What are the first knives you ever got, what were the coolest knives and what did you do with them:
with this monstrosity from china you were the king amongst you peers!
This was my first very good knife and it still serves me well:
13 years old ...convinced mom to stick it in a pair of her socks to sneak it thru customs .
We were bad children
Cool! That Italian style switchblade! Never saw them in my area but we still knew about them 
I had a couple of flashlights as a kid, but no pocketknives.
My first high quality pocketknife I got was in 2008, when I was 32 years old.
boker tree brand
boy scout knife
‘melon knife’
probably a case knife or 2
10th Birthday.
Buck Stockman.
lost it at college,
among other things.
Victorinox Tinker.
Got it when I was about 9.
I got my first knife at 12 years old. It was Old Timer with two blades. Might have been this model: https://www.ebay.com/itm/293043434617.
I used it mostly for cutting open bales of hay and straw on the farm. I remember also whittling sticks and pencils sharp for fun. My parents confiscated it as punishment for unrelated behavior and when I got it back, it was all rusted for lack of care. I was pretty sad. I think I might have declined to take it back. I don’t remember what happened to it after that.
My second knife I got not long after. It was an Uncle Henry. Back then were made in the US and had a warranty against loss. It looks like this: Schrade 897UH uncle Henry Folding Knife - Etsy. I don’t have mine on me right now, but I still have that one. I also have a larger Uncle Henry from the same era—the Rancher model.
Oh forgot, I used the bigger one to remove gopher feet. The county had a bounty on gophers which were out of control population-wise. As proof of catching the gophers we would remove their front feet and store them in a jar of salt. When we had enough we’d bring them to the county and they’d count them out. My Dad also added on his own personal bounty as extra incentive. These amounts weren’t large, like $2 a gopher or something. But back then I felt like I was raking in the big bucks.
I had the one in the OP and I been surviving ever since
As a boy scout, we carried this ultra cool knife back then.
Made from unknown metal and faux leather seath, it has secondary blade that I never know the purpose.
The knife was so dull that it won’t cut any vegetable.
Had a few nondescript pocketknives, but my first “real” knive was a Buck lookalike. Brass+wood body, no idea what blade material.
I could open it one-handy by gripping it by the blade when closed, swinging out the (heavier) body, then doing a flip to grab it by the handle.
My first knife was Victorinox Climber. I think I was like 8 when I got it.
I still have it and it’s still my best corkscrew. 
My first knife I won when I was 3. Dad bought some tickets for a charity for something or other.
US made uncle henry golden spike
I still have it but have never really carried it much.
My next knife that I actually really did tote was a buck 110 when I was 9. That poor knife went through hell and back being misused, abused, and I learned how to sharpen with it. Long gone to the passages of time.
After that there is a long list after I fell down the rabbit hole. I’ve owned all kinds of brands over the years. I’ve kinda settled on my go to is either boker or buck today.
A victorinox I got as a kid, a large one with lots of tools, I would have preferred a smaller one since it’s a bit heavy and big, but it was (is) still super useful.
And Opinels of course.
Grandpa gave me my first pocketknife when I was about five, an advertising knife from his business. Some of my friend's parents thought my parents were terrible for letting me have a knife.
(Hand wringing friends' mommy on the phone calling my mom after her son asked for a knife of his own, "GASP!!! Aren't you afraid ?!? He might cut himself !!!" My Mom "He will. He'll learn not to. Anything else?")
Only thing Grandpa told me was "Never cut toward yourself". Of course I did, and cut myself, and still do sometimes. Still cut myself by accident occasionally too. You'd think after ~65 yrs. I'd have learned...
Grandpa owned an auto electric shop. Sold Willard, Gould and Exide wet storage batteries, Ray-O-Vac dry cells, Eveready flashlights & auto-electric parts of all kinds(6v and 12v bulbs, generators, voltage regulators, flashlight & lantern bulbs etc.) I grew up spending many years around crusty old mechanics, cars in grimy service bays, electricity, hand tools, sulfuric acid, etc. Fond memories.
Grandpa gave away some advertising stuff, pens & note pads & such. He had some advertising pocketknives made for his best customers. The shop was liquidated when he died. We found a few of the knives stashed away in his desk. They are some of my most treasured keepsakes.
Made by Autopoint in Chicago circa 1950's.
Don’t have it anymore; it was fun to play split with.
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Like lampliter my first knife also was a Barlow, when I was about 11 or 12 my Father bought a pair of them at the local hardware store for my older brother and I. Just like this one…
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My earliest “Coolness Factor” knife was a Made in Japan Pilots Knife with stacked leather handle, I was around 15 or 16 but can’t remember how or where I acquired it, I later learned it was a remake of the US service knife by Camillus and Ontario.
Mine looked just like this…
Around the same era I also has a Swiss army knife my Father also got for us, I believe it was a Victorinox, I’m unsure what ever happened to it and the Barlow, I did have them for many years though.
I always thought the Pilots knife was the coolest thing, I liked that you could use the pommel to hammer things (which I often did!) I had it for years longer but it was eventually lost in a property theft.
well, the “Coolness Factor” knife from back in the day
was this one i bought at an Army/Navy Surplus Store
during a school field trip after we went to lunch
downtown when the teacher said
“be back in 20 minutes”.
this was during that time when nobody got in trouble
for having a knife (ANY knife) or buying one.
now…chewing gum…that was trouble.
My first knife was this Maxam liner lock knife, like $5 from eBay. I think I was 13.
It’s surprisingly not trash. When I was 19 I forgot it was on me when I went to an air show on McChord Air Force Base and it got confiscated. I bought another one.
Just a few months ago I got an Olight Splint. Definitely a step up.