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Hello everyone! (I'll add pictures when I get home)
I have two Case Canoes, I like them both but they are bit different flavours: Case Red Barnboard SS and Case Amberbone CV. As both are same pattern size, weight and everything are similar. As traditionalist I prefer Case Chrome Vanadium. However I do like Tru-Sharp though its softer. Its very much like Victorinoxes steel and its very easy to maintain, which is important for me especially for winter months when my knives ride in pocket and get first cold, then go in warm condesating moisture on their surfaces. This is why I got stainless version and later when afforded and CV version.
As we know Case knives are each unique. Both my samples are quite good samples. No gaps anywhere. Daylight is not shining thru scales or backsprings / liners. :thumbup: for that!
Blades:
Walk & Talk, very good walk and talk for both. Very smooth opening and loud snap. Main blade the pull is about 7 and pen blade about 7½ for both Barnboard red and Amberbone both.
Red Barnboard:
Bevels are very good quite even. I have no problems here. Both came pretty sharp but I still stropped both to get them cutting way I like. No blade wobble on pen blades. Redbanrboard main blade had pretty significant side-side. It was fixed by covering bolster well in rubber and using hammer gently as I lack rubber hammer. It fixed it. Using super glue works too. I have one slipjoint that I fixed with superglue several months ago and its still rock solid. Still blade wobble was bit too much for the price range. However I can fix it so I won't send it back. I still have to give minus for that.
Amberbone CV:
Also very good bevels. It came out of box sharp but I stropped it like I said before. This had very minor blade play when you used significantly force. Basicly no blade blade at all. Pen blade is also wobble free.
Blade rubbing. Both knives had blade rubbing near the tip of main blade. I don't mind that as they are users and such. Amberbone has less pronoun rubbing marks in tip but has also some near spine unlike Redbarn board, which only has small rub mark near spine. So Amberbone gets minus from this. Still... Rough Rider Canoes I have don't have Blade Rubbing at all. Red Barnboard blades closed can be tugged and moved a bit when they are closed. Since Amberbone is solid in this matter, I give slight minus for Barnboard. Its not that important or critical for user.
Following pictured Red Barnboard is on top and Amberbone below:
Bevels are good:
Some likes apples, other like oranges. So looks of these two Canoes are dependable. I like both of them. Amberbone has more traditional jigging and it loooks good. Barnboard red looks very good too. Jigging is more subtle and I like the feeling of the jigging.
Summa Summarum:
Case makes excellent pocket knives. There's no doubt about that. There's alot competition. Especially Rough Rider makes solid knives that cost 1/4 or 1/5 of Case's knives and have very good fit and finish in my experience.
However Case knives are excellent. You know what you get. Their dye's will stay for decades, they have life time warranty (as does RR but postal feeds to ship knife is nearly as much as new knife, so...).
At my samples, both are very fine pocket knives Scales and everything were examplary in red barnboard. Tad better than Amberbone but difference was miniscule In closed position amberbones blades were more solid. Both were very solid open. Amberbone had less pronounce blade rubbing marks and scratch marks but Redbarn board has less such marks on the blade. Of course each knife as made by hand and put together by hand is different. Generally Case puts tremendous effort on their knives. There's no such thing as perfect knife. Like all production knives there are samples with Blade play. Best is to test knife yourself prior buying if possible. I don't have such change (yet anyway) so I hope best and fix myself if I get sample with side to side blade play.
Soon I hope I can do comparision between Rough Rider, Colt, Case and Queen Canoes. Local retailer has taken Queen slippies in their selection and I am drooling over Queen Canoe in Aged Amber Honey stag bone.
In Finnish school system (4 - 10 [4 0=F and 10=A]) I give Amberbone 9- and Red Barnboard 8½
I have two Case Canoes, I like them both but they are bit different flavours: Case Red Barnboard SS and Case Amberbone CV. As both are same pattern size, weight and everything are similar. As traditionalist I prefer Case Chrome Vanadium. However I do like Tru-Sharp though its softer. Its very much like Victorinoxes steel and its very easy to maintain, which is important for me especially for winter months when my knives ride in pocket and get first cold, then go in warm condesating moisture on their surfaces. This is why I got stainless version and later when afforded and CV version.
As we know Case knives are each unique. Both my samples are quite good samples. No gaps anywhere. Daylight is not shining thru scales or backsprings / liners. :thumbup: for that!
Blades:
Walk & Talk, very good walk and talk for both. Very smooth opening and loud snap. Main blade the pull is about 7 and pen blade about 7½ for both Barnboard red and Amberbone both.
Red Barnboard:
Bevels are very good quite even. I have no problems here. Both came pretty sharp but I still stropped both to get them cutting way I like. No blade wobble on pen blades. Redbanrboard main blade had pretty significant side-side. It was fixed by covering bolster well in rubber and using hammer gently as I lack rubber hammer. It fixed it. Using super glue works too. I have one slipjoint that I fixed with superglue several months ago and its still rock solid. Still blade wobble was bit too much for the price range. However I can fix it so I won't send it back. I still have to give minus for that.
Amberbone CV:
Also very good bevels. It came out of box sharp but I stropped it like I said before. This had very minor blade play when you used significantly force. Basicly no blade blade at all. Pen blade is also wobble free.
Blade rubbing. Both knives had blade rubbing near the tip of main blade. I don't mind that as they are users and such. Amberbone has less pronoun rubbing marks in tip but has also some near spine unlike Redbarn board, which only has small rub mark near spine. So Amberbone gets minus from this. Still... Rough Rider Canoes I have don't have Blade Rubbing at all. Red Barnboard blades closed can be tugged and moved a bit when they are closed. Since Amberbone is solid in this matter, I give slight minus for Barnboard. Its not that important or critical for user.
Following pictured Red Barnboard is on top and Amberbone below:
Bevels are good:
Some likes apples, other like oranges. So looks of these two Canoes are dependable. I like both of them. Amberbone has more traditional jigging and it loooks good. Barnboard red looks very good too. Jigging is more subtle and I like the feeling of the jigging.
Summa Summarum:
Case makes excellent pocket knives. There's no doubt about that. There's alot competition. Especially Rough Rider makes solid knives that cost 1/4 or 1/5 of Case's knives and have very good fit and finish in my experience.
However Case knives are excellent. You know what you get. Their dye's will stay for decades, they have life time warranty (as does RR but postal feeds to ship knife is nearly as much as new knife, so...).
At my samples, both are very fine pocket knives Scales and everything were examplary in red barnboard. Tad better than Amberbone but difference was miniscule In closed position amberbones blades were more solid. Both were very solid open. Amberbone had less pronounce blade rubbing marks and scratch marks but Redbarn board has less such marks on the blade. Of course each knife as made by hand and put together by hand is different. Generally Case puts tremendous effort on their knives. There's no such thing as perfect knife. Like all production knives there are samples with Blade play. Best is to test knife yourself prior buying if possible. I don't have such change (yet anyway) so I hope best and fix myself if I get sample with side to side blade play.
Soon I hope I can do comparision between Rough Rider, Colt, Case and Queen Canoes. Local retailer has taken Queen slippies in their selection and I am drooling over Queen Canoe in Aged Amber Honey stag bone.
In Finnish school system (4 - 10 [4 0=F and 10=A]) I give Amberbone 9- and Red Barnboard 8½
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