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Depends on which peanut you get, of course. If you get one with CV blades, no, not much difference. Here are the blade lengths (measuring cutting surface) of my peanut and pen.

Clip
peanut: 2"
pen: 2.125"

Pen
peanut: 1.3125"
pen: 1.375"

I'll go snap a couple comparison shots for you.
 
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Here you go Jason.

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Your peanut pen blade is shorter? Weird. Mine are both the same length from the choil to the tip, and I know I haven't hardly sharpened the pen's pen blade but once or twice.

Edited to add: Very knice knives; their twins are hanging out beside me. :)
 
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Thanks for the compliment.

I did another measurement and updated. My peanut's pen blade is 1 5/16", not 1 1/4" as I originally listed, but it is still ever so slightly shorter than the pen's, by 1/16".
 
The peanut also has a slightly boxier shape due to the blade pivots being at the same end. The boxy shape gives a nice grip for such a small knife.

Carl.
 
jackknife said:
The peanut also has a slightly boxier shape due to the blade pivots being at the same end. The boxy shape gives a nice grip for such a small knife.

Carl.
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And my bone scale peanut is a bit wider (0.375") being two spring, compared to the composite scale and single spring of the pen (0.3125").
 
You know, if Case made a tan synthetic scale and used their molded-in jigging pattern, like on their brown synthetic and Sparxx series, it would look a lot like a peanut shell...
 
bwperdue said:
You know, if Case made a tan synthetic scale and used their molded-in jigging pattern, like on their brown synthetic and Sparxx series, it would look a lot like a peanut shell...
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Funny-- I was just thinking something similar, after seeing Matador's picture in the Peanuts/Patina thread:

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That old Peanut is aw-ful-ly close already. :-)

~ P.
 
Doug Add, thanks for the side by side shots. I think I may pick one up in chestnut bone CV as I may like that it's boxier, as Carl, you stated. I like half stops on knifes as well. Should be a regular city knife for me. Thanks guys.
 
jhamer9 said:
Doug Add, thanks for the side by side shots. I think I may pick one up in chestnut bone CV as I may like that it's boxier, as Carl, you stated. I like half stops on knifes as well. Should be a regular city knife for me. Thanks guys.
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I don't think you could go wrong with a Case Cv in chestnut bone, I have carried mine everyday for over 7 months, and I tend to carry 2 or 3 slipjoints ( I have a problem :-) but I tend to use the peanut the most, weather I'm whittling, or fishing, or eating fruit, I also tend to use it as my steak knife. It's a mighty little knife maybe someday I'll be like Carl and just carry the nut, but I'm just not there yet.
 
You are welcome, and it is a good city knife. As you can see you lose almost nothing on the pen in terms of useable blade lengths, and the closed length is half an inch shorter. Very pocketable, very useful!
 
The peanut is a great city knife. Living not far out of Washinton D.C. I find myself 'downtown very often. The better half and I go down to the National Gallery Of Ary or the Smithsonian very often, or just going downtown for the restaurants or a play at the Kennedy Center, I find myself going into federal buildings very often. These days Washington security is tight, and my peanut has never had a single problem going through security. Never a negative comment, but there has been times that it has gotten favorable attention. I've had guards lok t my peanut nd comment that they thought Case was no longer in business, or that their grandfather carried knife like that. I've even had female security personal look at the peanut and call it a 'pretty little knife', or as one put it, a 'cute piece of pocket jewelry.'

And yet, with the 2 inch blade, I've not encountered a cutting job it couldn't handle. Opening boxes, breaking down boxes, cutting twine, opening uncounted dammed plastic blister packages, slicing a snack to share with the better half, even cleaning some pan fish for dinner caught on a local lake. It's even cut a few hot dog sticks for the grandkids now and then, until they got old enough to cut their own with knives given to them as a right of passage.

Like my old man said, "it doesn't have to be big, just sharp."

Carl.
 
Going back to the peanut after a month of stockman carry, i must say it felt so right to have the little serpentine jack back in my pocket. None of my traditionals gives me this feeling. I barely feel it there, but when i need it, it can do almost anything i can ask of a pocket knife. I know i said it before, but i love this little thing.
It's highly functional, a great slicer, and a thing of beauty. Oh yeah, i'm back...:D

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Yes, the Pinched Peanut is a little thicker than the Case, with the blade grinds being a little thinner. It's a good ole Peanut though, I don't notice too much difference in the hand.

Thank you ~P for posting up the comparison pics with the Tiny Trapper. I really like them, especially the Wharncliffe version.

As for the Lancer, it's a nice little knife though the fit and finish isn't great. Then again it's inexpensive, the blades are tight and it's sharp so it does just what I need to do. :thumbup: I would say that if you can, pick one out in person, especially the black sawcut version. I'd like to do that myself but no one around here carries Buck traditionals so I only have the Web to order them.
 
jacktrades_nbk said:
Going back to the peanut after a month of stockman carry, i must say it felt so right to have the little serpentine jack back in my pocket. None of my traditionals gives me this feeling. I barely feel it there, but when i need it, it can do almost anything i can ask of a pocket knife. I know i said it before, but i love this little thing.
It's highly functional, a great slicer, and a thing of beauty. Oh yeah, i'm back...:D

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Couldn't agree more -- it's like sitting down with an old friend you have not spent time with lately, and then wondering, "Why did we wait so long to do this?"

Lovely photo!
 
No matter what the trad of the month is, I still always have my peanut. The peanut is the Jello of the knife world there is always room for more, it's a nice compliment to larger knives.
 
i have a peanut and small toothpick in-transit, both with chestnut jigged bone. i'm carrying a burden here. our late father owned a peanut which he really liked. he lent it to me when i was in 6th grade and i promptly lost it. he felt bad there but loved me enough not to take it out on me. we live outside the US and our father died before we knew ebay or amazon. still, one of my biggest regrets as an adult is i never got around to buying him a replacement.
 
The stag damascus peanut is thanks to Carl's writing. It also reminds me of my father, who carried a stag pen knife.

The Rough Rider Tiny Toothpick was an inexpensive way to test the pattern. I dont care for the blade shape of the Toothpick, though the Toothpick handle pattern remind me of knives from my childhood in Spain.

I really settled in to my Peanut life, its always with me. The Toothpick is for size comparison, its longer..
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Wow, a real growing number of 'nuts. I'll check back in here and say that the peanut has been in my pocket every day since my last post (page one I believe) although I did clean up my mini trapper and slip it in my pocket a few days ago. It lasted 5 minutes there. It just felt so strange actually being able to really feel a hefty block of knife in my pocket again after all this time with my favorite serpentine jack in my pocket. After 5 minutes of deliberation whether I liked the feeling of the mini trapper in my pocket or not, I kicked it out and slipped the Peanut back into it's rightful place. I will not be able to cope with not having my 'nut should I ever lose it or wear it out, it has become the one constant in my EDC.
 
This is a family shot of my three peanuts... nics, very nice little knives...

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I think this counts me as a member of "The Culot of the Peanut" ;)

Kind regards
Andi
 
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