I finally bought a Cheetah

[Ruffinogold]

Recently I was at a local joint which has a good number of those beautiful wooden case displays . They are difficult to walk by without getting stuck for 15 minutes of more , im my case . I was in the market for snagging a large stockman [ cv , yellow ] as i believe them to be such a great versatile pocket knife and Im always impressed with their cv steel .
However , back in the day when I'd buy a knife , Id usually buy a knife as a needed item and not necessarily for something of beauty or fancy and I never bought a Cheetah . I always thought they were super cool but always bought a stockman or a lockback , thinking .. Ill buy one down the road but never did . So fast forward to the other day [ many decades later ] ....

Bam !

What was even more special is that my wife wanted to buy it with her money knowing Ive always wanted one . That was pretty cool . So really , she bought it .... Im trying to figure out how our money is her money but Im sure she has an answer

Chestnut bone Cheetah ... finally

[philco]

Congratulations. That smooth chestnut bone is some pretty stuff.

[rea1eye]

First of all nice knife. Secondly nice story that goes with it. My wife
bought me a knife about 3 weeks ago. I bid on it on eBay but the seller
wanted more. She stepped up right away and said I will buy it for you.
I will always think of that knife as the one she bought for me ( along
with my very first Case knife for a Wedding Anniversary present about
40-45 years ago.

Maybe I will get a Cheetah at the Lexington Knife Show in 2 weeks!

Bob

[woodwalker]

Congratts on a great knife!! Cheetah"s are great knives! I love the action of them when opened. Slim in the pocket with lots of handle to grip and alot of blade. Happy for you! Enjoy!!

[rugmar]

Hey, thanks for posting that Cheetah! Nice one for sure.

Cheetah's have long been one of my favorites but I agree with you, it's not what comes to my mind as a working, carrying knife, I have a few of them from the 70's that I really like a lot and I have quite a few more that are more recent additions. My DIL found a 9 knife Case factory countertop display and gifted it to me. No knives were included so I decided to fill it with.........yep....Cheetahs!! What else? Here is a picture. These are all fairly recent knives (last 10 years).

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[Dan In MI]

A mighty fine-looking knife and a great story behind it. I, too, shall have a Cheetah...eventually.

[zp4ja]

Congrats. Nice knife and sweet wife. Case listed the "swing guard" in old 70'ish catalogs as a hunting/ fishing knife. My guess is slimy or bloody hands and swing guard protected from slippage onto blade resulting in fileting of fingers instead of a fish or game. Used my
swing guard EDCs for that many times.

Still have about 30 Case swing guards from XX era to 81'.

My Dad and I collected them together among many other CASE knives. The 11-1/2L being our favorite pattern. After he passed, there was still some years missing in the time span I mentioned and took inheritance and filled the holes.

Love the bone on that one. Congrats.

Jerry

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