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I got a sharpfinger the old man bought me 35 years ago or so, still in the reloading bench

Gramps gave me a Camillus stockman when I was 6 or 7, can't rightly remember for sure. That would have been 1968 or 69. I have a sizeable collection of old pocket knives in a glass top display case. That old Camillus is still in there.

I am not sure it was my first knife, but I still have my Boy Scout knife from the early to mid sixties. My first hunting knife was a Buck 110 in 1975.

This knife was carried by my grandfather, then my dad, then me, and now by my son. My grandfather made it from a kit as a young adult. It's seen a lot of use.

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An Edge Brand with a 4" blade made in Solingen, West Germany, that was purchased at Hirsch's Army-Navy in Lebanon, NH, sometime around 1967.

A German bayonet made into a trench-knife that my Uncle Jack, late of the USMC, brought home from WWI. - About 40 years ago, I asked where he got it & he said simply: "I bought it off a fellow in France." & said nothing more. = He was a "mostly silent" sort of country gentleman.

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My grandfather's folding Remington ... I imagine he bought it around 1920 he would be 116 if he were alive today... He broke the blade splitting a deer's pelvis, one of the local craftsmen made a new blade out of a file..... I carried it for about 10 years, then decided it was to valuable to me to carry in the field.. It is in my collection.. I must dig it out and give it to my name sake..

I've a coupla thousand years worth of blades.................(grin)

Randall Model 7...5 inch blade, on its third sheath...47 years...

Got by with a Buck Special 119 for a long time until it was stoned down enough to set it aside.

An excellent balance of holding an edge and sharpening ease.

Worked...:)

Got a Case 4" Finn with "leather washer" handle from my Mom for Christmas 1951. Used it for many years and retired it when I decided that a 4" Case Folding Hunter w/single clip blade was easier to carry in my hunting coat--doesn't catch on brambles.

Both have carbon steel blades and still are sharp enough to shave hair off an arm. Or a pig.

Buck Stockman. Purchased in about 1977. Still have it today and in great shape. Followed that up with a Buck Folding Hunter and then a Buck Prince in 1978 or so. Have all three today and still use.....in fact I field dressed my buck in northern Wisconsin this past November using the Folding Hunter.

1953
I made a knife from an old horse hoof rasp in Jr High shop.
I got Dad to bring the farm grindstone to school so that I could shape it without getting it too hot. We rigged up a treadle system to spin the stone by foot. There was a partial old tire hung under the stone that held water and wetted the stone as it turned. The shop teacher put it on display inside the trophy case as an example of "Creative Shop Projects" for the remainder of the year.
My Dad had, at times, used his razor strap to sharpen more than his razor. I had some dislike for that old character shaping strap and used it to make the sheath. (Dad OKed it)

The year previously my dad had shot a big buck and I used an antler for the handle. I carried it as a teenager and field dressed deer that I shot during those years. Sometime around age 25 I stopped carrying it because I really didn't need a 7-inch blade for even the biggest of Adirondack bucks or El Bruno.

It sure takes a great edge and holds the best edge of any knife I have ever used.

That's about 66 years.

My Dad gave me a Schrade Uncle Henry when I was 15... Still carry it (47 years) with other blades when I hunt... It kinda brings Dad along on the Adventure!!!

probly in my tackle box i've had forever

I have had this Sears Roebuck knife since 1968 when I was 12.

That would be a Case stockman that I bought at the Exchange in Little Creek, Va. in 1971.
Quit carrying it a few years ago when one scale cracked.
Used it hard for a long time.

I still use my Dad’s old Clauss skinner. According to him, he bought it back in the 1939s.

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I still have my BSA pocket knife I received in 1973. Well used, it is in my safe now.
Oldest knife I have with a family link is a fixed blade that dates back to the mid/ late 30's.
I got it from my Grandfather (my Mothers dad). Although I never knew him to be a hunter, it is a very well made
skinning knife. I suspect it saw service on the farm he grew up on. It gets carried very occasionally.
Jeff