Some Of The Reasons For The Continued Popularity Of The Case Pocket Knife by Gregg Hall

I have been a knife enthusiast from the very beginning and naturally I’ve gotten enough experience with them to enable me to value different types of knives. As a matter of fact, a wonderful knife that has been skillfully crafted from high quality steel is so awesome that anyone would appreciate it. Knives are undoubtedly one of the most significant tools for mankind and shall always remain so even after thousands of years. Since sharp implements with a stainless steel blade are one of the most essential items in every kitchen, knives have found a very significant role to play, even with novice cooks. However, not all knives are made for all purposes. Different kind of knives, with different shapes and designs are crafted to be used in different ways.

What are Case Pocket Knives?

The Case pocket knives are different types of knives made for different purposes. Case refers to a specific brand of knife that has been in existence for a very long period of time and is mainly renowned for knives such as the Old Timer. If you are searching for an appropriate pocket knife with long term durability and that is able to be used time and again, Case pocket knives may prove to be the best option. However, with the infiltration of several well-known brands and manufacturers today, Case has lost much of its traditional glory and is not at the top of the show at the moment. Still, Case knives have not been discarded by serious collectors.

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The knife industry has changed in fashion to a great extent. With the advent of so many knife makers in the industry, the competition has increased and almost all of the manufacturers of knives have come up with good quality merchandise. The modern kinds of knives are very different from the classic traditional ones. Understanding these basic distinctions, great brand names like Strider have seriously engaged in making knives out of premium quality steel like S30V. This is the best grade of steel for making quality knives. This is really great news for knife collectors who are always eager to try or check out their blades.

If you are among those avid and crazy knife collectors who are searching for the Case pocket knife or any other similar item, then you need not look far. The details are just a click away. The Internet, I feel, is the best option for an effective and quick search. There are quite a few websites that can provide a great deal of information on the range of quality knives.

You can also go to knife shows where many people sell all different types of folding pocket knives. Chances are you will find what you are looking for at one of them.

Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Beach, Florida. Find more about this as well as a case pocket knife at http://www.only-knives.com

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PIKE-TACKLE. SPINNING AND TROLLING-RODS.

An idea — happily now nearly exploded — has prevailed amongst trollers since the time of Nobbes of the Dark Ages, that a pike-rod should necessarily be a clumsy rod — a thick, unwieldy, weighty, top-heavy weapon — in fact, a sort of cross between a hop-pole and a clothes-prop.

Whatever our pike-fishing ancestors may have been in the matter of skill, it cannot be denied that their rods and angling gear generally were in every way vastly inferior to our own, and, indeed, such as to make any display of what we should consider science out of the question.

On no part of the fisher’s equipment has more patience been lavished, with the result of greater advances, than on the all-important item of the rod. That so far at least as trolling-rods are concerned there was plently of room for improvement may be gathered from the receipt given for the construction of a trolling-rod by the authoress of the ‘ Boke of St. AIbans,’ about A. D. 1486, wherein the implement in question is recommended to be of at least fourteen feet long ; the ’staffe’ or butt measuring ‘a fadom (fathom) and a half,’ of the thickness of an ‘ armgrete,’ or about as thick as a man’s arm, and the joints to be bound with stout ‘ hopis of yren ‘ (iron hoops)!

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In the first volume I have given a description of the different woods used in rod-making, and I will not therefore repeat it here, the more so as both hickory, greenheart, and ash — that is, almost all the principal rod-woods — may be, and are, very commonly employed in the manufacture of Spinning and Trolling-rods.

The wood really most suitable for the purpose, and which as time goes on will, I have no doubt, come to be more and more used, is bamboo. This wood possesses in a special degree the qualities required for a spinning-rod, being both light, strong, and of sufficient stiffness, and, it may be added, pliability also, for the most perfect ‘ casting’ of a spinning bait and for the ‘ playing ‘ of it when it has been cast.

I daresay many trollers — much better fishermen than I am — will warmly, not to say hotly, dissent from this proposition. Every angler has his own hobby on the subject of rods. One man swears by a bamboo rod, another by lancewood or hickory, and a third would lose half the enjoyment of his day’s sport if it were not to be effected by his trusty greenheart of early and well-beloved associations.

Its owner might say, and say with truth, ‘ The difference you speak of in weight is exceedingly small, and there is a certain ” swishiness ” and elasticity in greenheart or hickory which is not to be got out of the most carefully selected bamboo.’ I find myself that I get quite as much play, or ‘ swishiness,’ as I want out of a four-jointed bamboo rod with a greenheart top, and as regards weight, the difference, slight as it is, tells decidedly in favour of the hollow wood.

From the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

edited by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G.

BOOK TITLE

Fishing by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885, pp. 8-9

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