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I love stories like that Brad, another Grandfather connection. Classic looking knife for a kid too. Just a single blade, nothing to think about until you need to open a pop, or screw with something. 
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Your FIRST POCKET KNIFE as a kid. Show'em if you still gott'em
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This is my 2nd knife I purchased when 9 or 10 yrs old. (1963). Road my bike to hardware store about 5 miles from home.
Pearl handle, blade labeled Sabre , Japan, 617.
I used for chores on farm I worked, cutting weeds from yard when being punished, whittling, other jobs as a tool and also for cleaning rabbits and pheasants after successful hunting ventures with my beagles after school.
Pearl handle, blade labeled Sabre , Japan, 617.
I used for chores on farm I worked, cutting weeds from yard when being punished, whittling, other jobs as a tool and also for cleaning rabbits and pheasants after successful hunting ventures with my beagles after school.
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My first knife I received around 1976-77. It is a Wenger Rifle Man I believe they were called. I carried this knife everywhere even to school back then. Spent many an hour in the woods with this. Home life wasn't the greatest as a kid and the woods was my escape back then. If this knife could talk. . . .
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This is a nice thread bringing back some memories.
My first knife is a German FES knife. I recovered it from a drawer at my parents place a few years ago.
I still remember standing in the store with both of my parent looking at the small selection of blades. A friend entered the store with his parents and proudly showed me the knife he had just bought followed by showing a band aid on his finger and warning me not to try and feel how sharp the knives are.
At that point the decision was made and I decided I needed the same knife in my favorite color black:
My first knife is a German FES knife. I recovered it from a drawer at my parents place a few years ago.
I still remember standing in the store with both of my parent looking at the small selection of blades. A friend entered the store with his parents and proudly showed me the knife he had just bought followed by showing a band aid on his finger and warning me not to try and feel how sharp the knives are.
At that point the decision was made and I decided I needed the same knife in my favorite color black:
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Colonial Barlow, purchased in Yonkers, NY sometime in the late 60s to early 70s.
IMG_20150107_160649[1] by major_works, on Flickr
IMG_20150107_160649[1] by major_works, on Flickr
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A great thread and some fantastic knives.
This is my Richard's keyring knife I bought with my birthday money when I must of been 6 or 7. I remember it being on one of those cardboard displays in the newsagents in the village. You just don't see that anymore. Anyway it seemed a lot bigger when in those little paws of mine; it really is tiny.
This is my Richard's keyring knife I bought with my birthday money when I must of been 6 or 7. I remember it being on one of those cardboard displays in the newsagents in the village. You just don't see that anymore. Anyway it seemed a lot bigger when in those little paws of mine; it really is tiny.
DirtDawg
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I don't have, or remember what my first knife was; that was some 66 years ago or so. But I really enjoy reading knife stories from the past. I've really enjoyed reading the postings here and viewing all of the knives. I only wish this thread could come back to life once again.
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Lol. I remember being gifted a smallish stockman for cub scouts.
But I was bored and I pulled all three blades out and was throwing it at our cabin wood door.
I had stuck it into the door and almost immediately the cub scout master stuck his head in... realized what I had done.
And took it.
This was some point in the mid to late 80s
I was a... precocious child
But I was bored and I pulled all three blades out and was throwing it at our cabin wood door.
I had stuck it into the door and almost immediately the cub scout master stuck his head in... realized what I had done.
And took it.
This was some point in the mid to late 80s
I was a... precocious child
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This thread is a blast from the past and good reading; gave me the opportunity to put my pictures back into my original post (which had disappeared into time). OH
