The beloved Peanut, does have it's limits...

Stich2442 said:
Thanks Carl, I was a little twitchy for awhile, but I got over it, I have to admit, this guy frightens me still, I don't push him too hard, always eyeballing me :p



Pete
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Spiny Norman's Yankee cousin?


"Dinsdale? Dinsdale!"
 
Just to add my two penn'orth, i use my peanut for most things but i keep his basket ball playing cousin slimline trapper for food prep thus keeping it Case. Unless i use an Opinel,Laguiole,Capuchadu,SAK or another odd bod from my odd bod tin but mostly Case...
 
Kymco said:
Just to add my two penn'orth, i use my peanut for most things but i keep his basket ball playing cousin slimline trapper for food prep thus keeping it Case...
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To add to the seriousness of this thread, in fact this is also what I do. No matter what pocket knife I happen to be carrying, I leave a Case Slimline Trapper SS in one of the compartments of my work bag. It is an excellent fruit slicer and cleans up easy just rinsing off in the sink with a little soap.

Knowing I have that in reserve means I can carry a Peanut if I want to without worrying about how I am going to deal with an angry apple coming right for me.
 
jackknife said:
As the Grand high Muckba, I will admit that in the double secret archives of the cult, there is evidence of correspondence between the great grandfather of William Russell Case and a Captain of a Whaling ship out of New Bedford. It seems like a Captain Named Ahab was desiring a special run of small serpentine jackknives, but with a barbed small blade. Mr. Case was interested in a business deal with this whaling man, but he never returned from his last voyage. Some think the Captain should have waited to be properly equipped before sailing.

Carl, Grand High Muckba.
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It's no coincidence that Case eventually produced the Ishmael Peanut. The primary blade was a flenser.

Case was forced to discontinue the model after PETA picketed the plant. :grumpy:
 
I love how my Peanut peels an apple and zips right through it. If I cut some fruit up with the Peanut, I just take my time and I've never had a problem. I have to say, that Case slimline Trapper in orange peel bone looks like a dandy for fruit.
 
I absolutely love my Pemberton, but it's always the "#2" to my primary folder which is a 3.5" to 4" GEC. In fact I have a #48 Trapper due to arrive today via USPS and am really looking forward to this new-to-me pattern, with it's long slender blades. :)
 
Jon, someone said you posted pics of knives and a motorcycle.

Where are they?

I don't see them...

Excuse me while I put my eyes back in.
 
arizonaranchman said:
I absolutely love my Pemberton, but it's always the "#2" to my primary folder which is a 3.5" to 4" GEC. In fact I have a #48 Trapper due to arrive today via USPS and am really looking forward to this new-to-me pattern, with it's long slender blades. :)
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I had a #48 Dogleg trapper with amber jig bone covers i am sure you will love it ,great in the hand and slices like a dream..
 
jon_slider said:
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Blimey you blokes in California have got it all , slimline trappers and peanuts !!!
 
If she has a Peanut in her pocket I guess she can stay...
 
I think most of the comments are about bigger folder than the peanut. - So I am very impressed by the text from Codger_64 using a knife with a blade with 1 3/8 inch and a closed length of 1 7/8 inch (!) - I never owned such small one.
Stefan
 
stefanschlaegel said:
I think most of the comments are about bigger folder than the peanut. - So I am very impressed by the text from Codger_64 using a knife with a blade with 1 3/8 inch and a closed length of 1 7/8 inch (!) - I never owned such small one.
Stefan
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Not at all. Carl once made a dugout canoe using nothing but a peanut on a cypress tree while noodling for gators.
 
"Cut through the sandwich as if you were skinning a large game animal. Take that little knife and slice through the upper part of the sandwich. Push the sandwich apart as if you were pulling the skin away from the meat and slice the uncut part of the sandwich. Repeat until you've gone all the way through the sandwich. Shouldn't get a bunch of sandwich guts in the nut this way. Just make sure your peanut is scalpel sharp. "

And it really worked as well with 1 3/8 inch blade ?? - I tried with 1 5/8 and it worked, but with 1 3/8 ??

- So I understood, that Carl was using the small pen-blade of his peanut for his above mentioned work ?
Stefan
 
I agree, some may consider it heresy, but for me the Peanut is best carried in conjunction with a larger blade. The Peanut, when it comes to criticism is in a unique position seeing as when it can't accomplish a task "it's just a Peanut", if it does accomplish a feat, it's like "hey look what my Peanut did, a win-win if there ever was one. A very useable combo for me is the Peanut paired with a small fixed blade. I like it, and consider it to be a very efficient knife for its size. You can suffice with one if you really want too.
 
whetrock said:
I agree, some may consider it heresy, but for me the Peanut is best carried in conjunction with a larger blade. The Peanut, when it comes to criticism is in a unique position seeing as when it can't accomplish a task "it's just a Peanut", if it does accomplish a feat, it's like "hey look what my Peanut did, a win-win if there ever was one. A very useable combo for me is the Peanut paired with a small fixed blade. I like it, and consider it to be a very efficient knife for its size. You can suffice with one if you really want too.
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Absolutly totally, 100% agree with this.:thumb up:

It's always been my personal belief that if a 2 inch blade is not enough, then a 3 inch pocket knife is not going to be that much better. Very early on in life I had the great opportunity to hang around with some people that neither my parents nor grand parents approved of. It's what I called the liars circle down in Marylands eastern shore. All of them were outdoorsmen by their trade, that of trapper's, both legal and otherwise, poachers, and no goods, who wrenched a living out of nature. All of them to a man had the same set up; a small pocket knife that did most of what they had to do cutting wise, and a small sheath knife on their belt. The pocket knife was almost always a small 2 3/4 to 3 1/4 serpentine jack, and the belt kife was a leather handled little finn type made by Case, or Western, or Kabar. It seemed to handle everything these bush outlaws had to deal with. Occasionally there was a hatchet employed if needed. But the pocket knife and sheath knife did 99.99% of it.

A peanut makes a great 4 inch sheath knife companion. Anytime I leave the suburbia I live in to go to the woods or canoeing, this combo is with me.
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Ditto. One of my 3.5" +/- pocket knives and one of a couple different fixed blades I have (varying between 3" and 5" blade).
 
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