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Great post! I have a Peanut and I still fear going out with it as my dedicated folder sometimes, your story inspires me to carry it as my only knife tomorrow night at work.
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You know, it's not so much that the peanut is such a great knife, ( which it is of course) but that sometimes it's a metaphor for the essence of something. The peanut is a very capable cutting tool, but also it's a perfect example of how often we over estimate what is needed for the job. Knives, guns, cars, tools.
I've always been a fan of very compact things. Maybe my years of being an avid backpacker has an influence.
If you have to use it, most people won't even see it, andif they do, it's small size makes it seem less harmful. In my public use of knives, to include the peanut, small SAK,s and such, I've never had a bad reaction from the great non knife masses. With my peanut though, Ihave had the opposite in fact. I've had two female observers call it "cute" and "a pretty piece of pocket jewelry". In todays political climate, not a bad thing.
Carl.
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 ... (but) 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.
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