Case 6347HP critique

navihawk

navihawk

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Years ago I was in Boston milling around Fannual Hall one day.There was a Chessapeake tool and knife company there, a mandatory stop along with Stoddards.Having used my 63047 for an EDC for a few years anyways, I thought I would get a backup. Hence the 6347.Back then, if my memory serves me I seem to think it was around $27.00.It's a nine dot so we're talking 80-81? To this day it has sat in my meager collection just waiting patiently, as I just gave it a glancing over and not much more. As usual, one of these threads, a stockman one probably, invoked me to take a closer look.After playing with it for a few hours, I remembered why it was put away. I used to have a thing about blade wobble, and the main blade on this on has some play, the sheepsfoot less and the spey,none.That and the fact that it was bigger than the 3 5/8 I was used to was reason enough to let it sit.
I have been carrying it now for a few days and it is growing on me. I have been on the lookout for a new "perfect" knife for a while now, leaning to stockmans, I picked up a MooreMaker 2305, which I love. On my short list is a Schatt gunstock stockman, but I have mixed emotions on the size at 4 1/4.I know it has the quality. I thought the 6347 was big and it just measured at 3 7/8.And the BF stockman coming soon, well, that has a spot before the Schatt.
Anyways, to make a long story even longer,heres what I think of it now. Looking at the fit & finish, I must say I am impressed with it. Unlike newer ones,when you open it, it is smooth as silk. No little crunchy bumps. The thing echos when you close it, hard to explain, but you know what I mean. The CV is getting some age spots, just like I am but still nice and polished. Very hollow ground blades. I never see this anymore unless its on a custom.
So hers a challeng to everyone....Go into your collection and find an older knife you never cared for and carry it around for a few days. You just might find out that you have been overlooking a great knife for a few minor "flaws".

Check out the Ceasar on the blade. What a coincidence.
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Notice the different jigging on either side. Anyone have that similar disimilar scales?
 
You will find many older Case knives with disimilar bone handle scales front to back. This does not indicate any problem, just variations due to several factors.

One is the natural variations in the bone itself, to the dyes used and to the way that the bone accepts the dye. And remember in those days, on Case knives, bone was just "bone"...not sold as any particular color or jig pattern...unlike today where every Case series has a specific color and jig pattern.

And jigging tools are subject to continuous wear, so jig patterns can vary randomly.

Another factor is in the final hafting and buffing, which can affect both the coloring and the jigging of bone. Knives are typically hafted more on the "mark" side to provide a final finish to the shield, so this factor alone will often cause the mark side of a Case bone handle pocket knife to look different as compared to the "pile" side.

Indeed it is the rule rather than the exception that the two sides will look different.
 
Funny you should bring up the 6347. I'd been longing for one in carbon steel lately and found the recent damascus version wanting.

So, to scratch that itch I received this beauty (a 70's 3 dot) last week.

Fit and finish, walk and talk are all first rate. Other than having to sharpen her up, she was a gem upon arrival and just a great knife. I wish that the current crop of Case knives had backsprings with this tension and this overall level of F&F.

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The 6347 is a real classic. I was stunned when they discontinued the CV version in 1991 since it had been such a staple in the Case line.

I also do not like the current 3-backspring version. Blade stock seems too thin and I don't like the fact that there is no spacer between the tangs of the main blade and the sheepfoot blade.
 
Its funny how the same pattern can look completely different but the same at the same time. Beautiful bone on that one Blues.Thanks for the lesson in Case logic Knifaholic.
Blues that would make yours 4 years older than mine.Mine didn't get finished quite as well on the mark side. Notice my shield is still burred slightly. I like how 2 different Case employees have different eyes for finish.
Blues, you just posted that up a few weeks ago, thats the thread that made me dig mine out.Now I remember.
 
Well, if I posted it a few weeks ago then it was precognition since I just got the knife last Thursday! ;):p
 
Frankly, I think Elliott is capable of precognition...and what's more, of precognition and postcognition denial and assertion of pre and post cognition...which gets a little tricky. :eek: :p :D

That being said, I think a lot of the way he thinks.

I sure like that knife.
 
fewpop said:
Frankly, I think Elliott is capable of precognition...and what's more, of precognition and postcognition denial and assertion of pre and post cognition...which gets a little tricky. :eek: :p :D

That being said, I think a lot of the way he thinks.

I sure like that knife.
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Yeah, that's the ticket...:eek: :p


I meant to add, Navihawk, that though I didn't take a shot of the pile side, the scales are a near perfect match in terms of shade and jigging.
There is a bit of "whitening" toward the corner of one of the bolsters on the pile side.
 
Thats a beauty Elliott.. I actually like the feel of the 6347's, I've got big hands.
 
338375 said:
Thats a beauty Elliott.. I actually like the feel of the 6347's, I've got big hands.
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It's a great knife. I've mostly had the square bolstered stock knives in the past but recently added a few with rounded bolsters and really like 'em.

I like the 3318 but it's a tad smaller than I prefer. The 6347 splits the difference between the 3318 and 6375 real well. Very pocketable but still plenty of knife to grab on to and use.

It works well as a companion to that CV 6249 you sent me a couple weeks back. (If only it had springs like the 6347 it'd be a near perfect knife.)
 
I carried an old Greenbone Tested for decades! Loved that knife. It sort of turned me into a casual Case collector.
Here it is:
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It is well used, and slightly abused, but it never failed to cut or snap!! You can't fake patina like that either. That is well earned. I have turned to Schrade collecting, and carry Schrade jacks from time to time, and I love carrying Barlows. But this thread along with Blues' interest is infectious. You guys have me hankering to carry a premium Stockman again, and the 47 pattern size is just right.
That old Greenbone got away from me at Oregon. It brightened someone's face up to be able to carry a nice old Case, so I accepted a few bucks (what a softy).
Now that I am more serious about collecting knives, my little stockpile of Stockman knives look more like these:
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But I think I need a slightly used one to feel comfortable carrying it. It will have to be older, because I like the smooth rounded profile of the 50s - 60s knives. The bone on these 10-dots rounds right over to the liner, whereas the newer knives have a more "square" profile, I guess because square is easier to produce on machines (harumpf!)
The quest begins!
 
knifeaholic said:
You will find many older Case knives with disimilar bone handle scales front to back. This does not indicate any problem, just variations due to several factors.
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Back in the early '80s, when I was 13 or so, I road up to the local sporting goods shop (the old-school kind - you know, they had mostly fishing gear and firearms and made their money on bait and beer! :) ) and bought two Case stockman knives: one large - very much like navihawk's - and one medium. I went through their stock and picked the two that had the bone scales with the greatest variation from one side to the other. I WANTED that. I felt they really made the knives stand out as unique; mine. Sadly, the medium was stolen out of my jeans in the locker room during football practice (yeah, I used to carry a knife to school :eek: ). I never did really take a huge liking to the larger one and sold it off a few years ago.
 
Waynorth that Case with the punch is to die for. Awsome knife indeed.I know what you mean about rounded over scales.Seems a bit more finished like this XX. I wish this one was a three blade...
Again about the hollow grinds. Are the newer ones like that?
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ArfinGreebly said:
Blues, am I reading that right?



Seriously?

On the spey blade?
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What is that?
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That's the spey blade and it was originally designed for castrating livestock. So, it was meant to be kept clean and sharp and not used for general work where it might be dulled or carry dirt into a surgical procedure.

So, even if not used for it's original intended purpose, many folks preferred to keep that blade super sharp and separate for possible first aid work while out in the field.

I generally try to keep that knife and style blade away from the wife. ;) :p
 
navihawk said:
:eek:Bear with me Blues, I'm going through a bout of kidney stones. I'm in a bit of a fog.:o
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I can symptathize, 'hawk. I've had some good friends that suffered through and with them.

But I was just having a little fun with you in any case.

Feel better soon. :thumbup: :cool:
 
Blues said:
I can symptathize, 'hawk. I've had some good friends that suffered through and with them.

But I was just having a little fun with you in any case.

Feel better soon. :thumbup: :cool:
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I know that Blues.:thumbup:I just didn't want you to think I was too far gone:eek:even though I am.
If you take your finger and thumb and run it up that spey blade, that thing is about as fine as a scalpel.Very thin hollow grind good for fine cuts.
The sheepsfoot on the 47 is different where it sticks up a bit on the top swedge before it dives down.It sticks way out when its closed.
 
I love those 6347s. I really wish they would offer a nice bone handled 6347 with Cr-V blades. And I wish I had bought a few of them back in the 70s, when I was carrying a Buck 301.
 
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