By the Case Knife Bug yet again.While shopping this season wife ask me what I would like. I usally give her the usall nonthing reply. But this year I said I really would like a new Case Knife. But I would like to pick it out. She of course said well go for it. So I orderd on line The Copperlock.CA7064. Its in bright blue red logo. Sharp looking. I saw it at full retail at Hardware store but got it online at $ 46.00 free ship. At that price may get one of the Harley ones for Son ( a lil more money ) and A Navy one for Son in Law. I think they make Great Gifits. I can't wait for mail man lol

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You should be proud to know you got me looking at Case and the mail carrier placed a new navy blue bone Russlock clip point SS (61953L SS) in my mailbox yesterday. It was $49 delivered from Midway. I have a Red Mini Copperlock with CV steel due in Friday or Saturday. For size comparison I included a Spyderco Positron, Spyderco Delica 4, and my Kershaw Leek with the Russlock.

It's my understanding the stainless that Case currently uses is 420HC. My Russlock blade was apexed well but toothy sharp. A few minutes with my Sypderco Sharpmaker is all it took to put an impressive edge on the blade. I carried Buck knives with 420 HC for years and it is a good steel.

Case makes some classy knives. Next I want a drop point chrome vanadium Russlock.

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Awsome job kwselke and congrats.Can't belive it took me 56 year's on the clock to be bitten. Lol I have been more than pleased with my peanut and small stockman. The stockman came with what I call the brushed blades but I mean to tell ya razor sharp. Peanut came with mirror it was not as sharp as stockman. Cant wait for my mail person lol . Got say guys & gals if you have not looked at case your missing out. I love all my sogs bucks gerbers, assisted. But put your hands on a case you'll feel the love.P S give a report on the russ lock if it's your 1st. I understand they open a bit differant. Have to check um I want a mini copper lock already lol

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The Case bug bit me decades ago but my addition have always been financially devastating. Early Case knives are what keeps me awake at night. I have a few Case's built after 1964 but I pine for earlier production folders. I found a beautiful Case and Son, Bradford, PA at a yard sale last year. It is too early to have a pattern number and was produced before 1920. Beautiful green bone handles with a master blade that is a clip with double cut swedges and a long pull. This is a tiny 3 blade stockman and cost me whopping $2. I normally carry a 2 blade Case Tester XX built from 1920 to 1940. This again is handled in green bone. Early green bone makes me weak in the knees. For decades I carried a brown bone 2 blade Case XX built in the 1950's. That knife has been on many adventures and has skinned and gutted several truckloads of deer and elk. I do not know whether to congratulate you on your addiction or mourn for you.

My hunting buddy and best friend since 6th grade and I have been swapping Case Canoes for decades on our birthdays. But my coolest one is a 75 pattern large stockman with beautiful stags from 1940-65 era that I found at a gun show a few years ago for $30. That CV steel sharpens up as easily as any knife I have ever had.

Case pocket knives are one of my favorite.

Today's mail at the kwselke household included a new in box Case Mini Copperlock knife with a chrome vanadium (carbon steel) blade and a handle (scales) of Brazilian Zebu cattle shin bone jigged and dyed dark red. This little backlock and the funcky thumb opening Russlock liner lock above are the most traditional knives I've bought in over a decade. I'm sure I can hand the Mini Copperlock to a novice and they will know how to open and most likely close it.

I took the Mini Copperlock to a Christmas gathering this evening. I needed to open a package, so I reached in my pocket pulled out the little knife and opened it with two hands. No one blinked an eye. If I had pulled out a flipper or flicked open a thumb opener all eyes would have been oh wowing.

These things are really beautiful well made pocket knives. I have to admit I like the dyed bone scales. They look different in different light and at different angles. Case has some other unique and beautiful handle materials. I have a policy never to spend more than $100 for a pocket knife. Otherwise I'd be out looking for a Case locking knife with Abalone scales.

I like both the chrome vanadium and the Tru-Sharp surgical stainless (420HC steel) blade stock. Since these are traditional knives I'd opt for the CV steel if it is available in the knife I want. Either steel is relatively easy to sharpen and will take a good edge.

The Russlock is handle heavy at 2.6 ounces and about a 2 3/8" cutting area on the blade. It holds in my hand like a giant Exacto knife. It's a funky combination of a traditional and a modern folder. It is a very likable and unique folder. I like it enough that I have ordered a drop point version.

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Very nice indeed my medium copper lock should be here Wednesday can't wait.

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The great appeal of the copperlock/copperhead pattern is the upswept bolster at the pivot end, which covers up the otherwise exposed corner of the tang when the knife is closed. This makes the knife smoother and less obtrusive in the pocket.

So far, my only exposure to the pattern is a Rough Rider copperhead (non-locking) in sawcut bone. I have been reading about the Case copperlock lately in a number of sources, so there is probably one in my future.

Conchita has really liked Case knives for a long time, and I have given her a number as gifts, most recently a seahorse whittler in smooth persimmon bone. She reciprocated last year by giving me the same knife in Rogers jigged bone. All told, there are probably ten or eleven Case knives on my knife shelf. Quality is generally good, although some clunkers will turn up, so I like to buy in person whenever possible.

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Nice knives guys. I really like that Russlock with extension to open it one handed, like off of your leg. Super handy. The only vintage knife I have is an older K-Bar 1109 with wood scales and bronze frame.

I was in the market for a new hunting knife last season and really wanted to get a classic American knife. However, the prices were just too much for me, especially for a model with newer, better steel. I know the standard steel they use is perfectly fine, but I look at cost versus value, and there are just other options.

My frugal-ness lead me to Gerber, and I ended up with a folding Gator, 154CM steel, and made in Oregon. Relatively easy to sharpen with my Spyderco ceramic files. Made quick work of the 175# doe I got last year. Only cost me $30 shipped.

I'm not really a knife person and don't carry one daily. I really only need a good one for hunting, and have other cheappies for misc. utility. Still, I appreciate all of them. Perhaps I stay away because I would be like some in this thread, seeking out all the old vintage ones, cause god knows I adhere to older is better. Hearing about the old dyed bone scales already has me interested.

[QUOTE=iPac;139853264]Nice knives guys. I really like that Russlock with extension to open it one handed, like off of your leg. Super handy.

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I've seen people open the Russlock by pushing it on a table or their leg. With a little practice I learned to go from full blade closed to locked open one handed using just my thumb. It does not flick open. It's a solid push on the lever with my thumb and as the blade goes past half open I slightly rotate the handle a bit to continue pushing the lever down until the blade locks.

A very pleasant surprise for me today my new Medium copperlock 07064 in the Blue with red logo showed up early. It wasn't due till Wednesday. It's awsom only problem is I wiped it back down and put it back in box till Christmas . Silly I know but come christmas it will ride solo in my right rear pocket where my Buck 110 is for now . I tested rear pocket and it Will do Awsom there. Wow anonther great Case in line up. Can't wait till Christmas lol. Be safe Merry Christmas to all aboard Be Safe and Blessed.

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I read this thread with interest. In fact, it inspired me to go on a search through my house looking for as many of my Case knives as I could find to produce the photo below. I don't think I found all of them, but I probably came close.

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I've been accumulating Case Knives for many years, and they're definitely my favorite knife.

My current favorite is the Tribal Lock. The two in the lower left in the above photo (Yellow and Mint Green Scales) are examples of this model. I realize this is just my opinion, but I think this is the slickest knife design Case has ever come up with. I have one with Abalone scales on the way.

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Wow Dave that is an outstanding collection AWSOM!! Sir. I just got the navy blue medium copper lock yesterday. Lol got keep it in the till Christmas. But I really like it. Also. Its my first case lock and again what took me so long. My next indeed is the Tribal lock in red white blue. They are outstanding knifes .

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I should not be looking at this thread...

This one went to church with me today.
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Nice old Case XX. Built in the days of old. For a small knife the stag handle has great character. And it has not been buffed and polished, a giant bonus. Just about an hour ago I bought an old Roberson toothpick with worm groove bone handles and it was built in the 1930's.

A few I have put away.
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That old Finn was aptly named. The bird’s head pommel and the saber grind recall the pommel and Scandi grind of many puukkos.
Nice collection.

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There are a few good old time knives that have faded into the mist of history.

Case is still with us. Marbles put me in the knife business. Marbles were quite the thing for boys in the first half of the last century. I've heard my Dad was good.

Along with guns Dad taught me the right way the shoot a marble. Lock your thumb behind the middle finger and capture the marble between the end of your index finger and the 1st joint of the thumb. You get tremendous velocity and if you go slightly left or right when shooting the marble it creates English spin like a que-ball.

By the 5th grade kids my age would not shoot with me. They laid their marble in the curl of the index finger and push it out at low velocity and poor accuracy. They told me their mom said to not shoot with me, they were not getting any more marbles. By the 6th grade I could only shoot with the high school boys. Marbles guys would ask what I'd take for marbles. Since I loved knives it became my trade of choice and I'd soon win the marbles back.

Some days all my pockets were full and I'd take a sock off to hold the rest.

I had buckets and gallon jars full in the barn loft. When I was married and living in another town, dad sold the farm and they were lost.

I had cigar boxes full of pocket knives, mostly Case. I learned knife quality quickly and would not take Imperial type five and dime knives

I still have a lot of case knives. Some came from the marble business.

Just remembered, like guns a rest is more accurate, I rested my shooting hand on my left hand that was resting on the ground. Like a tow missile they came in thru the air, knocked out a marble, spun in place or pushed left or right to put me in place for the next shot. I ran the pot a lot. Each time I'd get 25 or more marbles.

Long before I could buy a gun I could buy knives and ammo at Western Auto.

Sorry to take you on this ride but marbles and knives were intertwined for me and brought me fully into the knife world.

As the song said, those were the days.

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That is a beautiful knife! Wow.

Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk

Indeed congrats awsom

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I got another Mini-Copperlock in last Wednesday, December 20. I just hadn't had time to post photos until now.

This is a Serialized Edition, the first time I've acquired this type of Case knife. It's a textured bone Persimmon, with Easy Open feature. I love the color! My number on this knife is 37.

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Awsom as well

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