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I've kind of been out of the knife collecting hobby a bit. The Case Swayback Gent was still on my list, but it seems they are now few and far between. Is it discontinued?
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Case Swayback Gent discontinued?
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I don't know about swayback gent, specifically. My go-to online Case dealer doesn't show a swayback among their patterns now. Another online dealer has swayback single blade wharncliffes.
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I fear you are correct. I do not see it in the current Case catalog
Bummer. A great pattern from the master. Hopefully, it's in the vault and will be pulled out from time to time.
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Disappointing. Hopefully they make a comeback at some point.
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Sad news, hope it's not for long. These are one of the best small knives (an area GEC is yet to really master in my view) So well designed (thanks Tony B) and well made, prefer the single blade Gent personally but both are worthy.
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Is that burgundy jigged bone one a Cv steel blade? Nice patina. Getting harder to find old carbon steel Case knives.
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Three gents and a jack (and a teardrop, but also a TB design). Open are CV, closed are SS. (When I took this I included the teardrop because the first swayback I saw a picture of had the jigged blue bone, bomb shield, and threaded bolsters. I really wanted one. By the time I found a store with the entire series I already had five swaybacks, so I bought the teardrop instead. 
Later I traded a second chestnut bone jack for a muskrat.)
Later I traded a second chestnut bone jack for a muskrat.)
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No it's the light and perhaps the effect of the red sealing wax next to it? It's their Chestnut Bone
CV it is and for some reason it seems to patinate more evenly than their 'new' carbon?