I'm excited. I generally carry around a stockman, either a Buck 301 or 307 for the most part. I've carried stockman knives around for about twenty years now. I remember when I was a kid trying to decide between the stockman or trapper as my pocket knife, and I never did get that trapper. Then last Christmas my mother in law gave me my first Case knife, a stag tiny stockman. Way too small for the pattern, but I still liked the little knife. The Case was a lot different than my usual Buck.
Now I have my first Trapper coming to me by way of the USPS. Should be here any day now, and I'm not good at waiting. I ordered up a Case Trapper with CV blades and Chestnut Bone scales. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the pattern stacks up after twenty years of having a sheepsfoot blade at my beck and call. Looking forward to developing a patina, too. Think I'll let it patina on it's own over time. Thought I'd use the spey blade for food and the clip for everything else. I've never really been sure what to do with the spey blade on my stockmans, so I generally put a pretty steep angle on it and use it as the beater blade. Don't think I'll do it to the long one on the trapper though.
I know there's no pictures in this, but I'll post one once it comes to me. I just thought I'd talk about it here because no one I know personally cares about knives at all and it's nice to have someplace to talk about it without eye-rolling or blank stares.
Now I have my first Trapper coming to me by way of the USPS. Should be here any day now, and I'm not good at waiting. I ordered up a Case Trapper with CV blades and Chestnut Bone scales. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the pattern stacks up after twenty years of having a sheepsfoot blade at my beck and call. Looking forward to developing a patina, too. Think I'll let it patina on it's own over time. Thought I'd use the spey blade for food and the clip for everything else. I've never really been sure what to do with the spey blade on my stockmans, so I generally put a pretty steep angle on it and use it as the beater blade. Don't think I'll do it to the long one on the trapper though.
I know there's no pictures in this, but I'll post one once it comes to me. I just thought I'd talk about it here because no one I know personally cares about knives at all and it's nice to have someplace to talk about it without eye-rolling or blank stares.
