Jack Knife

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The other day I was re-reading some of Jack knife's stories, and realized that I was influenced to buy certain patterns because he mentioned them in a story. The latest was the Peanut. So I thought it would be interesting to see how many other guys/gals have also opened their wallet due to his pen to paper talent. I personally think Case should endorse him:D
 
He's definitely to blame for the slimline trapper (yellow cv of course) sitting in my pocket right now. There will probably be a matching peanut in the near future.
 
I haven't opened up my wallet because of his stories, but I do open up and clear out my mind and travel to a different time and place for a while...

For some reason his stories always make me think about my grandad who has been gone almost 5 years now.
 
I bought this Case chestnut bone CV peanut after reading several of his stories. Is that what folks refer to as "brainwashing" or is it just plain good ol' salesmanship? :)
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There is a white peanut with a cross at Shep hill that I am wanting very badly. It is all his fault. Now I have to make a dern knife and sell it so I can afford it.:grumpy:;):D

He has a very great talent and uses it in a very great way. I read his stories any chance I get. I am probably half way through. I want to know what happened to Lizzy. I know the final outcome but would like to know more. If it is ok with jack knife. I had a lizzy when I was 16 and she was on a bad path also. I never found out what happened to her. If it is there then can somebody point the way and put the link to the story.

Thanks Jack knife for your stories.

-frank
 
I've got a Yellow peanut (soon to be my son's first knife) and a Yellow Stockman
Only 2 Case knives I own, both due to the gentle brainwashing.
You just can't fight it 'cos it doesn't feel like there is anything going on, and it definitely doesn't feel wrong in any way.
These stories also remind me of my long since gone Grandfathers

Take Care
Graham
 
panch0 said:
There is a white peanut with a cross at Shep hill that I am wanting very badly. It is all his fault. Now I have to make a dern knife and sell it so I can afford it.:grumpy:;):D

He has a very great talent and uses it in a very great way. I read his stories any chance I get. I am probably half way through. I want to know what happened to Lizzy. I know the final outcome but would like to know more. If it is ok with jack knife. I had a lizzy when I was 16 and she was on a bad path also. I never found out what happened to her. If it is there then can somebody point the way and put the link to the story.

Thanks Jack knife for your stories.

-frank
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Frank, Lizzy died at 38 years of age. She left town just after she told me we had to stop seeing each other because it wasn't going to work. I'd fallen totally in love with her, and she wouldn't admit that she may have felt somesomething, but only that she never intended that it would go that far. She said that my family would never accept her in their world, and she didn't want to drag me down to her's. Lizzy was a stripper at a little dive joint called Tinkers, and rumor was she was also a part time prostitute, with a drug and booze problem.
The night she told me we had to break it off, she left town. Packed up and was just gone.

I spent a long time trying to find out where she had gone. After I got out of high school, I tracked her down to the infamous "block" in Baltimore. I found a girl who had worked at the same place, and knew her. I was told she had went to New York.

Years passed, and I was in the army, and met my current wife of nearly 40 years now. Gradually I had let up on my search for Lizzy, but never ever forgot her. It was on a trip home, I found out that she had called her father, Matt, and simply said "Daddy, I want to come home." Two nights later, while driving from Washinton D.C., where she had been "working" at a 14th street bar, she left the road at about 80 mph according to the state police report, and slammed into an oak tree, on a perfectly strait part of RT 50. The police report went on to state that her blood alcohol level was well over the legal limit. It was a closed casket service.

Elizibeth Ann Rankin is burried in a small churchyard just south of Cambridge Maryland.

She still haunts my dreams, and though I love my wife, sometimes in the small hours of the morning I wonder "what if..."
 
I am sorry for the loss of such a close person to you. Thanks for sharing this with all of us. It helps us put things into perspective in our own lives.
 
hunterfisher808 said:
The other day I was re-reading some of Jack knife's stories, and realized that I was influenced to buy certain patterns because he mentioned them in a story. The latest was the Peanut. So I thought it would be interesting to see how many other guys/gals have also opened their wallet due to his pen to paper talent. I personally think Case should endorse him:D
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Too true. I'm back for a day, 1st thing is see if Jack-knife wrote anything new. 2nd is print it out for the guys to read. I ain't telling them about the Lizzy stories:rolleyes:
 
jackknife said:
Elizibeth Ann Rankin is burried in a small churchyard just south of Cambridge Maryland.

She still haunts my dreams, and though I love my wife, sometimes in the small hours of the morning I wonder "what if..."
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Dang, I am sorry dude. Some things leave a scar, but God heals all. In some way, we are what we are because of it all.

God Bless
 
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His stories got me on to a peanut and a Case Lil Finn and no blame to him but a big thank you for the great stories. I find it interesting just how many of us read and re read Jackknife great stories. Also one of the first things I check is for a new story.
 
338375 said:
I haven't opened up my wallet because of his stories, but I do open up and clear out my mind and travel to a different time and place for a while...

For some reason his stories always make me think about my grandad who has been gone almost 5 years now.
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+ 1, Same here. Substitute Uncle for Grandad and Mike and I are of like minds here.

Sadly both my Grandpa's passed well before I was knee high to a chipmunk. :mad:
 
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