It is almost entirely jackknife's fault that I succumbed to the allure of the Case Peanut a couple of years ago. It is almost entirely a guy named Steve's fault that the one I got was yaller.
I loved that little nut. He bit my thumb a good one a bit after I got him. One evening, I was slicing some cheese, and he kicked through it, rolled in my hand, and hit the side of my thumb and gave me what is officially the worst scar I have from the tiniest knife I've used. His pen blade sliced like a laser, right through heavy leather when I was laying out holsters and knife sheaths. Cute, useful, sharp, and tiny.
He fit in my watch pocket, and got carried all the time, while I rotated through other stuff, too.
One day, I was hiking on a steep, rocky mountain trail, and pulled my keys out of my pocket to give my wife before she took a tired kid back to the trail head. I kept hiking with the bigger brat, and then realized that my Peanut wasn't in my watch pocket. I grumped at myself. It must have fallen out when I pulled out my keys.
When we started back down the trail, I kept my eyes open as we got closer to where mom and smaller brat turned around. We encountered another dad and three kids hiking up the trail. The littlest one showed me this nifty little yellow knife that was just his size that he'd just found.
I smiled and told him he was a lucky kid.
And laughed at myself. I got a Boker Peanut with redbone handles. It's not as good as my Case was. It doesn't get as sharp, and doesn't hold its edge as well. It doesn't ride in my watch pocket.
I got a Case Penknife this spring when I noticed that the Ace Hardware in town has a new Case display - no Peanuts in it, oddly, though. It's yaller. It's still not my peanut, but it's been winning me over. I don't think I've left the house without it in a month. It's got most of the goodness of the Peanut, and it's slim, too. I like it.
my sweat must be deadly haha. I am going to pick up a SS one soon!
