What was your first pocket Knife?

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What was your first pocket Knife?

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I am not sure what my first knife was. It was either a Victorinox Super Tinker or a smaller Spyderco with a Spyder-Edge. I was really young. Maybe a ladybug? I do remember that it was a Japanese made knife. One of these was my first more "serious" knife as I am sure I had a few of those POS's from fairs and what not. How about you folks? I still have the Super Tinker. I lost the spydie which is ufortunate.
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If i remember correctly my first pocket knife was a folder with wood inlays not sure what the brand was but i loved it :rolleyes:
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Hardware store/no name swiss army style folding knife. Next one was a Buck Squire single lock blade for hunting. First fixed blade I remember was a Cold Steel Bushman when they were not made in China. Sometime around 1996 or 1997.
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Mine was way before Spyderco, so it would belong in Off-Topic Discussion.
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I remember my first folding knife very well
a winchester like this:
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I've abused it for years; still as good as new :)
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A small stockman. I was six years old.

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I don't really remember, but the first one I do remember was an old beat up Case that I found on the side of the road when I was a kid.
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some sort of swiss army knife, my first expensive folder was a kershaw blur a few year back
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first ever = Boker, congress pattern slipjoint, 2 sheepsfoot + 2 pen blades, great German Soligen high carbon steel...
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Def some SAK
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About 35 years ago my father, who worked at a government facility, brought home for his 3 boys a black-scaled(?), two-bladed(1 large, 1 small) no-named knife! It was built well and cut everything I wanted to cut at that age! The scales were some form of black plasticized rubber of some sort and were virtually indestructible! Back in the the day we all carried our pocket knives to school with us, along with most of our friends. The teachers also had them! What freedom we used to have!
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Mine was a cheap Chinese folder.
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A K/O SAK. I was 6 or 7 and just joined the Cub Scouts. It came with a small sheath knife.
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Hi chuck! How are you holding up over there?
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A Case Sodbuster. It was my first knife purchase and I was about 10.
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A Case Sodbuster. It was my first knife purchase and I was about 10. Holy cow that was about 45 years and many, many pocket knives ago.
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Too long ago to remember but it had something to do with banging the rocks together.
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Flint or Obsidian???
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Buck Minibuck. I found it on the side of a road attached to some keys. I ditched the keys (oops sorry if those were yours, if you lost a set of keys with a MiniBuck attached to them in the CA Bay Area IOU one MiniBuck) and kept the knife. Eventually the lock broke so I cannibalized the blade and kept it in my wallet as just the blade in case I ever needed a blade.
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eric m. wrote:Flint or Obsidian???
Mammoth's tusk would do in a pinch. It chipped easily. ;)
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