For me the one year experiment of staying with one just knife is over.
My choice was a Case Peanut, with yellow handles, and CV blades.
I went over six months, the hard way.
Mother Nature has not been kind this year to many areas of the country, including mine.
The sentimental Peanut I was carrying, was lost dealing with tornadoes.
Staying true to the experiment, I grabbed another Peanut, yellow handle, CV blade with even more sentimental attachment than the first.
Mother Nature again was unkind, and the situation was more serious, with this tornado and I lost Peanut number 2.
I cannot explain the sentiment I had with these.
Staying true to the experiment, I snagged yet another Peanut, yellow handle, with CV blades.
This one had the most sentimental value. Along with the Case Slimline Trapper with the same date code, and the Case Hard Arkansas stone that measures
2 7/8" that were presented to me, by the same person, at the same time.
This person died not too long ago, and losing any of these 3 items would really hurt.
I gave all 3 items away to a lady Marine.
Some know the whole story, still the short version is, our paths crossed, and her story of lost Peanut, Trapper and stone mirrored mine.
I have nobody, I am no big deal, never wanted to be, and still do not want to be.
She has family, and in the big scheme of things, the Universe is still going to do what it did before I showed up, and will when I am dead.
I grew up with Peanuts and have gone a year using them for EDC, just as I have the Slimline Trapper, and other traditional knives.
So this Experiment was not really an experiment for me, just a opportunity to pass forward by actually doing what I have before with one knife to others.
Lead by example if you will.
The persons that gave me all 3 knives understand, especially the one that most recently passed and gave me those 3 items the lady Marine now has.
As I said others know more about this event with the lady Marine, and others that day, that had lost all, or most, or sentimental items.
There is a difference in "needs" and "wants" and there was true "need" that day , for what transpired.
I drove all the way home , without a knife in my pocket or in my truck.
Upon getting home, I wondered if I still had a SAK Classic in a shaving kit, I rarely get into.
It just was not important to look that night.
When I decided to check, it was there, and I stuck that in my pocket.
I just felt funny not having a knife in my pocket.
The knife could use a touch up, still I have not, just not a big deal, and I'll get around to it, eventually, maybe.
Over six months with the same knife...still the experiment is over for me.
Steve
My choice was a Case Peanut, with yellow handles, and CV blades.
I went over six months, the hard way.
Mother Nature has not been kind this year to many areas of the country, including mine.
The sentimental Peanut I was carrying, was lost dealing with tornadoes.
Staying true to the experiment, I grabbed another Peanut, yellow handle, CV blade with even more sentimental attachment than the first.
Mother Nature again was unkind, and the situation was more serious, with this tornado and I lost Peanut number 2.
I cannot explain the sentiment I had with these.
Staying true to the experiment, I snagged yet another Peanut, yellow handle, with CV blades.
This one had the most sentimental value. Along with the Case Slimline Trapper with the same date code, and the Case Hard Arkansas stone that measures
2 7/8" that were presented to me, by the same person, at the same time.
This person died not too long ago, and losing any of these 3 items would really hurt.
I gave all 3 items away to a lady Marine.
Some know the whole story, still the short version is, our paths crossed, and her story of lost Peanut, Trapper and stone mirrored mine.
I have nobody, I am no big deal, never wanted to be, and still do not want to be.
She has family, and in the big scheme of things, the Universe is still going to do what it did before I showed up, and will when I am dead.
I grew up with Peanuts and have gone a year using them for EDC, just as I have the Slimline Trapper, and other traditional knives.
So this Experiment was not really an experiment for me, just a opportunity to pass forward by actually doing what I have before with one knife to others.
Lead by example if you will.
The persons that gave me all 3 knives understand, especially the one that most recently passed and gave me those 3 items the lady Marine now has.
As I said others know more about this event with the lady Marine, and others that day, that had lost all, or most, or sentimental items.
There is a difference in "needs" and "wants" and there was true "need" that day , for what transpired.
I drove all the way home , without a knife in my pocket or in my truck.
Upon getting home, I wondered if I still had a SAK Classic in a shaving kit, I rarely get into.
It just was not important to look that night.
When I decided to check, it was there, and I stuck that in my pocket.
I just felt funny not having a knife in my pocket.
The knife could use a touch up, still I have not, just not a big deal, and I'll get around to it, eventually, maybe.
Over six months with the same knife...still the experiment is over for me.
Steve
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