Bear and Sons Scout Knives

[Grant Lamontagne]

I thought about posting this in the "Show us your slipjoints"thread but I thought it deserved it's own thread.  I don't know if this qualifies as a SHOT Show thread or not- it has it's own history, and was brought to a rather happy conclusion by this year's SHOT Show.





I've been searching for a Bear Scout knife for a while- my plan was actually to write a Bear Scout Vs Wenger SI article and see how they stacked up since they had an almost identical tool compliment.  As SOSAK members will no doubt recall, I wrote this article this month, but with a Case Scout knife instead of the Bear:  Case in Point II
I used a Case knife since Prime77 had a brand new one available on the forum a few months ago and I jumped at it for just this reason.  Typical of my luck, right after I finally gave up on writing the Bear Scout article and go a different way with it, I get a Bear Scout! 





Thanks to the Big Bear himself, Ken Griffey, I managed to get this Scout and a reissue of a Remington 1923 Scout Knife for a very reasonable price.  So reasonable, I just had to jump at it!





While I'm not a huge slipjoint enthusiast, I really like these knives.  I can certainly appreciate slippies for what they are, and for the quality of them, and these are indeed beautiful to behold.  The quality is there, and the price is more than reasonable for these.







If you are a slippy guy and you haven't checked out Bear and Sons yet, what the heck are you waiting for? 





Def

[Sazabi]

The Bear Scout looks nice, but why are there metal shavings still on the Remington? :/

How is the Bear Scout in comparison to the SI or Solder?  Also, is it discontinued?  I'm not finding many hits for it. :/

[Grant Lamontagne]

That's exactly why it took me so long to get one!  I couldn't find a dealer either! 

The shavings are stuck to the blade with the oil that the factory put on it.  I thought about wiping it off, but it's a good way to show that this one has never been used.

I'd say the Wenger SI edges this one out, just as it did with the Case, but then I may be slightly biased since I'm a SAK freak.

Def

[Sazabi]

So it's not discontinued, but just hard to locate dealers of them?  Eh, I like the Bear Scout, but the awl is leaving much to be desired... it doesn't look awlsome at all. :/

[J-sews]

Bear & Son really puts an emphasis on tradition in several their knife lines.


Speaking of which, we were told by Mr. Griffey that Bear has purchased all the tooling and fixturing of the recently-defunct Camillus Knives company and will be resurrecting several of their classic models.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Now that is a fine looking slippy

[gafftapegreenia]

Bear & Son really puts an emphasis on tradition in several their knife lines.


Speaking of which, we were told by Mr. Griffey that Bear has purchased all the tooling and fixturing of the recently-defunct Camillus Knives company and will be resurrecting several of their classic models.

OH SNAP

[David Bowen]

I have nothing to say but.....
 

[Smitty44]

Nice looking Scout knives Def,but the good news is Mr Griffy is going to resurrect some of the old Camillus knives,that was one of the oldest knife makers in America.
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[Grant Lamontagne]

Yeah, that is interesting news considering Camillus is still technically in business.  They went the same route as Schrade, although I don't know who bought them up.  We did stop by their booth at SHOT as well, and were remarkably unimpressed, especially when we looked at the packaging which said "Made in China or Taiwan" as if even they didn't know!   

It's sad to see what happened there, and I am looking forward to seeing a resurrection of US made US knives!

Def