Painting the house and small stockmen.

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I'm painting the house.

Karen made up her mind that after all these years, white was too stark, too much like a hospital room, so I'm making the better half happy. She picked out a color called Cafe au lait, or something like coffee with cream. Kind of a brownish biege. Says she wants "warm colors". Okay.:confused:

Okay, maybe I'm a bit biased, growing up with whitewashed plaster walls.

So there I am, up on a step ladder, masking taping off the white ceiling from the soon to be biege walls, and trying to get a tool to neatly cut the tape in the crease between wall and ceiling. Single edge razor blade is actually too sharpe, it will go off target too easy. A Stanley utility knife is okay, but still, a little too fine a point.

Finally I try a little 2 7/8ths Uncle Henry mini stockman. The sheepsfoot blade goes in the ceiling-wall crease and glides along just fine. I peel the tape off the wall, no problemo. Painting with Uncle Henry.

Okay, enough loafing, back to the brush and roller.
 
"Painting the house and small stockmen"

I read that title and thought maybe you had hired a midget rodeo to help paint the house. I was hoping for pictures :rolleyes:
 
FLymon said:
"Painting the house and small stockmen"

I read that title and thought maybe you had hired a midget rodeo to help paint the house. I was hoping for pictures :rolleyes:
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i'd have been better off, do ya know any out of work midjets?:D I don't mind rolling the walls and ceiling, but getting down on hands and knees to do the base boards, is hard on the old back. Not to mention the knees.

All kidding aside, I've never used this pattern of pocket knife before, and I was surprised at how nice the little stockman was. I have used the 3 7/8ths Buck 301, and the 3 1/4 Buck 303, but never a 2 7/8ths. Somebody gave it to me years ago, and it's been sitting in my sock drawer, unused. In addition to cutting lots of masking tape, it made short work of sharpening a pencil for marking the new quarter round moulding where it was going to be cut in the miter box, triming a few stray bristles off a paint brush that was interfearing with me getting a good "Line", and cut open a plastic pack of new rollers to go on the handle. It was a very nice little pocket knife.

Will it replace my peanut? Of course not. But it is a nice little knife, and something tells me I just may be carrying it now and then. Just to try it out, you understand!

Just once in a while.

Really!
 
I understand what you mean about the size. My favorite Case knife is this well traveled 2 3/4" Pocket Hunter:

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This thing is a pencil sharpening machine. My girls (age 7 and 9) require that all their pencils be "Daddy sharpened" with his "cool little knife" :D.
 
jackknife said:
.... but never a 2 7/8ths...
.... It was a very nice little pocket knife...

Will it replace my peanut? Of course not. But it is a nice little knife, and something tells me I just may be carrying it now and then. Just to try it out, you understand!

Just once in a while.

Really!
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Well welcome to the new craze in the Trad forums!
Soon we will all be carrying a 2 7/8ths stockman!

Actually Case makes really nice small stockmans.
I have a plain-jane brown worker delrin with brushed blades and square bolsters
And a fancier amber bone with polished blades and round bolsters
Also a Puma in a jigged amber bone

When you get that small, the sheepsfoot becomes like a scapel
 
neeman said:
Well welcome to the new craze in the Trad forums!
Soon we will all be carrying a 2 7/8ths stockman! ... When you get that small, the sheepsfoot becomes like a scapel
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I once picked up a used Old Timer small stockman on a popular online auction site that rhymes with flea bay. ;) I didn't mind the overall size of the knife (I have a Case peanut that I love, afterall). But I kept wishing it had only the main blade and sheepsfoot. What was I supposed to do with a spey blade that tiny, geld a hamster!? I gave away the knife and never missed it.
 
mnblade said:
I once picked up a used Old Timer small stockman on a popular online auction site that rhymes with flea bay. ;) I didn't mind the overall size of the knife (I have a Case peanut that I love, afterall). But I kept wishing it had only the main blade and sheepsfoot. What was I supposed to do with a spey blade that tiny, geld a hamster!? I gave away the knife and never missed it.
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The third blade on the Case is a pen blade, so your hamster is safe
 
I like my Vic Cadet for my painting knife, heck it has really become my everything knife. :) The small screw driver on the can opener is perfect for the screws on the switch and plug covers. the bigger driver is a good paint can opener too. Yup I know prying lol
 
jackknife said:
I'm painting the house.

Karen made up her mind that after all these years, white was too stark, too much like a hospital room, so I'm making the better half happy. She picked out a color called Cafe au lait, or something like coffee with cream. Kind of a brownish biege. Says she wants "warm colors". Okay.:confused:

Okay, maybe I'm a bit biased, growing up with whitewashed plaster walls.

So there I am, up on a step ladder, masking taping off the white ceiling from the soon to be biege walls, and trying to get a tool to neatly cut the tape in the crease between wall and ceiling. Single edge razor blade is actually too sharpe, it will go off target too easy. A Stanley utility knife is okay, but still, a little too fine a point.

Finally I try a little 2 7/8ths Uncle Henry mini stockman. The sheepsfoot blade goes in the ceiling-wall crease and glides along just fine. I peel the tape off the wall, no problemo. Painting with Uncle Henry.

Okay, enough loafing, back to the brush and roller.
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You know I had an uncle who did roofing after the Bethlehem Steel shut down. The only knife he owned was an Old Timer 3.25" stockman. He was a widower, never saw the need for kitchen knives, just that 1 knife. I think (since he was from the eastern part of PA) he's the only 1 not to own a Case. When my cousin joined the Marines that's what he had to. They just about laughed him off the Island, until they saw what he could do with it.
 
Finally my wonderful Jr. Stockman pattern gets some love around here.

Jackknife, I even bought a peanut because of you. But there’s no way it will ever replace the Junior Stockman in my affections. That’s the knife I started with and that’s the knife I will end with.

Mind you, I always carry something bigger, that fills my hand, for heavier work. But the small stockman with a pen blade instead of a spay gives me everything I need for delicate precision work.

For cutting paint around the baseboard, I use a dry roller pan as a toolbox. Paint bucket, cutting brush, cleaning rag to zap spatters, all ride in the roller pan. I scoot the whole business ahead of me as I go. I pick it up and carry it to the next room. It helps a lot. So do knee pads.
 
mnblade said:
I once picked up a used Old Timer small stockman on a popular online auction site that rhymes with flea bay. ;) I didn't mind the overall size of the knife (I have a Case peanut that I love, afterall). But I kept wishing it had only the main blade and sheepsfoot. What was I supposed to do with a spey blade that tiny, geld a hamster!? I gave away the knife and never missed it.
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Spey blade?


Schrade 108OT 2 7/8" stockman

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Hey Jack, bet that small stockman must look real special with them art deco splattered "Cafe au lait" scales:D
 
jackknife said:
Will it replace my peanut? Of course not. But it is a nice little knife, and something tells me I just may be carrying it now and then. Just to try it out, you understand!

Just once in a while.

Really!
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It's always good to be open to new ideas! Sounds like you might have found the knife for your new grandchild, after it's had some character, of course... :D
 
Raymond1000 said:
Finally my wonderful Jr. Stockman pattern gets some love around here.
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Raymond, I'd never ever used this pattern knife before. I'd been given to me or something many years ago, and had been stuck back in my sock drawer. Mybe after using my old Buck 301 stockman for so many years, I thought a stockman pattern this small is sort of a joke. Now after using it, I can see it's a very nice little knife. Very usefull for everyday pocket knife chores.

It just may find it's way into the edc rotation.

But I have to be verrrry careful not to make my peanuts jelous.:D
 
Todd A said:
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Spey blade?


Schrade 108OT 2 7/8" stockman

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That's weird ...... I wonder if the one I got (highly used) had just been worn or ground down to more of a spey shape. Boy, I tell you, looking at that knife - if someone made that same layout at about 3 1/4" with rounded bolsters, I'd be in hog heaven.
 
mnblade said:
That's weird ...... I wonder if the one I got (highly used) had just been worn or ground down to more of a spey shape. Boy, I tell you, looking at that knife - if someone made that same layout at about 3 1/4" with rounded bolsters, I'd be in hog heaven.
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CA-217 as an example Medium Stockman. Case X3087 pattern.3 1/4" closed. Clip, spey and pen blades. But instead of the Sheepsfoot is a Spey.
Does that get you to the Gates of Hog's Heaven?

Even the Case X344 pattern with Clip, sheepsfoot and pen blades has square bolsters

But Case X3090 SS
Clip, Sheepfoot and Spey Blades
3 3/8" closed; 2.1 oz.
With rounded bolsters
 
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jackknife said:
Raymond, I'd never ever used this pattern knife before. I'd been given to me or something many years ago, and had been stuck back in my sock drawer. Mybe after using my old Buck 301 stockman for so many years, I thought a stockman pattern this small is sort of a joke. Now after using it, I can see it's a very nice little knife. Very usefull for everyday pocket knife chores.

It just may find it's way into the edc rotation.

But I have to be verrrry careful not to make my peanuts jelous.:D
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Jackknife, you thought the Jr. Stockman was just a joke? Too small to be useful?

Pardon me if I find that…amusing.
 
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