled nails; bored holes in belts and milking straps; just generally used (and occasionally abused) it almost every day, and I don't remember ever cutting myself, at least not badly!
(The bail in the picture is not the original; I lost that somewhere in life, and made the one that's pictured out of an S-hook I bought for toilet repair.

And then, although I always knew where that knife was (usually in my desk drawer), I rarely used a knife and never carried a knife again until last January! At that time, my wife happened to show me a knife (see below) she thought she probably got from her dad after he had carried it for years and then replaced it. I cleaned that old Imperial up and decided I was going to start carrying a knife again, and see if I could find some other old knives I could "rescue" and use. I soon ran across BladeForums, and now I say, "Hello, I'm GT, and I'm a knifeaholic!"

Thanks for starting an interesting thread, Brian! Your first knife is looking good after your TLC!!

- GT

Here's a recent pic of my Forest-Master, which I've been using a LOT recently, for some reason (despite bowed springs and horizontal play in the main blade):

- GT

 

[navihawk]

I remember when I was about five or so,(I don't know how&#128563 I had a rubber dagger with an eagle claw for the pommel. It made a great Tarzan knife back then. When I was older my grandfather would buy me the sovenier knives up in New Hampshire like the one above with the compass. Then it was hardware store knives like big Kabar barlows and all sorts. We would ride our bikes to the next two towns over to get pilot survival knives from the Army and Navy Store. Great thread. Brings back good memories.

 

[Captain Howdy]

As a young boy maybe 8 or 9 years of age I wanted what every man of that time was carrying, a Buck 110. Uneventfully I ended up getting a second hand Vic classic. I don't believe that knife lasted me the year before it was lost. :numbness: