A few recent jacks

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augustus88

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All the recent discussion about Peanuts and Texas Jacks made me give Case a 2nd chance. The Case Crandall Peanut and Amber Bone CV Texas Jack were great deals at $27 and $23 plus shipping. The 2007 Peanut has a higher level of fit and finish than the 2004 Texas Jack, but overall both are excellent. Good to see Case improving quality. Wish the peanut was CV but I can live with the SS. I immediately fell in love with the Peanut so I stitched up a little leather pocket clip pouch for it. The pouch keeps it scratch free and ready for quick deployment.

I've had the Boker Stag Copperhead (carbon steel) for about a three weeks now. Very nice knife for the money.

Great knife month for me so far!:thumbup:

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Were did you get the texas jack for $27?!:eek:

Nice pics! I love all three of them.

How long is that boker? Do you have a pic of all three together?
 
stingray4540 said:
Were did you get the texas jack for $27?!:eek:

Nice pics! I love all three of them.

How long is that boker? Do you have a pic of all three together?
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The Texas Jack was $23 on an eBay auction.

I don't have a picture with all three together. The Boker is 3 3/4" closed and is much larger and thicker than either Case knife. The Peanut is 2 7/8" and the Texas Jack is around 3 1/2".
 
Nice pictures. Do you have any of the Boker with both blades full open? I would like to see that if it's not too much trouble, I've been eying that one for a while. Oh, and where did you get the nice clip sheath? That looks really nice too.
 
Blue Sky said:
Nice pictures. Do you have any of the Boker with both blades full open? I would like to see that if it's not too much trouble, I've been eying that one for a while. Oh, and where did you get the nice clip sheath? That looks really nice too.
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I'm going to take some more pictures of all the knives together and open so check back this evening.

I made the clip sheath myself. The sheath can be clipped inside or outside the pocket because the clip is very strong. The leather was from Michael's Arts and Crafts for $4. The clip came off a cheap $5 cell phone pouch from Lowes. The rivets were leftover from a previous project. They were part of a kit that included the rivet setting tools for $6. The outer layers of leather are glued to the lining layers and then the whole thing is stitched together. I hand stitched it with a Tandy Leather stitch awl.
 
Sweet looking knives and pouch! Glad you took another chance on Case with the newer ones. A major difference now and coming back out of that slump they seemed in for a while. I think several manufacturers seem to go through it. Queen seems to be having issues at present and a lot of inconsistency. Hopefully, they will step back, take a deep breath, and get back to basics such as F&F consistently.
 
Man, those are good looking knives, and terrific photos. :thumbup:

Thanks for sharing those. Gotta love a jack knife. :)
 
As promised here are some more photos.

I really like my new Case knives, but the Boker Copperheads are still my favorite production slipjoints.

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Boker does put some beautiful stag on their knives. I have a couple of Boker slippies in stag and all are beautiful and warm. Nice gathering there.
 
Blue Sky said:
LOL, my wife didn't buy the "only one" comment either.
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That's when you need to begin being creative and say things like "at least I don't gamble, drink or do drugs" (excessively). :p
 
It looks like you have every Boker copperhead except mine (carbon blades, smooth redbone). I predict another slipjoint in my future, this time with a large blade/pen blade combo - maybe a peanut.
 
Those pix are really 1st class:thumbup:

I have the Crandall Peanut as well, Half Whittler too and think it is a fantastic bone colour.Too bad there's no Wharncliffe Mini-Trapper in that series. Was thinking about asking Muskratman to change scales for me but haven't heard of him for a while.

As for Böker, waiting for my first cv Copperhead&looking forward to it on the strength of your pix thanks.
 
Blues said:
That's when you need to begin being creative and say things like "at least I don't gamble, drink or do drugs" (excessively). :p
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That works all right, but all I usually have to do is casually comment on all the excess stuff she likes to have like shoes, clothes, jewelry, etc. A little perspective goes a long way sometimes.:)
 
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