The cult of the peanut.

[pertinux]

You're doing it again.

Downright Pavlovian.


~ P.

 

[combatjiujitsu]

One more time lol

 

[hank_rearden]

i rotate my peanut with a toothpick or a jack so i can oil it regularly. i like to keep the original polish on the blades, and not allow patina to form.

 

[zippofan]

Stag damascus in my watch pocket today...
This little folder probably gets the most time in my pocket over any other knife I own (including a BM Mini-Grip which was the first one hander I bought)

 

[zombizon]

I've carried my little chestnut peanut every day since I got it. I love the little thing. Today, on a whim, I also threw a Case back pocket knife on my belt, but on my belt is where it stayed. Used the peanut for everything I needed to do with a knife today.

 

[Brasso3]

All these Peanuts. I broke down and ordered a Chestnut Bone CV Peanut.

I must say, that chestnut bone is just beautiful. I guess this will be my "go to meeting" knife.

 

[Guyon]

 

[jackknife]

All these Peanuts. I broke down and ordered a Chestnut Bone CV Peanut.

I must say, that chestnut bone is just beautiful. I guess this will be my "go to meeting" knife.

That's okay bud, after you get used to the little thing, it will be your go-to knife.

Carl.

 

[rinos]

now i need that chestnut bone

 

[Doug Add]

Took my peanut home this week to where I was raised in Indiana, for Thanksgiving with family.

I asked my 20 year old son if he wanted to go up to the local hardware store where I bought my first knives as a boy, to check out the knives in the display case.

He said he had everything he needed right in his pocket, reached in and pulled out his yeller peanut.

 

[jackknife]

Took my peanut home this week to where I was raised in Indiana, for Thanksgiving with family.
I asked my 20 year old son if he wanted to go up to the local hardware store where I bought my first knives as a boy, to check out the knives in the display case.

He said he had everything he needed right in his pocket, reached in and pulled out his yeller peanut.

Now that, is a heart warming story! Good job on raising your son. :thumbup:

Carl.

 

[Doug Add]

Thanks for the kind words Carl. I learned from a good man.

 

[rune1279]

Well, bear with me, folks, this story does have a peanut in it at the end, I promise!

I used to sort of accumulate pocket knives when I was in high-school and college, but got out of the habit -- oh, fifteen years ago or so. Well, an old friend gifted me a Buck canoe last Christmas and it was...really not a bad little item at all. And so the Habit crept back into my life I started lurking this forum and trying out new patterns and so I had to try a peanut, right? You all speak so highly of it!

Well, the peanut didn't quiiiite work out for me. Turns out I like a more slender item for the watch pocket of my jeans (a Buck companion or Case mini copperhead, lately), and in rare deep-pocket carrying I had no reason not to go with something that offered me a little more length of grip. But I felt a little bad for the peanut, not getting carried -- even if it was a cheap Boker Plus it was a good looking little thing, with the grooved bolsters and bone scales and all.

So I put a good shaving-sharp edge on it, and while I was out for a Thanksgiving visit I gave it to the same friend who gave me that Buck canoe. Sure enough, even though he'd given one to me, he didn't have a daily-carry pocketknife of his own. It went straight into his pocket, and came out again several times over the course of the trip, including once to whittle starting tinder for the fire pit and once to cut line while we were out fishing. So I don't qualify for the cult, but give it a few more weeks to soak in and he just might

...of course a couple weeks after that he will likely have lost it, broken it, or just plain worn it out -- he's like a brother to me, but he's not what you'd call easy on his tools.