Who still carries a Case Knife?

A well used #6292 from 2000 & a Mini Moose like John's JohnDF JohnDF :thumbsup: I slightly modded the Spey to a Spear.
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Will Power said:
Superb! Is that a new arrival? The CASE Swayback Gent makes for a very nice small carry, Chestnut Bone one of the best.

Regards, Will
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Hi Will,
Thanks. No, I bought it at the beginning of the year but I don't use these little knives much. The right blade size for me is 85/95mm. The knives with <75mm blade I only use them to go to town.
 
I'm going to be carrying this one alone for several weeks.
It's kind of a purge for me, to finally let loose of any remaining FOMO I might still be feeling.
My buying has slowed way down and I don't even go look on eBay or GEC's website much any more.
I've ignored all the GEC release emails I've been getting, and I've tried about every Case pattern that interests me.
With the way the knife community has been going insane lately, I wanted to remind myself what carrying a traditional knife really means.
This is the knife I picked out for myself many years ago when I decided to start carrying slip joints again... Not the original though, I broke that one. 🤣
It will remind me that a pocket knife is a handy cutting tool and only needs to be well-made and function properly. So, I chose a knife with low "value" to focus on what's important.

 
JohnDF said:
I'm going to be carrying this one alone for several weeks.
It's kind of a purge for me, to finally let loose of any remaining FOMO I might still be feeling.
My buying has slowed way down and I don't even go look on eBay or GEC's website much any more.
I've ignored all the GEC release emails I've been getting, and I've tried about every Case pattern that interests me.
With the way the knife community has been going insane lately, I wanted to remind myself what carrying a traditional knife really means.
This is the knife I picked out for myself many years ago when I decided to start carrying slip joints again... Not the original though, I broke that one. 🤣
It will remind me that a pocket knife is a handy cutting tool and only needs to be well-made and function properly. So, I chose a knife with low "value" to focus on what's important.

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John, your post checks so many boxes for me. Of late, I often think back to when I started carrying a pocket knife as a boy, Schrade, Imperial, then saved and graduated to a GENUINE Case knife, then the road to discovery of other cutlery developed from there, Buck, Victorinox etc....

I still peruse any and all knives, but always come back to a question that rattles around in my head "If I just had one knife" whether it be a two blade Jack with the pen broken (or not) if I could just make do with that knife and I know the answer, "of course I could" I even lay out a scenario where I wouldn't have a choice, that if I found a knife along side a round, neglected and with flaws, that I could rescue, clean, oil and sharpen and that knife alone would be my companion from there forward :thumbsup:

I still look at old knives, battered and bruised (r8shell shows some of the best) ;) and think, yep, I could tweak that and make it work. I'm so far from that today but I find myself going back to that thought many times lately. Maybe it's due to cutlery gluttony that I suffer from? I don't know, maybe it's romantic to me in a way of having one simple but good knife do everything or most everything I need done :thumbsup: I still have the very first Case knife I ever bought with my allowance, a #62087, I'll have to dig it out and drop in my pocket.
 
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