Ya know what a peanut will do to a thumb???

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jackknife

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No, I did'nt cut myself!

But I handed my knife to a family member who should know better. On the other hand I should have known better.

This afternoon at a backyard cookout over my sister in laws place, her boyfriend, R--- asked me if I had a sharp knife. He knows I do. It looked to me like he was trying to neatly slit open the big bag of Kingsford charcoal. I handed him my Case peanut and continued with my preperation of the burgers. Mixing the family "secret" spices into the ground sirlion. A few seconds later I hear R--- yell and I turn and see him holding his thumb. A good amount of blood already in view.

I don't know how the dink did it, but he did a really good fillet job on the ball of his left thumb. He yells at me that he was'nt ready for how fast the knife went through the top of the charcoal bag. I had warned him it was sharp!
Karens sister Dianne drove him off to the local ER. We got the charcoal going and had a good cookout without R---'s help. But we're not hartless, we saved him a burger and some of the redskin potato salid.

Di got him back home about 3 hours later with 12 stitches in his filleted thumb. :eek:

I warned him it was sharp!
 
Hahaha. Next time he'll believe you when you tell him it's sharp!!

Must admit, though, I'm just as silly. About 20 years ago, just before I got married, we invited my parents over for Sunday lunch. This was only a month or so after my brother-in-law (who is a chef) stayed for a while. He had sharpened all the kitchen knives very well. While carving the roast, I also managed to carve my left forefinger. My mum and wife-to-be had a lovely lunch, while my Dad and I spent 3 hours at the ER.

I have always regretted that, because they got to know each other too well - and now my Mum takes her side against me. What a be-atch :)

Cheers
omniphile
 
Well, I did learn years ago that if you slit your thumb while cleaning the first salmon the guy with you might just clean the rest of them. I think I'd have rather cleaned the fish.

Btw, Jackknife, that yellow, CV, peanut seems to have taken permanent residence in my front pocket as my work carry. I was just thinking of you while I was skinning a cucumber for breakfast with it. Then I pop in here and there's a peanut post.
 
Mornin Amos.

Over the past couple of years I've become very impressed with the Case CV steel. It is very much like the old Schrade Old Timer stuff I grew up on. Easy to sharpen, stays that way a long time. I'm in the habit for years now, I come down in the morning and first thing after I put the coffee pot on to perk is to take my strop to my pocket knife of the day. (Yeah, I still have use my old perculator coffee pot)

I have a flat piece of 5 gallon paint stir stick that has a leather strip glued down on it. Every morning I take a minute to strop my pocket knife. Carbon steel seems to like this. I put a real good edge on that peanut when it first got here, and its been stropped every morning. Still sharp enough for some idiot to fillet his thumb with!

Yeah, the peanut is a real easy knife to get used to!
 
Was he opening the pen blade? I've had several folks I know cut themselves opening the small blade on the Case peanut. I think that it is a combination of a small blade to hold on to, a strong (for its size) backspring, and having the nail mark on the left side (the reverse of what most people are now used to)that makes it tough to use the pen blade on this design until you are used to them.
 
doesnt sound like he got it from opening it. Sounds like he was expecting the resistance of the material to serve as a brake and he brought the edge into himself.
 
jackknife said:
after I put the coffee pot on to perk is to take my strop to my pocket knife of the day. (Yeah, I still have use my old perculator coffee pot)
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Perk is the only way to make coffee. :D :thumbup:
 
what a silly fellow R--- is. i have done similar things with knives to my self, i guess the real difference between him and i is that i would have never sat in an er for three hours if it meant missing a good b-b-q over a lousey 12 stitches. :jerkit:

i would have applied a touniquet(as always) to my hand, drank another beer, assited with the cooking chores and ate my fill.:D
 
One thing I like about the peanut is that it can ride in the pocket with change and not bother me, or even make its presence known until I reach for it. If I happen to have a bit of change in there, I even have to dig for the knife. I was at first concerned about the little blade being able to keep up with veg/fruit skinning chores, but you really aren't using that much of a big blade in the process. I find you use just a little less than the length of the peanut's main blade. So it works well.

I've got that little Remington, single-blade peanut that came in the pack of .22lrs years ago. Carbon steel, sharpens great and is such a slim, rounded little thing it carries like nothing. Its patina is earned. Just like the Case peanut, the Remy walks and talks like a lot of big knives wish they could. I'll scan in a pic sometime of the two peanuts and the big daddy barlow together. Kind of my extremes of carry.

I make my coffee the old fashioned, manly-man way. I toss a jaw fulls worth of whole beans in my mouth, grind them down between my teeth, then take large drinks of boiling water and let it brew in my mouth until it tastes about right, usually it's gotten growling strong and is starting to talk back. Then I gulps that down and start the process over. ;) :D

<g> Wader's anyone?
 
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