I am going to buy a Case Peanut and I will often carry it in a pocket with my keys. I would like to get one with stag scales or bone scales. Would they stand up to the constant scraping of my keys? I plan on it being a user and I am not concerned with some scratches. I am more worried about cracking or chipping. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Question on Peanut handle material
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To bone and stag it´s not the problem of the "organic" handle materials. To bone and stag you won´t have scratches on them. But the bolsters will get scratches if there are keys in the same pocket. But if you want a user, this should be 
You will really like the knife, for sure. Enjoy and use it. To the handles there´s no problem, I think. But, as I already told ya, perhaps to the bolsters.
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Andi
You will really like the knife, for sure. Enjoy and use it. To the handles there´s no problem, I think. But, as I already told ya, perhaps to the bolsters.
Kind regards
Andi
I'm the opposite, I devote a pocket to my cellphone so it doesn't get scratched (a scratched screen is SO annoying!) and I dump my peanut in with my change.
I will confirm the above: the bone doesn't really seem any worse for wear, but the bolsters lose their shine and get small (to me insignificant) scratches.
Bone is my favorite scale material by far, and one of the main reasons is its durability. In my experience, it's the most durable scale material there is, as even delrin scratches easily.
I don't have any stag handled peanuts, and the peanut is the only type of knife that I carry in my pocket with change, so I can't tell you if stag is equally resillient.
If I had to guess though, I would say stag (being dense bone) is probably equal to or better than regular bone.
I will confirm the above: the bone doesn't really seem any worse for wear, but the bolsters lose their shine and get small (to me insignificant) scratches.
Bone is my favorite scale material by far, and one of the main reasons is its durability. In my experience, it's the most durable scale material there is, as even delrin scratches easily.
I don't have any stag handled peanuts, and the peanut is the only type of knife that I carry in my pocket with change, so I can't tell you if stag is equally resillient.
If I had to guess though, I would say stag (being dense bone) is probably equal to or better than regular bone.
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I've always carried my pocketknives with my keys, and never had a problem with any of the various handle materials.
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This is related to this thread and conversation about knives and pocketwear...I believe it falls into the spirit of the traditional forum as we were discussing the effect on traditional methods of carry and tradition knives were tested..............I think I showed it to the Buck forum a year or two ago.
I wondered some on that pocket wear issue myself so I invented this test. Took a rock tumbler, put a relative new looking knife in some corn meal (grits), coins, a paper clip, piece of denim and I believe a washer also. Ran it for what seemed like a long time. Got tired of hearing it anyway. 120 hours, turned out to be not too much of a wear test. Maybe I should have used more coins. The bolster got dull, a few scratches were noted. Old style was scratched but new style like new. Dymondwood scale showed some dulling more so that the Delrin. All in all not bad.
Test device.
This was view of Delrin sawcut scale with NS bolsters in 0 hours condition. Old Camillus made 305
This was view of same after 120 hours. How much pocket wear this represents is your guess.
This is the newer Dymondwood version. O hours.
Dymondwood version after 120 hours. Knives were tumbled by themselves, not together. These bolsters showed effect more. Actually the NS bolsters of both knives held up well. The brass liners on the older model got polished.
Closeup of the scale shield after tumbling. The Dymondwood scale was one of the very first issues, I complained about the buffing hit on both rivets and the glue around the shield, thats also why it was a test subject. Those factors were quickly fixed in later production and other Dymondwoods had clean rivets and tight shields...
Semi-scientific test that relates to the talk on pocket carry, I could of used tougher medium and ran it longer but like I said I got tired of hearing it running.........The way the photos were taken could be a hugh effect. I attmepted to place all knives in the same position under the lights.........300Bucks/Craig H.
I wondered some on that pocket wear issue myself so I invented this test. Took a rock tumbler, put a relative new looking knife in some corn meal (grits), coins, a paper clip, piece of denim and I believe a washer also. Ran it for what seemed like a long time. Got tired of hearing it anyway. 120 hours, turned out to be not too much of a wear test. Maybe I should have used more coins. The bolster got dull, a few scratches were noted. Old style was scratched but new style like new. Dymondwood scale showed some dulling more so that the Delrin. All in all not bad.
Test device.
This was view of Delrin sawcut scale with NS bolsters in 0 hours condition. Old Camillus made 305
This was view of same after 120 hours. How much pocket wear this represents is your guess.
This is the newer Dymondwood version. O hours.
Dymondwood version after 120 hours. Knives were tumbled by themselves, not together. These bolsters showed effect more. Actually the NS bolsters of both knives held up well. The brass liners on the older model got polished.
Closeup of the scale shield after tumbling. The Dymondwood scale was one of the very first issues, I complained about the buffing hit on both rivets and the glue around the shield, thats also why it was a test subject. Those factors were quickly fixed in later production and other Dymondwoods had clean rivets and tight shields...
Semi-scientific test that relates to the talk on pocket carry, I could of used tougher medium and ran it longer but like I said I got tired of hearing it running.........The way the photos were taken could be a hugh effect. I attmepted to place all knives in the same position under the lights.........300Bucks/Craig H.
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