Your Very First Knife?

Count me among those whose first blade was an official Cub Scout knife. :cool: It was a Camillus, and it was joined a few years later by an Ulster official Boy Scout knife.

I still have both. :)

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Tom @ KnivesShipFree
 
Many, many moons ago, like in the '60's, I was in the Cub Scouts and received a BSA slipjoint as a gift. I unfortunately no longer have it, but I loved that knife. There's a couple of milestones you reach when you're under 10 years old, like your first watch. Your first knife definitely fits in that category.

EDIT: Reading the rest of the thread, I see I wasn't unique in which knife was my first. :p
 
It was this folder that had a small blade, fork, and spoon. I got it in elementary school and lived it to death.
 
First knife happened after I started getting an allowance in the 2nd grade. Parents never purchased a knife or anything like that for me. I think they wanted to see what kind of stuff we would buy when we controlled our own money. This of course was pre-video game and computer days.

Don't believe I still have that one or the second knife or the third knife. After that, I pretty much still have them.
 
I got mine for my 5th Birthday, and still have it. Let's just say it's many decades old. I was really enamored by my brothers' Scouting activities, and wanted some camping stuff. The main attraction was a very cheap (remember when "Made in Japan" was the cheap stuff?) Large Hobo. I should have added something to the pictures for size comparison. But the spoon was the size of a large soup spoon, and the fork the size of a full sized dinner fork.

Also got an army surplus canteen, an old mess kit, and a small orange pack. I still have the pack too somewhere with some fishing odds and ends in it. It was a real chore to just open the spoon and fork, so I'm pretty sure it was a while before I started to get into the knives and other features on the old thing.

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I really wish I still had the first Barlow Knife that I bought at my first Scout camp with the $2 that was sent with me for snacks.
 
My very well intentioned father bought me a cheapo knock-off of a Buck 110 when i was around 10. It had a name with the word "bear" in it, like "brown bear" or "great bear" or something like that. Pakistani made, and terribly finished. As a 10 year old kid, I loved it though!

He figured I was just a kid who had a fleeting interest in knives. Why spend good money on something that will lay forgotten in the back of the closet as soon as the kid is on to the next thing anyway, right?

Well, as time went on, that knife did sit unused for a number of years since my family never really did many outdoors activities. I just didn't have much chance to use it. Much more of a "let's go to a museum" or "let's go into NYC to see a play" group of people than a "let's go for a hike" family.
When I went off to college and started doing more outdoor activities, I did bring that knife, and the lock snapped on it while making a feather stick. I ended up burying it. Since it wouldn't stay closed anyway and the blade swung totally freely, it was a safety risk. It's probably still in the ground somewhere around Hubbard Park in Meriden CT.
 
bflying said:
I got mine for my 5th Birthday, and still have it. Let's just say it's many decades old. I was really enamored by my brothers' Scouting activities, and wanted some camping stuff. The main attraction was a very cheap (remember when "Made in Japan" was the cheap stuff?) Large Hobo. I should have added something to the pictures for size comparison. But the spoon was the size of a large soup spoon, and the fork the size of a full sized dinner fork.

Also got an army surplus canteen, an old mess kit, and a small orange pack. I still have the pack too somewhere with some fishing odds and ends in it. It was a real chore to just open the spoon and fork, so I'm pretty sure it was a while before I started to get into the knives and other features on the old thing.

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2mougsk.jpg


I really wish I still had the first Barlow Knife that I bought at my first Scout camp with the $2 that was sent with me for snacks.
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I believe that I have that exact knife with the spoon and so forth. That is the only knife that I did not buy myself and it was given to me by my Grandmother many years ago for Christmas. To this day, it still amazes me that my Grandmother purchased presents for each of her grandchildren for Christmas.
 
A little Buck 305. And I had multiples even back then - LOL! Took me a few years to get them, though...

 
Mine was a faux pearl small Stockman by Schrade,I believe. My mom got it for me in 1973 when I was 7. I wish I still had it.
 
My first knife was a Spyderco Sage 2. I bought it for myself after getting hooked on researching knives and learning so much about them online. I was lucky to have been able to access all the knowledge and reviews on good knives. I still have the knife and use it a lot. I'm lucky to have gotten such a good, well-respected knife to start my collection.
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bflying said:
I got mine for my 5th Birthday, and still have it. Let's just say it's many decades old. I was really enamored by my brothers' Scouting activities, and wanted some camping stuff. The main attraction was a very cheap (remember when "Made in Japan" was the cheap stuff?) Large Hobo. I should have added something to the pictures for size comparison. But the spoon was the size of a large soup spoon, and the fork the size of a full sized dinner fork.

Also got an army surplus canteen, an old mess kit, and a small orange pack. I still have the pack too somewhere with some fishing odds and ends in it. It was a real chore to just open the spoon and fork, so I'm pretty sure it was a while before I started to get into the knives and other features on the old thing.

2b8vww.jpg


2mougsk.jpg


I really wish I still had the first Barlow Knife that I bought at my first Scout camp with the $2 that was sent with me for snacks.
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My first was similar but with only knife, fork, and spoon. Cut the hell out of my finger the first day. I think it was about 3rd grade.
 
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