I perused the Gun Show yesterday, with only a Queen Cutlery fixed blade coming home with me 🙂

The first D2 knives were the cocobolo, followed by the natural carved stag bone, then birdseye maple, then amber carved stag bone, and finally the curly zebra wood. After this Queen was sold and they went back to using more carbon steel.

Cocobolo 2002-2003
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Carved Stag Bone 2004-2005
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Bird's Eye Maple 2006-2007
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Amber Carved Stag Bone 2008-2010
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Curley Zebra Wood 2011-2012 or '13
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black mamba black mamba Your BEM is a lot more attractive than my Teardrop- kind of Cat barf colour mine! Love that Stockman Jeff. There was some variation in the colour and style of the ACSB but I agree with your ordering. I believe some D2 knives were done in Buffalo Horn too and were late models about 2011 or so.

The D2 knives from early part of the century till about 2009 were really exceptional stuff, I often use an ACSB Teardrop and it's a wonderfully sharp knife, but you need diamonds stones for it. They certainly made an excellent knife in D2 one of the best production knives, better than CASE and more than equal to early GEC. However, Queen's ending was pitiful and some real turds escaped from the factory, they didn't look too good either...
 
OP you got a total bargain with that Queen knife in WSCB, if you use it it will darken somewhat, good grippy material .

I'm fond of this ACSB kind of Bird & Trout, very nice for dealing with fish and looks great. The aluminium guard will darken to lead colour but rapidly brightens back with metal polish, sheath is good too nice tooling. They also did D2 fixed in stabilised wood, I've got a Skinner in some Green burl wood somewhere...

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waynorth said:
I, too, think it's CSB (Carved Stag Bone). Winterbottom Cuts are different!!

Oops, I missed that some have already sussed that out!!
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Thanks for the clarification.

I had never seen their CSB before but it looks much better than their winterbottom bone which I generally find to be pretty ugly,I've seen a few examples I didn't hate but generally I don't like it.
 
Will Power said:
OP you got a total bargain with that Queen knife in WSCB, if you use it it will darken somewhat, good grippy material .

I'm fond of this ACSB kind of Bird & Trout, very nice for dealing with fish and looks great. The aluminium guard will darken to lead colour but rapidly brightens back with metal polish, sheath is good too nice tooling. They also did D2 fixed in stabilised wood, I've got a Skinner in some Green burl wood somewhere...

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That's one queen model I've really been interested in, I'm not holding my breath but sure wouldn't mind finding one some day.
 
tongueriver said:
I no longer own any Queen knives although I have had several. One Gentleman commented that the Winterbottom bone was not attractive. I have not personally felt this way. Some of it is actually Delrin but the real deal was contracted from the Winterbottom Bone Company (nice write-up from Bernard Levine) and they made more than one pattern. Some of the most delicious was the "Indian Trail," made for Cattaraugus.
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Nice Winterbottom!! I have always liked it; especially the older stuff!!
 
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