Okay, I understand that different kids are responsible at different ages. I was given my first knife before I was in third grade. My dad showed me how to carefully handle, use and store it. I was always very, very careful. It was not a nice blade by any means, but it had belonged to my great grandfather. It's the only thing that I still have of his. Actually, it's the only thing anyone has of his.
So to my question. I have a six year old son who, I feel is responsible enough to wear a blade on his belt when we are fishing or hiking. I'm thinking about "giving" him one this summer. When I say giving, I mean handing it to him when it's appropriate to carry, then having him give it back for storage when we're done. So, he won't have it or use it without supervision.
Has anyone given their boy a blade. I was thinking an S5LE would be perfect. It would be fine to clean fish and whittle. He wants my AK or KZ, but, that's not going to happen.
Any thoughts?
When my daughters were about 5 and 6 I gave the each a sak for camping just before leaving on our annual camping trip to big bar lake.
The following year they each got a lock blade with about a 4 inch blade.
Their first fixed blades were bucks that my dad gave them.
I would keep their first knife as being relatively inexpensive as even the best behaved kid is still a kid and may loose it.
My daughters were both around 13 when they started getting good knives.
I do not like mora's as a first knife for a kid, the knife is ok but their sheaths are terrible and just beg to loose a knife if the kid is active,
When my one nephew was 12 i bought him a buck "guide" series knife, it was under $20, was compareable to a mora in quality but the sheath was much more secure
