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disappointed in case peanut!!!
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Tell you what.Your getting an excellent Queen that will serve you well.
morrowj_98 made a very generous offer.And I am going to add to it.
Everyone needs to have a working Old Timer. So...email me through the boards and I'll send you a used but loved USA 8OT senior stockman.(I have spares
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Retire your Dads and pass it on when you have young'uns.
morrowj_98 made a very generous offer.And I am going to add to it.
Everyone needs to have a working Old Timer. So...email me through the boards and I'll send you a used but loved USA 8OT senior stockman.(I have spares
)Retire your Dads and pass it on when you have young'uns.
u812
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Case steel is hit and miss with me.Last Peanut I had was a Stag handled one and I had the same problem.It never would take an edge,after a few weeks I had the main blade looking about like yours.No matter how much sharpening I did it just would not take the edge.
I think at times a blade slips through that gets missed in some of the tempering-hardening process.
Good on you morrowj_98.The Queen are just so much better than Case.Think of them as the quality of a Case made in the 50s or 60s.It will serve you well.
I think at times a blade slips through that gets missed in some of the tempering-hardening process.
Good on you morrowj_98.The Queen are just so much better than Case.Think of them as the quality of a Case made in the 50s or 60s.It will serve you well.
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I bought this knife brand new from a mom and pop store. It has been about a year now ... By the way, I edc'd this knife for about 9 months.
You've had the knife for "about a year" and I edc'd it for about nine months and the blade looks like THAT?
What do you sharpen your knives with, a file?
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Use that Case to practice sharpening keeping the main blade off the stone.Then you can keep that Queen looking good for a very long time.Also find you a crock stick,they run about 1.00-2.00.Most of the time when the blade dulls it does not need a full sharpening just a touching up on a fine crock stick to straighten out the edge.
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Nokia: I hope I didn't come off in my earlier post as picking on you. Anyway, as much as I love my peanut, I'm a desk jockey - of course my criteria would be different if I were working your job. Looks like you have some good knives coming. I'm eager to hear how they hold up. Good luck.
Wow I appreciate all the offers guys and all the advice. I know how to sharpen a knife and keep it up, but the case eventually got on my nerves trying to get an edge on it.
And mnblades, you didn't offend me, that's the reason I made this thread, just to show people why I was disappointed, but I've already learned that its nothing to be disappointed about because it is a wonderful knife anyways, just because it doesn't shave the hairs of a babys butt doesn't make it a bad knife. I might have a give a way for it, pass it on to someone that may find out what I was doing wrong or to someone that doesn't have the chance to have such a wonderful knife...regardless of sharpness
And mnblades, you didn't offend me, that's the reason I made this thread, just to show people why I was disappointed, but I've already learned that its nothing to be disappointed about because it is a wonderful knife anyways, just because it doesn't shave the hairs of a babys butt doesn't make it a bad knife. I might have a give a way for it, pass it on to someone that may find out what I was doing wrong or to someone that doesn't have the chance to have such a wonderful knife...regardless of sharpness
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Morrow
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alrighty.....i got your address. the knife will be on the way tomorrow. the main blade is pretty sharp. the pen blade would benefit from time on a stone. i was going to sharpen it but figured this provides an opportunity for the two of you to get acquainted.
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:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: to Morrowj and Todd. That's awesome guys!
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Hi,
With all due respect to the peanut guys here, you might have been asking a bit too much out of such a diminutive knife. Life is just ugly tough on a job site for a knife as you said. And I think it takes a bit bigger and beefier knife. And Case's stainless steel isn't as good as the high carbon blades you have now.Though as long as you cut the things you do around the job site, you're always going to wear a knife faster than us old guys who just sit and whittle.
This is why there are so many different patterns too. A good hefty stockman will give you better rough service for a longer time than a peanut. Right tool for the job and all that. Get another peanut though, it's a good pattern. Just keep it for after work.
dalee
nokia,
Dalee got it right. As an old carpenter and a half dozen other tradesman hats under my belt during my decades in the contracting construction industry, I can tell you that although the Peanut pattern is a fine knife for many chores its just not up to the riggers of many of the hard use chores you mention day in and day out for extended periods of time.
Good thread all around here though IMO.. And viva la morrowj & Todd A for their very kind generosity for a fellow member here in the best little Traditional knife sub-forum on the world wide web. Just yet more evidence of what a great community of folks I am honored to be among.:thumbup:
Perhaps after using your two new gifted knives you would comment in a brief review on how they performed in contrast as to pattern and steel with similar type chores?
Anthony
I love it when somebody does something like that - it restores my faith in people in a small way.
That Queen Gunstock is a tank that will absorb a lot of work. I had the amber bone one for awhile, but traded it away as it was too much knife for my pocket most of the time.
That Queen Gunstock is a tank that will absorb a lot of work. I had the amber bone one for awhile, but traded it away as it was too much knife for my pocket most of the time.
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nokia check your mailbox in 3-4 days.
Patina,full blades,no blade play,and good snap. Should last abit.
And at 3 7/8" closed it is a tad bit bigger than a peanut.
(I have its cousin the Schrade 881Y ,same knife w/yellow scales,in my back pocket as I type )
Besides I won an Amherst canoe through this board so this is my way of "passing it on". And when you were born I was in the same boat you are. God,I am old...
Patina,full blades,no blade play,and good snap. Should last abit.
And at 3 7/8" closed it is a tad bit bigger than a peanut.
(I have its cousin the Schrade 881Y ,same knife w/yellow scales,in my back pocket as I type )
Besides I won an Amherst canoe through this board so this is my way of "passing it on". And when you were born
I was in the same boat you are. God,I am old...
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I little note to anyone wanting to use a carbide stone.I have one and used it as a last resort on the peanut I had.These things will cut away a blade before you know it.The only thing I have used mine on lately was an Ax and to reprofile a Strider SMF I had.If you are careful they work perfect on turning the edge on a strider into a slicer.
Yup, I did this to my peanut, Leatherman, a buck alpha hunter..and it pretty much destroyed my peanut (main blade) and my Leatherman is just worn down anyways. Also, you can also sharpen up samurai swords you buy for $5 from the Fleamarket.
I said I would post about how the peanut worked out for me and keep you guys updated on it. So here is my testimony. This morning I was reading about some of the other peanut stories and stuff like that. I felt a sense of pride with my peanut after that, so I gladly put it in my pocket and had a new respect for it. I felt the blade this morning and it was about as dull as a stick of butter, so I started looking for my two favorite sharpening stones and lord forbid they were gone. I looked around for about half an hour at 6:00 in the morning trying to find them, but couldn't figure out were I left them. Then I remembered throwing them in a box I threw away in our dumpster on site at the apartment complex. (by the way, I live were I work) So the first part of my morning was spend searching through trash to find a diamond and ceramic stones. As far as the peanut goes, it didn't do much but cut up some strips of sticky paper and cutting open some trash bags. I did get to help prepare lunch with it by cutting up an Arby's cheddar melt. Even though I don't feel like I did a justice because the peanut didn't see much action, but it was a slow day.
Do you fellows want me to keep you updated on how this peanut and the new knives workout for the next couple of weeks? Or, just leave it alone? I don't wanna waste anyone's time with my day-to-day knife usage if nobody wants it. Anyways, thanks for listening and thank you for all the support and advice you fellows have given me.
I said I would post about how the peanut worked out for me and keep you guys updated on it. So here is my testimony. This morning I was reading about some of the other peanut stories and stuff like that. I felt a sense of pride with my peanut after that, so I gladly put it in my pocket and had a new respect for it. I felt the blade this morning and it was about as dull as a stick of butter, so I started looking for my two favorite sharpening stones and lord forbid they were gone. I looked around for about half an hour at 6:00 in the morning trying to find them, but couldn't figure out were I left them. Then I remembered throwing them in a box I threw away in our dumpster on site at the apartment complex. (by the way, I live were I work) So the first part of my morning was spend searching through trash to find a diamond and ceramic stones. As far as the peanut goes, it didn't do much but cut up some strips of sticky paper and cutting open some trash bags. I did get to help prepare lunch with it by cutting up an Arby's cheddar melt.
Even though I don't feel like I did a justice because the peanut didn't see much action, but it was a slow day.Do you fellows want me to keep you updated on how this peanut and the new knives workout for the next couple of weeks? Or, just leave it alone? I don't wanna waste anyone's time with my day-to-day knife usage if nobody wants it. Anyways, thanks for listening and thank you for all the support and advice you fellows have given me.
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Hello nokia, I've re-read you original post a couple times now, and thought about it a bit before responding. I don't think that any pocket knife is going to hold up well in view of the use you are putting it to. It won't matter what is used, that kind of use if going to wear out a knife every year or two.
Thats not that bad a thing, and if you look back at jobs and history of really rough trades, knives were an expendable thing. In France, the Opinel is purchased by the box by farm workers and construction laborers. A friend of mine from the Vespa club is from France, and his family was visiting last year. They saw my Opinel, and asked how long I had been using them. I told them I had this Opinel for almost 10 years. The relitive joked I must not work too hard. In the scadinavian coutries the plain Mora knives are on job sites by the boxfull, and when one breaks or just wears down from being sharpend, the worker goes to the supply shed and gets another one. The great sodbuster comes from a knife design from eastern Europe, that was simple and cheap to build. The European penny knife was also around to be a "disposable" knife for the working class laborers. And in my own experiance in the army engineers, our supply room had boxes of TL-29's and the all steel scout knives. It was not uncommon to wear out a knife, or break it under hard use. It was planned for by the logistics sgt. He'd order a couple shovels, a few hammers, case of nails, new blades for the Skill saws, some tubes of cualking, and a box of TL-29's.
I think in the old days, most of our grandads looked at the pocket knife as something that had a finite life span. A tool to be used, and when used up, replaced. Only us knife knuts want a knife to last.
Come as a shock to knife lovers like us, most hard working men are not knife knuts. They carry one because a man working for a living needs one, but he really doesn't care about it like we do. It's just like a cheap screwdriver or pliers to him. I've seen guys go over to the square wheel grinder and put on a fast rough edge on a knife in 20 seconds. The fact that they are grinding away a years worth of blade makes no difference to them at all. I worked with a guy who would work and grind his knife down to 2 worn down toothpicks in about a year, toss it in the trash can at the end of the day and stop by the store on the way home to buy another one. He always bought a cheap knife to destroy. Sometimes a gas station special. Definatly not a knife knut. Another guy I worked with made a rough use shop knife from a big bandsaw blade, and a cardboard and duct tape sheath to hold it. He'd sharpen it on the belt sander every morning. No knife knut there either.
Put the nice knife in your pocket, and save it for the weekend fishing trips with the children you will have someday. Teach them to whittle the perfect hot dog stick while sitting by the campfire. Eventually that knife will become a hierloom they will value. In the meantime, put a Stanley utility knife in your work outfit pocket. Change the blade when needed, and don't worry about it.:thumbup:
Thats not that bad a thing, and if you look back at jobs and history of really rough trades, knives were an expendable thing. In France, the Opinel is purchased by the box by farm workers and construction laborers. A friend of mine from the Vespa club is from France, and his family was visiting last year. They saw my Opinel, and asked how long I had been using them. I told them I had this Opinel for almost 10 years. The relitive joked I must not work too hard. In the scadinavian coutries the plain Mora knives are on job sites by the boxfull, and when one breaks or just wears down from being sharpend, the worker goes to the supply shed and gets another one. The great sodbuster comes from a knife design from eastern Europe, that was simple and cheap to build. The European penny knife was also around to be a "disposable" knife for the working class laborers. And in my own experiance in the army engineers, our supply room had boxes of TL-29's and the all steel scout knives. It was not uncommon to wear out a knife, or break it under hard use. It was planned for by the logistics sgt. He'd order a couple shovels, a few hammers, case of nails, new blades for the Skill saws, some tubes of cualking, and a box of TL-29's.
I think in the old days, most of our grandads looked at the pocket knife as something that had a finite life span. A tool to be used, and when used up, replaced. Only us knife knuts want a knife to last.
Come as a shock to knife lovers like us, most hard working men are not knife knuts.
They carry one because a man working for a living needs one, but he really doesn't care about it like we do. It's just like a cheap screwdriver or pliers to him. I've seen guys go over to the square wheel grinder and put on a fast rough edge on a knife in 20 seconds. The fact that they are grinding away a years worth of blade makes no difference to them at all. I worked with a guy who would work and grind his knife down to 2 worn down toothpicks in about a year, toss it in the trash can at the end of the day and stop by the store on the way home to buy another one. He always bought a cheap knife to destroy. Sometimes a gas station special. Definatly not a knife knut. Another guy I worked with made a rough use shop knife from a big bandsaw blade, and a cardboard and duct tape sheath to hold it. He'd sharpen it on the belt sander every morning. No knife knut there either.Put the nice knife in your pocket, and save it for the weekend fishing trips with the children you will have someday. Teach them to whittle the perfect hot dog stick while sitting by the campfire. Eventually that knife will become a hierloom they will value. In the meantime, put a Stanley utility knife in your work outfit pocket. Change the blade when needed, and don't worry about it.:thumbup:
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