The incredible stockman.

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NirreBosse

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I will give a few impressions of my new favorit slipjoint.
Its a Case CV stockman with brown bone handle. Its aproximatly 3.1/2 long. I got it due to a very kind offer from Anthony, Sunnyd. He gave me the opportunity to try something that isnt easy to find in my courner of the world, and Im very thankful to him for giving me this chans to own a realy traditional american slipjoint. I have read this forum for some years and I have been thinking that it would have been nice to try a knife with CV blades. I can already after 1 week say its a steel that suits my needs very well. Its sharp and easy to resharpen on a small diamond stone in the field for ex when Im in the mounains fishing. I have used it in my buildingplace and has notised that its realy easy to strop back to sharp. I use it with very low angles on the edges. It came sharp but with sturdy edgeangles so I reprofiled it. It gets more cuttingsharp that way. The spay is replaced with a penblade and that is in my book a clear aproval of this pattern even if it gets less historic that way. Anthony also sent me an trapper but I havent carried it as of yet as this stockman dont let me carry no other knife. I already know that this will be a knife I keep and carry for the rest of my life. (If it holds together and I dont loose it).

Bosse
 
I hope it serves you many years as well. It is my favorite pattern.

Kudos to Anthony! This is why I really like this forum.
 
texasflyfisher said:
I hope it serves you many years as well. It is my favorite pattern.

Kudos to Anthony! This is why I really like this forum.
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+1:thumbup:

Anthony is a great guy, and the stockman is a very useful pattern.

May the knife be a loyal companion for years to come.

Peter
 
After reading your story it reminds me that, even though this country is not in the best of conditions at the current time, it is still a great country.

Living here, I know there are times that I take for granted that most things we want are easily attainable, and that folks in some countries actually are not able to get certain things easily, even simple things like a Case knife..

I don't think you have to worry about the knife serving you well for any years.

Yes, Anthony truly is one of the good guys and I feel lucky to have him as a friend.
The great thing about this little s/f is there are a lot of people just like him..

ENJOY
 
Enjoy - the Stockman is a big favorite around these parts.

Good job, Anthony! :thumbup:

thx - cpr
 
Good on ya sunnyd! Nirrebosse, I hope you get many good years of use out of that knife. Case's CV is one of my favorite steels as is the stockman pattern. I prefer the medium stockman and carry the one below with me almost every day. 1973 Case medium stockman with pretty yellow handles. I picked it up at a local gun show and it had never been used. quite a shame, but I've been putting it to work and the blade is starting to patina nicely.

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Awe shucks fellows..:rolleyes: Stop now. :o .. This is very nice, but..

.. I am just very honored that this community even puts up with the likes of me, let alone continues to allow me to stay in here and lurk, learn and contribute!. Yes, I have given away knives in here to folks via multiple contests over the years, as well as gifting knives to folks just because I consider some guys and gals needing a little push when it comes to the finer Traditional aspects of slipjoints and/or fine old time sheath knives, and just because,, to other members whom I feel will benefit form the gift in some other small way.

I have been quite fortunate to have met many, many quality folks in here which intern became friends of mine after we got to know eachother, which is the real value of this place if'n you ask me. :)

Additionally, I have also received some wonderful knives and other nice gifts as well from folks who I believe have NO EQUAL anywhere else in society!. I believe that this Traditional Folders and Fixed Blade sub-forum is THE finest community on the Internet, bar NONE! :thumbup:

I recon my point is that this place is very, very special. We are extremely fortunate to have such a playground in which to meet up and hang out with one another thanks to SPARK. We are also blessed with GUS and ELLIOT as moderators that do one helluva fine job in here!. My hope is that this place continues to flourish in this way forever! :cool:

GOD Bless this place & everyone here now in and in the future,

Anthony
 
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Great job Anthony for doing one of the things that makes this a great group and helps all to learn.
 
Bosse,

You got a heck of a good knife from a heck of a good guy. It's this kind of reaching out across any and all borders that makes this place the special place it is.

Thanks for the kind words Anthony but I think Gus and I are the lucky ones. :cool:
 
Here is the 1980's Case # 63032 in CV steel that I sent up to my friend NirreBosse in Sweden that he has been using..

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Some folks call this model the Case Gunstock Stockman pattern.

Bosse was also kind enough to send me several knives as well! :cool: .. This wasn't a trade mind you, but rather friends half way around PLANET EARTH helping one another out by way of his own Traditional knife contribution that represented the particular culture in which he was raised..:thumbup: I learned a lot and can't tell you in words how much I enjoy this knife!..

.. This is a Bosse hand-made Scandi Grind Traditional Swedish sheath knife.. This one is my newest all time favorite fishing knife and melts through a fishes belly like warm butter. :thumbup: :D ..

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Anthony
 
Ain't these guys just the best, the Stockman is also one of my favorite patterns, you Swedes :) have some nice traditionals too, one of my favorites bein' the Swedish Barrel Knife.

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sunnyd said:
This wasn't a trade mind you, but rather friends half way around PLANET EARTH helping one another out by way of his own Traditional knife contribution that represented the particular culture in which he was raised /QUOTE]



I will also point out this was no trade. It was a act of friendchip.
Anthony asked me if i wanted to try a good american slipjoint. I answered yes, and I didnt know what he had in mind. So it was quite a plesant suprise to open the package a week later. As I understood he never owned a scandi sheatknife, witch is a shame "so to say" for a knifeman like him. I thought he needed to have a chans to try out a good swedish steel and the sharp feeling of a good traditional swedish workknife. I sent him one without telling witch one to expect.

I put my stockman To use imediately and also going to use my new trapper as soon as the stockman gives me an opportunity to carry something else. I think a gift like this deserves to be put into extencive use as I think this was the cause Anthony sent it to me. this knifes will not be safequeens, far from, I dont have any. I have 3-5 knifes that will be my primary pocketknifes no matter what and this stockman goes in that category. Bouth because its a very good knife but also because of the good feeling it gives thinking it came all around the earth as a unexpected mighty friendly gesture from one in many ways unknown friend. This kind of things feels right into the hart.

Bosse
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After using this for yet another week I will tell more about what I think. First I must say It has an easy to maintain steel. The CV takes an good edge as for sharpness. Its easy and quick to get sharp and the level of sharpness gets over average steel I have tried. It strops fine to. Yes it require a little maintainence to hold the edge as I want it but it takes me very little time. The CV darkens faster than any steel I have tried before and not as coulourful as other carbon steels I tried. Its just gray. The backsprings have fine walk and talk. A little harder on the penblade.

A thing I noticed with great pleasure is that the backsprings are stainless. Surely carbon would be most traditional but stainless in them is actually good as I think the backspring is the hardest metallparts to maintain in good condition. The worst thing I know is when blades are stainless and backsprings are carbon, kind of the wrong other way around.

I have always thought that the square ended stockmen is a little ugly, not the harmony of lines as for ex an rounded stockman or an trapper but they have a beauty of usage that is hard to beat and the more I look at them I start to see the astetics of the square corned serpentine.

I cant tell you how pleased I am to carry a stockman with traditional handlematerial of jigged bone. Its like the carbonsteel, birchhandle and lethersheath of a scandi. Some things is best the way tradition bids. And I like the brown and descrete brown coulour and the beautiful shield.

It should be butter in a buttercake. / Bosse
 
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