Wowbagger
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Funny how excited I got before this knife arrived. Perhaps more so than my Military with the M4. That surprised me. I don’t know. There is just something about the look of the Case Sparxx white handle with the brass pins and polished brass liners and even the red Case badge that REALLY does it for me. Simple, inexpensive but I think it is very cool. I have the Case Medium Stockman with white Sparxx scales and it kept reminding me what a Trapper would be like.
The fit and finish of this Case knife is just so nice. No roughness anywhere. Polished springs and liners. The blades are very nicely hollow ground and mirror polished. The walk and talk is on the firm side of perfect. I suspect a touch of oil on the pivots / springs will bring it to “can’t get better than this”.
Then we come to the factory sharpening . . .
nah . . . duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude . . . . , just naaaaaaaaaaaaah
. . . useless dull, rounded over and rough.
why do they always assign the guy that drinks at work and has never carried a pocket knife to do the sharpening ? ? ? ?
Oh well. I’m used to it from other companies. I will say my Case Genuine Stag Trapper was night and day. It was really well sharpened and perfectly usable out of the box and the edges LASTED very well.
Probably some old guy that used to work there was visiting the plant, got ahold of that one and was showing the new guy how but the new guy never did “get it” AT ALL. I hope the person eventually finds something they can do competently and goes and does that. Then we will all be happier.
The edge was so bad I figured I had to do something with the “edge” before I could slice up this cinnamon roll. I’ve decided to keep the spay blade on (I usually take that off my trappers and just use it with the one other blade). The spay blade seems to be pretty good at kitchen duties and if there is a Case Trapper that seems suited for kitchen work, IMO, that would be this white one.
Since I too am attempting to learn to sharpen, S110V that is, I bussssed out this Norton Crystolon. At least I hope that’s what it is. I found it in my Dad’s shop after he passed. I’ve never used it but wanted to keep it none the less. One of these days soon I am going to learn to sharpen S110V on the silicon carbide Cystolon so I figured I better start practicing on something so the White Case Trapper was, as they say, a no brainer. Once I got the edge some what edge like I debured and refined it a bit on the Shapton Pro 5000. Thanks Jason. I refreshed the 5000 on the diamond plate first and it debured MUCH faster. In the past I just debured on the old used surface and results were not good or fast.
Now I know.
I hope this post wasn't too obnoxious.
Nice knife.
Another one of my longed for additions to my collection . . . IN THE CORRAL ! ! !
I may never buy another knife.
. . . no . . . really . . .
The fit and finish of this Case knife is just so nice. No roughness anywhere. Polished springs and liners. The blades are very nicely hollow ground and mirror polished. The walk and talk is on the firm side of perfect. I suspect a touch of oil on the pivots / springs will bring it to “can’t get better than this”.
Then we come to the factory sharpening . . .
nah . . . duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude . . . . , just naaaaaaaaaaaaah
. . . useless dull, rounded over and rough.
why do they always assign the guy that drinks at work and has never carried a pocket knife to do the sharpening ? ? ? ?
Oh well. I’m used to it from other companies. I will say my Case Genuine Stag Trapper was night and day. It was really well sharpened and perfectly usable out of the box and the edges LASTED very well.
Probably some old guy that used to work there was visiting the plant, got ahold of that one and was showing the new guy how but the new guy never did “get it” AT ALL. I hope the person eventually finds something they can do competently and goes and does that. Then we will all be happier.
The edge was so bad I figured I had to do something with the “edge” before I could slice up this cinnamon roll. I’ve decided to keep the spay blade on (I usually take that off my trappers and just use it with the one other blade). The spay blade seems to be pretty good at kitchen duties and if there is a Case Trapper that seems suited for kitchen work, IMO, that would be this white one.
Since I too am attempting to learn to sharpen, S110V that is, I bussssed out this Norton Crystolon. At least I hope that’s what it is. I found it in my Dad’s shop after he passed. I’ve never used it but wanted to keep it none the less. One of these days soon I am going to learn to sharpen S110V on the silicon carbide Cystolon so I figured I better start practicing on something so the White Case Trapper was, as they say, a no brainer. Once I got the edge some what edge like I debured and refined it a bit on the Shapton Pro 5000. Thanks Jason. I refreshed the 5000 on the diamond plate first and it debured MUCH faster. In the past I just debured on the old used surface and results were not good or fast.
Now I know.
I hope this post wasn't too obnoxious.
Nice knife.
Another one of my longed for additions to my collection . . . IN THE CORRAL ! ! !
I may never buy another knife.
. . . no . . . really . . .
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