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Hey Guys,
First of all I would like to thank Blues, Yosimite Sam, and Wilgoy for recommending this knife last october. It's such a nice knife that I have been edcing it for close to 4 monthes now. This is my first review, so any comments or suggestions for improvement will be greatly appreciated.
Now, on to the review. I will focus on some of the details that are not found in the product descriptions of the knife, from a user's perspective. This knife is a two bladed serpentine jack with a 3" 3/8 handle in Amber Bone and square bolsters. The main blade is a ~2" 1/2 clip and the smaller blade is ~1" 1/2 modified wharnclife. Both blades are hollow ground and in CV. The F&F is really good. I do believe, that this knife has got me spoiled about f&f of slipjoints. One thing that I really like about this knife is that, although it has CV blades, it has SS springs. This may sound like a trivial thing, but I can really appreiciate the patina on the blade while not worrying about the backspring doing the same. Again this is more of a personal preference. The pull on the blade is about medium. It is partly due to that the blade does not have half stops. The smoothness of the pull is also a plus for me. One interesting feature of this knife is that the smaller blade is a modified wharnclife blade. I do believe that this feature is exclusive to Case. Along with the clip blade, this combination has proven to be extremely handy in doing many everyday tasks.
This knife excels in functionality and practicality. I believe Jackknife mentioned that this pattern was extremely popular many years ago. Carrying this knife for a time makes this apparent. The blades takes care of all the edc cutting tasks that I require. The serpentine handle fits in my hand like a glove. At around 2 oz, this knife is a not a hassel to carry.
The only thing that bugs me a bit about this knife is that it that blades are hollow ground. This tends to make the blade bind a bit when cutting. I plan on fixing it by taking the edge down and grinding down the area behind the edge a bit.
All in all for about 40 bux, this is a hard knife to beat. It's definitely an keeper in my opinion.
God Bless.
First of all I would like to thank Blues, Yosimite Sam, and Wilgoy for recommending this knife last october. It's such a nice knife that I have been edcing it for close to 4 monthes now. This is my first review, so any comments or suggestions for improvement will be greatly appreciated.
Now, on to the review. I will focus on some of the details that are not found in the product descriptions of the knife, from a user's perspective. This knife is a two bladed serpentine jack with a 3" 3/8 handle in Amber Bone and square bolsters. The main blade is a ~2" 1/2 clip and the smaller blade is ~1" 1/2 modified wharnclife. Both blades are hollow ground and in CV. The F&F is really good. I do believe, that this knife has got me spoiled about f&f of slipjoints. One thing that I really like about this knife is that, although it has CV blades, it has SS springs. This may sound like a trivial thing, but I can really appreiciate the patina on the blade while not worrying about the backspring doing the same. Again this is more of a personal preference. The pull on the blade is about medium. It is partly due to that the blade does not have half stops. The smoothness of the pull is also a plus for me. One interesting feature of this knife is that the smaller blade is a modified wharnclife blade. I do believe that this feature is exclusive to Case. Along with the clip blade, this combination has proven to be extremely handy in doing many everyday tasks.
This knife excels in functionality and practicality. I believe Jackknife mentioned that this pattern was extremely popular many years ago. Carrying this knife for a time makes this apparent. The blades takes care of all the edc cutting tasks that I require. The serpentine handle fits in my hand like a glove. At around 2 oz, this knife is a not a hassel to carry.
The only thing that bugs me a bit about this knife is that it that blades are hollow ground. This tends to make the blade bind a bit when cutting. I plan on fixing it by taking the edge down and grinding down the area behind the edge a bit.
All in all for about 40 bux, this is a hard knife to beat. It's definitely an keeper in my opinion.
God Bless.
), the blade is closer to what I'm cutting. When I first got the knife, it threw me because I was used to the Old Timer Middleman Jack, which puts the pen blade on the shield side of the knife, like most two-bladers. But in time (like everything else about the peanut), I've really come to appreciate it.
That blade lay out works for a few others. The interesting thing about the small texas jack knife is that Case got many small things right. ie the modified wharncliffe, the blade config, the SS springs and the CV blades. It's these small things that makes me like the knife even more. I think that's what makes the knife well done is the combinations of details. 