your first knife?

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I was 4 years old when I got my first pocket knife. It was my Grandfathers, Grandma gave it to me the day of his funeral, 1973.

How old were you when you got your first knife?
 
I was 7 - won it in a scouting competition - an Old Timer Stockman.

I managed not to lose it and still have it 20-something years later :D
 
I lost my grandpa's 2 blade jack knife three days after getting it!!! (tears....) :(
 
I was about 7 years old and the knife was a 2 blade Barlow with plastic handles that my dad gave me....unfortunately, I lost it.The next knife he gave me was a Imperial fixed blade hunting knife and fortunately, I still have it.
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a buck pocket knife i carried in my tackle box for years, it is long gone now tho :(
 
I was 8 years old in 1960 when my dad gave my first, a cheap four blade boy scout pattern, a couple of years latter it was replaced by a small boker stockman. The oldest knife I still have is a german fixed blade which I got when I was in junior highschool (about 1965).
 
Dad gave me mine when I was 11 years old, a Buck Stockman...
We bought it at the "Trader Army Navy Store" on Canal Street in NYC. The fat guy who owned it ripped him off, but it was the only place where he knew to get a good quality knife.

I took it to school the next day and had it confiscated. Years later, I found it sitting in the kitchen drawer. It seems that the assistant principal had given it to my parents some time after that... and incidentally, the AP also carried the exact same knife.
 
I bought my own when I was around 11 or 12 y/o. It was an Old Timer 125OT. Never left my side while growing up and I still have it and use it while hunting sometimes.


Dean
 
Wow a new audience for my story:D My young'un keep threatening to put me in a home if I tell them about my first knife again.
Some where between 7-8 years old or there abouts. Great big 6" I guessing bladed fixed blade called the ORIGINAL BUFFALO SKINNER.From Homehardwear. Black handled, leather sheath, just right for a country boy to go romping through the woods with his beagle cutting spears and chasing rabbits that became tigers.:)
Anyway lost it a summer or two latter. Playing pirates in a quarry. Had it tucked in the front of my belt. slipped out and down into a water filled pit she went. That was my first.
 
My first knife was a Buck Cadet. My father gave it to me when I was around seven. I hadn't seen it for quite some time, and then I came across it going through some stuff after my mother passed away about a year ago. It was totally coverd in rust and gunk. I soaked it in some WD-40, cleaned it up, and then sharpened it. It looks almost new.
--Josh
 
About 1952, some where in there, my dad gave me a knife that was shaped like a fish. Open, it was less than three inches long. We were in Japan at the time (army brat) and that knife traveled around the world. Lost it some time around 1962 In Germany. :)
 
Got my first knife when I was 7 years old; a 3 Blade Scout Knife that I know is still around here somewhere. THE one I lost was my Dad's first knife, a Old Timer that he gave me when I turned 11. Then I turned around and lost it on my first Scout camping trip!
nice topic........
 
My first pocket knife was a slipjoint with one clip point blade and plastic artificial stag scales that I found in a junk drawer. I was about 7 years old. It got lost a few years later, but I think it might have been a Kabar, if they made folders.
 
i'm almost ashamed to admit i got my first real knife when i was 22 :p

i first heard of a shop that sold knives and swords and at that point in time, i wanted to get a katana
but i found out real katanas were soooo far beyond my budget so i 'settled' for a mod trident

and so it starts :D
 
I've had my share of small knives that were won at games on the boardwalk at the Jersey shore but the first I can remember carrying with me all the time was a 'hobo' knife. My father bought it for me when I was about 8-9 & it was my pride & joy! I'd use the blade, spoon & fork to eat lunch & dinner - just loved it! The bottle opener & can opener had performed excellently! Can't remember the manufacturer but it had the greatest 'fake' stag handle slabs you'd ever want to see.:D I bet that it is still laying around in the basement somewhere just waiting to be re-discovered!
 
In 1963, when I was 6 yrs. old, my Dad gave me a two blade folder. I cannot recall the maker now but it had a shield on the stag looking scales.:confused:
It got lost within a year, the same year my little brother and I dug up a very old Spanish dagger with pewter handle, a horn inlay and an acid etched blade in our back yard and that started my life long obsession with sharp pointy slivers of steel. The blade was rusted, but we could easily make out a deer with palm trees and saw palmetto in the background and some writing(in Spanish from what little we could make out) that was too worn to read.
I sure wish I could find that dagger today.:grumpy: No one in the family can remember what ever happened to it.
 
Memory is getting a little fuzzy now...god that should be worrying me. I think it was a little three blade slipjoint, for some reason the name "Sharp" rings a bell.

Was there every a cutlery company named "Sharp"? :)
 
My father gave me my first pocket knife when I was about 7 years old. It had two blades and (I assume) fake MOP scales. I still have it.
 
I remember having a few knives when I was small, but I don't remember which was the first. I remember a small jack knife that my dad bought me, but I also remember being in BSA and having a huge SAK fully loaded Champion (or something like that). I also had a couple lesser bladed SAKs, and the traditional BSA knife with the fork and spoon. Unfortunately, I don't have any of those anymore, because as most irresponsible kids, I lost them.:(

Mike
 
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