Case CV Sod Buster JR

slipjoint01 said:
Can I get a better soddie for the money? QUOTE]

No!

Sometimes a little pressure makes one make a choice that is telling. Like most of you, I love knives, and have many more than I need.

But...

In 2000, I was leaving on a cross country motorcycle trip, and I was taveling very light. Just the saddle bags and a T-bag on my HD sportster. I was ending my life long love affair with motorcycles, but I realized I had never done a trans-continental crossing. So there I was.

I wanted to take just one single folding knife with me that I felt would do everything I needed to do while camping out on the trip. Cooking dinner over a campfire or backpacking stove, set up camp in the great outdoors ranging from high desert to pine covered forest of the northwest. But a knife that wouldn't look threatening.

I went with a Case CV soddie. In Utah it stripped off the damp outer layers of kindling, in Colorado it cut extra tent pegs on a very windy night in the Rockies, in Oregon it helped open steamed oysters in Bay City. It never let me down in the 7,000 mile trip from one coast to the other and back again. I knew it wouldn't. If there's one single knife that has a feel of a old and trusted companion, that you can go anywhere and face the unknown with, it's a nice strudy soddie. As much as I love my peanut, or a nice little sak, it was the soddie I picked to go on a very ling ride with.

Carl.
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Noddy said:
The small case sodbuster is a cheap knife, which is whilst much loved, objectively pretty awful.

:D Well, it is if you don't like hollow grinds on small pocket knives that are meant to take a kick occasionally

Hence the liking for the flat ground Queen

Note that the yellow delrin Moore Maker is a well built thing in 1095 - flat ground too, and with a less bellied point as has been mentioned - that is not in itself a good/bad thing - there are advantages to both the Case and the MM belly

Its $40 tho

(The Case is one of those knives that, perhaps rightly, lots of people think they should own as a totem - I know that's how I feel about the thing. Wouldn't actually take it out with me :D :D)
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just curious, noddy; are you a tactial knife guy? i'm asking because it seems like you dismiss the soddies of being working knives. i know lots of ranchers and cowhands who use either a soddie, trapper, or stockman for pretty much everything.

nice post carl. :thumbup:
 
I love the soddie and Case xx is the way to go.I buy a lot of them and have yet to find one lacking a razor edge,tight snap,great F&F, and ready to work out of the box.Yes,the blade may or may not be perfectly centered and the edges may not match exactly,but those things just arent issues for a < $20. working knife to me.I think both the SS and CV are excellent, personally giving a slight edge to CV which if what ive read recently is true is actually 1095.
 
With the exception of some Opinels and Victorinox Alox SAKs I just don't think you can find a better value in a hard working folding knife than a Case Sodbuster Jr.
 
Back when I bought knives to use I tried Case. I ended up giving them all away because they simply were too soft. It seemed like you had to spend way too much time sharpening them compared to other brands on the market at the time. I just think RC of 54 is way too soft, even kitchen knives come with a RC of 56 to 57 from almost all manufactures. I would much rather have knives with a RC of 58 to 59 and would take a RC 62 on D2 any day of the week over soft CV at 54. I want a knife that will cut.
 
Now this catches my interest, Cultivateitnow. Can you please elaborate on how you used those knives, how they performed the tasks and how did you figure the CV steel hardness?
 
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