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

I've voiced my opinion about Case's problems with quality control, but I've also said that when you get a good one you definitely have a keeper... They can still build a top quality knife.

I've had the best luck with their Carhartt line of knives. The one pictured below has a perfectly centered blade, no gaps, super smooth transitions, and Case has pins down to an art. The pull is about a 4, which is perfect for me, and the 'snap' is ridiculously good. In fact, it's really hard to pose the knife in a partially open position because the blade will either snap closed or snap to half stop. Quality build!





 
1965-69 - 087PE Stockman

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The story of my latest Case acquisition…

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It started almost six months ago. My wife and I were traveling across Indiana. We passed through a small town in which there was a hardware store with a Case Knives sign on the side of the building. I would have liked to stop but it was late and the store was closed. We passed by a few days later on the way back home, but again the timing was not good and again they were closed. I did look them up on the Case website and noted that they are a “Silver” dealer, so I hoped that I could stop on a future trip.

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Last week we took another trip along the same route. For days before the trip I tried to decide what knives to carry. I ended up picking my chestnut bone CV swayback jack (TB62117) and my pocket worn old red bone small stockman (6327). Little did I know at the time how appropriate those two would turn out to be.

This time our schedule worked out. Friday morning during a torrential downpour we stopped at the hardware store and went in to look at knives. I was waited on by a pleasant fellow who is a Case collector. He showed me the buffalo horn cheetah that he carries every day and I told him about my yellow Delrin tribal lock EDC. We had a great time talking knives as I looked through the display. They had several in buffalo horn (I checked out a half whittler but passed), a couple in purple haze bone (yikes!), an abalone (wow!), and a complete range of trappers in stag (regular, Wharncliffe mini, and tiny) just to name a few.

After some deliberation I asked to look at the swayback gent in the display. It was a 2011 in pocket worn old red bone -- no longer in production and a perfect partner to my 2010 small stockman. I pulled out my small stockman to compare the color and then my 2009 swayback jack to compare the patterns. Yes, this was the one that I would be taking home.

My wife picked out a pair of leather work gloves and an edging spade and we concluded the deal. I shook hands with our salesman, thanked him for a most pleasant time, and we headed out into the rain and back on the road.

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(Taken on the return trip -- no rain this time.)​
 
Went to a Case knife event last weekend and aside from the special event knife I picked up these three... the two 47’s are harder to find, and I realized I didn’t have a large yellow handled stockman in CV steel.....
All have good f&f and w&t with the exception of the sheepsfoot on the “carbon” 47.
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