Just picked up a John Greco and need help identifying

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I just picked up this blade from the exchange. It is a real functional beauty. I was just wondering if anyone could tell me the model and steel type or anything else. The only markings are "greco" on one side and "A" on the other.
 
I have the same knife. It is from around 1998 to 2001. The A denotes that it is A2 steel. I think he called it the companion. They are little tanks of a knife. I have used the heck out of mine.
 
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Yep-that's a Greco "Companion". Probably his most popular model next to the MST (mid-sized-tactical), which is the knife in the bigger picture above. That's the one that got my interest when I saw it in a knife mag profile of John Greco.

That's an earlier one as already stated. Pre-2000 most likely, because of the brown sheath and the "A" designation.

He later changed them to a thinner profile (0.20" vs. 0.25") and made them in a different steel marked with an "8". Yours has the older gray "crib-safe" finish. Later on they went to a black crinkle type finish and after that a gray "denim" (marbalized looking) that had more of a sheen on it.

Personally I prefer the "old" steel but in the thinner profile so I'm SOL....lol. I think somewhere in the house I have three of them, one from each period...

Great pattern user, enjoy.
 
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