your first switch

[blademan]

The very first one that started it all:




About 5 years ago from Bladeplay, still very happy with it.

[Viking45]

Like many of us here my first was a Rizzuto. Mom and dad took me to Mexico in 74 and we bought three,two black and one white.
It's possible mine is still in a junk box somewhere but I have my doubts.
I had no idea until becoming a member here that there were so many variations.
Mine had Rizzuto Estiletto on the blade and the bail had some kind of file pattern.

My first quality switchblade was a 9 inch Italian with stag and a bayo blade I bought at a gun/knife show in the 80's.

[blademan]

The reason why i bought this red one was because as a kid i used to own a manual italian style stiletto..i'm not quite sure what happened to it, but about 30 years later i still wanted one that just looked the same it made quite an impression back then.
I think the one i had back then was a manual transitional style 11" red pearlex..so the second switch i bought was...the same red pearlex, only in 11".

[john]

My first auto was a green camo NATO otf that I bought in a gift shop in Sorrento, Italy in 2006. It cost a whole 8 euro. Since then I have spent thousand building my collection. It was instant addiction at first flick. I'll post a photo later.

[peter44]

My first auto was a green camo NATO otf that I bought in a gift shop in Sorrento, Italy in 2006. It cost a whole 8 euro. Since then I have spent thousand building my collection. It was instant addiction at first flick. I'll post a photo later.

Addiction at first flick , i love that also that red pearlex is nice , i have one in green with the beltrame B over rostfrei stamp .

[john]

Hello Peter,
You can use my quote anytime in fact I insist. Was that green stiletto your first?
John

[peter44]

Hello Peter,
You can use my quote anytime in fact I insist. Was that green stiletto your first?
John

hello john my first is the orange pearlex , the first pic on this thread . ive shown you mine now show me yours

[FreeTheArmy]

It's great reading all these posts. Thanks Peter!

Mine I got from a gun dealer back in '95 or so. I was a young teenager. He called it a "kit stiletto." It was stamped "ITALY INOX." Scales were black plastic. Bayo blade. 9".
In the same transaction, I left with a NATO MILITARY OTF. I considered it cheap crap and quickly turned the infamous five dollar profit at church that night. Sold it to the music leader's son
But the stiletto I had up until recently. -Sold it on SD for less than I paid for it.
all the best!

[peter44]

Five dollar profit at church i love that , black market trading when your a kid , the illegal profiteering in cigarettes and free school meal tickets sold on for profit i remember those carefree days.......

[JAGMAN]

An early Edgeco was my first auto.
I had owned and lost previous Italian switchblade style knives when I lived in the UK but none with a working button!
I still have this one but I did straighten the warped scale, was previously shown on an older thread

[javacupper]

In 1965 when I was 16, my father and I flew over to Germany to meet up with my mother and sisters who were already there. I bought my first knife there, a Bonsa leverlock which was later stolen. I picked up the same model knife in the photo on an auction.

[Viking45]

In 1965 when I was 16, my father and I flew over to Germany to meet up with my mother and sisters who were already there. I bought my first knife there, a Bonsa leverlock which was later stolen. I picked up the same model knife in the photo on an auction.

Wow. A Bonsa as your first switch. Very interesting story Java.
Sorry it was stolen.

[BTB0923]

My first was home-made, kind of. It was a switchblade comb, only I removed the comb part and replaced it with a steak knife blade. Kind of lame, but I was just a kid and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[dark2023]

My first was home-made, kind of. It was a switchblade comb, only I removed the comb part and replaced it with a steak knife blade. Kind of lame, but I was just a kid and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

My uncle did the same, 'cept he used 2 of those hardware-store razor blades instead of a steak knife.

[autoknife]

Here's mine and I've had it close to 25 years now. It's an 11cm "W German" Hubertus with the sandblast etch and factory file work and it cost me $195 back then.