r/CaseKnives

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A gift from my BIL. As someone who’s life revolves around chasing deer and turkey around the hills of SE Ohio this means a lot

Found this old knife in my grandfathers things. He passed away 10 years ago.

Actually got to handle this one before I bought it as well. No QC issues here. Centered blade, no gaps in the covers, no weird rubbing marks on the blade. Just all round beautiful.

Folding Hunter came in. Today

Managed to bring out a few appealing colors by burning the cyan blue this series features. So far blue-dyed bone seems to transform the most from being torched. I also like the way it appears on the sawcut texture.

Got the whole set today

Funny story about my first Case knife. I’d left the modern knives behind awhile ago when I got my first Victorinox. Was watching some SAK YouTube and started getting some recommendations on traditional folders. Decided I wanted to buy a Case folder. Without doing much research I started browsing on Amazon and found this Case that I thought looked pretty cool and ordered it. When I was waiting for the order to arrive I was seeing some online chatter about Case knives being inconsistent, was a little worried but also understand that online chatter is usually way over blown. When I got it, I was blown away by the look and feel of this knife. The only thing I needed to do was strop it up a little. Other than that, it arrived better than expected.

A week or so later I’m watching some knife YT and I’m seeing Case Tony Bose knives. I’m thinking to myself, “Wish I’d bought a TB knife, I’ll have to get one.” See another video about the meaning of the pattern stamp on Case knives. Look at mine, TB6339. First try and I accidentally bought a Tony Bose, lol.

Anyways, I’m really enjoying this nice little folder and it’s been in my pocket everyday. Prompted me to order another model.

10 dot 1980 Appaloosa Elephant Toe

This knife has been a rollercoaster. Brand new, arrived in awful shape. Awful esge, not even sharoened all the way to the tip, so much grit in the pivot that it wouldn't snap shut at all, gaps everywhere. I was gonna return it, but said sxrew it and cleaned te pivot out and got it shaving sharp after about an hour of work, and then I noticed this.

Thought it was just a lighter area of the bone, but you can see that the line continues and is raised behind the saw cut surface, ehich they beveled the hell out of by the way, more white bone that sawcut if we're being honest. If this is cracked straight out of the box, I'm just kinda over it.