Month long peanut challenge

Well, just opening a couple of packages and breaking down a box today. Peanut did fine.

I've been carrying it in a pocket slip because I like how pocket slips look, and I didn't want this knife to get too banged up. When I carry this as secondary, it's fine, but the slip is a little annoying when using this as a primary knife. I may have to retire the slip and just let this thing get scratched up a bit like every other knife I own.
 
Tyson A Wright said:
Well, just opening a couple of packages and breaking down a box today. Peanut did fine.

I've been carrying it in a pocket slip because I like how pocket slips look, and I didn't want this knife to get too banged up. When I carry this as secondary, it's fine, but the slip is a little annoying when using this as a primary knife. I may have to retire the slip and just let this thing get scratched up a bit like every other knife I own.
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The first couple scratches are always the worst. But I think that little peanut will wear it well. 👍
 
The last couple of weeks I've been carrying my 6344 small stockman, which is smaller than a peanut. At the same time I'm also carrying my Vic Fieldmaster and my Buck 112FG, but more often than not the small stockman is all I need for average day-to-day cutting tasks. A few days ago I was going to switch it for one of my peanuts, but the peanut almost felt too large! 😁

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JohnDF said:
I'm trying to imagine a little tiny pocket slip for a Peanut.
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Amazon carries the Case CA9066 Small Slip Pouch that is a good size for peanuts and smaller knives. They come in a five-pack and are made of a thin suede with Velcro closure. I have a set of those and also a set of the medium size that work well for medium stockman, teardrop, muskrat, swayback, etc. The medium will also work for a mini trapper although it is a snug fit. There is a large model (CA9068) that would probably hold a copperhead and anything similar. (I couldn't find a model number for the medium but I'll bet it's CA9067.)
 
No doubt about it, CASE makes some awesome smaller knives
The Mini Blackhorn is so lightweight with the linerless synthetic handle, it melts into my pocket
The handle is ergonomic and for my hand size, I get a very good and highly comfortable three finger grip and the blade easily pinches open
BUT the Mini Blackhorn sure as heck doesn't have the cool truly traditional factor the Medium Jack and Peanut have

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Well, in the last few days I've cut tape, cut up boxes, trimmed the string on my weed wacker, opened some coffee bags, and cut up some limes for Coronas. So far, the Peanut has done everything I need it to do. Giving up on the pocket slip has made it quicker to get into action, too.
There have been a few times where I might have used my pocket knife as a paring knife if I'd been carrying my 97 or my Opinel, where I didn't even try with the Peanut - I just grabbed an actual paring knife. I don't really consider this a failure of the Peanut, though. Food prep is a sort of fun bonus with a pocket knife, not a requirement (for me, at least).
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Tyson A Wright said:
Well, in the last few days I've cut tape, cut up boxes, trimmed the string on my weed wacker, opened some coffee bags, and cut up some limes for Coronas. So far, the Peanut has done everything I need it to do. Giving up on the pocket slip has made it quicker to get into action, too.
There have been a few times where I might have used my pocket knife as a paring knife if I'd been carrying my 97 or my Opinel, where I didn't even try with the Peanut - I just grabbed an actual paring knife. I don't really consider this a failure of the Peanut, though. Food prep is a sort of fun bonus with a pocket knife, not a requirement (for me, at least).
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"You've taken a step into larger world, Luke."
 
JohnDF said:
I'm trying to imagine a little tiny pocket slip for a Peanut.
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JohnDF said:
That's pretty cool, really. 🤠:thumbsup:
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cudgee said:
Mate i made this nearly 30 years ago from a piece of scrap leather, was originally made for a Mighty Mite Old Timer, but this little Peanut fits in like a glove. :thumbsup: 🤠.

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I always admired the little leather slip that Carl J jackknife used to show on his key ring for his SAK Classic.

- GT
 
I usually carry two knives, if I'm wearing jeans... one "big" knife, and a watch pocket knife of some variation. That knife, at least in my mind, should be a two blade, with one of them being a pen....
I like the looks of the peanuts, but they just feel too small for me... I tend to not go smaller than the half whittler/swayback jack/pen knife size... and now also the small swell center jack.
Someday, I might think the peanut is the perfect carry size... my "likes" tend to evolve with time.... (or maybe I'm just fickle :rolleyes: )
There are certainly enough variations of it to satisfy most any desire....
 
The Peanut has about average edge retention so far. It's not a super steel, but I'm not expecting it to be. It is fine for an EDC knife. But one thing interesting thing I've noticed is how it gets dull. Most of my knives come out of sharpening very sharp, and get slowly worse (with occasional honing to extend things) until eventually I need to resharpen them. This is not at all how the Peanut gets dull. It starts out sharp, and I don't notice much impairment of its sharpness, until suddenly it's so dull that it won't cut anything. It's roughly the same time between sharpenings, but the curve you might draw on an edge retention graph is very different. I wonder if this happens because it's incredibly thin steel with a deep hollow grind. It's not really a problem, just an interesting experience of this knife.
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Tyson A Wright said:
The Peanut has about average edge retention so far. It's not a super steel, but I'm not expecting it to be. It is fine for an EDC knife. But one thing interesting thing I've noticed is how it gets dull. Most of my knives come out of sharpening very sharp, and get slowly worse (with occasional honing to extend things) until eventually I need to resharpen them. This is not at all how the Peanut gets dull. It starts out sharp, and I don't notice much impairment of its sharpness, until suddenly it's so dull that it won't cut anything. It's roughly the same time between sharpenings, but the curve you might draw on an edge retention graph is very different. I wonder if this happens because it's incredibly thin steel with a deep hollow grind. It's not really a problem, just an interesting experience of this knife.
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What are you mainly cutting with it?
 
Markesharp said:
What are you mainly cutting with it?
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As I posted earlier in the thread:
Tyson A Wright said:
Well, in the last few days I've cut tape, cut up boxes, trimmed the string on my weed wacker, opened some coffee bags, and cut up some limes for Coronas...
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It's the same sort of things I cut with any pocket knife, with the exception that I occasionally do food prep with some pocket knives, but haven't really done that with the Peanut.
 
We had a bunch of friends over to the new house today to help with painting and some other odds and ends. Here's the Peanut on display with the coffee and bagels we had for breakfast (along with the painting hats we gave everybody as party favors). The Opinel No.8 was there, since the Peanut is a little too small to easily cut up bagels:
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But I did have my first real Peanut fail for this experiment while trying to cut a giant bundle of wires connected to a very old and defunct alarm system (so I could pull the alarm box out of the closet). I might have been able to cut one wire at a time, but this was a roughly 1.5 inch bundle of wires, and I just didn't have time to waste on that. Ideally I'd have some kind of proper wire cutting tool, but all of those are still in our old garage. So my GEC 97 got called into service for that one task.
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The Peanut was fine for everything else, but I was pretty happy to have the 97 along today.
 
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