Peanuts and butterbeans

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I was just browsing the Case section over on knifecenter.com, and I think I'd like either a CV peanut or baby butterbean. I want something even more pocketable than my Boker copperhead to carry as an elegant knife in white collar environments. My copperhead is just a bit too big and heavy in the pocket for this, and I want a big blade and small blade.

The butterbean is shorter (which is good) and a little more robust looking in pictures with its spear blade, but the peanut looks more pleasing to hold and to the eye.

Does anyone have either of these patterns? What are your impressions?
 
I have had three peanuts and loved them. Still have an old one that is part of my edc rotation. I think the peanut is a better edc than the butterbean as the bean has two blunt tipped blades. Maybe I'm weird, but I like a fine point on a small knife blade for some things. I don't mind if there is one spear or pen blade, but to have two pretty blunt spear points seems to me kind of too something. The butter beans blades are too short to carry off the spear point look to my taste.
 
I have a couple of each. I like them all, but the butterbean feels a little sturdier for hard work. The peanut has thinner blades though , for the fine work.
 
Good points. The butterbean does seem more stout for harder work, but on the other hand I am unlikely to use such a small knife for hard work. The finer blades of the peanut may be more appropriate.
 
Don't let the thin blades of the Peanut fool ya, they can go. Their thinness is their inheritant strength, as they allow the blades to get really, REALLY sharp. I'm sure the Butterbean is a good knife, but as for the feel that the Peanut may not be able to handle hard, heavy work? I skinned alligators, crocodiles, and snakes at work with a Peanut, and it was ready for more.
 
Peanut it is. Anyone care to recommend one? The only ones I've seen are from Case. I like the red bone CV version, but I'd love to see what else is around too.
 
For years, perhaps 10, the Case Peanut was my EDC, it never failed me once. Then I got bitten by the William Henry bug and it became my EDC. You asked about someone else making a peanut. You will find one by Bob Cargill in my signature line link. I have a couple of shots of it, it is an unusual one, don't think Bob made more than 2 or 3 of this pattern, but I could be wrong. Mine is #2. This peanut has 3 blades, two on one end on one on the other.

James
 
ElCuchillo said:
Don't let the thin blades of the Peanut fool ya, they can go. Their thinness is their inheritant strength, as they allow the blades to get really, REALLY sharp. I'm sure the Butterbean is a good knife, but as for the feel that the Peanut may not be able to handle hard, heavy work? I skinned alligators, crocodiles, and snakes at work with a Peanut, and it was ready for more.
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Perfect example of how thin is good in a cutting blade. Not many people cut through a gators hide in the course of a workday. :eek:

Look at the blade in a Stanley untility knife. Its about double what a razor blade is, but look on most construction sites and see how much punishmet gets dished up for those. Yet its rare they break. Wire insulation, sheetrock, rubber, tar paper sheet, and lots more that would wreak a pocket knife. And talk about razor blades, ain't that whats in a box cutter?

Thick is good for a medium rare steak, not Knife blades.:D
 
Peanut is both useful and attractive.

You might like to consider a Half Whittler or one pattern I've not tried but thought about, Tiny Trapper. No cv for these but there's nowt wrong with CASE stainless.

Böker Copperhead is a tremendous pattern but you are right, bit too big for my taste in pocket carry.
 
I've come to like carbon steels and have avoided stainless like the plague in my past few knife purchases. How is the Case Tru-Sharp stainless? Does it take an edge easily and hold it? I ask because there are so many more handle materials available for Case peanuts if I can talk myself into stainless.
 
Foilist said:
I've come to like carbon steels and have avoided stainless like the plague in my past few knife purchases. How is the Case Tru-Sharp stainless? Does it take an edge easily and hold it? I ask because there are so many more handle materials available for Case peanuts if I can talk myself into stainless.
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In day to day use, I've found that the true sharp is about like the generic stainless in the sak's I've used. Not the most outstanding steel on the market, but for an edc pocket knife it works as well as most other steels. To see a difference you have to do some extreme testing side by side, and it take an amount of cutting that is is no way reflective of real life.

Most people who have tried the Case stainless have been happy with it. Hey, if it can do a gator, it can't be that bad!
 
Foilist, outside of Case, if you are looking for something "white collar" in a peanut, Schatt&Morgan makes some nice-looking peanuts (I have a Goldenroot one...very nice)....Queen also makes some very classy ones in pearl and Sheffield jigged pearl (super-classy!), but their abolone peanut has also been calling out to me for a while...

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All that said, I carry my Case CV red bone peanut every day at work in my "no jeans/no sneakers" office.

The alligators are the only ones who fear it!
 
I don't think you can go wrong with a Case Peanut, be it CV or True-sharp.
They both cut like the dickens. I wish they were just a wee bit bigger...just a tad mind you :)
 
jacknife said:
I don't think you can go wrong with a Case Peanut, be it CV or True-sharp.
They both cut like the dickens. I wish they were just a wee bit bigger...just a tad mind you :)
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I wanted a peanut. I was at a CASE knife outlet in Nashville. I grabbed the peanut and it felt just too dog gonned small and I have medium hands. I grabbed a swell center jack and that extra 1/8 to 1/4 inch made all the difference. It digs into my pinky for more leverage, yet is a small two bladed jack knife. They have all sorts of swell center jacks now starting in the $30's or $40's. I highly recommend them. Between a peanut and a small texas jack, but closer in size to the peanut.

http://www.caseknifeoutlet.com/searchResults.cfm

search jack or swell
 
My 1st peanut was waiting on the doorstep for me when I came home from work tonight. It is a Case Model 3220 CV with a yellow handle from Knife Center. It is 100% in F&F.
I had my Sebenza in my pocket today but the peanut will be there tomorrow.
I realize they are two completely different knives but I like many others are making the transition.
 
Scoop65 said:
My 1st peanut was waiting on the doorstep for me when I came home from work tonight. It is a Case Model 3220 CV with a yellow handle from Knife Center. It is 100% in F&F.
I had my Sebenza in my pocket today but the peanut will be there tomorrow.
I realize they are two completely different knives but I like many others are making the transition.
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Congrats on your new knife!
 
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