The Beer Scout Knife

Three important reasons I carry my beer scout knife or scout knife or gun scout knife as my auxiliary utility tool.
  1. Lift off a crimped on cap from a favorite bottled refreshment.
  2. Open those small slited openings in some stubborn pistachios.
  3. Adjust water flow in my automatic lawn sprinklers and bubblers.
 
Stand Straight said:
Three important reasons I carry my beer scout knife or scout knife or gun scout knife as my auxiliary utility tool.
  1. Lift off a crimped on cap from a favorite bottled refreshment.
  2. Open those small slited openings in some stubborn pistachios.
  3. Adjust water flow in my automatic lawn sprinklers and bubblers.
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Excellent!!!!! I can give you a list that hits the floor as to what I use the flathead/cap lifter for (90% of it has nothing to do with popping caps). It's a great tool.
 
SAK Guy said:
I should have a new Beer Scout here next week!!!! :D
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Congrats! Which one did you buy?

matt said:
Does anyone know if the back springs are carbon or stainless?
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Carbon

mrknife said:
where do we find out these things? if the bolsters steel or nickel silver, back springs carbon or stainless
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GEC has a website with the specs listed. www.greateasterncutlery.net Some of the dealers also post specs.

SAK Guy said:
I think all the trad Carbon blades have carbon springs...the stainless blades IDK.
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The only exception that I can think of is Case. Case's modern knives have SS springs even when the blades are CV.
 
The brown bone one in the pic. (seller's pic)
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Reminded me of an Old Timer!! :D
 
That's my personal favorite among the "beer scouts". The color and sawcut is just perfect. My own little collection of scouts includes the sawcut "beer scout", a red sawcut "scout", and the bloodwood "gun scout".
 
supratentorial said:
That's my personal favorite among the "beer scouts". The color and sawcut is just perfect. My own little collection of scouts includes the sawcut "beer scout", a red sawcut "scout", and the bloodwood "gun scout".
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Wow that's cool!! I was just glad to find one I could afford. :D
 
pertinux said:
Great first post-- welcome to the Traditional subforum. :)

Now that I can see your pictures, I understand better what you mean by the shield. I haven't seen that effect (heavier stamping on one side than another) on a GEC knife before, but then, neither have I seen such a long string o' text on a shield before!

I would regard this factor in the same spirit in which you seem to be, an idiosyncrasy of production and not an insurmountable flaw.

This particular pattern, with all its whimsy, seems to beg for use (not that any and all GECs wouldn't stand up to it!)....

[I'm slowly being wooed, even though I do not prefer beer.]

Again: Welcome!

~ P.
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Just ran across this thread this weekend, so as I get a minute am reading through it from page one. After this post I looked closer at my Sunbrite and Sawn Chestnut. Noticed the stamping on my Sunbrite is equally lighter on both ends and heavier in the center but flush. Stamping on my Sawn Chestnut is even, but the shield is evenly slightly proud. Nothing that bothers me at all as generally I can't carry all my knives, but very few are not handled some time or another. Not worried about only having "Safe Queens" at all.

Don
 
I believe I am the newest member of the Beer Scout Knife club! I just received this beauty in Tortise Shell this afternoon in the mail from a buy on the exchange. I am still catching up on this thread but I think I might need to find a chestnut sawcut bone at some point.

Cheers!
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Looks good, welcome to the club!! I like the tortoise shell acrylic. If you find a chestnut sawcut, you won't be disappointed.
 
SAK Guy said:
Forgot to post mine here. The scales remind me so much of an Old Timer. Love it!!

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Absolutely. I loved my ebony, but traded it for the saw cut. Never thought I would like it that much, but it's in my pocket
 
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