Three Christmas Cases

Thomason

Thomason

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Case Prime Stag single blade barlow, half stop, stainless. I'm not to big on blade etches so I rubbed this one a little with Simichrome to see how deep it is. It's deep. I can live with it.

Case stag rancher series stockman, CV blades, no shield just the little etch up near the bolster. What looks like a notch on top of the spey blade is a distortion from the glass bevel.

I am mucho pleased with both knives. Fit and finish is very good and the stag on both is nice.

The third case is the cocobolo beveled glass Tomway knife case. I had heard people talk about these and had to check it out. Wow! First rate. I'll bet you could put a $2.00 knife from the Kwik-E-Mart in this case and it would look great.

Santa was good to me. If he was good to you and you feel so moved to post a picture in this thread, please do.


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Wow, Rob, those are a couple of sweet looking knives. Nice display case too.:thumbup:

I got these two from my wife. I asked for the Case but she picked out the GEC entirely on her own. She did good!:thumbup:

She also got me the book "Great Eastern Cutlery: An Amercian Tradition".

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Rob and Rick, those are nice lookin knives :thumbup:

I only had a couple knives on my Santas list, but Santas helper was only able to locate one of them.

Thats o.k though. Travis got me a Buck 301 with the Charcoal scales. Its the first Buck slip joint I've had, and I'm very happy with it.

The F&F is very good, only a very tiny gap between two of the springs. Its not even big enough to really call it a gap. The blades have no movement and all three have a nice shaving edge on them. It does have springs that are a little softer than I'm use to, but they are smooth

It has the dreaded "Pin show" that has always been an issue with me, but in all the pics I've seen, that seems to be normal for the Bucks.
In the past, if I got a knife and it had pin show, I sold it... It doesn't hurt anything, but I'm really fussy about it :D

I like this knife enough to much though, so even though it has pin show, its staying here.
I like the 3 spring setup that Buck uses too. The blades sit straight, don't rub, and it seems to be easier for my fat hands to open.
It also came with a nice leather pocket sheath. I think its a nice touch that you rarely see in production knives. I will probably never use it, but its neat to have.

I was going to takes some pics, but it is snowing and blowing hard outside
 
Santa didn't know what to get me so he left me money so I can buy whatever knife I want. :D
 
Mike - Bucks have pin show because they have (fairly hard) steel pivot pins - they make them that way for longevity. They use what they think is best for longest term hard use, regardless of bolster material. This means the pins will show in the usual nickel silver bolsters, and even in the stainless steel bolsters, though a bit less (since the pivot pins are a different steel than the bolsters). Just saying....

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Hey Mike, I've seen those and they look pretty nice.

Is the "pin show" that you speak of when the pins show through the bolsters?

I am only asking because I have seen that on a few Buck knives and some others and I was just wondering if that's what you're talking about.

Thanks.

Edit: Nevermind Mike. Dwight just answered my question.
 
:D Buck is pretty hard headed about holding to engineering over cosmetic issues. That's also why almost all old German made knives have steel pins too - they just didn't like the idea of such a critical part being made of nickel silver -- appearance could go hang.
 
zerogee said:
Mike - Bucks have pin show because they have (fairly hard) steel pivot pins - they make them that way for longevity. They use what they think is best for longest term hard use, regardless of bolster material. This means the pins will show in the usual nickel silver bolsters, and even in the stainless steel bolsters, though a bit less (since the pivot pins are a different steel than the bolsters). Just saying....

-- Dwight
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Thanks Dwight. I think somone had mentioned that before, but I kinda dismissed it :D , thinking that most of the slip joints probably used the same pin material. There I go thinking again :( . I have had a couple Case knives that had it, and I sent them in, and they buffed them out. So I'm guessing Case uses pins that are quite a bit softer than Bucks.

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise, because Buck really tends to make their stuff to actually be used, and to last :thumbup: Not that Case doesn't, just different I guess.

Now that I know there is an actual reasoning behind it, it doesn't bother me at all.

Sorry to drift a little off topic Rob
 
Well done on the knives...also that is a nice display case Rob :thumbup:, Dwight...interesting little lesson with the pins-thank you!
 
Really nice Christmas knives and the Tomway box sure sets them off.
 
Rob, Santa was very good to me as well . . . they must have had plenty of stag up at the North Pole this year. :p

Blackjack mod. 125 Hunter :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Buck 389S Canoe :thumbup:

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The Blackjack is a custom quality piece in terrific steel and the sharpest out of box knife I have ever received.
The Buck import is good quality, with pretty toasted stag. I'm very blessed!
 
Man that Case barlow is NICE, if it were only CV...

Here's my Christmas haul, a Queen whittler and a R. Klaas Kissing Crane whittler, commemorative, #169 of 300.

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Pete1977 said:
wow. what is this one? it is a beauty... :eek:
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Pete,

It's a Case Humpback Stockman with Rough Black scales. I believe Case just brought back the Rough Black scales in 2010 but I could be wrong. They are a reincarnation of the "Gum Fuddy" scales that Case used between WW1 and WW2 I think. The 2010 stuff is likely a different material but it's designed to look the same as those old knives.

Case offers several patterns in Rough Black.

Thanks for the compliment. I like it too.:thumbup:
 
Got to train my family better:D. Looks like some fine knives came in to the fold.
 
Heres a couple pics of the new Buck 301 my son got me for Christmas. I wanted to make sure I posted them up, especially after I drifted a little off topic earlier in Robs thread...

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With the Christmas $$ my parents gave me for Christmas I ordered one of those Case stag rancher series 5347 cv Stockman knives! The stag really looks good on that one; I hope mine is the same!
 
hey rob great knives in an even greater wrapper. few things surpass the warmth of beautiful wood . wood carries a close kinship with all of man's history.
dennis
 
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