Week long slippie experiment

StuntDouble

StuntDouble

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The past week, I've limited myself to just using one knife, a Case Small Texas Jack in CV. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing, I happened to come across it while I was going through my knives, and figured I'd give it a shot. The Small Texas Jack carries rather well in the bottom of a pocket. It's rather light, and since it's so slender, it has a much smaller footprint than any of my other slippies or one-handers. I tried to make sure I used it for everything possible over the past seven days. It seemed that most of that involved work in the kitchen, cutting up fruit, and in a couple of cases, cutting up steaks I had for dinner. It's also cut the tips off a few cigars, opened mail, and trimmed some nails. Nothing too exciting, just the stuff I usually carry a pocket knife for. Sharpening, for the most part, has been with a leather strop loaded with an extra fine polishing paste, and the cardboard backing on a small notepad. I've had to use a fine ceramic stone a couple times after hitting the very tip on a plate while I was using the knife during dinner. Other than that, a couple strops during the day, and the edge was as good as new.

So there you have it. Nothing new to you guys, but a bit of a revelation for me. Though I still enjoy the more modern folding knives, I find that slippies are more than just "good enough".
 
I was bbqing steaks and I pulled out my Case stag Dr. one blade, no spatula. The spear point was perfect for opening up to check for med. rare for the wife, and medium well for me. A freind of my wife likes to tease me about my knives, and when she saw how the Dr. cut through the steak, she was impressed. She said, "Wow! That is a sharp knife! I do not think I am going to tease you anymore." Of course, she was teasing me. The Dr. kept my knuckles off of the flames, and saved the hair on the back of my hands.
I edc my Griptilian daily, due to light weight and easy access. However, I rotate my slippies as if they are my children who want to ride shot gun that day.
 
cj,

It is nice to be able to pull out a knife and not alarm people around you. I guess that's one thing about slippies, they tend to look a bit friendlier.
 
Along those thoughts,

I got a new BBQ grill for my BD today(had a 10% off card). They were also 25% off at the unmentioned home center. Had to have the last one left it was floor model, clerk couldn't get tag attached with thick zip lock off of handle to scan, out came 70s model Buck 301.
The gal never batted an eye, zipa-dee-do-da plastic cut.......slipjoints to the rescue.....

300ucks
 
StuntDouble,

I have the STJ in CV as well. Been carrying it for a year. It's definitely a favorite of my. The model and the execution of the knife is so good that it displaced a lot of other knives. There is few others here who edc it.

God Bless
 
kidwholaughs,

About the only change I would make to the STJ is to add stag scales, in place of the amber bone scales. Then it would be just about perfect for me.

All this work has really caused the patina on the main blade to darken up nicely. Hopefully I can get some photos of it one days oon.
 
StuntDouble said:
cj,

It is nice to be able to pull out a knife and not alarm people around you. I guess that's one thing about slippies, they tend to look a bit friendlier.
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I've lost count of the number of times I've taken out a peanut, or other small jack, and had some younger person look at it and tell me he had a grandfather who had one like 'that'.
 
Here's a quick photo of the STJ after a few months of use. It really darkened up after this past week.
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