Your FIRST POCKET KNIFE as a kid. Show'em if you still gott'em

Maple Tree said:
Happy to find it of course, but unhappy it was in this condition. (did you know about carbon steel when you were a kid?)

So, out with the Dremel. I remove the rust from blade and bolsters, oil it up good, and left it to sit. As you can see it cleaned up nicely, and opens quite smoothly now. Not much rust in the liners I guess, thankfully. I really like the patina that came over it. You'll notice some marking on the blade, mark side. I don't know what it is, but it's smooth to touch. I'm now going to sharpen it, and it will then have been fairly restored and put in it's right full place. In another box! A cigar box this time though, and with it's extended family.
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Brain,

It was a very nice knife to recover. My childhood knife got lost in a move. :o :o

The knife you show appears to have celluloid covers and as I looked at the blades, it appeared that knife has/had been gassing. I just wanted to alert you to the possibility and if so, the knife would be better kept in a box by itself, to protect your other knives from doing the same. ;):)
 
Nice BS scout knife Daddyo16. Looks like it's in great condition. :thumbup::)

Good call on Brian's knife "gassing" Primble, and good advice about separating it from his other knives. :)
 
Awesome thread. My original one was lost when I was in college. It was a Buck 301, I think.
 
I still have my.....

First a Imperial KampKing, my 6th birthday 1978



My second, Case 1980 6201 which I thought was so cool with a blade on each end, a testament to what a simple pen knife can go through and survive, lost the bail along the way


Third and forth, first locking knife I owned and my Ulster Scout knife which I'm happy to have now, but I admit I was a little embarrassed of as a kid, all the well to do scouts had SAK's or Bucks



And the group


All still make it into the rotation from time to time

Pete
 
Nice line-up Pete and it's nice that you still have them. :thumbup: Mine was taken away in 1969, I was 6 and the blade folded on me and I was bleeding pretty good. All I remember is the shield and wood handles.
 
My first was the blue handled Cub Scout knife, made by Camillus. My dad got it for me when I joined the scouts many, many moons ago. My mom was our den leader in St. Clairsville, Ohio.
It might be around somewhere but I haven't seen it in decades. I hope I come across it one day.
Cool thread.
 
My first knife was a Victorinox Huntsman. I got it from dad at my age of 8 years, during a vacation in Switzerland. I was king at school - I was first who had a pocketknife AND IT HAD A SAW :D :D

It followed me many years and I still have it. It is retired now and sitting in the drawer beside its other relatives from Switzerland ;)
 
MOTS scaled Imperial Jack given by my dad when I was around 6. Gone now, I snapped the blade tryin' to throw it into a tree. Dad didn't like that much and I learned a valuable lesson early on.

Peace
 
I can't remember exactly how old I was when I got this, but I was a wee little Cub Scout for sure. I also had an SAK around the same time but I have no idea what happened to that one.
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Wow Primble, I had no idea. :eek: Thanks for letting me know. Sorry about the knife. Moves will do that.

Glad the thread took, thanks for the welcome and previous comments folks. Some great first knives to see, and stories too.:thumbup:



Primble said:
Brain,

It was a very nice knife to recover. My childhood knife got lost in a move. :o :o

The knife you show appears to have celluloid covers and as I looked at the blades, it appeared that knife has/had been gassing. I just wanted to alert you to the possibility and if so, the knife would be better kept in a box by itself, to protect your other knives from doing the same. ;):)
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Cmon now guys -its the season of festive family friendliness!
We all have a "cousin Eddie" to bear./
Luckily for me, in my family it's me.:D
 
I'm pretty sure my first knife was one of those tiny key chain things that came out of a gumball machine. But my first real knives were, I'm sorry to admit, I don't even know what they were. That's because they were very badly abused and tossed into a toolbox after scraping whatever grease or dirt was in my way when trying to keep my mini bike, dirt bike or bicycle going. And if I ever sharpened them, it was probably by using a brick or something. There, I said it and I promise to never treat a knife that way ever again! Because I wish I had some of those back now. Am I the only one here to do these terrible things?:o
 
Nice first thread, Maple.

I believe my first pocket knife was a green Kutmaster Girl Scouts knife. I don't know what happened to it.:(

When I was 12 or 13, I found this Sabre pen knife. I just loved it, and carried it in my pocket all through school. I still have it:

 
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