“Near future” turned out to be quite a wait, but I have one now and it is an interesting knife. I checked around and noticed that GEC, darling of the traditional knife community, was making a Toothpick in the near future and so I waited. A genuine Case toothpick was, then, off the table. The Tony Bose stuff is incredible, but for most Case knives you are sure to get a few things-retro look and feel, butter soft steel, and pig-trough levels of slop in the fit and finish. Alas this placed an ember of desire deep in my gear consuming heart and I have wanted a high quality rendition of a toothpick pattern knife ever since.Īs Nick said on the podcast “Case knives are for people that like collecting more than they like knives.” My experience with Case has been well, underwhelming, at least in their main line production stuff. He reasoning was spot on-“I need a knife to open packages and stuff, and this was small, had a good amount of curve to the blade, and it looked interesting.” Check, check, and check on the Case Texas Toothpick. I was expecting a Kershaw or a ZT, maybe even a Sebenza, but then imagine my shock when this new to knives person busted out a Case Texas Toothpick. One day he came in and picked her up from work and we ran into each other.

He was younger than I was and didn’t strike me as a “I carried since I was 7” type, so I was very interested to see what he pocketed on a daily basis.

It all started when a work friend told me that her husband loved knives. But the Toothpick came into production and I snagged one. In this case, I was waiting and watching for over three years. And so if you want a particular model not being made, you wait. Like with Bark River, GEC has an extensive catalog, not all of which is in production at the same time.

Extra long toothpicks