Case Peanut Worth Rescuing?

pertinux said:
I haven't commissioned any work from him myself (yet :)), but would recommend glennbad based on pictures and reviews of his finished work here in Traditional.

~ P.
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Exactly who I would recommend too Sarah. He should be able to make a pretty close match to the mark side cover. The thing about saving the mark side cover is that the shield is pinned on. You can see the shield pins in the pictures. It'll make a neat little knife when cleaned and repaired.
 
Im sure someone here knows for sure, but I would be surprised if it were that expensive to have case do it. I have never had case work on a knife for me, but when I had a shield fall out and get lost, they mailed me 2 replacements free of charge. also, victorinox replaced the scales I melted on one of my saks and replaced the plier, which had a snag, for 5 bucks shipping. I would love to hear if you go that rout how it turns out. I do not know if the rules about giving value on knives applies to this sort of thing, but I would love to hear how it turns out. If it were mine, that is the rout I would investigate first.
 
Stich2442 said:
As far as reshaping the blade, you are looking at a 1/16 strong - 2/16th worth of material and about 15-20 min on a corse stone, focusing on where the blade sweeps up towards the tip, hold knife tip edge to stone at a steep angle and do small circular motions keeping in contact with stone, check to make sure it is going the way you want, when you reestablish the tip, do a few swipes on the corse stone of the entire blade to marry up the edge then finish to your desired likening. Like others have said Glenn does nice work, but you can also contact Case. If it were me I would clean it up, fix the tip call and talk to someone at Case and go from there, you'll be surprised how willing to correct a problem most manufacturers are.

Pete
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Stich,
Can you tell me why you would remove the broken tip from the blade side rather than from the spine which is already clipped? I have a similar project I was going to approach from the spine so the new tip wouldn't stand proud of the liner.
Thanks,
Doug
 
mutinousdoug said:
Stich,
Can you tell me why you would remove the broken tip from the blade side rather than from the spine which is already clipped? I have a similar project I was going to approach from the spine so the new tip wouldn't stand proud of the liner.
Thanks,
Doug
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If you have the time and know how, I would recommend re tipping a blade from the spine, to keep the point sunk and save as much of the thinner ground cutting edge as possible...just sayin' is all...
After reading Pete's post below, and re thinking this :o , a lot does depend on what blade shape you are referring to, and how big of a piece is missing...
 
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mutinousdoug said:
Stich,
Can you tell me why you would remove the broken tip from the blade side rather than from the spine which is already clipped? I have a similar project I was going to approach from the spine so the new tip wouldn't stand proud of the liner.
Thanks,
Doug
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My response was more or less a response to the OP looking for someone to regrind the tip, I am going off the photo provided and wanted to convey what a very simple fix it is. Depending on the damage which looks very minor from the pick provided. If only taking down from spine & depending on the damage you could change the pen into a sheepsfoot, if you look at the picture, it is almost where it needs to be, looks like the existing edge is thin, the shape of the tip looks like some poor factory grinds I've had on pen blades from some manufactures.


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If it is worse than it appears in the pic, I would split the difference, meaning work it from both sides to keep the integrity of the blades intended shape.

Pete
The more I look at the picture, I don't know if I wound do anything other than put a proper edge and use it, looks like it might sort itself out after a few sharpening cycles.
 
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leghog said:
Is the knife worth it?
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Yessir, it surely is! :thumbup: Personally, I'd clean it up a bit and send it in to the Case workshop for a little refurbishing. Wouldn't hurt to sent them an e-mail first and hear what they have to say...

Congrats on the lucky find (or rediscovery,) sir! :)

-Brett
 
Not to hijack this thread but I really enjoy conversations like this. I did a search but didn't come up with much, is there a thread posted somewhere on BF that shows any refurbished slipjoints? A before and after section would be great.

Makes me want to go buy a few to fix up.
 
Stich2442 said:
My response was more or less a response to the OP looking for someone to regrind the tip, I am going off the photo provided and wanted to convey what a very simple fix it is. Depending on the damage which looks very minor from the pick provided. If only taking down from spine & depending on the damage you could change the pen into a sheepsfoot, if you look at the picture, it is almost where it needs to be, looks like the existing edge is thin, the shape of the tip looks like some poor factory grinds I've had on pen blades from some manufactures.


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If it is worse than it appears in the pic, I would split the difference, meaning work it from both sides to keep the integrity of the blades intended shape.

Pete
The more I look at the picture, I don't know if I wound do anything other than put a proper edge and use it, looks like it might sort itself out after a few sharpening cycles.
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I realize now that I am hijacking the OP's thread and apologize for that but I was referring to your jack knife main clip blade repair coming up to the spine rather than the spine repair coming down to the sharpened edge.

Doug
 
Glenbad does excellent work, I sent a 70's era Case stockman with a broken back spring to him (that Case only wanted to replace) he sourced the back spring from somewhere, replaced it and sent the knife back in much better condition than it was before. I have a 10 dollar flea market Imperial Barlow with him right now that had a set of horrible scales on it ( they were super lose and wobbly). I am waiting with baited breath too see what kind of magic he works on it.
 
Thanks all, but especially thanks to glennbad. glennbad has graciously offered to help. I'll send the knife off to him tomorrow.
 
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