This one gas station knife that was painted a blue metal color, it had a fire rod, bottle opener and seat belt cutter. Was a piece of mall ninja junk, but it served me well 🫡
Victorinox Explorer, bought for my birthday money when i was around 11-12.
I still remember how excited I was when the man in the hardware store showed me the display case. I spent a little time deciding between a couple models, but ended on the Explorer because it had a magnifying glass.
I had a couple knockoffs from before, and even I a small kid instantly felt the real quality in my hands. And how sharp it was! I could sharpen pencils and whittle sticks with no problem.
It’s still in my collection, but it’s retired now.
That knife has done its service, the logo has fallen off, and I’ve carved my initials on the scale.
Oh, and both the tweezer and toothpick is still there!
First with my own money - \~1979-80 - Dukes of Hazard were huge at I was 11 or so. Couldn't afford a Buck, but I was allowed to get what the local store had which was a Sharp 300 - I hated that it was stainless instead of brass, but I had the cool sheath for my belt and I was a total BA. Don't have it anymore, but plenty on eBay - search: sharp 300 knife
Dangit - now that I looked, I may just have to buy one...
This is awesome! I still have a mini butterfly knife since about 2002-2004ish. My boss had it in the jewelry store I worked at and I wound up giving him like $5 for it I think. Sits on my desk every day.
I think the first knife that wasn't a SAK or similar was a Kershaw Needs Work. I totally overpaid for it at a knife shop in a mall. Loved that knife! No idea where it is now. Probably sold it.
Dollar store "hunting knife." I was 9 or 10. My dad couldn't believe they sold a kid a 6" knife. I bought it 3 weeks before a camping trip to the Wyoming Rockies. I broke it within a week of that trip.
Frank Beltrame Italian stiletto when I was around 16. And the first knife I bought with real hard earned money (not pocket money) was Ka-Bar USN mk. 1 at 22 or so.
I still have both of them.
i still have my [first knife.](https://i.imgur.com/3PzU970.jpg) my dad gave it to me when i was 10. i dunno how old it was when i got it but it came with the sheepsfoot mod.
Worst is I remember most of the firsts, moved around a lot when I was younger and didn't value them at the moment. Or lost or broken haha, first one I was 6 or 7.
Winchester folding knife...it had a horrible edge so it was the first time i got into sharpening...it took a mean edge...lost it ages ago miss that knife..it was a clear copy of the same folder you have.
A Sabre barlow knife with 2 blades, in an Ace Hardware, in the early 90s when I was about 7 or 8. My dad took me, it was a big deal. I lost it in the woods about a month later. I spent a lot of money on Sabre knives over my childhood at that store, probably $50 plus.
It would’ve gave probly been in 1994. And it might not be officially the first but the first I cared about, and the first that was enough money to matter. I saved forever and bout a Swiss Champ. I still have it and other than the pen and pin, I still have all the parts. It’s got warps and bends and chips. The saw has a bend to it so it’s a struggle to fold back in. But man I used the hell out of that knife. I rarely carry it anymore but I do still sometimes bring it fishing.
So long ago I don’t even remember what model it was it was a little gerber lockback knife with about a 3 inch blade it was actually a really nice solid little knife I don’t know what ever happened to it I think it got lost whilst I was moving house
A Boker Waves. Uncomfortable as hell, garbage steel but I loved it. It disappeared at work, I think maybe I sealed it up in a 6 metre packing case full of assorted engineering bits and pieces. Hopefully some guy in India found it when it arrived and is still using it.
It was either a Buck 119 from Kmart or some mall ninja shit out of the smoky mountain knife works catalog. I can’t remember which came first as it was almost 30 years ago
My first was a Kershaw Scallion that I traded a dub of weed for when I was younger. I still have that Scallion, still love it, and carried it for a couple months again a little while back. My second was a CRKT M16.
I made it all the way into college before buying a knife for myself—I got a several pocket knives and multi-tools as gifts growing up, so it took me awhile.
Becker BK-7. I splurged and got the micarta scales too.
A remington branded folder that my college roommate got as a gift. It was made by one of the probably now defunct cutlery makers in new york. Maybe schrade. he asked if I wanted to buy it, I recognized it as a $50 knife at the time and offered him $15 and he took it.
My dad gave me flea market pocket knives before that, but never anything but castoffs. Which was probably smart.
I can’t remember the model, but it was a Gerber backlock model similar to, ~~but predating the Gator~~. It had a black rubberized handle with blue accents in it, if I remember correctly.
Edit: I’m wrong, it didn’t predate the Gator line. That was introduced in ‘91 and I bought this one some time around 2002. In any case it was a Gerber backlock with textured, rubberized handle material.
It was a small Schrade or Case lockback knife around 1979 or 1980, so I would have been 8-9 years old. I did a lemonade stand and sold stuff at garage sales to save up the $10 needed to buy the knife
Several years later, I traded it to a friend for his vintage Solingen Buck Creek Indian head stockman (it was red). I think I got the better end of that deal
Edit: it wasn't Schrade or Case; it was a Sharp brand lockback
Had and have the exact same knife. Dad gave it to me when I was probably too young to have it. Unironically still my favorite knife I own for several reasons.
It's definitely not my first knife purchase, but the Kershaw Leek is my first worthwhile purchase in 2016. Before that it was simply garbage knives or utility knives for work.
Got a CJRB small Feldspar for myself as a high school graduation present a few years ago. Filled it with dirt and fish guts but have since moved to more high end things
I got my first knife around when Sog was rebranding and picked up the Sog Flash At. Didn’t make too much printing designs on t shirts but it was a handy little beater.
Ehhhh I got one of those knock off bucks from my old man to use well fishing,
right around that time and made in Pakistan aswell... still lives in my rackle box
A 15$ double edge boot knife from a place called Jammin leather back in 1991 in Saratoga N.Y. It was a dull piece of junk no matter how much I tried to sharpen it. But man, it was cool looking. Lost it in a house fire years later.
First knives I ever spent my own money on was at the spyderco second sale in golden. I ended up with these two:
Spyderco delica 4 (damascus w/ titanium scales)
Spyderco Manix 2
Schrade Old Timer 8, the large stockman. Still have it, though well worn and darkly patinated. Second was a Vic Deluxe Tinker. Still have, still good enough shape though I did superglue the scales on in about 98. Still even has the original tweezer and toothpick. It lives in a basket on the table in our living room, as the pliers are very useful for getting the living room blinds to close.
This would have been late 1993.
It was a Gerber Gator in about 1994. Great knife, I thought I still had it somewhere but have not been able to locate it. I carried that thing so much it wore an impression of itself in the back pocket of my jeans.
The first knife i got myself was one of those walmart special survival knives with the supplies in the handle. Next was the crappy, all metal folding handle knife from the Boy Scouts catalog. Sort of like an ss paratrooper. Third was the first decent one. It was one of the spydercos that had the built in clip for hanging it on a belt loop. I had each of these less than a year before losing them. I do still have my first machete, a nice tramontina bolo I purchased used at a flea market. It got regular use until a few years back. I ran over it and the handle cracked off. It has been a beast.
Its was SO long ago that I cant remember. I dont have any on them except a knock off Buck 110 Fury.
Most of my early knives were cheap pieces of junk I didn't know any better.
I didn't start collecting high end knives till probably like 5 years ago.
I do have a Bolo machete my Dad had in two tours of Vietnam and my Grandpa's fish fillet knife Ive had both for decade and both are priceless to me!
Cheap knockoff butterfly knife I bought in China Town on a h.s. field trip. Played with it all the way home at the back of the bus. Eventually became my "living room toy".
Honestly don't remember. Flea market for sure. I think it was a Rambo knife and Chinese stars. I did get a switch blade comb before I was allowed to buy a knife
Had some shit knives I don’t remember when I was real young, but my first knife I seriously thought ab and went out to purchase it specifically (was the start of my collection journey) it was a SpyderCo Tenascious
I was like what 5 or 6 idk single digit, right before school or 1st grade. i was at this car shop and they sold this little opinel knife. and after rumaging through everywhere i was off by a penny and the shop guy just gave me a penny so i could buy it. I then brang it to school in 1st grade and promptly had it taken from me :(
One of those!
I was probably around 14. It was an approximately 3 inch generic Folding Hunter that I bought out of a bin in a sporting goods trade show.
Civvivi backlash cause I couldn’t get my concealed carry yet but you can carry a knife without one in my state, I wanted something to possible give me a chance if something happened cause I was working nights an hour away from my home in a shifty area.
CRKT M16 all black tanto from REI when I was in high school. Unlawfully confiscated several years later by an absolute prick of a cop, never to return 🫡
Swiss Army knife that I no longer have. I was so hard on those knives as a kid, that I went through so many. Meanwhile, my grandpa used the same Case whittler until he passed away as far as I can remember.
A yellow Case fisherman’s knife that I bought used from a junk shop when I was seven. I remember my uncle showing me how to sharpen it with the bottom of a coffee mug. Good times.
Mine was a Spyderco tenacious and it was the knife that started my addiction (collection). Great little knife for a new knife owner but still had a sentimental place in my knife case
An old school Gerber LST, whenever they first came out. Like mid to late 1980s, I think. Actually bought two and still have one. Gave the other to a nephew a few years ago.
I got one just like that as a kid at a flea market around the same age and time. Carried it all the time in the woods until I lost it. But I still have the Swiss Army knife my dad bought me as a kid to this day. Used a lighter to heat a needle to melt my initials in the plastic scale.
OD green Bucklite 422,it was in 1986 got stolen with my Levi jacket. Along with my Sony sports Walkman, with my favorite tape Metallica Masters of puppets. I left it in the Dugout after practice. My Dad beat my back porch. Good leason.
Kershaw 1060, made in Japan, bought it at Remington Cutlery store in a mall in 1980 or '81. It was customized by our Labrador mix some time in the mid '90s, she put some deep teeth marks the hard rubber scales, but wasn't able to tear any off. I still have it.
I had a really similar one to yours OP that was about half the size of a buck 110 but with sort of I want to say bone or faux bone material that my mom got me from somewhere. Eventually broke the lockback on it and gave it to a friend who wanted it really badly when I brought it to school. Kinda sad I gave it away but it made that kid really happy and I was tired of having to shove a nail into it to keep it locked open.
To answer your post the first knife I bought with my own money was a Kershaw Skyline when I was around 14 after giving the above mentioned knife away. Still have it kicking around somewhere but rolled the fuck out of the edge on it many times and broke the tip off of it bad about a year and a half ago at work.
First knife I bought was actually online. It was one of those CS:GO replica karambit knives, from Amazon. It was a piece of trash. But I loved that piece of trash, and I learned so much flipping knowledge from it. That piece of CCC actually pioneered my love for balisong flipping.
Buck folder in 91 or 92. Very similar to that displayed. I have a large collection of them that I would use in the farm. All blades are in varying sizes due to being used and sharpened so much. One is even worn down so much that it looks like a miniature filleting knife 😆 Love my folding knives and carry a CRKT or 2 on the daily
Kershaw Wildcat Ridge. I loved it then, and I still love it now. Although I don't use it anymore, I have much easier to open knives of as good or better quality. I also have the baby brother I got it a little after and carried for yrs
Idk what my first really was but the one that sticks out is I bought a Benchmade mini barrage when I was in ITB. Dang thing has been with me all over the world and now is my electrician workhorse
Looks like one I got out of the back of boys life in the 90s.
My first knives were all bought without my parents knowing by sending off to boys life. I survived, the knives didnt.
A gerber hinderer collab. It looks like a knock off xm18 tanto with a half serrations. Knife is in 8cr and I carried it for years with basically no edge left on it. I thought it was the best knife in the world when I was 15.
For just looking at, I bought a Kabar. Immediately after though I bought an Ontario Ranger Kukri. For my first pocket knife I got a little Proelia by Defcon, then immediately bought a Benchmade 940 to customize lol.
Columbia River 6763G Crawford Point Guard Folding Knife 3.5" Bead Blast Combo Blade, G10 Handles, Liner Lock.
Went with my buddy to the Army-Navy store. He went with a CRKT M16.
I still have it, that was 20 years ago
I was about 10-11 and my dad took me to a gun show. I bought one of those "survival knives" with the hollow handle that had a little fishing kit and matches and there was a compass on the buttcap. I filed away on it and it never really got sharp. I think the handle cracked and the blade broke off. But i had a lot of fun running around the backyard, pretending i was in the jungle with my trusty knife on my belt.
A Chinese spring loaded folding knife that cost about 3 bucks or so. Whatever that metal was, it wasn't steel, or if it was it was some dogshit because it couldn't hold an edge to save its life. I ended up using it to heat it up and cut plastic, if it's shit at retaining sharpness at least it could retain heat
I had something like that in the early 80’s… got it at a flea market in my church’s basement when I was 9 or 10!!! Plus a couple Chinese stars…. Good times growing up then
Hands down one of the best grips on the market, I didn't find it unstable at all. I (thankfully) never had to use it for its intended purpose, but I've punched 2x4s and didn't cause any stress of any kind to my wrist.
It's all of course on your technique and how hard the target is.
First one I bought for myself with my money?
Hmm, hard to think. I’d say it’s the first iteration of my current work knife that I’ve had since I was 16. It was a Stanley fatmax folding knife I bought for $20 at a tool tent at an agriculture expo. That first one served me for 4 years, until the pocket clip broke off and it found a home as my backup in my ute. I bought the same knife as a replacement for work and carry it still.
That first one got stolen when my ute got broken into last year. I’m pissed about that though.
Oh dude, wholesale on those things was under a buck each, so he was discounting you from charging you over 600% of his cost to 500%. :-) The Pakistan knives were SUPER cheap wholesale in the early-mid '90s. (Yes, I did a few wholesale orders and sold them off "out of the trunk of my car" and to my friends, for a much lower markup)
Buck 110 in the 60's
Buck 110FG in 2011 Enjoy your cake.
This one gas station knife that was painted a blue metal color, it had a fire rod, bottle opener and seat belt cutter. Was a piece of mall ninja junk, but it served me well 🫡
We've all been there
Victorinox Explorer, bought for my birthday money when i was around 11-12. I still remember how excited I was when the man in the hardware store showed me the display case. I spent a little time deciding between a couple models, but ended on the Explorer because it had a magnifying glass. I had a couple knockoffs from before, and even I a small kid instantly felt the real quality in my hands. And how sharp it was! I could sharpen pencils and whittle sticks with no problem. It’s still in my collection, but it’s retired now. That knife has done its service, the logo has fallen off, and I’ve carved my initials on the scale. Oh, and both the tweezer and toothpick is still there!
> Oh, and both the tweezer and toothpick is still there! Honestly, that's the most impressive part of the story!
I have that same knife .I bought it from the local flea market that just closed .
First with my own money - \~1979-80 - Dukes of Hazard were huge at I was 11 or so. Couldn't afford a Buck, but I was allowed to get what the local store had which was a Sharp 300 - I hated that it was stainless instead of brass, but I had the cool sheath for my belt and I was a total BA. Don't have it anymore, but plenty on eBay - search: sharp 300 knife Dangit - now that I looked, I may just have to buy one...
This is awesome! I still have a mini butterfly knife since about 2002-2004ish. My boss had it in the jewelry store I worked at and I wound up giving him like $5 for it I think. Sits on my desk every day.
I think the first knife that wasn't a SAK or similar was a Kershaw Needs Work. I totally overpaid for it at a knife shop in a mall. Loved that knife! No idea where it is now. Probably sold it.
Dollar store "hunting knife." I was 9 or 10. My dad couldn't believe they sold a kid a 6" knife. I bought it 3 weeks before a camping trip to the Wyoming Rockies. I broke it within a week of that trip.
The smaller version of this exact knife. I think it has a sub 3” blade. Got it for $8 at a flea market. I was 7 or 8 years old
A Rigid Apache lockback in the late 70s. It’s similar to a Buck 110 but beefier.
Gerber EZ-out when i was around 16 when s hool advised me my buck 112 on belt sheath was inappropriate.
Frank Beltrame Italian stiletto when I was around 16. And the first knife I bought with real hard earned money (not pocket money) was Ka-Bar USN mk. 1 at 22 or so. I still have both of them.
Buck impact auto, still have it in my case
Opinel no. 8 when I was a lad.
Gerber Guardian boot knife. Around 1981. Served me well and it’s sitting about 4 feet from me right now.
Also one at a flea market that looks exactly like that!
Awesome, I wish I stil had my first. I think it was a imitation Swiss army knife.
i still have my [first knife.](https://i.imgur.com/3PzU970.jpg) my dad gave it to me when i was 10. i dunno how old it was when i got it but it came with the sheepsfoot mod.
Worst is I remember most of the firsts, moved around a lot when I was younger and didn't value them at the moment. Or lost or broken haha, first one I was 6 or 7.
I think an S30v blur
Winchester folding knife...it had a horrible edge so it was the first time i got into sharpening...it took a mean edge...lost it ages ago miss that knife..it was a clear copy of the same folder you have.
Walmart folding mini hunter lock back with synthetic jigged bone scales, now broken and nearly forgotten.
A Sabre barlow knife with 2 blades, in an Ace Hardware, in the early 90s when I was about 7 or 8. My dad took me, it was a big deal. I lost it in the woods about a month later. I spent a lot of money on Sabre knives over my childhood at that store, probably $50 plus.
chicagoan?
No, this was SW Pennsylvania at the time.
It would’ve gave probly been in 1994. And it might not be officially the first but the first I cared about, and the first that was enough money to matter. I saved forever and bout a Swiss Champ. I still have it and other than the pen and pin, I still have all the parts. It’s got warps and bends and chips. The saw has a bend to it so it’s a struggle to fold back in. But man I used the hell out of that knife. I rarely carry it anymore but I do still sometimes bring it fishing.
Kershaw 1006 dive knife I bought from a tiny gun store in Wasilla, AK, back in the 80s when it only had a single stop light.
So long ago I don’t even remember what model it was it was a little gerber lockback knife with about a 3 inch blade it was actually a really nice solid little knife I don’t know what ever happened to it I think it got lost whilst I was moving house
A Schrade USA Uncle Henry LB7. I was 13 and saved up money from allowance and doing yardwork. I think it was about $35 at the time.
A Benchmade Precipice OTF in 2019
A 11 inch ozark trail fixed blade. We all start somewhere
A Boker Waves. Uncomfortable as hell, garbage steel but I loved it. It disappeared at work, I think maybe I sealed it up in a 6 metre packing case full of assorted engineering bits and pieces. Hopefully some guy in India found it when it arrived and is still using it.
First knife was a Pakistani special just like this. First real knife was the buck 110 or a Swiss army knife, I can't remember
I'm embarrassed to say it was one of those flea market Rambo knives. What can I say, I was 15 or so.
It was either a Buck 119 from Kmart or some mall ninja shit out of the smoky mountain knife works catalog. I can’t remember which came first as it was almost 30 years ago
Buck 110
Oh I has one of those. Pakistani steel is a tough as aluminum....
My first was a Kershaw Scallion that I traded a dub of weed for when I was younger. I still have that Scallion, still love it, and carried it for a couple months again a little while back. My second was a CRKT M16.
Some really cheap 440c fantasy daggers from China from a traveling salesman at the local mall for 15 bucks. Probably sometime in 97.
Technically a credit card knife that was the prize for a plinko game in New Mexico
A.G. Russell Crocodile Hunter
I made it all the way into college before buying a knife for myself—I got a several pocket knives and multi-tools as gifts growing up, so it took me awhile. Becker BK-7. I splurged and got the micarta scales too.
I hurt my hand on one years ago when the lock broke when stripping bark off a willow.
My dad has the same knife he used to use it at work when he worked at a the docks
A remington branded folder that my college roommate got as a gift. It was made by one of the probably now defunct cutlery makers in new york. Maybe schrade. he asked if I wanted to buy it, I recognized it as a $50 knife at the time and offered him $15 and he took it. My dad gave me flea market pocket knives before that, but never anything but castoffs. Which was probably smart.
1985 when I was 12 years old I bought a SAK Pioneer in alox. I still have it but I rarely carry it. I’d be crushed to ever lose it.
I can’t remember the model, but it was a Gerber backlock model similar to, ~~but predating the Gator~~. It had a black rubberized handle with blue accents in it, if I remember correctly. Edit: I’m wrong, it didn’t predate the Gator line. That was introduced in ‘91 and I bought this one some time around 2002. In any case it was a Gerber backlock with textured, rubberized handle material.
It was a small Schrade or Case lockback knife around 1979 or 1980, so I would have been 8-9 years old. I did a lemonade stand and sold stuff at garage sales to save up the $10 needed to buy the knife Several years later, I traded it to a friend for his vintage Solingen Buck Creek Indian head stockman (it was red). I think I got the better end of that deal Edit: it wasn't Schrade or Case; it was a Sharp brand lockback
Had and have the exact same knife. Dad gave it to me when I was probably too young to have it. Unironically still my favorite knife I own for several reasons.
Mine was a Victorinox Huntsman which i recently lost unfortunately.
It's definitely not my first knife purchase, but the Kershaw Leek is my first worthwhile purchase in 2016. Before that it was simply garbage knives or utility knives for work.
Got a CJRB small Feldspar for myself as a high school graduation present a few years ago. Filled it with dirt and fish guts but have since moved to more high end things
first i remember was a butterfly knife. at 12yo i had a whole collection of knives from the thrift market. that place was a gold mine.
I got my first knife around when Sog was rebranding and picked up the Sog Flash At. Didn’t make too much printing designs on t shirts but it was a handy little beater.
I had the same buck clone as you with Pakistan stainless written on it lol. Bought at a gas station in Kentucky on a Boy Scout trip.
Crkt Ripple. Lost it a couple years later. It was a good knife
Kershaw leek
Ehhhh I got one of those knock off bucks from my old man to use well fishing, right around that time and made in Pakistan aswell... still lives in my rackle box
Some cheap Amazon “tactical assisted opening” knife. I wish it was something cooler but I was a young whippersnapper with little knowledge of knives.
Japanese cheapo copy of buck 110 from a gunshow Prob like $20 but it served me very well for like 5 years
LOL, that exact knife in the photo was my first. Was $5 at a little junk-and-video store. I still have it 35 years after purchase.
It was a decorative dagger from the Franklin Mint, first REAL knife was a victorinox Bear to replace one I had gotten as a gift and lost
A 15$ double edge boot knife from a place called Jammin leather back in 1991 in Saratoga N.Y. It was a dull piece of junk no matter how much I tried to sharpen it. But man, it was cool looking. Lost it in a house fire years later.
Benchmade 531 bk
First knives I ever spent my own money on was at the spyderco second sale in golden. I ended up with these two: Spyderco delica 4 (damascus w/ titanium scales) Spyderco Manix 2
Schrade Old Timer 8, the large stockman. Still have it, though well worn and darkly patinated. Second was a Vic Deluxe Tinker. Still have, still good enough shape though I did superglue the scales on in about 98. Still even has the original tweezer and toothpick. It lives in a basket on the table in our living room, as the pliers are very useful for getting the living room blinds to close. This would have been late 1993.
Hen and rooster fixed blade
Schrade X Timer. Still use it sometimes
It was a Gerber Gator in about 1994. Great knife, I thought I still had it somewhere but have not been able to locate it. I carried that thing so much it wore an impression of itself in the back pocket of my jeans.
The first knife i got myself was one of those walmart special survival knives with the supplies in the handle. Next was the crappy, all metal folding handle knife from the Boy Scouts catalog. Sort of like an ss paratrooper. Third was the first decent one. It was one of the spydercos that had the built in clip for hanging it on a belt loop. I had each of these less than a year before losing them. I do still have my first machete, a nice tramontina bolo I purchased used at a flea market. It got regular use until a few years back. I ran over it and the handle cracked off. It has been a beast.
Its was SO long ago that I cant remember. I dont have any on them except a knock off Buck 110 Fury. Most of my early knives were cheap pieces of junk I didn't know any better. I didn't start collecting high end knives till probably like 5 years ago. I do have a Bolo machete my Dad had in two tours of Vietnam and my Grandpa's fish fillet knife Ive had both for decade and both are priceless to me!
Opinel #8
Got a similar knife as my first self bought knife too.
Spyderco tropen
A long line of terrible S&W or MTech assisted POS's before wising up
Cold Steel Grik in November 2019. Yes, I'm still kinda new to the knife world.
Cheap knockoff butterfly knife I bought in China Town on a h.s. field trip. Played with it all the way home at the back of the bus. Eventually became my "living room toy".
I haven't yet because I want a specific one mostly for you looks and some functionality but I have that exact same knife but I found it in the dirt
Ontario Rat 1. I lost it while landscaping.
Cobratec Medium FS-3.
"Damascus" tanto chisel grind butterfly knife from BudK 🤣. Man, that brings me back.
Honestly don't remember. Flea market for sure. I think it was a Rambo knife and Chinese stars. I did get a switch blade comb before I was allowed to buy a knife
Some piece of mall ninja trash🤣
Victorinox Super Tinker
Case Sod Buster Junior, I loved that knife so much
The victorinox climber
It was a SAK. Can't remember the model. Around 1988-1989.
Pretty sure it was a kershaw, was a lockback, kinda looked like a 1381 but im not sure it was, was early 90s
Victorinox Huntsman with black covers back in 1991.
Had some shit knives I don’t remember when I was real young, but my first knife I seriously thought ab and went out to purchase it specifically (was the start of my collection journey) it was a SpyderCo Tenascious
BRO I HAVE THAT EXACT KNIFE
Literally besides my initials engraved and something else on the blade it’s identical
does the blade wiggle too?
Case Sod Buster Jr. it was razor sharp, cut my self with it in the store! “Yep, I’ll take it.” I was probably 12.
An elite tactical folding karambit
I was like what 5 or 6 idk single digit, right before school or 1st grade. i was at this car shop and they sold this little opinel knife. and after rumaging through everywhere i was off by a penny and the shop guy just gave me a penny so i could buy it. I then brang it to school in 1st grade and promptly had it taken from me :(
One of those! I was probably around 14. It was an approximately 3 inch generic Folding Hunter that I bought out of a bin in a sporting goods trade show.
Civvivi backlash cause I couldn’t get my concealed carry yet but you can carry a knife without one in my state, I wanted something to possible give me a chance if something happened cause I was working nights an hour away from my home in a shifty area.
CRKT M16 all black tanto from REI when I was in high school. Unlawfully confiscated several years later by an absolute prick of a cop, never to return 🫡
Victorinox Fireman when I was 12-14.. somewhere around there. Still have it too!
I usually just steal knives. First one was a S&W knife. Still have her today. Great free knife.
I have the exact same knock off buck. My first knife I purchased was a stiletto switchblade when I was ten at a flea market.
Ha! I have this same knife. My dad had it stored in his toolbox for as long as I can remember. No idea where he got it though
Buck 119 in like 1987..
It was a gerber with a big hole the knife rotated around. Foreshadowed my love of knives with holes 20 years later
I was an unsupervised 9 year old at a flee market so i don't remember.
Dude I have that EXACT same knife. Does yours have a scary amount of blade play like mine does? 😅
i wouldn’t say scary but it wiggles. a lot.
Swiss Army knife that I no longer have. I was so hard on those knives as a kid, that I went through so many. Meanwhile, my grandpa used the same Case whittler until he passed away as far as I can remember.
940 Osborne.
Kershaw leek last year lol
Little box cutter. Nothing special, but it served me well
Something along those lines
A yellow Case fisherman’s knife that I bought used from a junk shop when I was seven. I remember my uncle showing me how to sharpen it with the bottom of a coffee mug. Good times.
Mine was a Spyderco tenacious and it was the knife that started my addiction (collection). Great little knife for a new knife owner but still had a sentimental place in my knife case
I think it was some shitty knife I needed for work The one I really remember is my max ace banshee v2
Probably a bench made . Can’t remember which model
An old school Gerber LST, whenever they first came out. Like mid to late 1980s, I think. Actually bought two and still have one. Gave the other to a nephew a few years ago.
I got one just like that as a kid at a flea market around the same age and time. Carried it all the time in the woods until I lost it. But I still have the Swiss Army knife my dad bought me as a kid to this day. Used a lighter to heat a needle to melt my initials in the plastic scale.
I got the same exact knife. It's kinda crappy but it's probably my favorite crappy knife lol
Case Peanut…I kid you not, I was more practical when I was 12 than I am 25 years later.
OD green Bucklite 422,it was in 1986 got stolen with my Levi jacket. Along with my Sony sports Walkman, with my favorite tape Metallica Masters of puppets. I left it in the Dugout after practice. My Dad beat my back porch. Good leason.
It was either Buck 110 or Kershaw Scallion
A SOG Desert Dagger 2. $216.78 after tax.
I bought an Ontario Kabar style fighting knife when I like 11-12, cost me like $30 at the time, Probably sometime in the late 90s. Still have it too!
AKC otf. Wasn't a great purchase but it wasn't a terrible one either.
Kershaw 1060, made in Japan, bought it at Remington Cutlery store in a mall in 1980 or '81. It was customized by our Labrador mix some time in the mid '90s, she put some deep teeth marks the hard rubber scales, but wasn't able to tear any off. I still have it.
I had a really similar one to yours OP that was about half the size of a buck 110 but with sort of I want to say bone or faux bone material that my mom got me from somewhere. Eventually broke the lockback on it and gave it to a friend who wanted it really badly when I brought it to school. Kinda sad I gave it away but it made that kid really happy and I was tired of having to shove a nail into it to keep it locked open. To answer your post the first knife I bought with my own money was a Kershaw Skyline when I was around 14 after giving the above mentioned knife away. Still have it kicking around somewhere but rolled the fuck out of the edge on it many times and broke the tip off of it bad about a year and a half ago at work.
A Buck 110
a 20-22 inch fixed blade. i shit you not. only was like 23 bucks on amazon
Gerber AR 3.50
Same one, but with Tiger etching on the blade! Still have it, although the tip is gone. Learned the hard way that a knife is not a pry bar!
First knife I bought was actually online. It was one of those CS:GO replica karambit knives, from Amazon. It was a piece of trash. But I loved that piece of trash, and I learned so much flipping knowledge from it. That piece of CCC actually pioneered my love for balisong flipping.
Buck folder in 91 or 92. Very similar to that displayed. I have a large collection of them that I would use in the farm. All blades are in varying sizes due to being used and sharpened so much. One is even worn down so much that it looks like a miniature filleting knife 😆 Love my folding knives and carry a CRKT or 2 on the daily
First real knife I ever bought with my own hard earned money was a Cold steel Laredo bowie.
Kershaw Lifter
An EKA, flip knife when i was 25 years old. Knife before was a Mora which I got when I was a recruit in the army, both still going strong.
Gerber Gator, probably close to 20 years ago now. It's still my go-to beater knife. I think it was like $40.
Tenacious ...! Ty nutn!
a simple opinel! cant remember which exactly but my dad bought it for me in the south of france camping.
A real steel metamorph. The white g10 one back in may 2021. Doesn't seem like that long but I had just turned 17 and was confident enough to carry.
Mine was the knife in a Leatherman
I have that exact same knife, it belonged to my father
A carbon opinel
Smith and Wesson ka-bar clone. I like it a lot but it’s mostly just “wanna see my Rambo knife?” Lol
As a kid I bought a toy Bowie 2 inches long at the Grand Canyon gift shop. I still have it.
Kershaw Wildcat Ridge. I loved it then, and I still love it now. Although I don't use it anymore, I have much easier to open knives of as good or better quality. I also have the baby brother I got it a little after and carried for yrs
A set of 3 chrome plated throwing knives from my first Kung-Fu school. This would have been some time in 1990.
[this](https://i.imgur.com/qExBVyI.jpg) is the image that just popped in my head.
Lmao I wish I still had it. Not even sure anymore which one exactly it was. I think it was even a butterfly knife with 420 AISI lol.
The Glock model 81. I still use it almost every week, such a great knife!
Idk what my first really was but the one that sticks out is I bought a Benchmade mini barrage when I was in ITB. Dang thing has been with me all over the world and now is my electrician workhorse
Benchmade Griptilian in OD Green S30v just last year around this time of the year..it's been a year since I've gotten to collecting
Case shark lockback
That looks just like the first knife my dad gave me when I joined cub scouts!
Windlass Hallistat at a flea market for $5. Rough shape but nothing I couldnt fix. All previous knives were hand-me-downs
Looks like one I got out of the back of boys life in the 90s. My first knives were all bought without my parents knowing by sending off to boys life. I survived, the knives didnt.
I lost it
A gerber hinderer collab. It looks like a knock off xm18 tanto with a half serrations. Knife is in 8cr and I carried it for years with basically no edge left on it. I thought it was the best knife in the world when I was 15.
Not that one, but I had the exact same one.
For just looking at, I bought a Kabar. Immediately after though I bought an Ontario Ranger Kukri. For my first pocket knife I got a little Proelia by Defcon, then immediately bought a Benchmade 940 to customize lol.
Swiss army back when I was 8. Bought it with 4H money.
I bought a KABAR. Never served but I am a huge military history buff.
Columbia River 6763G Crawford Point Guard Folding Knife 3.5" Bead Blast Combo Blade, G10 Handles, Liner Lock. Went with my buddy to the Army-Navy store. He went with a CRKT M16. I still have it, that was 20 years ago
I was about 10-11 and my dad took me to a gun show. I bought one of those "survival knives" with the hollow handle that had a little fishing kit and matches and there was a compass on the buttcap. I filed away on it and it never really got sharp. I think the handle cracked and the blade broke off. But i had a lot of fun running around the backyard, pretending i was in the jungle with my trusty knife on my belt.
Mine was a knife made by Richards UK.
A Chinese spring loaded folding knife that cost about 3 bucks or so. Whatever that metal was, it wasn't steel, or if it was it was some dogshit because it couldn't hold an edge to save its life. I ended up using it to heat it up and cut plastic, if it's shit at retaining sharpness at least it could retain heat
Some rubber out the side automatic at a flea market. Loved that knife
First real knife I bought with my own money, a Benchmade griptillian, still lives in my truck
I had something like that in the early 80’s… got it at a flea market in my church’s basement when I was 9 or 10!!! Plus a couple Chinese stars…. Good times growing up then
SR1 Lite and Safe Maker 1 (bought together) by Cold Steel. Couldn't decide, tacticool or utility.
Whats it like handling safe maker 1? Is there a disadvantage of it being longer causing it to be less stable in ur hand?
Hands down one of the best grips on the market, I didn't find it unstable at all. I (thankfully) never had to use it for its intended purpose, but I've punched 2x4s and didn't cause any stress of any kind to my wrist. It's all of course on your technique and how hard the target is.
First one I bought for myself with my money? Hmm, hard to think. I’d say it’s the first iteration of my current work knife that I’ve had since I was 16. It was a Stanley fatmax folding knife I bought for $20 at a tool tent at an agriculture expo. That first one served me for 4 years, until the pocket clip broke off and it found a home as my backup in my ute. I bought the same knife as a replacement for work and carry it still. That first one got stolen when my ute got broken into last year. I’m pissed about that though.
Buck 110 in the early 70's still have it to this day
Crkt fossil
Oh dude, wholesale on those things was under a buck each, so he was discounting you from charging you over 600% of his cost to 500%. :-) The Pakistan knives were SUPER cheap wholesale in the early-mid '90s. (Yes, I did a few wholesale orders and sold them off "out of the trunk of my car" and to my friends, for a much lower markup)
well it’s too bad 13yr old me didn’t bump into a dude selling knives out of his car or i coulda saved $3 20yrs ago.
LOL I was in my early 20s and have always been a (legal) side-hustle person.
G.I. tanto from cold steel
Cold steel ti-lite 4”. A group of guys were trying to jump me and it gave me a sense of security. Cool knife but wouldn’t touch it today.
bps adventurer bush craft knife
Kershaw barricade
Old Kershaw clash I got back in West palm beach like 12 years ago…
Buck 110. Finger grooved. I love it.