Ode To The 07

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Tue Oct 02, 2018 1:25 pm

I like beans and taters...in fact, I think I'll have another helping...

I'll start with this one (which was a gift from jerryd)

...and finish up with these two for dessert

Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm...Tasty! Finger lickin' good!

~Q~

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Sat Oct 06, 2018 6:19 pm

These came in Thursday.

And this is supposed to land here on Tuesday (no mail on Monday. Columbus day ya know)
Edit: Or today. What a pleasant surprise.

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 1:06 am

Nice haul, jerryd...all are very good looking knives...and I'm glad that you finally got the RR White Jigged Bone LB Mini T with the Saxon Battle Axe Shield...that one's destined to become a classic collectible.

I'm still drooling over Lansky1's Grey 107W...this is the closest thing I have to it. Unfortunately, mine doesn't have the coveted wharncliffe secondary. So, the hunt continues...

~Q~

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 1:34 am

I managed to pick up this pair of 07 Ultraviolet Mini Trappers...One with Spey secondary (6207) and one with a Wharncliffe secondary (6207W). They also have different shields, too...so, not quite a "matching pair" in every detail, but close enough for government work.

Same goes for this pair of Winterbottom Bone Parker-Edwards. Obviously, they're not 07s (they're 55s), but they are Mini-Trappers just the same. The differences are pretty obvious, and yet, to me they do seem like a matching pair-- I'll let you decide for yourselves.

~Q~

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:23 pm

Mercy me. I scroll through here and my mouth commences to water.

Another in tomorrow's mail but for now todays delivery will have to do.

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:19 pm

Love the Silver Script Shield...I feel it is perhaps the best shield design Case ever came up with.

I read an explanation once that described in detail exactly how it's installed (wish I could remember where...could've even been in an AAPK thread but I think it was most likely in an eBay description). Apparently, it's quite an intricate operation involving a high-speed, Dremel-like tool to cut the shape of the letters into the bone. I don't recall if it was done by hand, but I remember thinking at the time that that seemed extremely labor-intensive if they had to do that for each and every knife. And, while I'm sure they must use a template, obviously there's not a whole lot of room for error due to the small width of the letters; one very tiny slip could easily render the bone scale unusable. After the bone was prepped, a pre-made nickel silver shield was fit and glued into the cut-out.

I guess I has assumed it was done with a CNC machine or something more automated like that that could churn out perfectly cut bone handle covers by the hundreds in very little time. Maybe that is how it's done...I really don't know. But, I sure do like the Silver Script Shield, however it's done.

~Q~

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:53 pm

CNC would be my opinion. Perfectly cut each and every time.

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Sat Oct 13, 2018 11:00 pm

The mail carrier dropped this one off today. I'm really pleased that the pictures turned out well this time.

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 1:13 am

1992 Case CCC Jr. Member GY6107

2004 Case Family Tree Series 6207W

...and a John Primble Mini Trapper

~Q~

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 2:31 am

When did you start collecting Mini-Trappers?????

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:30 am

jerryd6818 wrote:When did you start collecting Mini-Trappers?????

What makes you think I do?

~Q~

jmh58 · Post by **jmh58** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:03 pm

jerryd6818 wrote:When did you start collecting Mini-Trappers?????

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 1:31 pm

Ignoring Mr. Smarty Pants ~Q~ and his egger on, John.

This one came in yesterday's mail. I bought it because it's different and because it has a Wharncliffe secondary blade. Color is pretty true to the pictures and that is a genuine flaw on the right end of the tang stamp.

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:16 am

And they just seem to keep steadily rolling in like the waves of the ocean...

Look at what happens to Cocobolo Wood under different lighting conditions;

~Q~

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:35 am

OH, I can't forget my Daniel Boone Mini Trapper...

~Q~

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:44 pm

More beauties ~Q~.

Do you mind if I add today's arrival. It almost didn't get here because the temp mail carrier delivered to the place the next block over. Same house number, different street name. It's far from the first time that's happened but usually their mail gets delivered here. At least I now have the supervisor's phone number in my phone. Maybe a P.O. Box would be worth $96 per year (3" x 5.5")

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:54 am

Dang, jerryd...seems like you've been on quite a roll lately...picking up some real nice ones too. Good scores all around.

Unfortunate about the string of mis-deliveries, though...kinda undermines trust in the whole USPS system when the final delivery gets messed up. I have a PO Box and it still happens from time to time; either I'll get someone else's mail in my box or my mail somehow ends up in someone else's box. Apparently, the final delivery person is potentially the most important person in the entire delivery system or the weakest link (or both). I have made it a point to develop a good relationship with all the counter clerks at my PO (gave each of them a Kershaw LEEK and explained what's in most of the pkgs I receive). So now, whenever there is an issue with a "lost" pkg, they basically move heaven & hell to sort it out and locate it for me. Of course, I live in a fairly small remote village where everybody pretty much knows everybody, which is helpful. I'm sure it would be different in a PO that serviced a larger population.

~Q~

jmh58 · Post by **jmh58** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:27 pm

OK jerry...

Yinz 2 are really rolling along on these!! Nicely done..

All fine beautys!!!

John

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:07 pm

It's a handsome knife John so no matter how you dress it, it looks good.

~Q~ you don't really appreciate how smoothly life goes until you hit a rough patch and then a few small bumps can feel like a large chunk hole and things you just winked at now loom large in the rearview mirror.

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:50 pm

Yup...That's the story of my life in a nutshell, right there.

~Q~

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:26 am

A good day today at the PO turned up these 07s:

2007 vintage Cabernet

...with the somewhat rare "Circle C" shield

I don't know the "official" Case name for this red-orange color bone (but I like it)

Purple Haze

~Q~

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:57 am

"Good day"? ~Q~, I'd say it was a GREAT day. Those make me green with envy.

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 3:39 am

Picked up this Antique Bone Mini T recently. I got it because it's the first and only Mini Trapper I've ever seen with grooved bolsters.

: 2016 Case 6207 Antique Bone Mini Trapper w/ Grooved Bolsters

Just as I was winding down on new acquisitions, I happened to stumble upon this rare beauty and bought it immediately. It might even be a "Holy Grail" knife for me...one of those that satisfies my lust for Mini Trappers once and for all. I guess only time will tell.

: 1985 Case IV207 Mastadon Ivory Mini Trapper

Notice that the COA shows the pattern as IV207 SP SSP, but the tang stamp shoes a slight difference: IV207 SP SS. I wonder what happened to the missing "P" on the tang stamp?

~Q~

jerryd6818 · Post by **jerryd6818** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 9:12 am

Well, thank God they all pretty much look alike to the spousal unit, eh. That's quite a coup you stumbled onto.

Now if you can just hide the expenditure you might be home free.

QTCut5 · Post by **QTCut5** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 5:12 pm

I'm not too worried about the spousal unit since I've retained the services of the OCD Mini Trapper Monkey as my attorney. Being unrestrained, unrestricted and completely unfettered by any sense of ethics whatsoever, he can be extremely persuasive and difficult to argue with (sometimes he's even been known to resort to threats of extreme violence) whenever it comes to justifying and defending the purchase of a Mini Trapper...it's kind of his specialty.

~Q~

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