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only if you have 4 1/4 pockets......
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I do, but fitting well doesn't guarantee carrying well.
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Just a quick update. My two Stockmans arrived yesterday, and they're both built with excellent attention to detail. Everything is ground and polished evenly, and no ugly gaps appear around the handles or springs. The blades open and close with authority, and the factory edges are evenly ground------------very toothy, as expected, but even. I'm VERY pleased after my last experience ten years ago.
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Glad to hear that worked out.
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I have owned Case knives since I was a kid. I have some Circle C knives from the 40s and really like them. Quality is top notch. Case also has a great service department. I recently sent them a medium sized stockman that I bought on eBay and they returned it looking like new, even replaced the scales. No charge. That is why I don't buy Chinese junk.
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That is why I don't buy Chinese junk. Ditto ^^^^^^ With all the other cheap ass Chinaland crap that's force fed to us these days it boggles me that anyone would buy a Chinaland knife when American knife makers are one of the last bastions of quality and service at a fair price between our shores.
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This is a great one.... it comes in a G10 orange too. Mid folding hunter
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With all the other cheap ass Chinaland crap that's force fed to us these days it boggles me that anyone would buy a Chinaland knife when American knife makers are one of the last bastions of quality and service at a fair price between our shores. EXACTLY. I think it boils down to what's hanging in the bubble packs at the big box stores. The hardware stores, independent lumber yards, and especially mens work clothes stores with their traditional (and enticing) knife displays are becoming more and more a thing of our past............a past I miss more each day.
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You guys should have seen the NASTY letter I wrote the NRA when they sent me a "free" chinkwanese knife when I renewed my membership.
Needless to say, I sent the knife back. The other I had was sold.
All the USA knifemakers going out of business and struggling. Ebay pushing Chinkwanese crap down our throats.
I wonder if the gun companies started dropping like flies and chinaland rifles flooded the market, if the NRA would get it then?
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Filson tried the offshore approach a few years ago (while charging USA made prices), and most of it ended up on clearance at deep discount. They apparently misunderstood why customers are willing to pay that much for their clothing and underestimated the stubborness of consumers with strong beliefs.
They're now making some other dumb moves, but at least the majority of items are coming from Seattle again.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I thought I'd update my Case report. After receiving two perfectly built large stockmans, I decided to order one more as a Christmas gift. It arrived today and is a complete letdown. It's a Monday or Friday knife for sure. It's not the worst job I've ever seen, but it's definitely a user grade and not one to admire when pulled out for use. It'll cost more than it's worth to ship back to Case, so I'll toss it in the knife box as a future gift to someone who isn't cursed with an attention to detail.
So in my recent sample of three, I'd give two knives an A+ and one a C-. Knives like these still have quite a lot of hand work, which is increasingly rare in todays tool world. It's one of the things I love about slip joints, but it also adds risk to buying knives sight unseen. Paying a little more at the local feedstore/lumberyard is probably smartest approach.
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I've had a number of Case knives since my mother gave me a 4" carbon steel sheath knife for Christmas in 1950 (still use it, gone thru a couple of sheaths, tho!).
My current fixed blade favorite is a plain 5" "Finn-5" sheath knife that I got this year, but I'm looking for a sheath of the original pattern--don't like the newer "wrap around" style much.
I got a "Baby Butterbean" in honey bone recently to carry in situations where a larger knife might scare some ninny. It'll do to open the modern packaging which my arthritic fingers have more and more trouble with. It's a miniature of my daily carry folder, a "red barnboard bone" Case "Canoe," a pattern I find works for most everyday tasks. Have two; an old carbon steel and stag one and this newer barnboard bone stainless.
Used a single blade carbon "Folding Hunter" for years; finally retired it when I quit big game hunting, and gave it to my son. Good cutter!
Keep buying Case; we need 'em!
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I carry a Case most everyday (sometimes a Stockman by Buck or Schrade) - this Case Big Whittler is my favorite.
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Now that's a handsome knife! And you can do a LOT of things with it, I bet.
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Thanks Mike, it is a fine and useful knife - and like a pre-64 Winchester or Belgian Browning, simply a joy to own.
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