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As promised, a few more pics now that the sun is out.
 
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I don't know why I haven't posted this here yet... I made a spoon for a friend this weekend, and the Peanut was my detail knife.

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Took the Chestnut out squirrel hunting Sunday.

Was a very enjoyable time, and cleaning the squirrels was a snap!

Only the slightest hint of discoloration to the blades post-cleanup though.
 
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Took the Chestnut out squirrel hunting Sunday.

Was a very enjoyable time, and cleaning the squirrels was a snap!

Only the slightest hint of discoloration to the blades post-cleanup though.
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Great pics :thumbup:

I cleaned a rabbit last fall with my Peanut. The clip point blade was very nimble and did a fabulous job.
 
Yeah, that rifle is something of a tribute to minimalism as well.

It's my first .22, a Rogue Chipmunk. It's a tack-driver for sure!

Single shot though, so it's best you don't miss. :D :rolleyes:

But I wholeheartedly agree that the clip blade makes short work of small game! That sharp, thin blade about GLIDES through anything in its way!
 
Nice pics! No telling how much small game has been cleaned with nothing more than a small jack knife or a pen knife or what folks consider to be gentlemen's knives today.
 
I had to cut open a fairly large box made of heavy duty corrugated cardboard yesterday. Only knife I had on me at the time was my Case Bermuda Green Peanut. It got the job done fairly quickly, though for a moment I did consider going to my car to get something a bit bigger. Turns out I didn't need to.

I spent a few minutes on the Sharpmaker and a strop this morning and it's back to a shaving edge.
 
jec88 said:
Nice pics! No telling how much small game has been cleaned with nothing more than a small jack knife or a pen knife or what folks consider to be gentlemen's knives today.
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Most people really don't realize that! Especially these days with conspicuous consumption of over engineered, over priced, and over hyped products.

I had the privilege of growing up in an era where things were of a more practical mindset. All men carried a pocket knife, and it was a "peanut type" of knife. A small two blade jack or pen in the 3 inch closed size give or take a fraction of an inch. Most men knew they needed a knife of some type but didn't want to be aware of it all through the course of the day. So a small light weight knife was it. And it wasn't just city folk. We may have lived in Washington D.C., but my summers were spent at the grandparents place down on Maryland's eastern shore. Very rural farmland and working watermen out on the Chesapeake Bay. My granddad was one of those working watermen. When they went quail hunting, or rabbit hunting, they used what was in their pockets. Whatever small jack was there was used. A small serpentine of some sort, a barlow, whatever.

But what these small pocket knives all had in common was, they were low profile in the pocket, and they all had nice thin pointy blades that made short work of small game for the pot. Broiled rabbit or some squirrel for a nice pot of Brunswick stew, all got prepped with a small pointy thin blade of a pocket knife. A nice little .410 or lightweight 20 gauge and a sharp knife in the pocket is all the hunting rig some folks needed then. Or a .22 for the squirrel.
 
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But what these small pocket knives all had in common was, they were low profile in the pocket, and they all had nice thin pointy blades that made short work of small game for the pot.
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Being a recovering knife knut, I've come to realize how true this is. I've used anything from Sharpfingers and BK-14's to Mora's and Buck 102's and 110's to clean small game, but none of them made the job as easy as the peanut has. Though I will admit that even through this last year of carrying a peanut, I still used other knives for game prep up until a month or two ago.

Talk about an eye-opener.

Now most of those other blades just feel downright oversized and clumsy for small game prep.

I say most because the Sharpfinger is still one that I readily reach for, if I feel it's needed.

That said, it's still a "small" fixed blade, and I don't use it on squirrels! Still too much knife at that point!

Such is the road to small!
 
JofAllTrades said:
Being a recovering knife knut, I've come to realize how true this is. I've used anything from Sharpfingers and BK-14's to Mora's and Buck 102's and 110's to clean small game, but none of them made the job as easy as the peanut has. Though I will admit that even through this last year of carrying a peanut, I still used other knives for game prep up until a month or two ago.

Talk about an eye-opener.

Now most of those other blades just feel downright oversized and clumsy for small game prep.

I say most because the Sharpfinger is still one that I readily reach for, if I feel it's needed.

That said, it's still a "small" fixed blade, and I don't use it on squirrels! Still too much knife at that point!

Such is the road to small!
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I think that this was the secret of the Little Finn style of knives that were popular when I was a kid. In the 1950's, it seems like every other man who was an outdoorsman, a real hunter and fisherman, had one of those little leather washer handle Case or Kabar or even Western on their belts. They all were mostly a 3 inch blade of some pretty thin stock. They got used for fish and game up to deer sized animals. The thin blade didn't seem to be any kind of detriment, but if anything it was a plus to the people who carried and used and loved them. I even remember seeing a mini finn from Western Cutlery. It wasn't much bigger than an open peanut, but still had the stacked leather handle and small thin pointy blade. It was sold as a small game knife.

The road to small is an interesting journey!:)
 
A friend of the family is a big hunter, and he collects Case knives. I loaned him my Case collectors guide, you'd've thought I gave him the Dead Sea scrolls. He is a big biker, big rough and tumble dude, and he only uses Finn Hunters when hunting or camping. He was so proud to show off the Finn Hunter he got for his son.

I should've asked him if he carried a peanut.
 
A little fresh ginger for my ice water. Quite refreshing. Yes, I cheated just a bit and upped the contrast of the photo a little. Love my peanut!
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suffering from Blade Redundancy
 
Great shots Langler! My pocket knife does all the cutting tasks throughout the day including meal prep and at the table.
 
arizonaranchman said:
Great shots Langler! My pocket knife does all the cutting tasks throughout the day including meal prep and at the table.
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Yeah, this little knife is quite capable! I am using the peanut for all of my food prep. It makes very quick work of chicken.

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Well, I have been hemming and hawing over sending this peanut back to Case for some RnR. Finally I decided to just clean and sharpen it myself, again. I wiped the blade down with Flitz (if anyone just hit the roof with curses, let me know if I screwed up, seriously). There are a few pepper spots left, but the knife looks great. I oiled the joints with Militec, and stropped it on my jeans pants leg. I still need to sharpen it, but it's got a good edge right now. It has been riding around in my shirt pocket, but I've been afeared ;) that it could fall out. This little knife is so surprising in how it's become my do all blade. Out of my entire collection, which has been getting smaller, I mainly use this nut, my black alox pioneer and my Gossman one off Kephart, a small pocketable fixed blade, 3" handle, Scott's micro Kephart design. Carbon Damascus, Inox and A2. No super steels to be had, although A2 is my favorite fixed blade steel.

To quote MacLeod, there can be only one though.

Darth Vanadium
 
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