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I still have mine. My pop bought me a buck small stockman when I was 13. 30 years later I still have it and it's in like new condition. It's a miracle it hasn't been lost.
Eating fried chicken and watermelon since 1972.
You tell me how I ought to be, yet you don't even know your own sexuality,, the philosopher,,, you know so much about nothing at all. Chuck Schuldiner
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A medium size Camillus stockman that my grandfather gave me when I was 6.
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"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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My first was a yellow handles Queen Steel stockman.
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Camillius official cub scout pocket knife. It lacked the can opener and only had a spear shaped blade, screwdriver/ bottle opener, and awl.
Got it at age 7 when my mom bought my twin brother and me our first knives. We were cub scouts then so she didn't buy Boy Scout knives. Not sure if it was cost, concerns about not investing money in something that would get lost, or fear of us testing the can opener tool on her food stock.
Either way.. I still have mine, and carried it through college. Its a little loose and sentimental so it doesn't see much pocket time now, but its amazing I still have it. My brother lost his...
Other than that, How was the show Mrs. Lincoln?
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I had a couple of pocket knives that I do not remember specifically, but first real knife was a Kinfolks fixed blade with leather spacer handle when I was 12. Still have it almost 60 years later.
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Wayne Hendrix model 11, birthday gift from my uncle when I turned fourteen. Still have it today.
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A single blade Barlow from father on my 5th birthday.
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Case small Stockman when I was about eight years old. I started hunting with dad and grandpa at that age and they figured it was about time I got a pocket knife. Grandpa took me to the local hardware store and let me look at the knives in the swiveling display case. With a little guidance I ended up with a yellow bone handled Case XX stockman. I was taught how to sharpen on a set of stones and take a few passes on the strop to take off the wire edge. I remember how I felt like I was one of the men when I'd pull out that knife to slit a rabbit or squirrel to dress out or slice garden tomatoes or whittle a whistle from a green maple branch. That knife is long ago lost but the lesson of a man always having a pocket knife of some sort in a front pocket and a handkerchief in his rear pocket stuck with me to this day. I always wonder about a guys upbringing when they don't have either one of those two items when they need it. I don't loan out mine if asked... maybe they'll learn their lesson.
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Mine was a Barlow with two blades. It is long gone.
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A generic single bladed lockback bought at a general store. It had a cheap fake pearl handle. I think I was only 6, but I can still remember it.
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A Barlow 2 blade, still have what is left of it.
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I bet your a peanut butter and jelly making mofo.
Eating fried chicken and watermelon since 1972.
You tell me how I ought to be, yet you don't even know your own sexuality,, the philosopher,,, you know so much about nothing at all. Chuck Schuldiner
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Mine was one of those celluloid handled "fish" knives picked from a cigar box of knives that my parents had. Red, main blade pointy as hell, fish scaler on the spine, probably an Imperial? I was about 10.
In many of these stories here the ages are 6-10 range and we carried them to school! Jail time now for that...........
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Pops thought I was too little for a pocket knife but that summer I found the remains (one blade) of a cheap folding pocket knife that had been driven over.
I used some copper tubing for a handle and drilled a hole with an "egg beater" hand drill so I could pin the blade to handle with a nail.
I carried it for a while in the watch pocket of my jeans.
He figured out I was "carrying" and I got a yellow handled Imperial two blade shortly thereafter.
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You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
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Mine is the Buck 110, I bought it around 1973 and still have it.
My oldest knife.
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Victorinox pocket knife I got for my birthday from my best friend (we were so young it was his family's Bday gift to me. Got it despite my parents not really approving. Didn't cut myself, but cut a lot of other things. 
It's about like this:
"Do you puff peters?"
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My first was the official boy scout knife. 40 years later and I still have it. It was used extremely hard
but I can see scout logo on it. The knife has a spear blade, can opener, screwdriver/bottle opener & awl.
Great topic, thanks for posting it.
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Two blade Barlow. Carried it to school in kindergarten. There've been LOTS since then, but I have that one still.
First hunting knife was a Schrade Sharpfinger. I still have that one, too.
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