Who still carries a Case Knife?

Sometimes I've been known to moan about CASE neglecting the Penknife pattern only offering Yellow D...Clearly been forgetting about their excellent Half-Whittler which is also blade each end and usually single-spring.

Here's a Crandall Cutlery version in Olive Green.

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My small clutch of Half-Whittlers : from left 2016, 2007 Crandall, 1989 CASE Centenary Stag, 1974 Brown Bone/Delrin ?

Lively small knives well worth a look, great W&T on all years and some interesting variations in construction. All well-finished no faults. The 74 has a very large nail nick and broad Pen also NS liners :thumbsup: The Stag had a centenary etch but I removed it and gave it a matte/glaze finish, the tang-stamp is marked 1889-1989, nice Stag not too burly for a small knife, jigging on the 07 Crandall and 16 Bone is nice and deep esp.the newer which was given a tea-bath as it was a foul pink colour pretending to be Salmon...The 07 shows the pins through the bolsters quite strongly which I'm less keen on, but it does sport a broader Pen. It and the earlier knives are single-spring. Interestingly the newest one is now double-spring which is easier to construct and it does give the knife appreciably more heft- a really good alternative to the Peanut which has never satisfied my needs. There are some very nice colour bones on the new 2 spring models including a fine dark maroon.

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Will Power said:
My small clutch of Half-Whittlers : from left 2016, 2007 Crandall, 1989 CASE Centenary Stag, 1974 Brown Bone/Delrin ?

Lively small knives well worth a look, great W&T on all years and some interesting variations in construction. All well-finished no faults. The 74 has a very large nail nick and broad Pen also NS liners :thumbsup: The Stag had a centenary etch but I removed it and gave it a matte/glaze finish, the tang-stamp is marked 1889-1989, nice Stag not too burly for a small knife, jigging on the 07 Crandall and 16 Bone is nice and deep esp.the newer which was given a tea-bath as it was a foul pink colour pretending to be Salmon...The 07 shows the pins through the bolsters quite strongly which I'm less keen on, but it does sport a broader Pen. It and the earlier knives are single-spring. Interestingly the newest one is now double-spring which is easier to construct and it does give the knife appreciably more heft- a really good alternative to the Peanut which has never satisfied my needs. There are some very nice colour bones on the new 2 spring models including a fine dark maroon.

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Beautiful examples Will. 😎👍
 
Will Power said:
My small clutch of Half-Whittlers : from left 2016, 2007 Crandall, 1989 CASE Centenary Stag, 1974 Brown Bone/Delrin ?

Lively small knives well worth a look, great W&T on all years and some interesting variations in construction. All well-finished no faults. The 74 has a very large nail nick and broad Pen also NS liners :thumbsup: The Stag had a centenary etch but I removed it and gave it a matte/glaze finish, the tang-stamp is marked 1889-1989, nice Stag not too burly for a small knife, jigging on the 07 Crandall and 16 Bone is nice and deep esp.the newer which was given a tea-bath as it was a foul pink colour pretending to be Salmon...The 07 shows the pins through the bolsters quite strongly which I'm less keen on, but it does sport a broader Pen. It and the earlier knives are single-spring. Interestingly the newest one is now double-spring which is easier to construct and it does give the knife appreciably more heft- a really good alternative to the Peanut which has never satisfied my needs. There are some very nice colour bones on the new 2 spring models including a fine dark maroon.

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Sweet! I could definitely go for a single spring half-whittler if I could find one.
 
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Thanks A Ace Rimmer . I do not believe Case had any particular name for their jigging. Same with the dye they used. They would have just called it jigged dyed bone. It was collectors who later came up with all sorts of descriptive names to differentiate the minor variations so they could justify charging more!

Regardless of what anyone might call it, Case has always had exceptional random pattern jigging. Even to this day with the current knives, I believe their jigging is the best and runs circles around GEC.

This 47 with a punch is a XX Era true no doubt Redbone.
 
Yesterday a 6332 from 1978, today a 6308 from 1983. OH
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