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[Old Hunter]

Watching the camaraderie of the Peanut Cult is a marvelous thing - never seen men so proud of sporting such short tools! Great gift to a great guy from a great guy. By the way, I remember seeing that particular knife packaged in a gift set with 22LR ammo by Remington not too many years ago - maybe 10 or 15 years back. OH

 

[jackknife]

Watching the camaraderie of the Peanut Cult is a marvelous thing - never seen men so proud of sporting such short tools! Great gift to a great guy from a great guy. By the way, I remember seeing that particular knife packaged in a gift set with 22LR ammo by Remington not too many years ago - maybe 10 or 15 years back. OH

Well now OH, that's just the pride of men accomplished in the fine art of maximum minimalism. It's a very exclusive club, kind of like hunting cape buffalo with a .22 rifle. Single shot. Chambered for .22 short! Or winning a dog sled race with a team of Jack Russell's.


I keep this up I'm gonna sound like one of the four Yorkshire men!

Edit to add; I think if the 'most interesting man in the world' pulled out a pocket knife, it may be a peanut.

 

[leghog]

Peanuts may be the best all around pocket knife to carry. I'm left with a couple.


Schrade 219. Since given away.

Camillus CAMCO 702

Camillus 21. Since given away.

Case from '65-'69.

Ulster 180/Craftsman 9507. My daily carry.

Kutmaster

Newer Case. Since given away.

 

[silenthunterstudios]

My father had a Case two blade nut I found for him, and a Schrade two blade nut I won in a giveaway here, I gifted to him. He loved both of them, and promptly lost them. I think I need to find a peanut with a bail for him, but he might not be able to open it.

 

[Captain O]

The 'nut is a WONDERFUL little knife that performs large cutting tasks! Why is 'jigged bone' on a scale so much more expensive, on such a small knife? (I guess Delrin is a less expensive substitute.)

The Peanut is SO good, it's hard to stop at just one, isn't it?

 

[silenthunterstudios]

Captain, I've got the pinnacle of production peanuts, one single blade from the 80s and one two blade from the 2000s. Both great knives.

Why am I looking at custom peanuts? Because I'm a card carrying knife nut, and we have meetings every Thursday. I'm trying to convert them all to peanuts...

 

[Captain O]

We ought to have Case make a run of the "original" Peanut and call it "The Case 'Goober Pea.'" (That's the Southern term for the Peanut.) A nice, Chestnut brown, jigged bone 'nut, with a set of Chrome Vanadium blades. Since they already manufacture them, a unique package would likely make it a 'best seller.'

Just a thought.

The Captain

 

[oldmanrunning]

At the risk of getting a thumping i thought i would expand on trey999s suggestion of a Spyderco Roadie for like Jacknife i also suffer with arthritic fingers ( and most any other hinged part of my body ) in the past i have tried the smaller GECs as they are sturdier in build than Case but can still be a bit tricky opening and closing, anyhoo my very own Roadie arrived this morning and first impressions are good, it is smaller in the hand than i had thought but i intend to add a short lanyard to give me a full four finger grip, it is a lovely little slicer although i have only used it on an envelope, cardboard box and an apple so far. Will it take the place of my Peanut, Magnum, Pemberton or Esquire ? At first certainly but i can see it slotting into my EDC rotation as backup to a Buckaroo or Calf Roper.

 

[jackknife]

At the risk of getting a thumping i thought i would expand on trey999s suggestion of a Spyderco Roadie for like Jacknife i also suffer with arthritic fingers ( and most any other hinged part of my body ) in the past i have tried the smaller GECs as they are sturdier in build than Case but can still be a bit tricky opening and closing, anyhoo my very own Roadie arrived this morning and first impressions are good, it is smaller in the hand than i had thought but i intend to add a short lanyard to give me a full four finger grip, it is a lovely little slicer although i have only used it on an envelope, cardboard box and an apple so far. Will it take the place of my Peanut, Magnum, Pemberton or Esquire ? At first certainly but i can see it slotting into my EDC rotation as backup to a Buckaroo or Calf Roper.

I think this may call for a meeting of the double secret inner most inner circle of The Cult!

 

[Captain O]

Captain, I've got the pinnacle of production peanuts, one single blade from the 80s and one two blade from the 2000s. Both great knives.

Why am I looking at custom peanuts? Because I'm a card carrying knife nut, and we have meetings every Thursday. I'm trying to convert them all to peanuts...

Who produces custom crafted Peanuts? I'll plead ignorance on this one. Please elucidate.

Captain O

 

[silenthunterstudios]

Lots of makers. I have heard through the grapevine that Tony Bose made one, and that was his only one, he said never again. I have also see them from our very own Knifehead. A few other makers too.

 

[arizonaranchman]

Well now OH, that's just the pride of men accomplished in the fine art of maximum minimalism. It's a very exclusive club, kind of like hunting cape buffalo with a .22 rifle. Single shot. Chambered for .22 short! Or winning a dog sled race with a team of Jack Russell's.


I keep this up I'm gonna sound like one of the four Yorkshire men!

Edit to add; I think if the 'most interesting man in the world' pulled out a pocket knife, it may be a peanut.

No doubt! In yellow Delrin!

 

[Captain O]

No doubt! In yellow Delrin!

Every time I pull my Yellow Delrin Peanut from my sport coat pocket, I enjoy feelings of pride and confidence. A great product made in the US of A. (You just can't beat that!)

Captain O

 

[arizonaranchman]

Every time I pull my Yellow Delrin Peanut from my sport coat pocket, I enjoy feelings of pride and confidence. A great product made in the US of A. (You just can't beat that!)

Captain O

I know exactly what you mean! I really like yellow Delrin, it has such a nice feel in hand also. :thumbup:

 

[oldmanrunning]

I think this may call for a meeting of the double secret inner most inner circle of The Cult!

I will have trouble sleeping now especially as arizonaranchman"s picture of that "yeller nut" have me searching the web but over here they seem to cost $63.58, so i shall just have to content myself with my chestnut and amber bone peanuts.

 

[Captain O]

Now I'm longing for a Chestnut CV Case Peanut, for the proverbial "perfect pocket knife." It doesn't get more "American" than that.

Captain O

 

[oldmanrunning]

I am very fond of mine. In fact i have just ordered a 030 cv yellow peanut so just have the week or two wait until it lands in Blighty.

 

[Captain O]

I am very fond of mine. In fact i have just ordered a 030 cv yellow peanut so just have the week or two wait until it lands in Blighty.

That is SO handsome and masculine. These hearken back to a more genteel, refined period of our culture, when gentlemen were gentlemen and the women were glad because of it!

Captain O

 

[oldmanrunning]

That is SO handsome and masculine. These hearken back to a more genteel, refined period of our culture, when gentlemen were gentlemen and the women were glad because of it!

Captain O

I completely agree. When you compare the look and feel of most traditional knives to the bare functionality of most modern style knives with their speed of deployment and fancy new steels, i for one prefer the feel of most any of my trads, although i do have a soft spot for some Spyderco mostly the smaller less " tactical " knives. But i am afraid that these days here in the UK there is to much hysteria about " knife crime ", that carrying a knife even a legal one can be a problem.

 

[Captain O]

I completely agree. When you compare the look and feel of most traditional knives to the bare functionality of most modern style knives with their speed of deployment and fancy new steels, i for one prefer the feel of most any of my trads, although i do have a soft spot for some Spyderco mostly the smaller less " tactical " knives. But i am afraid that these days here in the UK there is to much hysteria about " knife crime ", that carrying a knife even a legal one can be a problem.

I like my "flick knives" too, but in the state of Oregon, we can carry them, as long as they are carried openly. I live in a neighborhood that's so tough, the cockroaches wear black leather jackets, carry flick knives and speak in broken english!

Captain O