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What do you remember about what got you started collecting and what was the reason you bought the first knife you did?

This is important info as we start to talk about our collecting likes and dislikes here. We'll build off this question when we start thinking about the direction we want to take as we build a collection (or a new one).

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Permalink Reply by Trent Rock on October 4, 2010 at 4:03

Got my 1st knife when I was Cub Scouts age (9-10?)
There was a clothing store called Hilsons near me
Upstairs was The Official Boy Scout Shop
My mom would take me to Hilsons
While she was shopping for clothes, I would run upstairs to the BS Shop
I had my eye on the Official Camillus Cub Scout knife for a few months
Then one day my mom finally bought it for me :)

I "smuggled back" a Pastor Aleman switchblade knife from Tijuana when i was about 11
Think of the movie Losin' It!!!! ....heheheheh
I got it for like 5 bucks
It is worth about 80 now ;)

My family would go to Colorado every year for a month or so (My father was a Spanish professor.....summers off!!)
I would fish and camp
And carve my name in aspen trees (arborglyphs)
Like my father's father did
And his father...................
http://arborglyphs.com/

So I started getting into fixed blades hunting knives
Like Schrade Sharpfingers and Western L39's

I got caught up in th Rambo Knife Era after First Blood came out

I got a BuckLite 442 when I graduated from high school
I didn't buy any knives for about 5 years!!!

I started collecting guns in college
Guns got too expensive
So I would buy a knife here and there

I bought a hand made hatchet in Creede , Colorado around 2007

I found my dad's old knives in a drawer at my mom's house

And his hatchet in the garage

I got online because I wanted to buy a hatchet for throwing I could use in California (I left the Creede hatchet at my house in Colorado)
I discovered Bladeforums.com and EBAY
I fell in love with the economics AND history (my 2 fav subjects) aspect of COLLECTING
And here I am......

In MemoriamPermalink Reply by D ale on October 4, 2010 at 6:55

4 gen of Davenport's .. all first born in our families .. I'm the litle guy on me Great-grandpa's lap .. I was the only one w/o a pocket knife in that pic .. had to wait another 6 yrs.

The family pic may seem out of place here ......... it tis me roots .. and my interest in knives can certainly be traced back to my roots !!!

In MemoriamPermalink Reply by D ale on October 4, 2010 at 7:51

Stockman .. G'gpa & Gpa
Dad .. lockbacks
me .. Mini Cu'locks (Case), linerlocks (Queens current prod in D2), Buttonlock (Paragon & Queens 42L mini folding hunter), full size Cu'lock (Case), Opinels for utility, BUCK 112 for memories ...... folding for pocket carry, locking for safety !!!!

Permalink Reply by Bruce Cain on June 4, 2011 at 1:29

Couple, 6 months ago decided I needed a folder that I could access with one hand for fence work and feed sacks .. bought a Smith & Wesson auto. Was pleasently suprised that autos were available on the internet. Quickly learned the limits of cheap manufacturning.

Lurked on knife forums bought a Kershaw assisted Shallot and it serves as a tool quite well. I then purchased a Buck 110 auto conversion by Paragon. Too pretty to use and to heavy for pockets. Never did like sheaths. I then decided to focus on one pattern. The Barlow .. could Tom Sawyer be wrong?

I now need to cull the early purchases of vintage barlows. The really good barlows from 20s and 30s are too expensive .. hard to find. Now focus on GEC barlows though I carry a Cripple Creek .. love the long pulls and serious swedge on longer blade. Them GECs sure are purdy though.

Permalink Reply by Chuck Parham on July 3, 2013 at 6:30

I got my start when some terrorist group carjacked my wife and I in the summer of 2011 and forced us into the SMKW showroom. At least that's how my memory sees it. I started walking around and had that kid in a candyshop/ toy store on Christmas morning with no supervision feeling. I could not believe so many different knives existed yet alone were in one place. The planets must have surely been in complete alignment. The more I wandered, the fuller my hands became. An unexplained phenomenon to this day. I walked out with 6 knifes, catalogs, flyers, and a wife who was still in shock. The rest of the day while she went shopping, I was admiring my bountiful cache. At the hotel that night I was mezmorized by the treasure trove that lay before me. I had to pick one that would be my constant companion and what would become my EDC. I didn't know it was called a EDC until joining iKC. That was the beginning. Here is a picture of that knife. A Colt CT337. Light as a feather and opens faster than greased lightning. It does show more signs of wear since this picture was taken.