Any Love For Case Slimline Trappers

Very good knife...I like mine.

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.....bought one only recently, on a whim.


Sure, they're very nice indeed, nicely made (better than any of my Bose Case..!) but have to say, this one is more gentac......the kind of folder you'd slip into your 'best' Levis when off to a posh bbq... :D

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brownshoe said:
I don't think people like this knife because of its "print." Who cares if someone can see a knife in your pocket? They like it because it works, is cheap, versatile and easy to carry. It's not "flimsy" or "weak" and works well as a cutting tool.
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I used to keep my Case Slimline Trapper (Bermuda Green SS) in my work bag as a dedicated food cutting knife. I'd wash it off in the kitchen sink in the breakroom after usage, usually after cutting up some fruit with it. Stainless steel is great for that.

Work location changed, new rules, so no knives, but it was good for that purpose at the time. Good little knife.
 
The single blade is one of my two favorite Case patterns (the swayback is the other). I’ve always called it a Slimline Trapper, but it’s been called a truck farmer as well. My delrin in stainless gets plenty of use. Tight with no blade play, good snap. Can hardly beat it for the money ($24).
 
I'm much more likely to carry the slimline trapper "out and about" than I am to carry a regular full-size 2-blade trapper.
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Having said that, the slimline gets most of its use in the kitchen, slicing ingredients I can turn into creations like "egg stuff":
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I like the yellow delrin CV (thanks, Tom), and probably should get more yeller Case knives, since they look so good. Here are the two I currently have:
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- GT
 
The Case slimline trapper is probably my favorite case pattern.

It's a pretty long blade and handle but carries much smaller due to it's light weight and narrow, thin frame. The long slim blade cuts like crazy too.

I've had some that were very, very well made and some that were mediocre but for the money they are a fantastic value.

I greatly prefer the bareheaded models aesthetically and for the lighter weight but you cant go wrong with any of them

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AnW said:
Lots of great feedback, thanks everyone! Lots to think about but it sounds like I would be happy with it. I do think I'll wait until I can visit a distributor so I can play with one before I buy it.
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You might have to check out a few to find a really nice one. I think I checked out five or so, but mine is an inexpensive jigged delrin version.
 
JohnDF said:
Teachers perhaps. ;)
I'm allowed to carry a small traditional knife at work, per the law, but I'd rather not call attention to it.
It wouldn't take too much complaining from students or parents for my principal to tell me to stop carrying it.
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Stow it in a jacket pocket;) that's a no see zone:D
 
brownshoe said:
I don't think people like this knife because of its "print." Who cares if someone can see a knife in your pocket? They like it because it works, is cheap, versatile and easy to carry. It's not "flimsy" or "weak" and works well as a cutting tool.
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You must not work in a big city urban company. I live in a rural area & can carry whatever I want, whenever I want, but when I go into work in the city, I downsize. The one time I thought it would be cool to show a buddy of mine a nice Case medium frame trapper with a wharncliffe ... first thing he said rather loudly was ... DUDE, COOL WEAPON. All I would have needed is for one of the office ladies to overhear that conversation, and I'd be riding a one way ticket to the HR dept. Vast majority of those that grew up in that urban environment, know nothing of knives. That's why some of us know better than to carry larger knives at work...
 
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Lansky1 said:
You must not work in a big city urban company. I live in a rural area & can carry whatever I want, whenever I want, but when I go into work in the city, I downsize. The one time I thought it would be cool to show a buddy of mine a nice Case medium frame trapper with a wharncliffe ... first thing he said rather loudly was ... DUDE, COOL WEAPON. All I would have needed is for one of the office ladies to overhear that conversation, and I'd be sitting in the HR dept. Vast majority of those that grew up in that urban environment, know nothing of knives. That's why some of us know better than to carry larger knives at work...
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I live in a very urban area and grew up in one and I know a wee bit about knives. Learned from Uncle a NYC cop :)

I take the bus and walk to work through a park. I live as close to downtown in a major city you can and still live in a house. I was carjacked in front of my house so I always carry a knife that can be used for protection, such as a Police, a P'Kal, Matriarch, Auto-Stryker, Protech, Boker leverlock, etc. I carry two knives when one is a slipjoint.

Sounds to me you have some incorrect preconceptions about urban life, don't judge all cities by New York :). One of my former female coworkers likes knives and we used to compare. I gave a secretary a SAK I got as a promo gift. Sounds like your coworkers need an attitude adjustment.
 
brownshoe said:
I live in a very urban area and grew up in one and I know a wee bit about knives. Learned from Uncle a NYC cop :)

I take the bus and walk to work through a park. I live as close to downtown in a major city you can and still live in a house. I was carjacked in front of my house so I always carry a knife that can be used for protection, such as a Police, a P'Kal, Matriarch, Auto-Stryker, Protech, Boker leverlock, etc. I carry two knives when one is a slipjoint.

Sounds to me you have some incorrect preconceptions about urban life, don't judge all cities by New York :). One of my former female coworkers likes knives and we used to compare. I gave a secretary a SAK I got as a promo gift. Sounds like your coworkers need an attitude adjustment.
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It's not an attitude adjustment at all ... they just don't know any better - the guys I work with have never even held a fishing rod, shotgun or slipjoint ... they have no idea about the outdoors. I'm just saying the VAST majority of young urban guys today didn't have a father or grandfather that schooled them in the ways of carrying a pocket knife from a young age. You had an uncle who got you going in the right direction, but at least in my experience with a whole lot of folks that are fairly typical white collar urban genre ... they would never think of carrying a pocket knife to work - they just don't understand the concept and have no frame of reference ... to them, a traditional slipjoint is the same as a tactical or stilletto. Not to say there aren't guys like you who work in cities and are very knife savvy, but in my experience, there are far more than are not.
 
IMG_1809.JPG IMG_1814.JPG I have really come to enjoy this pattern! Easy in the pocket, but cuts like a bigger knife. Not wimpy at all like some may think, this knife can do real work.
In the upper photo, the two on the left are older and still have the factory edge and the bone is awesome!
The jigged Delrin and yellow are both cv with patina that the my crummy photo doesn't show and I carry and use each of them often.
The one on the right is a Boker. Perhaps a little better fit and finish, but a very light spring, otherwise very nice to use. The blade sticks up a little higher, so easier to pinch open than the Case versions, but all of them are quit pinchable.
And they look sexy, too, right!
 
Wild Ben, that is a terrific assemblage of “Slim Jims”! Obviously that is your pattern - tell me where I got the name Slim Jim from? As long as I can remember that is what I’ve known that pattern as and I remember my fellow boys in school calling that a Slim Jim, but I don’t ever see that name for this pattern on Blade Forums or AAPK. Wonder if it was just a colloquial name. OH
 
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