Photos Your very first knife vs your latest - Did your taste and style changed?

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Im curious what is everybody very first knife was and did your taste got refiner over the years? Bonus point if you still have it.

Mine was this shameful Olympia that i bought back then around the year 2004 at the flea market for $20.

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I was so proud of it but it couldn’t cut for sh*t. So, i remembered that i broke out the dremel tool then and put what i called back then a wicked edge on it. Im not even sure what this mystery steel is. I taped the handle scale because the screws got loose and felt somewhere i dont know. So yea it misses a couple of screws and it a feature of that knife

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Centering is somewhat questionable.

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But, i haven’t truly dove in this hobby, until recent years. Now, when i see this knife, i was, boy... this is what i used to like?!?! :eek:

My taste is diversified over the years but it has gotten wayyy refined

My latest is an Arno Bernard Rinkhals

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It is enough to say that in build quality, both are marginally different and the rinkhals completely blows the other out of the water.

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So what was yours? Out of curiosity. :D
 
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First knife I bought for myself was a Buck Spitfire, which I still own, but it has been disassembled for about two years now as I can't get it back together again :oops::oops:

My most recent knife was a ZT0452GLCF, and I've got myself a few Hinderers, a bunch of Spydercos and Benchmades and a whole lot more.
 
EDDD5728-4275-4F2F-90A5-7C4FAE65A8C5.jpeg My tastes haven’t changed. What I liked at 6 I still like at 50. But I can afford more of them.

my first knife was the SAK in the picture. It’s a pretty early knife. Before Mac Gyver and before hidden tooth pick or tweezers. It was pretty cool, but what I really wanted was a Buck 110. Which is my edc even now.
 
.925 Wenger SAK was the first knife I purchased--on credit from a jewelry shop when I was around 11 no less. Still have it.

Latest was an Olamic Busker. So about as refined as before--very ;)

Lots of silly ninja knives and tacticools in between though. I'll own it :cool:
 
The first knife I carried was a Kershaw 3/4 ton. I lost it while fishing 2 or 3 months after getting it.
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That's my newest knife, with a fresh coat of my blood the day after I got it.
 
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Kershaw Black Horse (not the original)
Near as I can figure I got one around '74-75 or so, I was in the sixth grade.
Since then, a lot of folders and fixed.
Used to sell knives at the gun shows for a couple of years. Also dabbled in Japanese swords.
Last knife is a custom whatever you wanna call it (broke back seax chopper wharncliffe).
Oh wait, I still got a custom fixed Wharncliffe coming in. Soon I hope.

I went from being anal about fit and finish to wanting a rustic look.
Too much Forged in Fire me thinks.
All my knives now are handmade, or at least supposed to be handmade.
I don't want my blades to look like a machine made it.
I think knives for me now are not just tangibles, but creations; craft or in some cases, art.
Someone put their sweat, maybe blood, and effort into creating my knives.
Someone had to think about it.
I appreciate that.
 
This is a duplicate of my first knife. $1.49 was a lot of dough for a kid about 50 years ago. I traded it away a few years later and I recently paid $10 to replace it.

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My latest knife and my last one for a while. Many knives has passed through my hands and now I try to be more prudent with my purchases.

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My very, very, very first knife technically was a SAK (Classic model I believe) that I wanted when I was five years old. I didn't have it very long as I got it taken off of me after accidentally cutting myself pretty deep while trying to slice an apple. I haven't seen it since. But when I was 13 I picked out this USA made Old Timer 3OT that I carried for years. My tastes shifted around a bit over the course of the nearly two decades following. I honed my personal preference in things like blade shapes and materials while other things stayed pretty consistent, like my preference for a single blade. I still buy a lot of traditional style knives but since I frequently use my knives daily in my occupation, the unique features of a modern style like clips and one-handed opening have earned them the most pocket time for me in more recent years. Though I still have a preference for nice-looking things that age well. And all this knife history brings me to my current carry knife: a carbon fiber scale small Sebenza 21.

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I dont remember if it was branded but this picture is identical to the first knife I ever bought myself , got it for $1 out of a jar on the counter of the local J&J gas station where my grandmother worked.


And this is my latest which just arrived today.


I graduated to larger more eye catching stuff as a teenager for sure.
That little guy was simply a knife I was allowed to have, But now I actually most appreciate smaller ones because I have learned that like my grandfather I just don't need a lot in a pocket knife .

That first one was actually functional, and if my brother hadn't ruined it I might see what kind of edge it could take and give it a try.

I started with the small pocket knives because I was allowed to have it, graduated to being most attracted to larger pocket knives, and have been settling back down towards the smaller pocket knives that are as much as I need in this capacity.
 
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I can’t honestly say if my very first knife was a Camillus demo knife, but it is the only knife I remember from that time, around 1953, give or take. The original is lost in time, but its modern replacement, dated 1982, is a pretty sorry specimen in its own right, with almost no tension left in the spring for the main blade. The Marbles replica bought a couple of years ago is superior in every respect to either of its predecessors, which is to damn it by faint praise.

The first knife I bought was the Loewen Messer Hippekniep, bought in a department store in Amsterdam in 1970, for the Dutch equivalent of six bucks. It sure looks like a Sodbuster.

My most recent acquisition is a Parker -Frost branded Schrade 128OT from 1978, in very close to new condition. I won this lovely knife in a GAW in the Traditional forum.

There are other pairings that better illustrate my evolution (or in some cases stagnation) as a knife owner:

My first Opinel 7, with carbon steel lock ring and bolster, vs. my most recent No. 7, with the latest lock ring system modified to work the way it should.

My first OHO, a Browning liner lock that came packaged with the LED headlamp my wife was buying me, vs a Massdrop Laconico Keen, my most recent modern knife, a titanium framelock flipper.
Neither one gets much use, but the Keen is pretty cool, IMO.

My first Anza, a WK5 precursor with a bonded rosewood handle, bought at a motorcycle swap meet around 1980 vs a 2BU Random, another Anza short blade, with a sculpted micarta handle. Both get some pocket carry. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

A Gerber Gator machete, my first machete, and one of the worst piece-of-crap blades I have ever handled, vs the Gavilan 5-pack I just received. I paid twenty bucks, shipped, fot all five machetes, less than I paid for the Gerber 10 years ago. They were randomly selected by the seller, nothing that I particularly wanted, yet every one of them is a better, more useful blade than the Gerber. When I knew nothing about knives, I always heard Gerber was a pretty good maker. Now I know better than to buy anything with the Gerber name on it, except baby food.

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A Milwaukee fast back knife. It was a gift, but I wanted it. I no longer have it (gave it away). My latest is a spyderco shaman. Huge upgrade to say the least!
 
As far as I know, I no longer have my first knife which was a tiny Imperial slip joint when I was in the second grade. At the time, it cost $0.25. It simply was too small to use effectively as I did a lot of cutting on sticks and branches back then. In the 3rd grade, I bought a larger Imperial and used it for a number of years. Most recent knife is an Arno Bernard Bush Baby Squirrel. Quality definitely increased perceptively and by about age 10 when I got my first Case Barlow. Still like the traditional slippies, but I mostly carry SAKs now.
 
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Seems funny to give a 5 year old a Hobo knife. Were they trying to get you to move out? Lol
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I got one as a Christmas present from my uncle when I was pretty young (pre-10 year old). He knew I was a woods kid, but honestly until I started camping I had absolutely no use for the big knife with kitchen implements. I probably still have it "somewhere". Actually I'm pretty sure I have it.

I don't believe I have ever done anything more than open the blades/tools with that knife. Not into big chunky knives on my belt.
 
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