The life of a Case peanut from Day 1

I don't think I'll be able to carry the same knife for too long, I have too many knives and not enough resolve to just sell them and keep a couple. But I have been carrying a Vic Rambler for over a year now on my keys, it's the Day Glow version. And I think it's gonna be jere for the near future.
 
Good going, Mark! It's funny how fast you get used to something. Like you, I find the 'nut enough for everyday life in the big city, or in my case, suburbia of a big city. It gets habit forming to have a knife that you don't feel in your pocket, and don't think about till you need it. Then it just does the job.

Carl.
 
Mark,I really like that Chestnut bone on your Peanut!Carl lured me into the Nut culture with his Case Damascus Peanut.I got my Damascus Nut a month ago and since then it has found a permanent home in my jeans pocket.What a perfect little pocket companion that knife makes!
 
Every traditional knife nut absolutely needs a peanut of some sort IMO, one of my favorites from the Case line has to be the peanut in rough black it's just a simplistic and clean handle material however the knife lacks CV blades but I can live it.
 
So I read this thread, and got interested in grabbing a peanut to keep my mini-trapper company. Went to the local hunting store, and lo and behold, they had a Chestnut Brown Bone Peanut with CV blades too! Picked that one up and also a Navy Bone Tiny Trapper to give a whirl. Really liking the peanut so far, its cool having a nice half stop on a small slippie.
 
I finally took the Peanut plunge yesterday. Wasn't sure how a knife that small would work in my hands, but I picked up a Yellow handled CV Peanut. Not to leave well enough alone, I also picked up a Black handled Texas Jack. Let the games begin. :)
 
So barely 24 hours after I bought it, my Peanut bit the hell outta me with the Pen blade. The spring in my pen is just a hair shy of nail breaker, and it latched onto my index finger like a razor sharp clothespin. Blood everywhere, so I bandage it up, and head to the ER. Thinking I am gonna get my first stitches. Well low and behold, when they take the bloody bandage off, you cant even see the cut, a little water and it finally becomes visible. I can flex my finger and it doesn't reopen. Doc puts some suture tape on it, puts it in a splint, and sends me on my way. Honestly, the tape and splint was probably overkill at that point, it had closed up so well.

Was hoping some blood was on the blade, and I might have left a patina using my own blood (now that would be a cool forced patina), but it had cut clean enough that it still looked brand new. Oh well, still my knife the old fashioned way now.
 
I find those little pen blades are always hard to open. Same on a Barlow. I don't use them much for that reason.
 
bobusx said:
So barely 24 hours after I bought it, my Peanut bit the hell outta me with the Pen blade. The spring in my pen is just a hair shy of nail breaker, and it latched onto my index finger like a razor sharp clothespin. Blood everywhere, so I bandage it up, and head to the ER. Thinking I am gonna get my first stitches. Well low and behold, when they take the bloody bandage off, you cant even see the cut, a little water and it finally becomes visible. I can flex my finger and it doesn't reopen. Doc puts some suture tape on it, puts it in a splint, and sends me on my way. Honestly, the tape and splint was probably overkill at that point, it had closed up so well.

Was hoping some blood was on the blade, and I might have left a patina using my own blood (now that would be a cool forced patina), but it had cut clean enough that it still looked brand new. Oh well, still my knife the old fashioned way now.
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Small knives are like very small handguns; they have to be handled with a certain deliberateness of action. I have a friend who shot himself in the left middle finger with a High Standard .22 derringer while breaking it open to unload it.

Peanuts can be a little tricky untill you get used to them. Some people are a little put of sync by the halfstops, but you get used to it. Look at this this way; The peanut is a great cutter. That thin flat ground blade slices like nobodys business, like you found out. It disappears in the pocket, is pretty to look at, so just take a little caution with it. But just between you and me, it must have been a love bite. Like you said, could hardly notice it at the doc's. Sometimes a knife will do that. My new peanut with the damascus blade bit me a few days in, and like you, I put a bandaid on it, and a few days later it was healed up. But respect is now given.

Maybe your knife was just getting to know you a bit better. Or maybe even gave you a little nip to warn you not to under estimate the little thing. It may be small, but it can cut deep. Sometimes it's always the little guys who have an attitude.

A coral snake is a little thing, compared to a timber rattler or cobra. But it's toxin is just as deadly.:D

Carl.
 
jackknife said:
... A coral snake is a little thing, compared to a timber rattler or cobra. But it's toxin is just as deadly.:D

Carl.
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Actually, a Coral snake is much more dangerous then a Timber Rattler. It is a distant cousin of the Cobra, and has the most toxic venom of any snake in North America, having killed a man in as little as a half hour.
Peanut are the same as Coral Snakes. Small, but potentially dangerous. One should DEFINITELY treat them with respect. Cute and attractive, but with quite a bite. However, the plus side is, if this bite is harnessed properly, there's not much it can not do.
Peanut.
The big little knife.
 
Voltron said:
... if this bite is harnessed properly, there's not much it can not do.
Peanut.
The big little knife.
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Amen, buddy. Thin and sharp is the ticket! I spent this past weekend doing some heavy spring gardening work and used the 'nut to open tons of bags of mulch, soil and compost, to cut/fit pieces of thick, woven weed-control fabric, to remove tags from new plants my wife bought, to cut twine, trim off dead flowers and small branches, etc. I didn't have the luxury of babying the knife. It would cut something, then get set aside on the dirt until I needed it again or could close it up and jam it back into my jeans pocket. I wonder if this would qualify as "hard use" on other parts of bladeforums? ;)

Only Sunday night was I finally able to give it a little TLC, washing off the blades, touching up the edge on the big blade, and blowing out the dirt and gunk. Something tells me now that gardening season is upon us, the patina will get into gear and it'll be looking pretty awesome come fall. :thumbup:

-- Mark
 
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I carry a stag peanut every day,in the watch pocket of my jeans.I am not sure how long I have been carrying it but I have worn some of the color off of the stag,they are getting whiter and smoother,but the knife just keeps on working.I clean and oil it about once a month,it does 99% of what i need a knife for.
 
I cheeted. I have this same Chestnut Peanut and gave it a bath in lemon juice and in an hour the blades had a very even dark patina. My favorite size for a pocket knife is a little bigger than this think SBJ, but I have never found anything I couldn't do with a Peanut and in most cases it out cuts knives 3 times it's size. All these Case Chestnut CV knives I've seen are really great knives.
 
Hey Mark, how´s the little big 'Nut doing?
Got myself a yella one in CV. Rock solid this time with no play.
Forced patina on it with cleaning vinegar and it looks ages older.
I'm just curious how your Peanut held up in terms of blade play after that heavy use in your garden.
I would like to do a similar test as well, but I paid a bit more for it (eur 43) and I don't want to ruin the little thing.
My Alox Bantam would hold up better I guess.
 
It's doing just fine. Solid as ever. 'Course I haven't been carrying it for the past two weeks because of this experiment. But I miss it a lot and, as much as I'm enjoying carrying the 34OT stockman, I'll be right back to the peanut on July 1.

Regarding blade play, honestly, unless there's something wrong with the knife, I'd be shocked if it developed problems after cutting stuff. I don't believe there's such this as hard use of a pocketknife; only proper use and "abuse." With proper use, a well made knife should last many many years.

-- Mark
 
I'm eating peanuts right now and handling my brown bone case peanut, I carried yesterday afternoon and do carry regulaly at night
didn't think I could actually like it much, it's nice to know to have e KNIFE in your pocket even if it's a sub 3" one

may get more in the future, it's an interesting pattern

Maxx
 
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