Moore Maker Knives

It is Bear. They run out of the Camillus in that pattern years ago and talked Bear into buying the tooling for the pattern from the Camillus factory auction. They mainly wanted to continue the double lockback patterns...

Mike Latham
CollectorKnives.Net
 
knifeswapper said:
I don't think either one of these are hard/fast rules. As there are Bear models that have 3 pin+ slabs and do not end in "B". For Example.

Mike Latham
CollectorKnives.Net
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No doubt. I was going by the SMKW Christmas catalog and the Bear & Son knives that Mooremaker sells now. In both cases they were 4" trapper and stockman patterns--which I am interested in. They all seem to have one pin only. I'm sure that is not true of all their product.

It would be hard to use only one pin on that giant trapper.
 
henryhide said:
And also, A Bear & Son knife is obvious by the fact that they only use one pin instead of 3 to hold the scale on. Does anybody know if the knives made by Bear & Son for Mooremaker are made to different (higher) specs. than the line that Bear & Son normally produces?
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Only two of the pins are just for the scales, the larger middle pin is for the spring.
 
henryhide said:
In both cases they were 4" trapper and stockman patterns--which I am interested in. They all seem to have one pin only.
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I suspect even a little more random than just patterns, as here is a Bear 4 1/8" trapper..... Maybe you were looking at just the bone?
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Mike Latham
CollectorKnives.Net
 
Thats the one I was looking at on your site knifeswapper.Bear is a fairly new knife company when compared to the other US companies like Case and Queen. I'm sure their knives are workhorses. A young company may take time to get their operations and technology to a higher level. Buck leaves the pis out of their smaller stockmans and they are fine. maybe Bear is following their lead and don't feel the need. It doesn't hurt the function,but knife nuts like pins and shields and jigging and........................
 
Perhaps the easier way to differentiate the between Bear and Queen made Moore Makers is to look at the blades themselves. It seems to me that the models made by Bear all have tumbled blades, with rounded edges on the tang and spine. Are the Bear models also hollow ground? All the Queen models seem to be flat ground.
 
lambertiana said:
Perhaps the easier way to differentiate the between Bear and Queen made Moore Makers is to look at the blades themselves. It seems to me that the models made by Bear all have tumbled blades, with rounded edges on the tang and spine. Are the Bear models also hollow ground? All the Queen models seem to be flat ground.
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Thats why I'm moving away from Case, because they tumble their blades.In my opinion that is getting away from tradition.
 
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