case brothers seahorsewhittler

[rev_jch]

Well I recieved the case brothers seahorsewhittler in rogers jigged bone for Christ-Mas. I have to say this is one sweeeet knife!!! Overall fit and finish very good. Its mind boggling though, all the other regular case lines I have to go through and pick the good ones out, but the case brothers, the limited editions are almost always good!?!!

If case would just pay more attention, this is aside from the steel they use, they would have a much better knife. I have had older cases knives from the 70's that were outsatnding quality, but it seems that for so long the overall quality has really been poor (since the mid 80's?). Now I do have to say that when parker owned it for a while the quality did seem to get better for a while, but that was short lived.

 

[rev_jch]

well I have to say as disappoimting as I have found case knives to be for quite sometime this case brothers whittler has turned out to be quite a good edc!!!

 

[Bastid]

Even the regular Case issues of the Seahorse are very well done.
It is very confusing.

Last year I purchased a regular issue Dr. knife (apple green bone) and the arrow head shield fell out when I unrolled it from the tissue. The knife also had unacceptable sized gaps in the backspring liner area and weak blade action. (The shield was not a big deal that epoxy could not solve, but disapointing none the less). At the same time, I picked up a Seahorse. There was no comparison in the fit and finish. My thoughts, without knowing for sure, are that they might want to consider upgrading the tooling for their older patterns, since the fit and finish on the newer patterns is good (blade action on new and old patterns could use a little work too).

 

[RDaneel]

rev_jch,

Question here on your Seahorse. Does the main blade tip sit below the level of the scales?

The reason I ask, earlier models did not and Case was to have fixed this.

Thanks,

Dean

 

[rev_jch]

Bastid,
I have seen some seahorse whittlers that left something to be desired. Case (pardon the pun!) in point I bought one jade bone that had really bad pitting in the blade. Im sure this was due to the steel being hot rolled. Another one, actually two, vintage bone seahorse whittlers had the same knid of problem except on the back of the blades.

RDaneel,
the tip of the blade does "sit" well beneath the scales, no problems there. It seems, just in my current experience with case knives. That the newer ones, fancier ones have better "fit and finish". Other than that the limited edition, special ones seem good.

I would highly recommend the case brothers line, they are quite impressive!!