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ElCuchillo

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The post about what knife one would carry for a year inspired this little experiment. For the next year, I am only going to carry my Case Peanut. I used it today at my daughter's first birthday party, and it did everything from cut open her presents' wrapping paper, to cutting the zip ties, to popping balloons. I used to use it alot, even at work, but I've always switched knives after a while. My stockman, sodbuster, SAKs, etc., I'd edc a different knife every couple of weeks, as we all do. Well, for the next year it will only be my Case Peanut. Let's see how this knife works out for me. I know JK has repeatedly told us of how it was his dad's only knife for years and years, and he got along just fine with it. It won't be easy, as I'll probably miss my other knives eventually, but in the interest of research, for the next 365 days (until my daughter's next birthday party), I will only carry my Bone Stag, SS Peanut.
Wish me luck.
 
You are a stronger man than me :D A years an awful long time.

If it would make it less tempting for you, I would be glad to safekeep the rest of your knives for one year
I don't have any doubt that the peanut will be able to perform all reasonable tasks that you ask of it..
 
The force is strong with this one.....good luck...looking forward to see how this pans out for you.
 
I have no doubt the peanut will be able to do anything you need it to do but if you're on this forum your doomed, it's impossible for anyone here to dedicate themselves to one knife and one knife only for a year. good luck, you're a much better man than i.
 
Ha. I give maybe two weeks. Then you'll be sitting in the corner, surrounded by your collection, picking up & gently stroking each knife, saying, "my precious . . . !" and growling at anyone who comes near.

I don't think I could do it. My wife calls me a knife wuss.

Good luck - be interesting to see how this goes!

thx - cpr
 
I would just include the caveat that if any or your co-workers are being devoured by a Burmese python, you reserve the right to deploy your SAK Tinker to do battle with it. Other than that, I support your experiment.
 
longbeachguy said:
I would just include the caveat that if any or your co-workers are being devoured by a Burmese python, you reserve the right to deploy your SAK Tinker to do battle with it. Other than that, I support your experiment.
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I thought it was a Ball Python. I got tagged by a Ball Python, said "Ow" and then got the camera. A Burm? I think I'd be screaming "God save me!".

Good luck on sticking with THE peanut. I don't know if I could do it. I could go a year carrying A trapper, I don't know if I could go a year carrying ONE trapper.

Frank
 
Uhmm just to be clear. This will be the only blade you will carry ?......No multitool back up of any kind what so ever ?

Yeahh I'm gonna go with guy that have you sitting in the corner growling at people with in 2 weeks:D:D:D
 
ElCuchillo,
I commend you,on your attempt at your experiment.For me,to only carry any one of my knives,for a year straight,carrying only one & no other,would be like being in a slipjoint prison camp.

The only way I could do that,would be if I existed on Earth about 100 to 125 years ago.
Good luck with your experiment,interesting post.This weeks kick is my Case - Bose collab Dog Leg.
-Vince
 
I think you will fare better than you think. Familiar is comfortable. Aside from actively "mixing things up" I tend to always reach for the same tool as long as its appropriate. I assume "carry" does'nt mean you wont use other knives which happen to be in their particular stations. Chef knives in the kitchen, box-cutter in the stockroom. I'd be careful not to develope a severe preference only for peanuts. Anyways, good luck.
 
To quote Kippling; "You're a braver man than I, Gunga Din."

I don't think I could do it. Oh sure I'll take one knife and carry it for a while. But then I set it back in the cigar box and pick another to be my edc favorite for a while. As much as I love my 303 stockman, I'll sneak back to carrying my old Hen and Rooster. Then the peanut calls to me in the quite hours of the night.:eek:

I think I'd turn into the one sulking in a dark corner like orca said, muttering "My precious!"

But I'll be rooting for ya the whole time. Just give us periodic up dates on how the cold night sweats and tremors of the hands are going.:D:D


I think my dad managed to do it because it was a different era, and growing up in a poor working watermans family, you developed a frugal mentality. A man had A pocket knife, A shotgun, and maybe A rifle. None of this half a dozen handguns, a couple black rifles, and a bunch of knives. Plus I found out how dad came by the peanut and that it also had sentimental value, so that accounted for some of his die hard loyalty to it.
 
orca8589 said:
Ha. I give maybe two weeks. Then you'll be sitting in the corner, surrounded by your collection, picking up & gently stroking each knife, saying, "my precious . . . !" and growling at anyone who comes near.
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:D:D I agree with this. You may even have to go to counseling at this point.:p
 
I don't know, maybe he will make it.

In one respect he has time on his side, he's younger than some of us. Less than a lifetime of habit to break. And he may not have the "disease" as bad as some of us. After all, some people have licked adictions with sucsess.

But maybe ElCuchillo is really a user more than a collector. Maybe he's been on a search for the perfect set up for him. Like in the movie "City Slickers" when Jack Palance holds up the one finger, and Billy Crystal askes what the one thing is, Jack tells him thats for every man to find for himself. ElCuchillo may be looking for that one thing. Certainly a peanut will do 99% of what has to be cut on a real world edc basis. Heck, I experimented with a Vic classic, and IT did 99% of what had to be done. Food use was one achillies heel. But when we went off on a family picknic, mom allways packed a large kitchen knife in the picknic basket. These days for food use theres a mora in a plastic shath in my daypack. It also takes care of stuff I think may be a bit much for a pocket knife.

With a Sears 4-way pocket screw driver and a P-38 on his keyring, and a sharp peanut in the pocket, our very own gator wrangler just may make it.

And now that I've thought about it, ElCuchillo has inspired me. In a show of support for our own, I'm putting away everything but my little 303 Buck cadet. As long as ElCuchillo sticks to his peanut, I'll stick to my 303 cadet. No Hen and Rooster stockmen, no Wenger SI, no Opinel or other pocket knife but the 3 1/4 stockman for the next year. I'd like to use my dad's peanut, but at over 70 years of age its too valuable as a family hand down at this point. Few of my family knew Andy Warden, so I feel free to use the heck out of the cadet like he did.

See what you started ElCuchillo?:D
 
Okay, I'm going to go along with ElCuchillo and go single for a year, as long as he does.

I've been cutting back in recent years, but I've never been able to do what my dad did; make it with only that one pocket knife. Now I feel inspired with one of our own forumites going solo, I'm going to try it as well. All my pocket knives are packed away and for the next year my edc is going to be the 303 Buck cadet that was once owned by my co-worker, Andy Warden. It worked for him, maybe it will work for me as well.

Okay ElCuchillo, here we go.
 
Jackknife, I wish you the best. Are you going to have a fixed blade you can go to for heavy cutting?


Thanks,
John
 
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