I guess I should post this in the Cult Of The Peanut thread since it involves the legume, but I don't now if it's also crossing over into the realm of traditional knives main forum.
In 2006, when my grandson Ryan was 10 years old I gave him a yellow peanut with CV blades. He carried that peanut for man-years, up to now. He never carried it to school and was careful. Now he's a 22 year old college grad employed in the computer internet security field making very good money. He's engaged to a very lovely Japanese American girl he met on the job and like him, she's an internet security whiz kid. These are the kids that as teens they were able to breach security firewalls like Childs play.
To this day, Ryan does love to fish, and his life in California gives him lots of opportunity to trout fish in the Sierra Nevada mountains and salt water fish in the Pacific Ocean. His knife that he always has on him is the peanut. His old yellow CV is badly worn, and he got a stainless yellow for his fishing duties. That's it. A Case peanut. Ryan is one of those rare non knife person knife nuts that know a sharp knife in the pocket is a good thing, but he's not "into" knives per se. He's into the peanut because was the first knife his old grandpa, me, got him. He actually doesn't own any other knife to carry but a Case peanut in either worn old CV or the newer stainless.
His other pocket knives/tools are a Leatheman micra and a Leatherman squirt for the small tools that he finds handy working on stuff I can't even fathom. For whatever freak chance of genes, Ryan takes apart and puts back togher all those techno things that people spend on now like Iphones, lap tops, IPads and whatever. Whiz kid.
But this whiz kid boy genius, excuse me, young man genius's pick of dedicated knife as a pure cutting tool to have in his watch pocket is the Case peanut. It was his first pocket knife, but also his only pocket knife since his old grandpa gave to him on the back of a Maryland lake back in 2006. When I asked him if he looked at otters knives consider buying, like a modern one hander, he asked me back "Why? The little peanut fits my watch pocket and I'm never bothered by it, and it cuts whatever I need to cut. If I'm gong to be doing something really grundgy, I'll use the micra and just spray it down with WD40 to clean it if I need to. "
So, there is it; my grandson Ryan is a non knife person, and carries two small Leatherman tools for his uses. But for sheer cutting, he's still sold on the little legume he's had since he was 10 years old. Very much the same choice my dad made as a non knife person who found the little two blade jack good enough to go down the road with.
