Should GEC make a Jumbo Beer Scout?

That suggestion that the Boy Scouts are threatening action is absurd. It says Beer Scout, somebody who looks for beer, it doesn't say Boy/Girl Scout or mention any country! The woman who used to clean my room at my college in Oxford was called a 'scout' but she wasn't wearing scout uniform-or drinking beer:D:D BS I say;) Might send the value of these Beer Scouts up though......

Taking up another poster's point, I feel stainless would be a lot more apt for this pattern, especially all stainless liners. My Beer Scout in Ivory Bone is looking pretty crap after less than 3 years hanging on a nail in the kitchen. It gets grabbed to open bottles, slice citrus and soon black spots and rust take hold- who really wants to clean it up straightaway when serving drinks to yourself and company? The bone has dried up quite a lot due to acid from limes etc and both centre pins are cracked and a crack around the bail hole too. Inside the liners looks unpleasant, rust stains. I think stainless and delrin or micarta would be the thing for what is a working knife. Bigger one? Yes could be useful for leverage, might look OK on the 92 frame or even a 35 EE?

Thanks, Will
 
I’ve got a thing for caplifters and would welcome another GEC lifter. I think a lot of us would love to see a full scout knife on the 35 frame, so if they ever go ahead with that, perhaps an sfo with just a blade and lifter?

I like caplifters enough that I had K’roo make up a “Chunky Drunk” as I call it. It’s a beefy slipjoint lifter pry-bar, no blade. I always have a knife on me already so it makes the perfect watch pocket tool for me. It has come in so handy so many times.

I think it’s pretty sad and petty if the boy scouts thing is true.
 
Back in the early days of anticipating as well as seeing the first run of Beer Scout Knives many folks complained about the knife many of us now love. Some hated the bail, some said the shield was too long, others complained about the word "Knife" being included in the name ("we know it is a knife"). Then people complained about the second run, many suggesting it should have a clip or spearpoint, rather than another sheepsfoot. Then there were those who complained about the word "beer" in the name and the associated connotations of a knife celebrating beer in general. I was confounded by how much energy folks were spending on complaining given you could find nearly identical SFOs that lacked the reference to beer as well as various crown lifters and radio knives that contained sheepsfoot, clip or spearpoints with or without the easy open notch and lacking bails. Always seemed to me that you could get what you wanted from GEC's existing runs of 15s to suit your taste/needs ... it just wouldn't be a "Beer Scout Knife." Now a bigger crown lifter sounds nice, I know GEC did a small run of 85s with crown lifter as a rendezvous knife several years ago and they look lovely but I think that is it. So asking for a bigger crown lifter is spot on ... but they wouldn't be a "Beer Scout Knife" either. I think the Beer Scout Knife as envisioned and built by GEC was perfect as it was and if it is meant to be killed off, let it be so.
 
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...so now I'm sitting here, beer in hand on this lovely afternoon contemplating a crown lifter on a bigger frame, all the same features as the Beer Scout, just larger (okay, and maybe spearpoints too). I think such a knife sounds great. How about "Beer Ranger Knife", "Beer Guide Knife" or my current working favorite "Beer Hunter Knife." Don't think Universal Pictures could sue over "Beer Hunter" as they can't lay claim to name "deer hunter." A big ol' Beer Hunter Knife as a companion to a smaller Beer Scout Knife sounds great!
 
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How about a hayn helper with a caplifter instead of the pen secondary? That’s a decent step up in size, and I carry a hayn helper quite a bit.
 
#92 "Talon lifter"
#35 "Churchiller"
#33 "Super Conductor"
 
I'd take just about anything with a cap lifter. All the cap lifter GEC's are out of stock.
 
Will Power said:
Yes, how about that Churchill with a blade one end, opener the other? ............
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This was proposed as the forum knife of 2016. Backed up with vintage examples of the same configuration! Some folks responded with strong feelings against 'another' caplifter knife, lol.
I think it would have been perfect.
 
Will Power said:
Yes, how about that Churchill with a blade one end, opener the other? Could work! (I'd actually like a small Pruner as the secondary...:cool:)
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How about a split back whittler pattern with a clip main; and caplifter and pruner on the other end?
 
If it was decades ago it seems that the Beer Scout name doesn't infringe as they were last produced less than 10 years, a decade, ago.
 
Ok, here's another idea, and I'm sure I'm not the first to have it, but a GEC granddaddy Barlow would just rock.

AND be a perfect platform for the jumbo beer scout we're wishing for.
 
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