Got a CV peanut on the way.

silenthunterstudios

silenthunterstudios

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Well, after getting to see Carl's damascus Case peanut, and needing a blade with 2.5" or less for carry, I decided to go ahead and pick up a Case peanut with chestnut bone scales and CV blades. Going to try this one out, again. Should be here beginning of next week.


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You won't regret this one at all Case's chesnut bone scales look amazing also the Chrome Vanadium blades take a wonderful natural or forced patina and not to mention it's a Peanut all in all a very EDC worthy knife.
 
Looks good to me, I've enjoyed carrying a Case Peanut around.
I think they make great EDCs, and I agree wit hwhetrock, Case's chestnut bone is awesome.
 
I'm carrying a stainless peanut in emerald green jigged bone right now. Couple weeks old, so far I really like it.
 
I hope it works out for you bud.:thumbup:

You didn't seem to have any trouble with mine, even while you handled it eating a Texas brisket BBQ sub!:D If you didn't slip and get bit then, you're good to go.

Carl.
 
I just ordered the same knife from KW :) My first peanut and should be a good one... I've always wanted a CV peanut and the Chestnut Bone looks very nice (nicer than amber bone IMHO)
 
Nice choice SHS! I have this same knife in SS version, and it's my go-to sheeple knife. I also just plain like using it. You will love it.
 
One of the biggest little knives out there. My Yellow CV reminds me of a Chihuahua, thinks she's much bigger than she really is.
 
silenthunterstudios,
picked up mine today. I have the brown jigged bone in stainless that my dad carried but I bought this on so I could pass that one down to my son.
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Its definitely my knife it has already claimed ownership by biting my right middle finger BAD closing it one handed:eek: Won't be making that mistake again!
 
That's some nice looking bone on that 'nut, oldschool!:thumbup:

Peanuts have to be handled carefully. They're like the old Baby Browning .25 auto's and North American .22 mini revolvers. So small, you have to pay attention to what you're doing. I've got a friend that almost shot a finger off with a palm sized mouse gun, and I've been bit by a peanut. :D

Carl.
 
Got it today, wow, I've owned one before, and seen many, but they are small.

Gonna give it a try!

Good snap when it closes, not a lot of spring when it opens. Surprisingly sharp, no where near as sharp as my Tribal Spear, but sharper than a lot of Case's I've had right out of the box.
 
Dan, be veeeery careful when you close that tiny thing. Anything you have in the way of the blade will get cut good. :eek: I've seen your big paws, and I'm wishing you the best with that new 'nut!:D:

Carl.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Got it today, wow, I've owned one before, and seen many, but they are small.
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It'll grow on you. When I got my first one and opened the box, I almost laughed at it. I also have to admit that I was a little embarassed to be carry such a tiny knife(I'm not a small guy either). After carrying it for a while along with another knife just in case the peanut wasn't enough, I realized that I was never reaching for the other knife..... it was always the nut. Now it just feels like a normal size knife to me, and alot of the other knives I was carrying look a little oversized. Even if it ends up not being the knife for you, it makes a great back up blade.
 
mdsmith said:
It'll grow on you. When I got my first one and opened the box, I almost laughed at it. I also have to admit that I was a little embarassed to be carry such a tiny knife(I'm not a small guy either). After carrying it for a while along with another knife just in case the peanut wasn't enough, I realized that I was never reaching for the other knife..... it was always the nut. Now it just feels like a normal size knife to me, and alot of the other knives I was carrying look a little oversized. Even if it ends up not being the knife for you, it makes a great back up blade.
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That is pretty much the way I found it to go in my small knife experiments. Even way back years ago, when I saw Karen torture the little classic on her keyring, and I decided to give it a try, it felt like a joke. The joke was on me. Month after month, with the rare exception of food use, it did what I needed to do. When I tried the very first peanut, again it felt too small when coming from my Buck 301 stockman. But after a while you acclimate. You get used to it, so that Eisenhowers, tiny toothpicks, Buck 309 companions, all seem like normal pocket knives, and a real normal knife seems too big. I've come to think of peanuts, and Buck Hartsooks, and such, like the simple obsidian flake.

Carl.
 
yeah i went by the local hardware store today and got the guys to open the knife case so i could handle a few things. I picked up the peanut and...i dont know. I agree with Carl that the blade is big enough, but i dont see how i could hold it effectively with such a small handle.

thats my big problem, i dont mind the a small blade, i but i dont care for a small handle *shrugs* Perhaps I am just too young to understand....yet ;)
 
Rsmith_77, this is just some thoughts not personally directed at you.
what is your "normal" carry knife? "jackknife" is an insidious bastard:D I'd been carrying stuff from Benchmade Strykers to Kershaw Blur's & Rake's. Then I got a hold of a Spyderco Ambitious (tiny for me folder) and I've been favoring that. June Challenge I'd been carrying an older boker stockman. Now I'm down to the Peanut and the Ambitious (for if I need a blade NOW!) haven't had the need or urge to carry anything but the Peanut or Stockman. I'm now referring to my bigger knives as "folding machete's." There is a lot of Zen, meditation and tranquility in deliberately and carefully opening and using a small knife like a Peanut. I'd been running full speed "at a brick wall" moving too fast and the Peanut is helping me slow down, relax and think. The size of the handle doesn't matter unless you are in a hurry all the big handle does is keep you from cutting yourself when you are not paying enough attention. These smaller and thinner blades glide through stuff that the big and thick knives have to muscle through and I think it accounts for some of the popularity of the Tom Krein Regrinds.
 
thats a trick question oldschool

my daily carry is deceptive. I carry a kabar dozier folding hunter. NOT because its a modern tactical or even because i like the lockback. But because its the smallest one hand opening knife i have. I've been in lots of conversations about one handed folders vs slipjoints and its not for self defense or anything like that, its because i just enjoy being able to open my knife with one hand. I always seem to be carrying a bunch of stuff so the ability to open and close my knife with just one hand is immanently practical for me

Now i still like slipjoints and i've always got my eye out for "the one knife" but i just like a big handle for comfort. If i am out making fuzz sticks or just cutting letters i just find a bigger handle to be more comfortable. I have no issue with a smaller blade, in fact i think i may prefer the smaller blade to a larger one so you dont have to sell me on that.

dont get me wrong, i am looking for something along the lines of 3 1/2 inches with 2 blades, a case texas jack or swayback would probably be ideal when i get to picking one up some day :)
 
Always thought I didn't like Peanuts. Very possibly still don't - but I am moved to investigate now :)
 
Rsmith_77,
I'm not trying to sell them I agree the 2 knives in my rotation that have bit me the worst are the Peanut and the Ambitious because of their small handle size. When I say "I need a blade open now" I never mean it in self defense I prefer things that go boom:p Long before we had one handed folders and Assisted opening knives I was grabbing both a Kershaw Blackhorse 4" lockback and Grant County 1.5" lockback by the blade and flicking down to open and close one handed. A lot of times when fishing or other types of work its just plain inconvenient to put down what you are working on the open a knife with 2 hands. I'll probably end up setting on a medium Stockman probably Queen in wood.

silenthunterstudios, need some pics:p
 
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