Case Peanut: An Awesome College Every Day Pocket Knife

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I'm a college senior and have spent the last three and half years carrying a number of different Kershaw, Spyderco, and Benchmade folders. I do enjoy all of those knives and appreciate their innovative features, but have always had to worry about alarming people using them in public and watch others fumble around and have near accidents trying to close them after asking to borrow them. I also never really had that same level of deep appreciation that I feel when handling one of my grandfather's traditional knives or the case stockman he gifted me when I was younger. Several weeks ago I posted in the traditional section that I was considering adding a small traditional pocket knife to my edc (the original plan was for it to be a backup knife for public use/borrowing purposes) and based on your recommendations I picked up a CV case peanut in chestnut bone.

I think within three days of starting to carry my peanut I was leaving the other folders in the drawer, and haven't looked back since. For the first time in my college career I'm toting a pocket knife that I'm not hesitant to use in public, I can appreciate on a deeper level, is small and sits nicely in the pocket but still performs everyday tasks with flying colors. Simply put: I love my peanut.

I just wanted to thank all of you for the advice and encouragement during my transition to traditionals. The traditional crowd is exceptionally friendly (I've had less positive experiences in the modern folders section before) and it's really nice to not have to worry about being criticized for being uninformed. Here are some pictures of my nut! I haven't forced a patina or anything like that, although I cut up a lot of apples and other fruit so I imagine it will develop pretty quickly. Thanks again!

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Glad to hear from another convert, I rarely carry modern folders myself anymore. This is a great subforum to hang out in. Also good choice with the peanut, I recently misplaced mine and am on the verge of ordering another, great little knives that just feel right to carry and use.
 
I too started using my peanut during my graduate years in college. It handled the tasks I threw at it tremendously. I never needed it to do more than cut some food item before class, open a snack wrapper, or even sharpen a pencil. The best part, no one batted an eye if they saw it, and one classmate even inquired about the knife and later started bringing and using a similar jack knife.
 
I recently picked up a Case 3-blade stockman in CV and Amber bone. I'm really liking carrying it compared to the Paramilitary 2 I usually carry. My grandfathers carried, and dad always carries traditional knives, so I decided I wanted to carry a knife more like they always had.

It's also a lot of fun to watch the CV steel develop a patina, and I find it very easy to sharpen/strop to a nice edge.
 
Great choice, I have the same one and love it. :thumbup:
That looks like a really well used bottle opener, looks like you're having a good time in college! :D
 
Congratulations on the peanut, and glad to hear you are enjoying it.

My son would agree with your description in the title. He's in his junior year, and has been carrying a yeller peanut every day for almost a year now. I snapped this shot of it one day while he was home for Christmas.

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Thanks for sharing your first impressions about this traditional pattern - and a much appreciated here in Traditional Forum.

When I got my very first Peanut I was concered about its tiny size. But I remember clearly, when another member here told me "You don´t realize the knife in your pocket until you need it". That´s so true. I really love my several 'nuts. They are great tools for general cutting tasks. :)

BTW: Welcome aboard!!
 
If you want to have some additional fun with it, since you have already begun photographing the peanut, you could do what Mark did here.
 
Good choice on the peanut. I can't imagine that small of a knife alarming even the most skittish of your fellow students. Also, when you get one that pretty, I think it tends to be looked at more as a neat little cutting gizmo than a knife. Little do they know what a razor sharp blade on that bad boy can do!

Robert
 
Since you are in college and have caught on to the utility and ease of carry that a Peanut affords, I don't mind saying that you have been "enlightened" fairly early in life. I'm in my late 40s and did not catch on to the Peanut until just a year or two ago. Imagine if I would have known about them when I was your age--the stories I could tell from the past 25 years of Peanut carry would be endless. Still, it's never to late to see the light. Enjoy a great knife!
 
I'm so glad that the peanut is working out so well for you!:thumbup:

I too came to the peanut later in life, after carrying mostly other type of knives like the Buck stockman and a few different brands of sodbuster. For a while after going t the peanut, I carried other knives for the 'just in case' or for those jobs that the peanut may not be up to dealing with. Finally, one day I took a deep breath and took the 'other' knives out of my pocket and walked out the door with just my peanut. The world did not end, nor any other dire fate befall me. Now, many years later, my other edc knife that is on my keys so I can't leave the house without it is, my little Victorinox classic.

I like to think of the peanut as the little knife that could.:D

Now cheesiest, think of the mini copperheads, mini trappers. and small stockmen that may need to be checked out.

Carl.
 
It really is incredible everything the peanut can handle! Also love the idea of the time lapse photography, thanks for that link Doug!

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I'm so glad that the peanut is working out so well for you!:thumbup:

Now cheesiest, think of the mini copperheads, mini trappers. and small stockmen that may need to be checked out.
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Hahaha the small stockman and swayback jack have already caught my eye, although I don't have a whole lot of extra cash sitting around I do have a plethora of modern folders to sell/trade so some more traditionals may well be in the near future (don't be surprised if you see some recommendation requests popping up in the forum feed soon).
 
Good for you. My last year of school I started carrying a Laguiole. Still carried my Spyderco Military though. What can I say, I prefer slightly bigger knives.

- Christian
 
Good to hear you're developing interest, in traditional knives. I for one try to dabble in both modern and traditional folders, but at the end of the day it seems I'm becoming more partial to traditional patterns, being a young guy myself, I understand how you feel. The Peanut is a grand knife, and I've got a couple I carry from time to time. They're an acquired taste to say the least.
 
I carry either a Case Peanut, Leatherman Squirt PS4 or a SAK Bantam at work every day. I get fantastically positive reactions with the SAK and the Peanut...everyone that sees them relates some memory of a Dad, Grand Dad or brother that had one of the two knives.
 
as a late valentine's disclosure, my wife and i had rack of lamb last 14th at a greek restau and she had trouble with her chops. those wooden-handled, round-tipped serrated steak knives that look like they've been sliced over hard ceramic for more than a decade. so i took out my chestnut peanut (contradictory!) and sliced her chops neatly. soon, she got tired of me leaning over the table and she took out her "modern peanut" a zdp 189 ladybug and we took to slicing our respective food. the look on the waiters' faced changed. what looked like a cute couple celebrating valentine's was starting to look like bonnie and clyde celebrating their last robbery.

my peanut developed a patina right there at the table. lamb is kinda corrosive.
 
I love the Peanut as well. As with most of you the grand high muckba had turned me onto them. Fantastic little pattern, i carried mine most of my time in college as well, and most of the time when I am home from work now. Shortly before i was finished in college, i think it was may my little pocket pal slipped out of my pocket while i was taking the bus home. The small and light weight didnt make me notice it was gone until later that day. I was devastated and ordered immedeately a yeller one. However it wasnt the same as my beloved chestnut that had the function of a worry stone as well. And i worry a lot. So i carried it less than my chestnut. Nowadays i prefer to carry my 34OT or my 2011 forum knife that may or may not be THE one for me. I still smile and marvel at the f&f and the utility of it every time I take it out.
I now ordered a chestnut sbj and a new chestnut peanut as well as a gec pemberton that will be my dress knife. Peanut and the 2011 for city carry, #06 for dress carry and all the other knives as fill ins. :D
I also travel a lot to germany so one hand modern folders are a no no. Better play it safe with slipjoints.
I still carry higher end modern folders. Mostly for work tho. I venture into customs now, but sometimes in fits of minimalism i sell a lot of them and only keep my trusty traditionals.

The long lost son
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And the current pocket favourites.

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Glad the Peanut is working out for you :thumbup:
 
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