Case knives are now calling to me

Found this old thread: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...anut-Today!-Produced-By-Frost-Cutlery-Company

and this - from the Frost Cutlery website:
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Well, I have to retract. When Pete posted his reply, it caused a light bulb to come on in me little brain. :D

In 2011, I purchased my only Corelon handled Case Tiny Toothpick at a local dealer. At the same place I purchased a few other Case knives. After I got home, I did in fact notice the large print on the bottom of the Corelon handled knife box, which said: "Genuine Corelon Handle Produced by Frost Cutlery Co. under sub-license with W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co." :eek::eek::eek:

The knife was very pretty, but, that statement caused me to examine that knife so very carefully. :grumpy: The blade had the 2010 Case XX tang stamp and the same shield as the knife above. There was no doubt that the blade, bolsters, and liners were identical to other Case Tiny Toothpicks, which I already had. I continued to google and check via internet sources and never actually came to any conclusion. I would guess that Frost made the handles and glued them to the liners, there are no rivets on Corelon handled knives. I would then guess that Case assembled the knife, but, maybe not.

Over a period of a few weeks, the knife lost it's allure to me and when one of my local knife trader friends commented on how lovely the knife was, I dropped the knife on him like one might drop a red hot piece of metal. :rolleyes::D He wanted if to give to his wife, so I figured all was good. ;) Well, maybe I was a little bad, but, he got it for a bargain! :)

I think the Corelon handled knives are the only knives that play into the equation between Frost and Case. Nothing written in stone, just one of my experiences.

P.S. - and I did give him the box that came with the knife. :p
 
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Beware the peanut knife, my son.
The blade that gleams, the scales that snatch...your breath away.
with apologies to the man in my signature line
 
Dale Gribble said:
Two words: Mini Trapper.
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Absolutely!

I picked up mine a few years back by mistake. I jumped on the last few minutes of a bid and the auction site for what I read as a smooth chestnut bone Trapper a favorite pattern for a long time. Only after I'd won the bid did I realize it was for a Mini Trapper. I was thinking, "Oh man. I hope I like this thing."

I loved the darn thing. It is my "pocket knife." I tried to quit carrying it recently as I was trying out some different loadouts in my pockets. The Mini Trapper went back in my pocket a few days ago and it's still there. You never feel it until you reach in your pocket and then it sort of slides into your hand.

Yeah. What Dale said. Mini Trapper.
 
You gotta to have a Case 6318 to carry - whichever flavor trips your trigger. OH
 
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I have been looking online and the ones that I am currently drawn to are the Mini Trapper with a wharncliffe secondary blade (instead of the spey), Saddlehorn, Pen Knife, and Texas Jack.

Is the spey blade useful for everyday carry?
 
Daddyo16 said:
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I have been looking online and the ones that I am currently drawn to are the Mini Trapper with a wharncliffe secondary blade (instead of the spey), Saddlehorn, Pen Knife, and Texas Jack.

Is the spey blade useful for everyday carry?
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Forget the spey blade....get the Wharncliffe.
Also...check out the new Tony Bose Teardrop design in Pocket Worn Red Bone. Excellent knife at an affordable price.
Here's a pic.....


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The spey blade is not a favorite of mine. It's the least used blade on my stockman knives and I think it looks funny when it's on a trapper/mini trapper, all long and round at the end like it is. But when I carry a trapper model, which is not that often, it turns out to be my most used blade.
 
Daddyo16 said:
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I have been looking online and the ones that I am currently drawn to are the Mini Trapper with a wharncliffe secondary blade (instead of the spey), Saddlehorn, Pen Knife, and Texas Jack.
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All of the knives listed are fine choices.

Is the spey blade useful for everyday carry?
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Depends on the actual design of the spey blade. It seems to be a completely different style of blade on different knives.

The long spey blades on Case Trappers and Mini Trappers are great thin slicers. They are ideal for food prep work where you don't need the point, and are good for things like spreading condiments. I don't hunt or trap game, but I would guess they are probably good blades for skinning or game processing.

The shorter spey blades on stockman patterns, those with the almost semi-circular tip, are still useful for things where you need edge but not point. Think of when you need to make a draw cut but you don't want it to go too deep, or when you need to perform a slice using the tip only, such as when you are working with a vertical surface and are pulling downward but can't or don't want to rotate your hand upwards at the wrist to bring the belly of the blade into contact with the surface. Easier to show than to explain.

My most often carried Stockman patterns (Case 63032, Buck 303) have a pen blade in lieu of the spey. But when I carry a Mini Trapper or Trapper it's usually got the long spey blade on it.
 
A Case small jack knife is a handy knife to carry and use as are several of the suggestions above.
 
This one called on me yesterday, and it's certainly staying :D Chestnut Bone cv sodbuster. Plus points: bone colour&jigging, blade centre and VERY sharp on arrival, good snap, very nice finish, good price. Minus points: none, except I should've got this sooner! Seriously though, this is a very attractive variant on the sodbuster theme, nice shadow bone which is not heavy or bulky in the pocket. True, it could not endure the rough-house treatment of its delrin or wood scaled counterparts but it makes an elegant change. Well worth looking into. Thanks, Will :thumbup:

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I must agree that the Mini Trapper is highly addictive. And it isn't that "Mini" - I had ordered mine sight unseen and when it arrived I was a little surprised. I already had the Tiny Trapper and it IS "Tiny"

The Mini Trapper in Dark Red Jigged Bone with CV blades:

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And along with the truly tiny (Magenta Peach Seed Jigged Bone with SS blades):

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The Mini is the perfect pocket knife for me. Not heavy enough to weigh you down. Not too small as to be a struggle to use. Friendly looking. Feels like and old friend.

The Tiny is for work and going into Boston (the Tiny is sub 2" blade. My job has a 2 inch limit and Boston has a 2.5 inch limit).


And here is the one that STARTED IT ALL for me:

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The Case Hawkbill Pruner in Yellow Delrin with CV blade. This knife is VICIOUS! Check one out and you'll buy it.

Have fun with Case !!! I was able to limit my spending to just these 3 by taking a lower paying job - otherwise I would have been screwed.


:)
 
rma100 said:
From several individuals with close ties to the Knife Industry and from an eyewitness.
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I'm going to email case and see what they say,would you care to supply the name or names of the people you mention,especially the eyewitness?If this is true,I for one would be very upset as a long time collector and life member of the collectors club.
 
Send your e-mail to Fred Feightner, I believe he is Director of Customer Relations for Case. You can also go to another Collector Forum on the I nternet and bring up the subject. See what happens.
 
rma100 said:
Send your e-mail to Fred Feightner, I believe he is Director of Customer Relations for Case. You can also go to another Collector Forum on the I nternet and bring up the subject. See what happens.
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I'll shoot an email to case,but,Why should I bring it up on another forum?would they know better than case themselves who makes the knives? There is certainly a big difference between gluing handles on a single line of knives for case and actually producing a finished product with the case name on it,and completely different from claiming that frost makes most of the case knives.
 
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matt said:
I'll shoot an email to case,Why should I bring it up on another forum,would they know better than case themselves who makes the knives?
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I would be interested in the answer they give you, if you will. ;)
 
I'd be interested, too.

"Genuine Corelon Handle Produced by Frost Cutlery Co. under sub-license with W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co."
That's kind of an ambiguous sentence. One could read that to mean that the handle is produced by Frost.
 
I also had the Case bug bite me a few days ago. I picked up this beauty:



Case Backpocket TB 61546 SS. I wanted a slim Case knife but with a large single blade and this was the winner. Found it at a local hardware store that regularly carries Case and Moore maker knives. Due to the prices I plan on getting more soon when I visit Bass Pro in San Antonio later this week for vacation :D

Edit: I keep changing the orientation of the pic but it still wants to sit long ways...:o
 
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