Case Pocketworn

Ace Rimmer said:
Loving this thread! I do like pocket worn, very much. I just took this picture intending to post in another Case thread, then came across this one, so here I am. I have four Case swaybacks and I think this is my nicest one. If I recall correctly, this is "pocket worn old red bone" and is from 2011. There is a bit of a story to go with it...
We travel to Michigan to visit family at least once a year and often take "blue highways" and avoid the interstates. Several times we passed through Reynolds, Indiana, a little town where there is a nice hardware store with a big Case sign on the side. I've wanted to stop but we usually passed by at the wrong time of day, or on a Sunday. Finally we got a chance to stop. I found this beautiful swayback there, and had a chance to talk Case knives with one of the employees, who showed me the cheetah that is his daily carry. My wife bought something there too, a shovel as I recall.


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Very handsome swayback jack (or gent, I suppose)! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:

I attended grad school at Purdue in West Lafayette IN, not very far south of Reynolds, and I had family and friends in Michigan, so I've traveled through Reynolds dozens of times and never realized there was a Case dealer there! Of course, that's probably not so surprising since I've seldom driven that route since about 2001, and didn't get re-interested in pocket knives until 2014. Is the hardware store on the main east-west street through town, or is it on the north-south street, which is what I usually travelled (US421 going north from Reynolds and State Road 43 going south IIRC)? My wife still has relatives in Indianapolis, and maybe we'll have to plan an "alternate route" next time we head down to Indy. 🤓

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Very handsome swayback jack (or gent, I suppose)! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:

I attended grad school at Purdue in West Lafayette IN, not very far south of Reynolds, and I had family and friends in Michigan, so I've traveled through Reynolds dozens of times and never realized there was a Case dealer there! Of course, that's probably not so surprising since I've seldom driven that route since about 2001, and didn't get re-interested in pocket knives until 2014. Is the hardware store on the main east-west street through town, or is it on the north-south street, which is what I usually travelled (US421 going north from Reynolds and State Road 43 going south IIRC)? My wife still has relatives in Indianapolis, and maybe we'll have to plan an "alternate route" next time we head down to Indy. 🤓

- GT
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Looking at Google Maps, I guess the store is actually on Washington Street (running north-south), with the north end of the building on US24 (2nd Street, running east-west). So, just a couple of blocks from the intersection of US421 and US24. The first picture was taken from the parking lot across Washington Street. The day we stopped it was raining like crazy, so when we passed back by on the following Sunday I stopped to take a picture. The second picture shows the sign on the north end of the building that caught my attention as we passed by on US24.
I have three Indiana Case knives. The other two (a Case Select Wharncliffe mini trapper and a teardrop) came from the hardware store in Ossian. Kind of off our route, but I wanted to stop because they are a Platinum Dealer.
Tried going north from Crawfordsville through Lafayette and then on toward Logansport one time. Turned out to be kind of a "you can't get there from here" situation. No easy route from the southwest side of Lafayette to the northeast side!

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Sorry everybody, I havent tended to my thread well. Lol
I realized I havent posted my pocketworn knives! Gasp! I will fix that, since I like them! I think of the pocketworn line as just a different finish option basically where they just polish the knives extra, which I think is nice. I really like the smooth feeling of them, and they look nice. Adding my own wear just makes them get even smoother.

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I like the Pocketworn bone handles just fine and I think it was a great idea for Case in marketing this line of knives. My favorite Case Knife to gift is a red color PW, wither Mini-Trapper or Medium Stockman. That jigging however, is not new (well late 1990’s is when I first heard the term Pocketworn). Although it wasn’t called Pocketworn at the time, there are plenty of 1970’s Case Knives with the same type finish - I have at least three virtually new, mid-70’s Case that have jigging very similar to current PW jigging. Here are a couple of the PW I still have in my collection. OH
 
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Some older Case Knives with Pocketworn style jigging, but not marked or marketed as PW. The 62055 has never been carried and the 06247 has been carried very little, so neither reflect actual wear, just jigging variation. I think someone at Case realized the variation could be marketed and sold to willing buyers. OH
 
Ace Rimmer said:
Looking at Google Maps, I guess the store is actually on Washington Street (running north-south), with the north end of the building on US24 (2nd Street, running east-west). So, just a couple of blocks from the intersection of US421 and US24. The first picture was taken from the parking lot across Washington Street. The day we stopped it was raining like crazy, so when we passed back by on the following Sunday I stopped to take a picture. The second picture shows the sign on the north end of the building that caught my attention as we passed by on US24.
I have three Indiana Case knives. The other two (a Case Select Wharncliffe mini trapper and a teardrop) came from the hardware store in Ossian. Kind of off our route, but I wanted to stop because they are a Platinum Dealer.
Tried going north from Crawfordsville through Lafayette and then on toward Logansport one time. Turned out to be kind of a "you can't get there from here" situation. No easy route from the southwest side of Lafayette to the northeast side!

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Thanks for the location info on the hardware store in Reynolds. I found it on the map, and it's a couple of blocks east of the north/south road I always took through Reynolds, so I'm sure I've never seen it.
My knowledge of getting around Lafayette, IN is about 40 years old, but what you say sounds correct. You'd probably want State Road 25 on the northeast side of Lafayette to take you to Logansport, but there's no good way to get there if you're coming from the southwest, say up IN 231. If you don't want to go through downtown Lafayette, you'd probably want to go through the south edge of town (Teal Road or 25/52) and then north along the east edge of town until you can catch 25 heading off toward Logansport. Or you could go north along the river between West Lafayette and Lafayette and then cut east (maybe on 24, or take Interstate 65 back south until you hit the junction with 25).

Here's one Case I know is pocket worn bone, a Harvest Orange humpback stockman. (Is all Harvest Orange bone pocket worn? I also have a Harvest Orange Tribal Lock.)
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Based on Old Hunter Old Hunter 's comments about variations in the bone of older Case knives, I wonder if this canoe (thanks, Tim) from 1965-69 came "pocketworn" or is simply pocketworn the old fashioned way by carrying it.
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- GT
 
5K Qs said:
My knowledge of getting around Lafayette, IN is about 40 years old, but what you say sounds correct.
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Thanks for the suggestions for Lafayette. We're always looking for good ways to get through Indiana without taking "The Dave" around Indianapolis.

(That might be an obscure reference. Many years ago, Dave Letterman joked about proposing that they name I-465 around Indianapolis "The Dave." Sort of like all the roads around Chicago have names, I suppose.)
 
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