Case 6318 Question

Trout Hound

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Howdy Y'all,
Okay, the 6318 Medium Stockman in CV has been calling my name lately. I already have a 6232 Texas Jack, which I love. But, the serpentine frame is my favorite pattern, and I love the rounded bolsters, and amber jogged bone, and that Turkish clip bade is just so beautiful, and, and…

Sorry, I may have gotten a little too excited there. Anyway, it's close to being my ideal knife. But, here's my issue: I don't have a whole lot of use for a spey blade, so I was looking at the model with the punch. Seems like a useful tool, and even if I don't use it a great deal, it will probably still be more useful to me than the spey.

Then, I find out that, even on the CV model, the punch is made of stainless. That's got me a little cheesed. I'm thinking about that beautiful, dark CV patina, with the stupid stainless punch sitting there shining like a sore thumb.

Just wondering who has experience with this, and if it looks as bad as I think it will. Thanks.
 
I've been looking at that punch stockman for a while, myself, and would like to see some pictures, too.

I have a few Cases in CV, but they make all their backsprings in stainless now. It looks a bit odd to me when I have a patina going on the blades. I can live with it, though. :D
 
r8shell said:
I've been looking at that punch stockman for a while, myself, and would like to see some pictures, too.

I have a few Cases in CV, but they make all their backsprings in stainless now. It looks a bit odd to me when I have a patina going on the blades. I can live with it, though. :D
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Yeah, it doesn't bother me too much when the blades are on one side and the springs are on the other. But the punch right beside the other two blades seems like a different deal.
 
Trout Hound said:
Yeah, it doesn't bother me too much when the blades are on one side and the springs are on the other. But the punch right beside the other two blades seems like a different deal.
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Yeah, it is a different thing. I'm vaguely remembering reading somewhere that some stockman knives had a stainless spey blade. Sometimes marked "for flesh only" I suppose when a spey blade was actually used for speying, the stainless was considered more hygienic. Doesn't apply to a punch, of course.
 
This is an older one that has a spey instead of a sheepfoot. I'm more of a fan of the vintage 47 pattern and the vintage 32 pattern. I'm not a fan of skinny clip blades or spey blades so I sold the knife in the photos. It is a well made knife. I can't really relate to your concerns about the appearance.




 
Get one and you will not regret it. I have the yellow cv version, and it is my most carried knife . The punch is stainless and it concerned me at first but does not now. Small knife but useful, cleaned 5 trout with it last weekend and 3 deer this fall.
 
I have the yellow Delrin version in CV. It's pretty awesome. The stainless punch doesn't bother me one bit.

Case really does this pattern well. Every one I've handled has been pretty close to perfect.

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22Hornet said:
Get one and you will not regret it. I have the yellow cv version, and it is my most carried knife . The punch is stainless and it concerned me at first but does not now. Small knife but useful, cleaned 5 trout with it last weekend and 3 deer this fall.
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Deer you say? Do tell, field dressing, skinning, butchering or the whole job? I am a fan of the #18 stockman. I use the spey blade some but admit it is the least used of the three. The stainless punch turned me off from that configuration.
 
I quite enjoyed carrying this for two months, from the day I got it, before changing things up. I find the punch as handy as the blades.



 
The 6318 is my favorite pattern and all but one are stainless. Been wanting to get one with the punch, so maybe after Christmas I just might.
 
This is Charlie's #2 Harness Jack made by Queen under the Schatt & Morgan brand. Both blade and punch are 1095 carbon steel, yet the punch looks like stainless because I use it for leather, as a marlinspike for cord and knots, and for other dry uses. The spear sees food and moisture, so has naturally gained patina.

So even a carbon steel punch will not necessarily look like a carbon steel blade.

 
I'm not a fan of either Turkish clips or Case in general, but I bought one to try out to fill up an order and try Case again. I actually like it a fair bit. Well constructed, the punch is very useful- don't let one small construction detail have the knife pass you by would be my advice. The blade came with one hell of a burr, but that said it did cut well! I like it despite itself!
 
Deer you say? Do tell, field dressing, skinning, butchering or the whole job? I am a fan of the #18 stockman. I use the spey blade some but admit it is the least used of the three. The stainless punch turned me off from that configuration.
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I field dressed 3 and skinned one. (I had forgotten my Yellow trapper that day) The 3318 is always with me and worked well
 
RobbW said:
This is Charlie's #2 Harness Jack made by Queen under the Schatt & Morgan brand. Both blade and punch are 1095 carbon steel, yet the punch looks like stainless because I use it for leather, as a marlinspike for cord and knots, and for other dry uses. The spear sees food and moisture, so has naturally gained patina.

So even a carbon steel punch will not necessarily look like a carbon steel blade.

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This is especially helpful. Thank you.
 
I used to not care for the spey....... Get one scary sharp and it's actually quite a nice pattern. I usually keep the short spey on the stockman for more hygienic tasks like cutting out a deep thorn in my finger or something.
 
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