My newest EDC-a new little Casexx

Pete1977

Pete1977

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A couple years ago a generous forumite gave my girlfriend a pink Spyderco Cricket. Well, sometime last fall her mother fell in love with the cricket and took it. She used it for a few weeks before giving it back to the girl and so I told her I'd hunt one down with the zytel handle for her. Around november or so I managed to get ahold of a black zytel cricket from another forumite. That little knife hasn't left her mom's pocket since she got it and she thanks me for it and shows it to me every time I see her. Anyhow, since then, she wanted to buy me a knife. Not knowing what to get, she got me a $30 gift card to Gander Mountain.

Well, yesterday we were up visiting her dad in Kenosha and we stopped by the Gander Mountain to pick out a knife. I wound up with a new 3318 stockman in CV and yellow Delrin :). I would have liked bone and CV but the bone handled knives they had were all stainless, I didn't want to spend much more than the $30 and anyhow yellow delrin is easy to spot when you put it down and forget where :D.

I always tend to use a knife that someone gives me more than one I've bought, its just more enjoyable for me, and with money tight these days I'm in no position to be buying new knives that much.

I'm off to sharpen up that little case and do some whittling with it, and it will be coming on the towboat for my next 21 day hitch. :D

Pete
 
3318 is what I have in my pocket today.

Great little knife. I did a little work on mine last week to make it a bit more comfortable. I knocked the kick down on the Spey blade and rounded the shoulders on the bolsters. Since then its been back in my pocket and serving me well.

Congrats on the new knife and keep us posted on its exploits. :thumbup:

Chris
 
Pete1977 said:
I wound up with a new 3318 stockman in CV and yellow Delrin :). I would have liked bone and CV but the bone handled knives they had were all stainless, I didn't want to spend much more than the $30 and anyhow yellow delrin is easy to spot when you put it down and forget where :D.

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I'm off to sharpen up that little case and do some whittling with it, and it will be coming on the towboat for my next 21 day hitch.
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Look out, Pete1977, yellow fever is a nasty thing, as lots of guys around here can attest. Seriously, though - great knife you got there. And I'm glad to read you've got no qualms about taking her along off-shore. You know, sailors toted carbon steel knives at sea for eons. Now, though, it seems to some of the "knife geek elite," that if your blade's not make of the latest wonder stainless, it'll melt into a puddle of snot at the mere sight of :eek: water! :rolleyes:
 
Pete, that 3318 is a fine little knife. You chose well. :thumbup:

Like Rupestris, I ground the kick down slightly to lower the sheepfoot blade. Makes a big difference imho. (However that is the only mod I did on the knife and I stopped once I began feeling the change in the relation of the backspring and liners.)
 
Blues said:
Pete, that 3318 is a fine little knife. You chose well. :thumbup:

Like Rupestris, I ground the kick down slightly to lower the sheepfoot blade. Makes a big difference imho. (However that is the only mod I did on the knife and I stopped once I began feeling the change in the relation of the backspring and liners.)
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I did the same.
Is it with all -318 pattern?

What do you mean by "I began feeling the change in the relation of the backspring and liners.)"?
 
Neeman,

When you grind down the kick a bit, when the blade is in the closed position (in this instance the sheepfoot), you can feel that the backspring has receded slightly into the well or trough of the knife and that the liners adjoining it feel slightly higher in relation to the spring. (I'm talking small amounts here but noticable with the pad of your finger.)

I guess the reason being that now that the kick is slightly lower, it doesn't push on the spring with the same tension (or the same distance when in the closed position).
 
This my favorite pattern (the Stockman) and my favorite knife (the 3318) Probably because it was my first.
 
(However that is the only mod I did on the knife and I stopped once I began feeling the change in the relation of the backspring and liners.)
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Yep. After knocking the kick down I noticed the spring had dropped a bit. Doesn't affect pocket carry and its not as noticeable visually as it is if you feel it as you mentioned.

You can just make it out in this pic:
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Chris
 
mnblade said:
Look out, Pete1977, yellow fever is a nasty thing, as lots of guys around here can attest. Seriously, though - great knife you got there. And I'm glad to read you've got no qualms about taking her along off-shore. You know, sailors toted carbon steel knives at sea for eons. Now, though, it seems to some of the "knife geek elite," that if your blade's not make of the latest wonder stainless, it'll melt into a puddle of snot at the mere sight of :eek: water! :rolleyes:
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I'm working on the illinois river right now, far from offshore. :) I took an old timer trapper lobstering in the north atlantic, as well as to Georges Bank, about 180 miles east of Massachusetts. now that is offshore! :) It had a decent patina on it and didn't rust any more than stainless knives I've taken fishing.
 
Nice image, Chris. I agree that it is more readily noticeable by feel than by eye.
 
mnblade said:
.. You know, sailors toted carbon steel knives at sea for eons. Now, though, it seems to some of the "knife geek elite," that if your blade's not make of the latest wonder stainless, it'll melt into a puddle of snot at the mere sight of :eek: water! :rolleyes:
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That's a good one. Very funny.:D
 
I just bought one of these a couple weeks ago. Very nice knife. I did notice that the sheepsfoot stuck up and compared it to a few different Case stockman models they had in stock. Not the same on all, but on most it seemed to be just the same. I don't notice when I carry it but I have to wonder why it's like that.
 
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