New Knife Day! Emerald Case Medium Stockman (Question About Rubbing)

[Ribbonz]

Hey everyone, here is the first new knife of my collection, a Case Medium Stockman in Emerald. Knife seems solid, no wobbles, the only thing is that the pen knife rubs on the nail nick of the sheepsfoot slightly. So how much rub is acceptable? It doesn’t bother me too much, but if it’s a dealbreaker and I need to return it I’d like to know.

 

[afishhunter]

Does it prevent the pen from fully closing or the sheepsfoot from opening without opening the pen blade first?
If not, I wouldn't worry about it.
Generally speaking, two spring stockman are known for a little blade rub. It comes with the pattern.

You can thin the offending pen blade's tip a little on your fine sharpening stone, to eliminate or reduce the rub, depending on how bad it is, or bend the sheepsfoot very slightly towards the clip point, if there is room. (lay sheepsfoot flat on table, hold sheepsfoot with off hand flat on table, push or pull on handle to bend the blade the proper direction.)

Good looking knife. You should get many years use from her.

(note: I'm presuming the pen blade is just shy of rubbing the liner, so you can't bend that blade away from the sheepsfoot.)

 

[Tx308]

Out of over 200 stockman in my accumulation there is only one that doesn't exhibit blade rub. If you're going to use it then the rub is meaningless.

 

[Ribbonz]

Does it prevent the pen from fully closing or the sheepsfoot from opening without opening the pen blade first?
If not, I wouldn't worry about it.
Generally speaking, two spring stockman are known for a little blade rub. It comes with the pattern.

You can thin the offending pen blade's tip a little on your fine sharpening stone, to eliminate or reduce the rub, depending on how bad it is, or bend the sheepsfoot very slightly towards the clip point, if there is room. (lay sheepsfoot flat on table, hold sheepsfoot with off hand flat on table, push or pull on handle to bend the blade the proper direction.)

Good looking knife. You should get many years use from her.

(note: I'm presuming the pen blade is just shy of rubbing the liner, so you can't bend that blade away from the sheepsfoot.)

Out of over 200 stockman in my accumulation there is only one that doesn't exhibit blade rub. If you're going to use it then the rub is meaningless.

The rub is slight. If that’s normal, then I’m cool with it. I was just making sure. I’ve never owned a Case knife before. Thanks!

 

[Prester John]

The rub is slight. If that’s normal, then I’m cool with it. I was just making sure. I’ve never owned a Case knife before. Thanks!

It's normal. My medium stockman has it.

 

[Scott J.]

Definitely normal on a stockman.
Great looking knife!!
I have that knife's first cousin.

 

[Modoc ED]

the only thing is that the pen knife rubs on the nail nick of the sheepsfoot slightly.

The only reason it's rubbing is because instead of lifting the pen blade straight up and out of the well, you are pushing it against the sheepfoot blade as you open it.
Return it????? Surely you're kidding.

A great thread to post new knives in.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/your-newest-addition-traditionals-of-course.1167349/

 

[Old Hunter]

Virtually every Stockman pattern knife has the blade rub you describe. Only ones that don’t are the three backspring Stockman pattern knives. Enjoy your new 32. OH

 

[JohnDF]

It's part of the charm of a Stockman.

 

[CVamberbonehead]

Pretty much all 2 spring stockman knives have it. Use the knife, dont return it..

 

[hornetguy]

I agree.... use it, enjoy it... too bad you couldn't find it in green, though.....

 

[LastRodeo]

The Case Medium stockman is known for blade rub. I don't necessarily agree that it is common in all stockman though.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

It's a myth that the 3-spring stockman patterns don't ever rub. The only built-in advantage is that the blades aren't bent or 'krinked' to fit. They don't rub for the same reason as with a 2-spring stockman (often due to imprecise krinking of blades on those). But in 3-spring designs from Case, like the current '47 pattern, the blades are still very, very close to one another and can still rub a bit. I have one of those '47s, with the tell-tale rub marks. The '47 pattern's blades are also ground very, very thin, which is nice. But it also means the blades will deflect laterally a bit on opening, which adds to the tendency to rub.

I also have a 3-spring 301 stockman from Buck, which also showed the marks from rubbing, straight from the first day I bought it. And when I bought that one, I'd rejected another 301 that I'd looked at in the store, because it's blade rub actually impeded the closing of the sheepfoot blade.

Sometimes you get lucky in finding a mass-produced stockman from Case or whomever, that exhibits essentially perfect blade spacing and krinking, so it doesn't rub. But that's essentially luck-of-the-draw, and I don't really expect to find each and every example so perfectly assembled, with a production stockman pattern.

A stockman can be built to avoid blade rub. But the 'fix' often means allowing more space between the blades, which means the knife will be thicker overall, and perhaps not as desirable for carry, due to the extra 'bulk' in the pocket. Blades can also be differentially ground, to accommodate nested blades adjacent to one another. But that's not as common in mass-production knives and would be more expensive to produce.