LB7--/--507SC--/--BEAR PAW,..I may be ignorant..prove it!

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O.K..:eek: ..I knew you guys would flock to that heading..I've been on Ebay trying to get a scrim...yea I know.:jerkit: ..Since I've been 18 I've carried a 6ot or a 25ot ,or a fixed blade . Sure I had a few of the finger nail cleaners .Things I did just called for big ones (PUN) if you will.Now I'm trying to distinguish between the LB7/507SC/and the Bear Paw and with out having the three setting next to each other ,I'm having a heck of a time:mad: .I flipped back and forth from 1 ebay site to another,with my slow poke computer I almost :confused: forget what I was looking for to begain with.So at the risk of sounding plain stupid can someone tell me what the difference is.Just from the few days I been around I think Phil is probably the guy.But most likely all you guys can answer this one.
 
I'm not sure how much detail you are wanting on this but basically the Bear Paw is the LB-7. It's the nickname given to it (I guess that's what you would call it) It has the winewood handles with either 3 or 4 pins in the handle.

The number of pins is a good way to date the knife, I believe four pins were used through the late 80's and then they switched to three pins. Someone may be along shortly to give the exact dates.

The 507SC is the same knife as well except with imitation ivory handles.

Hope this helps.

cykc
 
CYKC....THX I really couldn't see much diffrence .I guess I need to study some of the threads from the (all knowing) long time collectors. Seems to me there are these little subtlies which someone in the know sees an recognizes as a different year,or modle change .../,,,I kinda thought there would be more to it.Or maybe i'm trying to make it harder than it is ,You know that old wait ...wait I know a harder way to do it . Hey thanks again. Hogdog
 
None of us knows it all, I assure you. That is why one collector will answer one question, and another answers a different one. The only way that I know of to become proficient and thoroughly acquainted with a pattern is to truely study it firsthand. Collect pictures, ads, watch auction listings, ask questions, and buy as many as you can of that pattern with provenance (boxes, papers etc.) and compare them. Larry (lrv) is one (of several) who has paid attention to the large folding hunters, but as far as I know, no one has made an in depth study of them. Your curiosity makes you a prime candidate!:D

Codger
 
Guess its time to put another group picture together.

Codger is correct, I seem to have gathered a few of the larger lockbacks. I just can't help myself.
Check out this one from a year ago which is at the end of the misc page. Then cruise the rest of the site. Check out the collectors corners.
http://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/misc/Misc.htm
TTYL
Larry
 
Hogdog, beware of LB7's with Buffalo Horn handles, that knife was recently exposed as a Chirade as someone here recently referred to it. Unless of course, it looks like this Buffalo Horn custom, check out the mosaic pins:




 
Redshanks,
Great pair of knives. Gotta love em.
Know whom did the custom work?
Thanks for showing
LArry
 
Since your looking at scrims here's another to look for, the SC705.It is the same as the LB7 and the SC507s.I have a 1981 series LB7 etched Schrade Scrimshaw on the blade.It has the bear eating a fish on the handle.It is a 4 pin.I also have a SC705 scrimed the same,etched the same,but it is a 3 pin with nickle silver bolsters.There was another recently for sale on Ebay, both were advertised as one of a kind on Ebay.Welcome to the wonderful world of Schrade.Arnold
 
Hey Redshanks I think Coders' got the right idea to get your hands on as many of a pattern as possible and study them,don't you.maybe you could send me those two knives so I can STUDY up close!Any boxes, paper work, and adds you had I'm sure would help. I really know all most nothing at all about the 507SC....so If you had that one it would really make my.....enligthen me!!!!!!!YEA>>>YEA...I'm about to really be enlightened right.....LOL...RIF.....TWO BEAUTIES...THX...........TOBY your saying sc705.....do you mean 507sc....because I was bidding on that one an I kept hearing Phil 's...thread not to bid against each other at around $35.50.....I'm not sure how to tell that someone is a Forum memberor not. I did go to his bio's and just kinda randomly check some of his recent purchaceses ,the guy had been buying Schrades so he could have been a member.....Michael
 
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