Peanut question

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spydutch

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I have 2 Peanuts, 1 Yellow CV and 1 Chestnut bone CV.
The yellow one I carry regularly and I have one question.
The clip blade is off centred to the shield side, almost touching the liner.
Despite that, every time I try to open the kinfe too fast I tend to rub the blade on the other liner side scratching my carefully buit patina.
My Chestnut bone is almost centred so this will happen even sooner.
I have no such thing with my Tiny Toothpick in CV which has also an off centred blade to the shield side.
I would just like to know if that's common on the Peanuts and if I make a big deal out of nothing again.
Thanx much for reading:thumbup:
 
Both my peanuts have their main blades off center, each one in the opposite way, almost touching the liner. I try to push the blade tip away from the liner when i open it, but i still get some small scratches sometimes. On the CV version, the patina will build fast and cover the tiny scratches in a matter of days.
I know it shouldn't be like that, but i do like the peanut, and carry the cv chestnut every day.
There are some perfect centered peanuts, as i've seen around here, but there are many like ours too.
I stopped worrying about that long time ago, knowing it wold have been much worse if the blade was rubbing/touching the liner.
 
spydutch,

All of mine have either pen or main or both off-center in both directions to one degree or another. Nothing so bad as to rub the liners by itself, but some of them do when pushed on to open, like you describe. I think it's just the nature of the beast. I figure any small marks it makes just adds to the character.
 
This is good to know, that others have experienced the same thing I did yesterday.

Got my first Case knife in the mail yesterday (a yellow cv pen) , opened it, inspected it closely, and everthing was good to go. A nicely made and exceptionally comfortable-in-the- hand little knife. I used it throughout the day, then was looking at it again last night and noticed a few vertical scratches on the main blade on the pen blade side. Though the blades were close, they didn't touch so I basically discounted the scratches happening when closing the pen blade. Finally, I figured out that it was happening when I opened the smaller blade, and my opening pressure and motion was slighty pushing it against the main blade. Well, I guess if I can develop a habit of kind of pulling the small blade out and away from the main blade this will be minimized, but in the end it doesn't really bother me. With the way I use a knife in my work, the blades will likely get more scratches from daily use than from what they get residing closely to each other.
 
My peanuts have a slight bias, but I don't mind. As long as it's not hitting the liner, I'm good with it.
 
My yeller nut(bless her heart where ever she is) had off centered blades. But my chestnut nut has perfect centered blades.
 
I don't worry about these types of scratches. They are part of what makes the knife yours. The more scratches, patina, etc.. the more use the knife has had and the more it looks broken in and a part of you. While I like a beautiful knife, I love the used and broken in look.
 
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