What was your first pocket Knife?
A very old german slipjoint, my grandpa gave it to me. It was given to him by a german soldier during second world war.Very similar to modern Victorinox Spartan.Amazing quality for such an old folder.Incredible for me was the fact that it had no blade play up and down or side to side.I lost it like an idiot.Later, I was caught in the Spyderco vortex.My first Spyderco was my beloved Police SS, SE.An older model in black box, with no spyder logo on the blade.
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uncleknife
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I have fond memories of that time 1966.
I was a cowboy then & rode a brumby bike, wore red & blue leather chaps with the silver studs & tassles with a single holster. In that holster rode a big pearl handled chrome six shooter that shot cap rolls & in my pocket was a matching knife.
The blade would have been a good four inches & looks like a Buck 110 & the handle the same length. I saw it again recently while visiting my mum & it is every bit the big knife I remember with its pressed tin bolsters & imitation plastic type white pearl scales. As others have said, probably made in Japan. I remember mum got it for me from Coles back when they were discount variety & not the big food supermarket like now
I was the flash nick cowboy at all the local forts & much laughed at by the big girls, but I don't care because my mother loved me & she was the one who kitted me out. She still has the chaps six shooter & knife.
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I was a cowboy then & rode a brumby bike, wore red & blue leather chaps with the silver studs & tassles with a single holster. In that holster rode a big pearl handled chrome six shooter that shot cap rolls & in my pocket was a matching knife.
The blade would have been a good four inches & looks like a Buck 110 & the handle the same length. I saw it again recently while visiting my mum & it is every bit the big knife I remember with its pressed tin bolsters & imitation plastic type white pearl scales. As others have said, probably made in Japan. I remember mum got it for me from Coles back when they were discount variety & not the big food supermarket like now
I was the flash nick cowboy at all the local forts & much laughed at by the big girls, but I don't care because my mother loved me & she was the one who kitted me out. She still has the chaps six shooter & knife.
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Jeremy_A_Neel
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My first pocket knife was a small Frost Cutlery knife, with gray plastic handles and a clear red button that disengaged the paper-thin liner lock. I got it when my Grandpa passed away, when I was 12 or so.
"If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person - they will find an easier way to do it." -Hlade's Law
My first pocket knife was in 1968 or thereabouts, a bone scaled carbon steel Henckels two bladed penknife, given me by my father. I still have it, due in part to the fact that I got a Victorinox Spartan a few years later that became my EDC, relegating the penknife to a drawer. It is a very nice knife even now, and I still carry it on special occasions.
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Orangeneck
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My first was a very old Camillus scout-type pocketknife from my dad. The blades and springs were very rusted; the main blade was sharpened so far down that the point stuck out of the handle in the closed position. Some of the blades were near-impossible to open. It had dark wooden scales. This was in early 1977.
Not long after, I wanted my very own knife, and went to the hardware store and bought a large, square-bolstered Schrade/Walden stockman for about $13. It was beautiful and sharp as heck, but the steel began rusting immediately just by carrying it. As a kid, that bugged me. I was eventually introduced to Buck Knives by one of my jumior high/middle school teachers, who showed me his Cadet medium stockman. He said the blades were stainless, so I went and bought one myself. Back then, the Cadet was made for Buck by Camillus. Anyway, that became my knife in early 1978, and remained my main carry, sometimes switching out with a Schrade "razor-blade stainless" medium stockman. That lasted until I discovered Victorinox SAKs.
Jim
Not long after, I wanted my very own knife, and went to the hardware store and bought a large, square-bolstered Schrade/Walden stockman for about $13. It was beautiful and sharp as heck, but the steel began rusting immediately just by carrying it. As a kid, that bugged me. I was eventually introduced to Buck Knives by one of my jumior high/middle school teachers, who showed me his Cadet medium stockman. He said the blades were stainless, so I went and bought one myself. Back then, the Cadet was made for Buck by Camillus. Anyway, that became my knife in early 1978, and remained my main carry, sometimes switching out with a Schrade "razor-blade stainless" medium stockman. That lasted until I discovered Victorinox SAKs.
Jim
Oh Geee....... To know for sure might take a team of archaeologists. But I remember carrying a Schrade Old Time way back in the early 60's. I guess that I was maybe 6 or 7 at the time. That was back when most boys carried a knife in their pocket. To school, to church, pretty much everywhare.
EDC Everything! Our knives are TOOLS, not 'Objects d'art'. A 'Safe Queen' is an implied insult to the designer/manufacturer.
