Ideal Stockman?

I've had a stockman from every production company of all the more popular names but the Case 47 series is the one for me! Carries lighter then the sowbelley but feels very similar in the hand, and the wounderfully thin blades just flat cut! These two have in my openion perfect walk and talk.....
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Peter Parker said:
I've had a stockman from every production company of all the more popular names but the Case 47 series is the one for me! Carries lighter then the sowbelley but feels very similar in the hand, and the wounderfully thin blades just flat cut! These two have in my openion perfect walk and talk.....
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Peter, do those have three springs?

The only one I have currently is from 1977 which is a two spring version with just an amazing amount of snap:

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The current-gen Case '47s have three springs; I have an orange G-10 version. I also have a Case 'Blue Scroll' 5347HP SSP from '76, I think. It's a two-spring design.

By the way, the newer version has slightly thinner springs & blades, so it all fits into a package about the same heft as the older, 2-spring type.
 
[]Peter, do those have three springs?

The only one I have currently is from 1977 which is a two spring version with just an amazing amount of snap:

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Elliott they're both three springs! It seems to me they really got them tuned right with the three springs but I do also know the pureist don't care for them. To me if this is what it takes to make for better W&T and keeping the price down a little; I'm fine with it! To me also the three springs give a cleaner look on the back. That old 47 is just stunning Elliott!
 
Same one as my avatar Schrade 61OT. Thawk has this same knife done by Herman Williams which is really a beauty. This is a graceful knife and you can get it razor sharp as the blades are thin and of course Schrades really wonderful steel.

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I find myself coming back to my large Case 6375 Amber bone CV. I have a blue Workman in SS as well as several medium stockman, 6318 & 63087 but I like the heft of the large ones
 
No one has chimed in on the GEC #53 Cuban Stockman yet, so I will. Maybe more of a cattle knife than a stockman, but still in the ballgame.

Comes in beautiful acrylic
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Wood (ebony here)
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Bone (red wine)
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Horn (smooth ram's horn)
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And Stag (genuine stag)
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There is even an ultra-useful 4-blade version, called the Cattle Baron (jigged yellow rose bone)
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GEC # 66 Calf Roper is really great. My fave stockman pattern hands down, I wish they would sometimes make edition where thin spey is replaced by thin pen blade. I would buy 2 of them in a heart beat...
 
For me, it's not so much the maker as the blade configuration that makes it "ideal" for me.
I am a huge fan of Stockman knives with the pen blade rather then the Spey blade.
I know traditionally the spey had a functional purpose, but I just don't use it for that purpose.
The utilitarian pen blade is ideal for many everyday chorse one comes across, including being very sheeple friendly due to it's small size.
 
Thanks, Peter. The 53s are just about the largest folder I can carry comfortably, but I'm a big guy and can see how many would find them too much for the pocket.
 
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"Old Greeny" here might have been my longest-carried knife. A Tested 6347, someone else carried it for many years, and used it regularly. Then I took it over and carried it for maybe 8-10 years. Now someone else is enjoying a one penny knife. Last I saw, it snapped nicely, and felt good despite the scars and warts!!
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For the uninitiated - what's a 'one penny knife'??

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Re: one penny knife:

I think it's a reference to a tradition (appropriate here) involving the gifting of knives to friends. The knife is given along with a penny, which can then be offered back by the giftee as 'payment' for the knife. I think it's got something to do with a 'free' knife bringing bad luck (by 'severing the relationship' or something like that).

Correct me if I'm wrong, guys (please).
 
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Obsessed with Edges said:
Re: one penny knife:

I think it's a reference to a tradition (appropriate here) involving the gifting of knives to friends. The knife is given along with a penny, which can then be offered back by the giftee as 'payment' for the knife. I think it's got something to do with a 'free' knife bringing bad luck (by 'severing the relationship' or something like that).

Correct me if I'm wrong, guys (please).
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We have the same tradition in my family also.

Coincidentally, there were "dime knives" but I'm not sure if anyone tried to under sell. ;)
 
Thank you both very much! You always learn something here - to say nothing of getting to see some beautiful knives and the enjoyable humor.
 
fishinfs said:
Thank you both very much! You always learn something here - to say nothing of getting to see some beautiful knives and the enjoyable humor.
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:thumbup: Couldn't agree more.

I'm about 99% certain I learned that little tidbit right here, on this forum. So it's nice to 'pass it along' when the opportunity arises.
 
I meant to post to this thread last week. I'm a little late to the game.

I really like these two Queen-made Moore Makers.

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One has had a little more use than the other.
 
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DEPBID said:
I meant to post to this thread last week. I'm a little late to the game.

I really like these two Queen-made Moore Makers.

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One has had a little more use than the other.
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Darn great looking knives!!!

Why is it that yella handles and gray patined blades strike such a deep chord? They go together like chilli on the hotdog! Love the way the scales on the larger one look like they've darkened a little from time in a few spots.

Carl.
 
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