Help! Western Official Boy Scout Knife

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eagle1910

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Alright, its time to stop reading and start posting. Unfortunately my first post involves begging for something:o. I am an Eagle Scout and am hoping to get a Western Cutlery Co. Boy Scout fixed blade (4.5") in descent condition as a gift for my scoutmaster. I have looked at the knife shows in my area and every one "has a bunch of them but didn't bring them." I even was talking to a seller who told me he had a crate full of them and would bring them at the next show, didn't. The show just this past weekend he brought TWO and neither of them had markings on the blade and his asking price wasn't what he told me in the beginning anyway. I'd love to get one for next week to give at summer camp (his last) but I am not getting my hopes up. If anyone could help me out or would mind parting with one (or two--I wouldn't mind having one myself :o) please let me know.
Thanks a Million!


BE PREPARED!
 
eBay has many BSA fixed-blades on sale each day. Some are good deals; soem are not (condition, condition, condition).

The Western skinner-patetrn fixed blade (Models 1378 [leather handle], 1367 [plastic handle scales in faux stag] sold more than all prior BSA fixed blades combined, so they appear frequently. Pick a seller with a very good feedback record (at least 99.5%) and bid away. Due to supply, only the very mint ones go for over 40-50$. Pay with a credit card.

A picture of the 1378 appears in this thread: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=663153
 
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when did the bsa start to issue fixed blades and who in chronological order, maybe with year made them.
 
"Sheath" knives (by which I mean a fixed-blade knife designed to be carried in a sheath and not mainly intended for food preparation or eating) were issued from 1932-1982, with a hiatus during WWII due to material and manufacturing capacity shortages.

Other fixed-blade knives were issued from at least 1919 (probably earlier) to the present. Current fixed-blade offerings include a paring knife and 8" blade "sticking" or "boning" pattern. Some of these knives were sold in a protective cover (which could be called a "sheath") although not with provision for attachment to a belt.

Current official BSA literature and local rules are ambiguous regarding fixed-blade knives. For example, one BSA publication discourages use of "large sheath knives" while another advocates use of an 18" (overall) khukuri. Perhaps the khukuri is OK because it is more of a short sword than a knife. So "large sheath knife" bad; short sword good." :D Some Councils purport to bar "all fixed-blade knives," but sell them at their camps and use them in their camp programs.

Ignorance produces strange rules.
 
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