Home Forums Gear Knives and Blades What was your first knife?

I don't recall exactly but believe it was probably something like this one, in a Boy Scout configuration. First fix blade was a Buck 105...

A Buck 119 Special. That was almost 40 years ago and still have it.

I remember going with my Dad on a weekend to the shop on Fort Belvoir. I was 4. The EM's were drinking Pabst from a round top refrigerator and smoking Pall Mall's.

Still remember the smell of those cigarettes.

One of the spec's reached in his pocket and handed it to me.

Said it was the last thing he had from Nam and it was time to let it go.

Knife was lost by the Mayflower moving company in 1974 when we moved to Michigan, along with a lot of other stuff my Dad gave me.

Give me a Pall Mall and a Pabst in a can, and I'll choke right up.

This! Had it since the early 70s and still have it. Two handed brisket splitter on deer and moose.

I'm impressed so many of you can remember the exact knife. Not sure if it was my first but remember the second year I was old enough to buy presents, with money from my parents, I bought my Dad a pocket knife. When he opened it I said something like he already had a knife and that I didn't. My older brothers reminded me of the story. I do remember my dad gave me the knife - and I learned proper gifting. I don't have a clue as to the make or model.

For my 6th birthday in 1958.
Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore. Found this pic online.

Same here, on both counts. Store where we got it was the general store, post office, and a mechanic's shop. I'm sure that's long gone too.

A Schrade Old Timer 3OT small lockback. Brand new in the box. The knife that started my whole collection.

I think it was a Case Trapper.Still my favorite to carry hunting.The one I have now is only 40 years old so it's kind of a new comer.

I'm 67 and cannot remember when I didn't have a Case in my pocket, thanks to my Grandfather.

Cub Scout knife about 1963 - with three younger brothers stuff got handed down - I don't have it any longer. I do have the Western Black Beauty fixed blade my folks gave me for Christmas in 1966 and the Buck 301 Stockman my grandma gave me for HS graduation in 1973.

My first real hunting knife was a Buck 110 folder I got as a Christmas present from my dad when I was 16. That knife has cleaned countless duck and geese, a dozen deer and antelope and a couple elk. Still holds an edge like crazy. It's pretty much retired now and has been replaced by many other knives but none will ever replace it!

Elk Country

My first knife was one of those brass bolstered folding lockers with the blade marked Pakistan. They used to sell them at flea markets covered in cosmoline and waxed paper. They also could be won at the county fair along with roach clips with pink or blue feathers strung from them on gray suede, cardboard framed rock band mirrors, and airbrushed cowboy hats.

These are a bit later, my little brother gave them to me 25 years ago. They've been in this old hard sided suitcase I kept all my hunting stuff in as a kid. It became a time capsule of sorts.


This one was also in there. The blade's marked STAG Ireland.

My first knife was a yellow handled Case w/2 blades in 1970. Wish I still had it. Was followed very shortly by a Boy Scout knife and two very nice fixed blades from my Grand father, all of which I still have. All of them have been used pretty hard but are still razor sharp.

Since no one was apparently going to give me one anytime soon, and I didn't have the money to buy something expensive with a name brand like "Buck", mine was the same as Kingston's, one of those cheap, brass-bolstered, Pakistan made lockbacks. I was so proud of it!

Buck 110

Barlow, the old man gave me a white handled shrade, with 2 rams fighting, lost it on a mule deer hunt in 87, wallowa oregon when I was 12. Ran a sharp finger for several years after that.

Butter, I think.

Best as I can recall, my first real knife was Puma folder purchased in the late 60's at a local hardware store for the princely sum of $15.00 or so. Unfortunately, it disappeared....