Wowbagger
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I've died and gone to heaven here !
I am ecstaticly happy with my most recent Case purchase ! ! !
You may think me overly effusive but you (very few of you ) haven't seen the horrors that I have seen . [ that is about fifteen years of consistent, yearly , Case knife purchasing , using and collecting . Over a hundred and some in the collection . Over thirty of this Case Trapper frame style alone ]
After seeing another member here with a Case Trapper in Dark Blue Jigged Bone that had the nice evenly dyed , dark blue scales that I wanted in my first
purchase . . .
Something told me to roll the dice again ! Order another one ! (after all it has been about seven years since I ordered my under dyed
asymetrical one ) . Surely they have learned to work with the blue dye by now . . .
Dang , dang , DANG !
Just what I wanted !
Just when I had finally , after years of optimism , resigned myself to a level of attention to detail by Case that is less than it could be . . .
This latest Case Trapper is freekin' perfect !
The blue dye in the jigged bone scales is just exactly what I want ! Nice and dark with just the right amount of black / super dark blue in the middle and only the most subtle hints at the edges of the original white bone . (I have another exact same model and color that I bought seven years ago that is just too lightly dyed with too much white bone ).
The grinding / polishing of the scales and bolsters and coloring are nicely even and symmetrical on this new one as well ! !
aaaaahhhhhhhh .
And the Blades !
The blades are even decently sharpened ; VERY TOOTHY ( not a plus for me ) but evenly sharpened all along the edge , no burs (! ! ! !) , no dings AND the points are even sharp not all rounded over and polished ( as was the old de rigueur ).
Not in over a decade have I received a Case Trapper with blades sharpened this well .
Edge sharpness from the factory has never been a big deal to me ; I put my own more extreme edge on any knife I buy in the first days of ownership anyway but it is knice to see Case getting on top of this cronic problem , for the general public .
But
if I had followed my original , intent at the change of the new year and REALLY stopped buying knives (stop laughing I was actually serious this time ) I would not have this little Grail ! I would have missed out on a simple and inexpensive opportunity that has brought me A LOT OF SATISFACTION !
Out of nearly six hundred knives in my collection , all of them users that I carry at one time or another , some of them ~ $600 each , the Case brand Trapper fits my hand the best and every time I pick one up and use it it is like coming home . Not super steel in the blade but one of the very best , most practical , knife styles ever made ! !
Only one example , admitedly , but I am saying :
Go Case Go !
I am ecstaticly happy with my most recent Case purchase ! ! !
You may think me overly effusive but you (very few of you ) haven't seen the horrors that I have seen . [ that is about fifteen years of consistent, yearly , Case knife purchasing , using and collecting . Over a hundred and some in the collection . Over thirty of this Case Trapper frame style alone ]
After seeing another member here with a Case Trapper in Dark Blue Jigged Bone that had the nice evenly dyed , dark blue scales that I wanted in my first
purchase . . .
Something told me to roll the dice again ! Order another one ! (after all it has been about seven years since I ordered my under dyed
asymetrical one ) . Surely they have learned to work with the blue dye by now . . .
Dang , dang , DANG !
Just what I wanted !
Just when I had finally , after years of optimism , resigned myself to a level of attention to detail by Case that is less than it could be . . .
This latest Case Trapper is freekin' perfect !
The blue dye in the jigged bone scales is just exactly what I want ! Nice and dark with just the right amount of black / super dark blue in the middle and only the most subtle hints at the edges of the original white bone . (I have another exact same model and color that I bought seven years ago that is just too lightly dyed with too much white bone ).
The grinding / polishing of the scales and bolsters and coloring are nicely even and symmetrical on this new one as well ! !
aaaaahhhhhhhh .
And the Blades !
The blades are even decently sharpened ; VERY TOOTHY ( not a plus for me ) but evenly sharpened all along the edge , no burs (! ! ! !) , no dings AND the points are even sharp not all rounded over and polished ( as was the old de rigueur ).
Not in over a decade have I received a Case Trapper with blades sharpened this well .
Edge sharpness from the factory has never been a big deal to me ; I put my own more extreme edge on any knife I buy in the first days of ownership anyway but it is knice to see Case getting on top of this cronic problem , for the general public .
But
if I had followed my original , intent at the change of the new year and REALLY stopped buying knives (stop laughing I was actually serious this time ) I would not have this little Grail ! I would have missed out on a simple and inexpensive opportunity that has brought me A LOT OF SATISFACTION !
Out of nearly six hundred knives in my collection , all of them users that I carry at one time or another , some of them ~ $600 each , the Case brand Trapper fits my hand the best and every time I pick one up and use it it is like coming home . Not super steel in the blade but one of the very best , most practical , knife styles ever made ! !
Only one example , admitedly , but I am saying :
Go Case Go !
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Certain there will be evidence soon....
Where's the pics????? 
