Merry Christmas and happy New Years, most of the current members probably don’t know me, the older members, Paul Hilborn, Jack Black, Gevo, Jacktrades NBK, Jackknife and a few others are old pals sorry if I left anyone out, I know some others from my time are no longer regulars here Andi, Doug Ad, Jon Slider and Flint Hills come to mind anyway I digress.
I’ve passed the 8 years mark of consistently carrying my chestnut bone cv peanut every single day, not once skipping.
For the folks who are newer I was gifted a Case peanut by my newly born daughter 8 years ago, at the time my main carry knives for work were a GEC moose, a opinel #9 or a large Boker stockman, as a kid I carried smaller knives like a Case 6201, small Buck etc. I was thrilled when I received the little peanut but at the time I thought of it more as a trinket than a working tool and said it’s small enough I’m going to carry it every day. Well to my surprise every time I needed a knife my right hand would slip into my watch/coin pocket of my jeans pull the peanut out open the pen blade and do what needed to be done and returned. To my own amazement I started to use the peanut more than any other knife, I still carry a larger knife paired with it, mainly because I’m inflicted and a knife nut but that only comes out in situations that require a larger blade or emergencies where you need to muscle through and not take thoughtful use of your knife, but the small pen blade on my peanut is probably the most used pocket knife blade of mine, it’s past older knives that I also carried for long periods of time. When I was originally gifted the peanut a few months later I came across BladeForums and found Jackknifes tales which I’m sure like others fueled my peanut glory, I’m sure Carl’s dad would be impressed I’ve done everything with this little jack knife, fixed meals, countless fixes of appliances, toys, carpentry task, clean crappies, whittle you name it it’s been used to do it, the pen blade has been used for all sorts of poking, proding, scraping, scribing, an awl and yes even light prying. The jigging has been naturally pocket worn, the shields edges have rounded and smooth, the blades are showing some ware, thinning as it’s used often and kept sharp, it’s patina is a dull grey and always in a state of flux. Too bad photobucket has turned the internet into a ghetto of broken windows or I’d post a picture, I’ll try and find a way to post pictures, is there anyway of posting directly with the new BF format or does it still require a hosting site? It’s been a long while since I’ve posted anything, here are some older links of my peanuts journey.
https://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1003534-If-only-a-Peanut
https://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1021860-The-Year-of-the-Peanut
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/2-years-of-consistent-peanut-carry.1138253/
Great to see you here my friend 
Hope all is well, and that you're still getting time to do a little fishin' 
