Let's see your Traditional Case knives, old to new.

Thanks again @herder .

Paul @chui, your two are grand ones as well, and different from the classic Case style I think of. Love the shields. :thumbsup:
 
This is a 4" 1-Dot (1979 manufacture) Case CV 6292 Jack Knife sometimes called a Texas Jack. It is from a time when cover (scale) color wasn't a priority with Case. Hence this knife's mark side cover is brown while the pile side cover is black

The knife when new - slightly used

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Pattern 6308 which is a small split back whittler. It's a one dot from 1979. The thing I noticed about it is the tang stamp is different. If you look a few posts back, Modoc ED Modoc ED showed his jack from 1979 and it has the same idiosyncrasy. The USA is stamped without "periods" separating the letters. I've never seen that on any of my Case knives. Is it just that year, series, or what?
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Very fine Whittler that one Alan. I don't know about the U.S.A .stamp with out full-stops/dots. At present I have a Chestnut Bone cv Stockman in my pocket, a particular favourite, 63032 CV and this one has no stops after USA either. I think it's from about 2003 but it has just one 'x' under the CASE script tang stamp, so that will give it an exact date.

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Modoc ED said:
This is a 4" 1-Dot (1979 manufacture) Case CV 6292 Jack Knife sometimes called a Texas Jack. It is from a time when cover (scale) color wasn't a priority with Case. Hence this knife's mark side cover is brown while the pile side cover is black
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I received 3 knives from Case this week, and was quite disappointed in the color of the covers of two of them. :( Maybe my expectations are too high??
Pocket worn harvest orange Tribal Lock, chestnut jigged bone CV teardrop, and amber jigged bone CV canoe are the knives I bought. They seem to be well made and I have no complaints about the function of any of the knives. But I have a Harvest Orange humpback stockman and several knives with chestnut jigged bone from Case, and the 2 I just received literally pale in comparison to my others. To my eye, the dye jobs are very uneven and not nearly as vivid as my previous Case examples. Am I too picky? The canoe is exactly what I was expecting.
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5K Qs said:
I received 3 knives from Case this week, and was quite disappointed in the color of the covers of two of them. :( Maybe my expectations are too high??
Pocket worn harvest orange Tribal Lock, chestnut jigged bone CV teardrop, and amber jigged bone CV canoe are the knives I bought. They seem to be well made and I have no complaints about the function of any of the knives. But I have a Harvest Orange humpback stockman and several knives with chestnut jigged bone from Case, and the 2 I just received literally pale in comparison to my others. To my eye, the dye jobs are very uneven and not nearly as vivid as my previous Case examples. Am I too picky? The canoe is exactly what I was expecting.
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Gary, I'd have to agree with you on the chestnut Teardrop, but the pocket worn Tribal lock looks nice, in my opinion. -Lance
 
They're not good at the bolsters, weak and poor colour fix it looks like. CASE should do better, anaemic dye is really off putting. I had this Burned Salmon Half Whittler that was white at the bolsters and grey pink in the middle more like Raw Salmon, really ghastly. Even after dyeing it a couple of times it's a kind of grubby orange:poop:

I'm awaiting a Root Beer Bone Stockman, they can't mess that up can they? I have a Mini Copperlock in it and it's very 'fetching' as they used to say. If CASE get my Root Beer wrong (what is that, Ginger Beer??) I might be forced to drink Moscow Mules-don't even like vodka:eek: ah I'll stick to Kentucky Mule, you Americans eclipsed the Scottish & Irish with your Bourbon Whiskey:cool:
 
Gary I agree with you my friend. I do not own a Pocket Worn Harvest Orange example but as you know I do own several Chestnut Jigged Bone knives. The two examples you have do appear to be a little splotchy. I have bought Chestnut knives before where I was able to go through as many as 7 examples on one occasion and pick the one I wanted. Unfortunately there is variation in most Bone that is dyed from being a natural product. The Amber Jigged from Case seems to be one of their more consistent offerings. They are all three nice knives. I hope they serve you well!
 
5K Qs said:
I received 3 knives from Case this week, and was quite disappointed in the color of the covers of two of them. :( Maybe my expectations are too high??
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Well, I see you got that teardrop you were shopping for!

The few harvest orange examples that I have seen have varied quite a bit from knife to knife; maybe that has to do with the nature of that particular dye and how the individual pieces of bone react? Just guessing. That is the lightest chestnut I've seen but is still very pretty, I think. They are all very nice looking knives! I have a blue 6344 medium stockman that has a lot of variation in the color and even some really pale areas. It used to concern me but everything else about the knife is so nice that I've gotten used to it and it doesn't bother me anymore.

Personal preference plays such a large part in this -- I like the bone on the first two better than on the canoe. Amber bone just doesn't do anything for me (but I believe that you are a fan of it). :)
 
5K Qs said:
I received 3 knives from Case this week, and was quite disappointed in the color of the covers of two of them. :( Maybe my expectations are too high??
Pocket worn harvest orange Tribal Lock, chestnut jigged bone CV teardrop, and amber jigged bone CV canoe are the knives I bought. They seem to be well made and I have no complaints about the function of any of the knives. But I have a Harvest Orange humpback stockman and several knives with chestnut jigged bone from Case, and the 2 I just received literally pale in comparison to my others. To my eye, the dye jobs are very uneven and not nearly as vivid as my previous Case examples. Am I too picky? The canoe is exactly what I was expecting.
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Gary, I think that although they might not look like your other knives in those covers, they do look very nice. You are the one that has to be satisfied with them but I think they both look great.

I certainly do understand where you're coming from. I had similar issues with a couple of Ebony GEC's. They had more brown in them than black. They looked just fine as long as I could get past the fact that I expected them to be black. If I would have had nothing to compare them to I would have been satisfied but seeing all the jet black Ebony GEC's, I just couldn't get past it and the knives found new homes.
 
Lance, Will, Ron, Ace, and Rick, thanks for your opinions, insights, and advice; much appreciated. :cool::thumbsup:

Part of my disappointment is probably related to this purchase being "a step up" for me in perceived quality: my quarterly buying spree was just 3 Case knives instead of my usual 10-12 Rough Riders, and I've always been very happy with the jigged bone covers on the RR knives (smooth bone RRs have sometimes been quite poorly died, in my experience). I suppose I can probably sell them LNIB and try again, but online purchasing is apparently kind of a gamble. I have a couple work projects and taxes to finish this week, but that will give me time to decide how I want to handle this.

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5K Qs said:
I received 3 knives from Case this week, and was quite disappointed in the color of the covers of two of them. :( Maybe my expectations are too high??
Pocket worn harvest orange Tribal Lock, chestnut jigged bone CV teardrop, and amber jigged bone CV canoe are the knives I bought. They seem to be well made and I have no complaints about the function of any of the knives. But I have a Harvest Orange humpback stockman and several knives with chestnut jigged bone from Case, and the 2 I just received literally pale in comparison to my others. To my eye, the dye jobs are very uneven and not nearly as vivid as my previous Case examples. Am I too picky? The canoe is exactly what I was expecting.
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I would expect that now we will see the quality at Case start to drop some since the closing of Queen . The customer always gains when the manufacturers compete for market share . You are right to feel that way about those un-matched cover colors .

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My recent chesnut CVs almost all had weaker dye jobs. My SBJs are lighter/paler towards the bolsters. I got some peanuts, and only kept the one that didn't have a proud tip closed and/or unacceptable blade play - the one I kept is far from the pretty chestnuts I see regularly. It seems that the older ones had better dye, with deeper reds flecked with black. They all were well matched though, even if the dye jobs themselves weren't that great.

I also bought a couple "dark red" CV mini copperlocks, and one was pale pink and far from red (that one got sent back).
 
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