What's the difference between Beer Scouts and Radio Jacks

[black mamba]

Those aren't Caplifters, they're . . . Capherders!

 

[black mamba]

Can Beerbellies play???

 

[Fonedork]

The radio ones and crown lifters don’t have brass liners, and they’re just not as nice as the beer scouts overall

 

[Markeologist]

Sorry Fonedork but Mr. CC’s Diamond Radio Jack is as nice as any GEC I own, has brass liners, as well as the beautiful little cut in cover and liner to allow better access to the nail nick of the crown lifter.

 

[Fonedork]

Sorry Fonedork but Mr. CC’s Diamond Radio Jack is as nice as any GEC I own, has brass liners, as well as the beautiful little cut in cover and liner to allow better access to the nail nick of the crown lifter. View attachment 1707399

Awesome. I meant the ones that say Radio with the little electric bolts.

 

[Markeologist]

My two spear points with cap lifter, one a Diamond Radio Jack, the other a Rendezvous Beer Scout, are my favorite GEC bottle opening knives.

 

[Markeologist]

Awesome. I meant the ones that say Radio with the little electric bolts.

Figured so…many folks don’t know those pre-“crown lifters” exist and when a GEC Radio knife is mentioned, most think of the Diamond Jack. My 2013 Boys Radio Knives may not have brass liners but both are very well made…in fact I believe that the GECs of the 2013-2015 era are the most consistently well-made GECs to be had.

 

[Markeologist]

Can Beerbellies play???

The infamous Beer Belly…I voted for such a knife to be replacement for Beer Scout, still think it would be a grand idea! Until then, I just have to admire yours black mamba !

 

[rishma]

There were some clip point Crown Lifters.

Indeed! And I never could acquire one. I love clips and cap lifters, perfect combo! That and those modified beer-lows are awesome in my opinion. I do have a first run beerscout. Great knife, but doesn’t get much pocket time.

 

[black mamba]

Until then, I just have to admire yours

Thanks, Mark, all the credit goes to glennbad!

 

[Markeologist]

Thanks, Mark, all the credit goes to glennbad!

Neither a Radio nor Beer Scout but a Beerlow by the hand’s of Glennbad! A clear cousin of this genre.

 

[black mamba]

Nice green bone!

 

[traumkommode]

Appreciate the heads up hahaha

I lost it early in the pandemic but it was merely stashed aside by the wife...so I assume the same has happened but she knows nothing and I've looked most places.

I lost the first knife I ever owned. It was an SAK classic wearing the old-school Philadelphia Eagles logotype. Four or five years later, my aunt was cleaning out her Jeep SUV to make ready for sale, and she found it lodged beneath where one of the seats folds down. It meant more to me in what that taught me about life than the fact that it was my first actual pocketknife and I thought it was the coolest thing around for a minute.

 

[Markeologist]

BUMP! Love this thread, come on porch show me those radio knives (and beer/soda scouts too).

 

[waynorth]

The medallion was punched out of the metal straps around the barrel that supplied the charred oak!!

 

[waynorth]

I guess it's a Radio Jack, if it says "radio" on it!! (Old Schrade pic, not mine!!)

 

[waynorth]

Made for Shapleigh by Schrade Cut Co!!

 

[Nature Boy]

Radios


Crown Lifters


Beer Scout

 

[Markeologist]

BSKs and a Soda Scout that was graciously sold to me by Nature Boy!

 

[Markeologist]

…and then with that Soda Scout I had procured the trifecta of saw cut Beer/Soda Scouts: