Case Tiny Wharncliffe Trapper / Baby Butterbean / Mini Copperhead

coyote711

coyote711

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I had a thread a little while back about watch pocket knives. Anyway, I ended up with this Tiny Trapper. It measures 2 7/16" closed, so it's only a two finger knife, but for "half a hand" it feels pretty good! I think my days of carrying only one knife are behind me. I can now envision a lot of instances where I'll pull a little fella out of my watch pocket instead of a larger slipjoint - depends on the task at hand of course.

View attachment 159402 Apologies again for my lame pics. (Click to enlarge).

The Case Baby Butterbean is now on my radar screen. In the earlier thread Absintheur posted a pic of a sweet Shadow Bone Baby Butterbean that has intrigued me. I'm sure I won't be able to find a shadow pattern, but the regular bolstered Baby Butterbean looks darn good, too.

And most recently the Case Mini Copperhead with the wharncliffe & pen blades has caught my attention.

I think I'm figuring out a couple of things that a lot of you have known for some time--carrying more than one knife at a time can be a good thing (wow, what a revelation, huh?), and that a lot of times a small knife is all you really need.
 
coyote711 said:
I think I'm figuring out a couple of things that a lot of you have known for some time--carrying more than one knife at a time can be a good thing (wow, what a revelation, huh?), and that a lot of times a small knife is all you really need.
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Ahhh, the time for revelation!:D

Being afflicted by the knife knut gene I've always found it hard to carry just one knife. It seems like my over imaginative mind comes up with too many 'what if's' for me to be like my old man. Add in my love nice small compact cutlery, and it's easy to carry multiple pocket knives. After all, it's part of our obsession, isin't it?

But that is one of the good things about peanuts, baby butterbeans, mini-copperheads, and such; it's easy to have one in each pocket if you want to. Factor in a wide varitey of handle materials and you have the makings for pocket jewelery for men. Now you have something that can brighten the day of a bored office cubicle worker. Maybe that morning he used a peanut in nice amber bone to open some mail, cut open a package or whatever, now it's after lunch and for a pleasant change he can use his baby butterbean. And for most of us, how much blade do we really need on a day to day basis? Exept for woods use in hunting or survival type of situations, a small pen knife size knife is about all we really need. Want's now is a totally different thing. You have to figure out if want's or need's is most important to you.

Not to mention it's nice to have a knife that you can take out darn near anywhere to cut something, and get comments on what a nice little knife that is, instead of some person asking why you have a knife. It made a definate impression on me the day a lady at a church event made the comment on how pretty my stag bone peanut was.

Sometimes small is a good thing.
 
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I just recently pulled out my tiny-trapper and kept it in my pocket all during a vacation out of country where I couldn't have a larger knife. I didn't need it for much but it was great to always have it there at the ready when I did.
 
jackknife said:
Ahhh, the time for revelation!:D
Factor in a wide varitey of handle materials and you have the makings for pocket jewelery for men.
And for most of us, how much blade do we really need on a day to day basis?
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This Tiny Trapper is definitely a piece of pocket jewelry - I can't stop looking at it, holding it, and opening & closing it! Heck, I'm a 60 year old man, and I feel like a kid on Christmas morning!!! :D

And when I stop and think about it, I've got to admit these little fellas with around a 1 1/2" - 1 3/4" blade should handle darn near everything I'll come across!

Your father, of course, carried his Peanut. I remember you quoting him as saying something along the lines of "It doesn't have to be big, just sharp". I think a lot of us have found that the older we get, the smarter our fathers' became!

Now, having said all that, I don't know if I'll ever be ready to give up carrying a Soddie Jr. or Vic Soldier in my other pocket. But for the next couple of weeks, whenever the need for a knife arises, I'm going to pause for a moment and ask myself if a little pocket watch knife will handle the task at hand. This should be interesting. ;)
 
coyote711 said:
Now, having said all that, I don't know if I'll ever be ready to give up carrying a Soddie Jr. or Vic Soldier in my other pocket. But for the next couple of weeks, whenever the need for a knife arises, I'm going to pause for a moment and ask myself if a little pocket watch knife will handle the task at hand. This should be interesting. ;)
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Watch out 'yote, you could end up one of the cult!:D

Last time I did an experiment like that, I ended up a peanut fan.
 
My dad loves small pockets knives. He has always cared a small one of one kind or another. It's odd, because as far as I can tell, he didn't learn it from Grandpa. Grandpa always had a standard size 3 1/2 stockman or electrician's knife and sometimes a Wenger Tradesman.

Dad is awfully hard on his knives, so it makes a great Christmas present to get him a new one every year. This last Christmas was a Bear & Sons mini stockman in sambar stag.

I use to carry the big honking swiss army knives everywhere: The Swisschamp, the Cybertool. But I have cut back so to speak. Biggest swiss army knife that will hit my pocket is 3 layers. What led me to downsizing my big SAKs? Small knives and keychain tools.

I do like the small knives. A Wenger Pocket Toolchest goes everywhere with me on my keychain. Right next to that is my Raker Ring Tool. These two tiny tools let me accomplish just about anything and take up next to no room. I could get by with these alone if I wanted to0. I just don't want too!

So in addition to those I also carry a standard 3 1/2 size slippy of some sort. A soldier or a scientist if I feel I could use the extra tools...but for the last six weeks it has been that beautiful Canal Street Cannitler.

I started out with a point in mind, but I got sidetracked. So in a nutshell, the point is: love the little knives and look at grabbing some kinda tiny pocket tool to complement it.
 
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I STOLE this Stag Tiny Trapper on the 'bay tonight. I'm looking forward to trying her out!
 
Sadly the Baby Butterbean has been sent to the vault by Case, while they are easy to find now they will start drying up at some point...if you want one I would start looking now while a good selection is still available.
 
Absintheur said:
Sadly the Baby Butterbean has been sent to the vault by Case, while they are easy to find now they will start drying up at some point...if you want one I would start looking now while a good selection is still available.
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Thanks for the heads up. (I really like that shadow pattern of yours!) I got a natural jigged bone one with bolsters on the bay last night - can't wait 'till it gets here.
 
yes, although I have not carried it. The warne is a great blade design in my mind for general cutting.
 
I have an absolute love affair with small, natural-handled slipjoints. 3 1/4" max, 1.5 oz. weight, , two blades max, and preferably some variation of Stag are the general attributes I focus on. There have been few instances where there a knife of this type is not adequate or causes any alarm among the gentle folk. They carry unnoticed in my pocket as well. Perfect.


Of course for zombies, I still carry a Sebenza. Just in case......:D
 
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