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What was your first pocket knife and what was the background story like how old we're you and stuff?
 
My first pocket knife was some random made in China piece of crap! Haha, I found it in my grandma's garage. I guess it was my grandpa's (I never met him, he died before I was born). She said I could keep it, I think I was 9.
 
6-9 years old and my father gave me a Victorinox Recruit. That knife taught me not to rely on locking mechanisms, an extremely valuable lesson in my opinion.
 
My friend since middle grade school was able to order from budk catalogs and started buying cheap folders and eventually had benchmades gerbers and crkt.

my first cool knife I remember was a dive knife, double edged and skeleton handle, had cool leather sheath. Dont remember the brand.
 
Never really got into pocket knives until I'd been using fixed blades for a while. The first decent fixed blade I bought was a Kabar USMC. Sometime after that I bought a Delica and for a little while I kinda liked folders, but now that I've tried some small fixed blades for EDC my folders end up sitting around the house. I do have a Leatherman Charge that goes everywhere with me though.
 
It was my Cub Scout folder in about 4th Grade I believe, which would have been about 1973. It was the classic blue CS knife with can opener, etc. I remember I'd carry it to school every day, lol. My how times have changed. Now a 4th grader with a Cub Scout knife would get surrounded by a SWAT team or droned by the Feds.

I'm still trying to find that knife. I'm pretty sure it's still around, but it must be in a box someplace. Some day it'll turn up hopefully.
 
My first ever folder was a red SAK given to my (when I was 5 yrs. old) by my Dad on one of my first hunting trips.. I have it to this day in my hunting rucksack :) He gave it to me while fishing on the ranch, I hope to do the same one day with my kids.

My second folder (BM 942, see below) was given to me as a gift maybe 12 years ago, and so the addiction began.. I would say that the 940 design was something that stood out to me then, and is still special to me now. It’s slim/light ergo’s layer the foundation for the style of knife I love now.









 
I don't know what my first folder was. I still have my first knife, though. It's 63 years old now. It is about a 3" blade, cheap metal but can be sharpened, full tang, genuine plastic imitation stag handle slabs pinned on, with a compass in the handle. Made in Japan back in 1950 when that meant cheap. My mother swears that I received it on my fourth
birthday and my dad gave me free rein with it. I have never been without some kind of knife since.
 
I was 19 when I bought my first folder; I was never brought up around anything "manly" and decided to get into this hobby of my own accord. I was brought to knives through my interest in survivalism. I did my research, looked up some tests, saw some reviews, and decided on a large size, plain edge Cold Steel Voyager tanto. No regrets. It's still one of my favorite knives.
 
SAK copy my dad gave to me was I was a kid. Carried it with me everywhere then lost it the same year at an Easter Picnic :'(
 
My parents gave me a Monarch Barlow when I was a cub scout at about age 8.
I carried it through junior high school. Yes there was a time when you could bring a knife to school and we did, no one ever got stabbed or cut.
I don't have it any longer and wish I did for sentimental reasons.
 
My first knife was a German SAK knock off from back in the 70s, my dad bought it for me when we were back home in Hungary in the early 70s, I was 15.

No, I take it back, my first pocket knife was bought for me when I was about 8 in '68, my dad bought for me from a truck stop bathroom vending machine, I wanted 50¢ to buy a balloon from the other bathroom vending machine (they were funny lookin' balloons ;) ), he gave me $1 and and I bought me one of those metal handled Trim Trio key ring knives with the knife blade, nail file and screwdriver/cap lifter combos.

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And with the other 50¢ .i bought a pair of them magnetic kissing dogs.

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I bought a case mini trapper because my dad always had one in his truck. I thought it was the perfect choice because it had two blades. I knew nothing about sharpening, steel, or even different types of locking mechanisms outside of lockbacks. I still have that knife. Stuck it in my fly fishing vest. Just a nice piece of nostalgia when I'm wading the water. I catch and release so it doesn't see action outside of cutting flouro and digging out splinters. Can't part with it though. I'll probably give it to my kids if I ever pull that trigger.
 
First knife was actually a multitool. Leatherman squirt. Was was probably 6 or 7. My first knife was a case sod buster jr. Got that when I was about 8. My dad hooked me up with both
 
Technically my first pocketknife was a little Swiss Army Knife with my name on the handle. This was given to my as a boy by my father, and if I remember correctly it was actually bought on a trip to Switzerland. :) My dad was raised in the woods, so he has a very genuine understanding of the utility of knives. If I ever have children I intend to pass along the tradition.
 
My first pocket knife was a Victorinox Centurion that I got from my dad when I was in the Cub Scouts (probably around the time I was in 5th grade)
 
I got a old timer pocket knife when I was like 5-6 my dad bought me brand new it was the coolest thing I get and I still have it but its not in good shape because I was a kid and didn't care back then. How do you post pics?
 
My first knife was my Dad's boy scout knife. first folder was a cold steel voyager.
the pass down was of course most sentimental, and after that started my collection.

The cold steel knife was because Scott from cold steel used to go to the same church as me, and I couldn't believe that he would carry a large pocket knife.
 
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