Boker "Tree Brand Classic" & Solingen made traditional knives

Love the looks of a lot of these, can someone confirm if any of the shields are being pinned? That’s generally a necessity to me. Love the castle wood!
 
Docscoot said:
Love the looks of a lot of these, can someone confirm if any of the shields are being pinned? That’s generally a necessity to me. Love the castle wood!
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My Boxer doesn't have a shield.

I cannot see evidence of pinning on my Trapper Uno or two Pen knives.

My Barlows do appear to be pinned.
 
OldHercDude said:
My Boxer doesn't have a shield.

I cannot see evidence of pinning on my Trapper Uno or two Pen knives.

My Barlows do appear to be pinned.
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There seems to be some controversy about the pinning of the shields. Like you Gordon, I can see evidence of pinned shields on my Barlows, but there was a post awhile back that seems to say that Boker doesn’t pin their shields. So I honestly don’t know what to think.
 
bigfish64 said:
There seems to be some controversy about the pinning of the shields. Like you Gordon, I can see evidence of pinned shields on my Barlows, but there was a post awhile back that seems to say that Boker doesn’t pin their shields. So I honestly don’t know what to think.
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That sounds like what I recall when I briefly looked into this a while back. Some folks were claiming a shield had fallen off and what had appeared as a pin was more just an alignment mark. I’d love to find out the Barlows have pinned shields and I’d buy one in a heartbeat, those appeal to me the most!
 
I'm not sure if this helps, but there is definitely a pin opposite the shield on this one.


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bigfish64 said:
There seems to be some controversy about the pinning of the shields. Like you Gordon, I can see evidence of pinned shields on my Barlows, but there was a post awhile back that seems to say that Boker doesn’t pin their shields. So I honestly don’t know what to think.
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If I had to guess, I'd say that Boker didn't pin shields, now pins some shields, but doesn't confirm.

My Barlows certainly look like a metal pin placed through a hole and bent over.
 
Not quite a year ago I bought several full sized stockmans. Boker seems to be moving away from multi-blade knives coming out of Solingen. That’s not any kind of confirmed statement, just my observation. Anyway, they are all beautiful and very solidly made with one exception, the secondary blades on all of them have lazy action when they open, almost friction folder bad snap. Closing snap is okay on most of them. The main blades have great snap both ways, it’s just the secondary blades. Anyone else experience this issue with Boker multi-blade knives made in Solingen?
 
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