I know what you mean, I'm having a problem resisting the call. I've never had a stag peanut, and the pull is strong. It's like there's a little devil sitting on my shouldrer whispering "resistance is futile."
Carl.
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I know what you mean, I'm having a problem resisting the call. I've never had a stag peanut, and the pull is strong. It's like there's a little devil sitting on my shouldrer whispering "resistance is futile."
Carl.
absolutely, i have the little devil too, i've been trying to scavenge coke cans from everyone this week in hopes of coming up with enough extra money to add to my weekly free money to pick one up at the knife shop this coming weekend. may have to wait til next week.
thanks
sam
Sorry to help the "urge" out, but you have to think about it this way, if you get this, you can justify the cost because you know that you are going to carry the knife everyday.
I'll have to get some more pictures up comparing it to a medium or something.
In fact, I think I'll do it right now...
coming soon...
I'll have to get some more pictures up comparing it to a medium or something.
In fact, I think I'll do it right now...
coming soon...
As promised:
The Peanut.
Two Stockman Comparison. Both CV. Large 4-1/2" On Top, Medium 3-5/8" in the middle.
Direct Comparison to the 3-5/8" Stockman.
Hope that'll tide you over till you receive yours. Apologize for the lighting and the shakiness. Tried to use landscape mode.
Edit: I tried to edit in some better photos, but it's getting too dark to try and take more.
Sorry for the tease, but I'm afraid that this is the best that I was able to do.
The Peanut.
Two Stockman Comparison. Both CV. Large 4-1/2" On Top, Medium 3-5/8" in the middle.
Direct Comparison to the 3-5/8" Stockman.
Hope that'll tide you over till you receive yours. Apologize for the lighting and the shakiness. Tried to use landscape mode.
Edit: I tried to edit in some better photos, but it's getting too dark to try and take more.
Sorry for the tease, but I'm afraid that this is the best that I was able to do.
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i remember thinking that my medium stockman that i carried for close to 3 months was small, and that i really couldn't switch to something smaller, and then i read all the posts about peanuts and such, and was looking at my dad's old small case stockman and i thought i need to give this a go, and got a yella cv peanut. well that was about two weeks ago and now my medium stockman seems gigantic in my hand, and i honestly have not missed the size any, and will probably keep carrying my peanut as it's easy on the pocket.( i do still from time to time carry my large sodbuster on my belt, or my jr. in my back pocket as i sometimes need a heavy blade for my job, but only sometimes so i think i'll just start leaving the buster in the glovebox of the truck so it's there if i need it)
thanks
sam
thanks
sam
Sam, that's the way I got inot the little ones. I started out with my old Buck 301 stockman as my edc for 25 years. When my dad passed away, I started to carry his little knife just for sentiment, or something. Little by little, as I used it, my stockman started getting used less and less. One day I said "Screw it' and walked out of the house with only the peanut in a pocket. It took some arguing with myself to do it, but I made up my mind to experiment. After a while of using the 'nut, I tried to go back to my stockman, but it felt huge and heavy in my pocket. I was hooked. The peanut was the gateway drug to small pocket knives. Then my better half started carrying her Vic classic, and it was all downhill from there.
I keep a wood handle mora number 1 in the glove box if I need a larger knife, and there's a Buck 102 woodsman in my day pack if I need a bigger knife. But for most pocket knife stuff, two inches of blade seems to be enough.
The other good thing about the peanut, is it's so small, that it leaves room for other edc stuff. Small flashlights, tiny first aid kit, Bic lighter, pen, and stuff that seems to be needed now and then in modern suburbia living.
Carl.
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You guys better hop on these babies! Think about it American made, stag and carbon is not as easy to come by as it once was and to me the best of all combinations in traditional cutlery! I appreciate GEC in keeping this going but I have a hard time affording their bone handled knives!
Carl, it's like you said in one of your tales (that I happened to read last week) where the older men were sitting around and arguing blade lengths-about the length of your finger is all that you need.
I honestly cannot think of many reasons why you would need a really long blade. It's nice, but do you really need it? Think about it. Most people these days carry only those folding box cutters. Those have got to only have about a 1" cutting surface at a time, right?
I love my new Peanut, but I also have to admit that I haven't had the bravery to walk out of the house with ONLY that knife yet. It's just the un-forseen things that I worry about. Although, off the top of my head, going through my day-to-day schedule, I cannot think of a reason why I would need a blade longer than the main one on the Peanut.
Hmmm, I may have to start experimenting. Who knows, the Peanut just may be "that one knife" for me...
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the stag looks great
Some different, hopefully better photos.
Couldn't find a Macro setting, but this should do.
Small, secondary blade out:
Peanut w/diff. background.
Peanut leaning against Med. Stockman:
Hope that turns out much better tonight guys.
Highly recommend this knife. Small, however nowhere as small as you may think it might be. Bigger compared to the classic, for sure.
Couldn't find a Macro setting, but this should do.
Small, secondary blade out:
Peanut w/diff. background.
Peanut leaning against Med. Stockman:
Hope that turns out much better tonight guys.
Highly recommend this knife. Small, however nowhere as small as you may think it might be. Bigger compared to the classic, for sure.
Yeah, I worried about the unforseen things too, but if I really think about it, all the unforseen things I've ever had happen, a knife was either the last thing I needed, or any sharp cutter would do. Including a single edge razor Yeah, I worried about the unforseen things too, but if I really think about it, all the unforseen things I've ever had happen, a knife was either the last thing I needed, or any sharp cutter would do. Including a single edge razor blade in a box cutter. But I'll be honest with you, it was more reason of nessesity than free will, that I walked out the door that morning with only a peanut. It was toward the end of my experiment with using only a Vic classic for all my cutting.
Karen and I like to go to NYC a few times a year. We love museums and art gallerys, and a change of scenery, not to mention great resuraunts of any ethnic kind of chow you can name. NYC is very knife unfriendly, and at some of the landmarks they have almost airport style securtiy. But I couldn't bring myself to go knifeless, so I carried a very small innocent looking keychain sak. It came in handy for unwrapping plastic packaged stuff, like sandwiches, and light picnic duty in Central Park, but is so small it's easy to stash if I have to, and come back for it. Before, my smallest carry knife was a Buck cadet or a Victorinox bantam. I got by with the classic pretty good. So a peanut was a step up for me then.
It's all a matter of perspective. Sometimes something may look too small to do the job, but then you try it, and it works great. Knives, guns, cars, whatever. A peanut is like that. Just looking at it, you'd never guess what a capable little cutter it is. Is it you're knife? Since you are here, I can only presume you have 'our' adffliction. The knife accumulation affliction.
I've never been able to shake it once I was infected, but I have downsized to a mere handful of knives in stready rotation. About a half dozen that get used all the time. And two of them are peanuts.:thumbup:Carl.