My 1978 Case jack knives

Doug Add

Doug Add

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Within the last two weeks I have been fortunate to acquire two Case jack knives here on the forum, a 6232 and a 6207.

Both are from 1978 and have the same brown jigged bone scales.

The two clip blades and the two pen blades are identical in cutting lengths to each other, but the clip of the 6207 has a bit more width to it (the pen blades are identical).

The 6232 frame is 1/16" longer than the 3.5" frame of the 6207.

I am quite pleased to have them.

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In this picture looking down on them closed, you can see that the 6207, pictured on top, has more dye variation in the mark side bone scale.

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I had a feeling you would jump on that trapper jack. I was tempted myself, but now I am very happy that it has gone to a great home.

Is there any current production of the Trapper Jack? I haven't been able to find anything about it as all 6207 references are to the mini trapper with spey blade.

Really nice scores, both of them and the bone is really great!
 
Trapper Jack=awesome. And second the bone, really love the greenish brownish hues. You've been scoring some nice ones lately Doug!
 
Thanks for the kind words.

I copied this from the AAPK reference on Case knives by pattern number:

"Pattern # 07

This pattern number has been used on two distinct knife patterns

The most recent and most well known is a 3 1/2" jack knife that is often called a mini trapper. I believe they all have two blades. The master blade on these knives is normally a clip blade, and the other will be a pen or spey. The spey blade is most common on Cases more recent 07 knives. Most of the older knives will have a pen blade. They have been a regular in Cases' production line starting well before 1940."

If that is a no-no, moderators, I apologize and will edit it away.
 
Congratz on these two fellows! I like the difference of the both mainblades. One is standart clip; is the other on a california clip blade or just a slimmer version of a standart clip blade?

Both are very fine and nice knives, I´m sure they´ll make a good part of your EDC rotation.

Kind regards
Andi
 
I think it is just a slimmer clip blade. Here are a few more pictures of the 6207 from my post in the totin' thread.
 
Thanks Doug for showing it off. I don´t know the exact difference between these two blade shapes. All I know, the California clip blade is not as broad as a standart clip. :)

Kind regards
Andi
 
Andi, here is the 6232 clip blade between a couple stockman clip blades. I don't know if these would be considered California clips, actually Böker calls the Tree Brand a "long turkish clip."

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Thank you Doug! Now I see the difference. Learned something new, again :)

Kind regards
Andi
 
Man, I just LOVE that brown jigged bone! You've made some nice scores, and you've done a great job of showing them off with your photography skills.

Tal
 
I think (not positive) Turkish clip describes the recurve of the blade's belly along with the long clipped portion.

I don't believe either of the Cases is a California clip, which has a very short spine behind the clip.
(Think muskrat clip.)

That old mottled Case bone is VERY attractive. Congrats!
 
Andi, take a look at Trand's second picture in this post on the GEC group shot thread. He has the 56 right above the 66 (his is as lovely as yours!), and you can see that the clip blade of his 56 is wider than the 66, similar to the difference in clip blades on my two Case knives.

Maybe it has something to do with the blade style of a trapper jack knife being different than that of a serpentine jack.
 
I read online that the Case Slimline Trapper has a California Clip style blade:
"The blade is shaped in a California Clip style with the clip point going farther up the backbone than a conventional clip."
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> I don't know if these would be considered California clips (upper and lower stockmans pictured)
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I dont think so.
Those stockman blades have the nail nicks on the clipped portion of the blade. The California Clip on my Slimline has the nail nick on the spine before the clipped part of the blade.

so does my grand daddy barlow
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I cannot say if that would be considered a California Clip, but it is long and slim like the slimline, not short and tall like the clip blade on the 6207 on the bottom:
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Thank you guys, for the lession. :) These pics are really very helpful...

Kind regards
Andi
 
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