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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Love my peanuts. Looking to purchase a few new ones.
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Pulled out the old school today…
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Beauty, no half stop?
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Nope. This was my very first traditional pocket knife.
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DirtDawg
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Oh sure, you had to "one-up" me... about 11 times I see. Nice gathering.
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DirtDawg
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Going Nuts...
Just arrived today. Bear MGC Peanut. As near as I can tell, it has Rosewood scales. It seems all I can find on-line without the shield is the Roswood model. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I would classify the quality of this knife as mediocre. Ref: nail nick placement, tang stamping, blade grind in general, and the fact that it seems to bind when opening, resulting in a no-snap at the end of blade rotation. Closing snap is very solid though. But I can't say I was totally surprised, after reading numerous reviews about the brand. I knew what I was expecting and I set my price accordingly. All in all, I have no regrets, it IS a Peanut after all, and it was Made in USA.
Now to the big question: Can anyone tell me how to read that date code please? ...USA....
Just arrived today. Bear MGC Peanut. As near as I can tell, it has Rosewood scales. It seems all I can find on-line without the shield is the Roswood model. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I would classify the quality of this knife as mediocre. Ref: nail nick placement, tang stamping, blade grind in general, and the fact that it seems to bind when opening, resulting in a no-snap at the end of blade rotation. Closing snap is very solid though. But I can't say I was totally surprised, after reading numerous reviews about the brand. I knew what I was expecting and I set my price accordingly. All in all, I have no regrets, it IS a Peanut after all, and it was Made in USA.
Now to the big question: Can anyone tell me how to read that date code please? ...USA....
mbkr
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Bear MGC preceded Bear and Son so 90's maybe. I have a Bear MGC stockman I bought new in the mid-late nineties IIRC. It was my daily carry for 10 or so years. It was a pretty good knife in the long run.
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A handsome pair.
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Thanks kindly.
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Is that Wood? What wood? Chestnut bone?
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Love that Shadow and none too common
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They are wood but would not want to mislead you with a guess. IMO they appear to be Pakkawood, a wood Case used alot back then. Both are from the 80's.
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DirtDawg
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Thank you very much for the information mbkr. Yes, it seems they have had a few name changes over the years, but it also does look like this one is from the 90's. I believe I've identified it correctly now as a 1993 model. Wouldn't it be cool if the American knife manufacturers would collaborate and come up with a uniform date code, something simple like Buck has. If they all used the same system, we could all be seeing "Trees of green" "Red roses too" and we could think to ourselves "What a Wonderful World".
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