Anyone still have their very first SAK ever bought?

[SHOCKNAWE]

I still have my very first SAK I bought as a 10 year old back in 1980 at Hymans Sporting goods, I carried this everywhere, my initials are scraped into the handle which adds character to it if you ask me! The leather belt clip has been on this ever since my Great Grandmother gave it to me so I wouldnt lose it, I still rember snapping it to my pants belt loop just about everyday as a kid.

Im new here but wanted to share my story about my very first Swiss Army knife

[enki_ck]

In a way, yes. But only parts of it.

My first one was a Wenger Commander variant (Snife) and as I was a kid, I abused it a lot so some of the tools, knife, bottle opener, broke.

I still kept it for years and used some of the parts of it and the scales in my first Wenger mod.

[Toolslinger]

Cool story and welcome to the forum .

I still have my first SAK. It's a Vic Ranger. I got it because it matched the one my Dad carried in the military. It still sees use although not as much as it used to.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Yes I've still got the Mauser Officers knife my mum and dad bought me when I was 17

Sent from the astropathic choir.

[dks]

Yes, I have my camper that I got in the 80s

[hiraethus]

Yes, I still have my first SAK - a Spartan from the early 90s.  I bought it when working in a hardware store when I was a teenager - got a good discount on tools from them, but not a good enough discount to buy the Swiss Champ.  Doesn't get much use now, but it's definitely a keeper.  I think I carried it most of the time when at school and university, and until I discovered the Skeletool back in 2008.

[Steinar]

Yup, a Wenger bought some time in the eighties. I don't carry it, though, but I carried it for something like 15 years. It pretty much became a part of me. Ironically, the experiences from that knife is why I prefer Vic today. (Sorry, knifey, you're still loved. )

[ducttapetech]

I wish I did.

[Rich S]

Yes, still have my Champion that I got in the mid 70's when I was doing a lot of backpacking, hiking and camping along the Appalachian Trail.
Rich

[MadPlumbarian]

I don't even remember buying one, but I do have my first one that I was given? JR

[PTRSAK]

I have the first one I bought, a white 91mm Vic Golfer c1989 and also have the first one I was given, a Wenger Toolchest that I got over 40 years go.

[SAK Guy]

Bought a Champion in '72 - '73. Carried it on backpacking trips, traveling abroad and along with a Pioneer, EDC'd it until 2003. The Champion was lost (along w/ 99% of my collection) in an '06 wildfire.

My first Pioneer was taken out my Victorinox store stock in '83 and carried daily till the mid 2000's. I had forgotten it in my truck toolbox and it was my only SAK after the fire.

Here it is on top of some fixed blades lost in the fire.

[HarleyXJGuy]

Not yet. 

[Fattsgalore]

Yes, in parts though. My daily carry still uses the original LED&pen scales of my first. And the other parts live on in other mods.

[HarleyXJGuy]

Dang I forgot to add welcome to the forum and great story OP.

[shark_za]

I do and its only 14 years old.
The one before that was my only SAK given to my by my father from his trip to Switzerland. Lost it and replaced it with the same model when I fly through there in 2000.

[frjack]

I still have my very first SAK I bought as a 10 year old back in 1980 at Hymans Sporting goods, I carried this everywhere, my initials are scraped into the handle which adds character to it if you ask me! The leather belt clip has been on this ever since my Great Grandmother gave it to me so I wouldnt lose it, I still rember snapping it to my pants belt loop just about everyday as a kid.

Im new here but wanted to share my story about my very first Swiss Army knife

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I had one just like your picture. Some horrible bar steward nicked it about 20 years ago. I loved that knife, it went everywhere with me.

Dragged over and dropped in front of you, courtesy of my one winged carrier pigeon.

[captain spaulding]

My very first knife and SAK I ever owned (gifted to me as a child) is a knockoff Classic. I still have it somewhere.

[nate j]

I still have mine - a mid-nineties Spartan.

[ScottP]

My first was an Explorer my dad brought back from a trip to Switzerland in the mid-80's. He also gave me a Classic he had carried for some time before that because he bought a new one on his trip. Both are stashed in my safe and will be given to my son at such time as he is mature enough to appreciate the provenance of them.

[Monrogue]

I still have mine, a Vic Executive.  Not too hard since I only got it a couple years ago.  I don't carry it anymore, but it was the SAK that got me started, and will have that special place in my mind.

[coSAK]

I bought my first SAK in 1994 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. It's a black Classic. All I could afford at this time. After a long time on the shelf it got (last year) a new life on the keychain of my better half.

[Aloha]

I also have mine Wenger S10 that I got a few years back. 

[Lynn LeFey]

I have the first SAK I ever owned, but didn't buy it. It was a gift from Jersey Devil, a Tinker.

I am straining REALLY hard to remember what the first one I BOUGHT was, and I'm coming up blank.

MAYBE the Farmer? Dunno.

I really feel like my brain is turning to pudding on this. It was only a couple years ago.

[Zed]

Luckily still got my old spartan that my aunty got me around 82-3 sadly she passed of cancer over 4 years ago,she has a big part of my life after my dad left when i was 9and she is the reason i collect stuff  R.I.P aunty jean, think ill carry it too work tonight for good luck as got a bad chest infection yet again :-(

[Higgins617]

Luckily still got my old spartan that my aunty got me around 82-3 sadly she passed of cancer over 4 years ago,she has a big part of my life after my dad left when i was 9and she is the reason i collect stuff  R.I.P aunty jean, think ill carry it too work tonight for good luck as got a bad chest infection yet again :-(

Sorry to hear all of that mate .

The first SAK I ever bought was last year because of the evil individuals you find dwelling in these forums , what have you people doneeeeeee?
The minichamp is constantly clipped to my front right belt loop every day for easy access now.

[Lynn LeFey]

The first SAK I ever bought was last year because of the evil individuals you find dwelling in these forums , what have you people doneeeeeee?

I know this feeling all too well.

[ColoSwiss]

Probably have some earlier SAKs that I bought as gifts for my Dad, and which he returned when I started collecting them.

However this is the oldest user I still have; an Economy Spartan, picked up on a trip to Switzerland in the early 1990s.

[ColoSwiss]

The first SAK I ever bought was last year because of the evil individuals you find dwelling in these forums , what have you people doneeeeeee?

I know this feeling all too well.

We're incorrigible; we incorrage everyone to get more SAKs. 

[SHOCKNAWE]

Nice to see this thread get so many hits!

Great stuff this forum is