The Flawed Scout!

waynorth

waynorth

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Viewed from the corner of one eye, this is a great Scout-type knife!;)
:D
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It has wonderful Amber Rodgers-style bone handles, full, patina-ed blades, and strong snap on all of them!:thumbup:
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There are no signs of alteration or cleaning, and the "Craftsman" etch is still visible on the main!
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There's a little blade rub here and there, but it is basically a well-functioning knife, in collectible, and/or useable condition.
So why is the shield so crooked, and flawed. It is pinned, and there are no signs that it was added later. There is a chip out of the shield as well.
Such a nice knife!! I wonder what happened??:confused:
 
Always nice to find well preserved knives. You're doing pretty well if the shield is the only complaint. ;) I've also seen some variability with shields. I've seen a couple from 1940s or earlier that were pinned but the pin did not go all the way through the bone. And no hole for the pin in the liner. :confused: Authentic knives, not parts knives. Some inlays look like they were made by a jeweler.... others not so much.
 
Great looking Ulster Charlie !

I wonder about those shield problems fairly often - especially when they are chipped below the bone - might not ever figure it out.
 
Lovely Scout.

I'm sure the correct answer to your question is that the knife deflected a bullet while the good scout was trying to recover an ancient artifact from black market dealers of ancient cutlery because those fine artifacts belonged in a museum.
 
Charlie - you got that one from me - when I got it, my assumption was that it was originally an Ulster BSA knife, then re-purposed at the factory to become a Craftsman knife for Sears. Shield ground/polished out to be blank, and Craftsman etch applied. Maybe post-Baer takeover, Ulster had too many BSA knives and had to fill some big Sears orders? Just speculating.
 
A good friend once told me to check the VIN number on your car to make sure it wasn't built on a Friday or a Monday. Either people wanted to leave or were recuperating from the weekend. I think Phillll is onto something...
 
Could it be a newly promoted apprentice knife ? A first or fifth effort? Or perhaps somebody who enjoyed a "fifth". ;) Jake's right (funny how when I type in Jake, right pops up in my spellcheck bar so often :D). These are little treasures that remind us, no matter how highly we praise cutlers of a bygone era, it turns out that they too were human and subject to all the quirks we know today. Like originally spelling "cutlers", "cutlets". An entirely other delicious subject.:rolleyes:
Thanks, Neal
 
Oh I've done my share of "dum-dums". If you don't have to do it twice, your not trying nearly hard enough. :D
Thanks, Neal
 
There is absolutely no telling Charlie but for me that is a big part of the appeal of old knives. I like to ponder where they have been, what they have cut, how many folks have owned them the people that made them and so on. To modify an old saying every knife has a story.
 
Charlie, that's still a neat knife regardless. I meant to add that earlier. Also I only have one camp knife which features the other style can opener, does this pronged type work any better or worse? Just curious.

Also I opened this last night wondering if it was the launch of a 35 scout buzz thread. I enjoy the Drover, I only wish the springs were more stout. That punch is AWESOME! Thanks again!
 
I have a Frontier trapper with one brass bolster and one nickel silver bolster. Gotta wonder what happened there.--KV
 
Wazu13-if you can't get it done, pass it to me. I'll try and squish that nasty wee bug at the bottom of your posts.:D
Thanks, Neal
 
It's that way because they were knocking out dozens of "knives" per day to put in boxes to ship to retailers.

They were not manufacturing our collectibles.

Pretty knife.

Charlie Noyes
 
It seems like a lot of unnecessary work, but is it because the shield either is not the correct shield or somebody replaced it, poorly?
 
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