Let's see your Scout/Camp knives

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majorpain1 said:
My S&M camp knives

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Superb sextet of S&M Scouts!! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:
Do you know what the "official" name is for the color/jigging of the bone on the far left Premier knife is? (I happened to recently trade for an S&M Premier whittler with that same sort of bone covers, and even received the original box, but I don't see anything about the bone color or style.)

- GT
 
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5K Qs said:
Superb sextet of S&M Scouts!! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:
Do you know what the "official" name is for the color/jigging of the bone on the far let Premier knife is? (I happened to recently trade for an S&M Premier whittler with that same sort of bone covers, and even received the original box, but I don't see anything about the bone color or style.)

- GT
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No, I do not. You got me curious so I visited queencutleryhistory.com and queencutleryguide.com but could not find anything on the Premier line at all.
 
majorpain1 said:
No, I do not. You got me curious so I visited queencutleryhistory.com and queencutleryguide.com but could not find anything on the Premier line at all.
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Thanks for checking, and for mentioning that queen cutlery history link that I don't recall seeing before. You got me curious with that, so I went there and happened to find a section on "Flyers and Ads", and one of the links there was to 1-page flyers for S&M Keystone series knives, one for each year. Some of the ads used the word "premier" in describing the knives, but I didn't see anything besides keystone shields in the actual color pictures. But for 2006, which is the year on my whittler, the bone on all of the keystone knives sure looked like it matched that on your and my Premier knives, even though neither your scout nor my whittler patterns are shown there. For what it's worth, the ad copy calls the bone "Bradford jigged green bone".

I also searched for my knife on the internet and found various old sale links, etc., that used all kinds of different descriptions for the bone:
- golden aged antique bone
- Golden Aged Rogers Jigged Bone
- brown jigged bone (at least 3 times)

My first inclination would have been to just call the bone brown, but I'm not very good at detecting various shades of color. Also, looking at the edges of the covers, I can see where green bone comes from. And I kind of like the terms "aged" or "antique" because the jigging on mine has quite small "divots" in some places, like they were trying to simulate old "pick bone" handles.

Anyway, it's interesting. 🤓

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Thanks for checking, and for mentioning that queen cutlery history link that I don't recall seeing before. You got me curious with that, so I went there and happened to find a section on "Flyers and Ads", and one of the links there was to 1-page flyers for S&M Keystone series knives, one for each year. Some of the ads used the word "premier" in describing the knives, but I didn't see anything besides keystone shields in the actual color pictures. But for 2006, which is the year on my whittler, the bone on all of the keystone knives sure looked like it matched that on your and my Premier knives, even though neither your scout nor my whittler patterns are shown there. For what it's worth, the ad copy calls the bone "Bradford jigged green bone".

I also searched for my knife on the internet and found various old sale links, etc., that used all kinds of different descriptions for the bone:
- golden aged antique bone
- Golden Aged Rogers Jigged Bone
- brown jigged bone (at least 3 times)

My first inclination would have been to just call the bone brown, but I'm not very good at detecting various shades of color. Also, looking at the edges of the covers, I can see where green bone comes from. And I kind of like the terms "aged" or "antique" because the jigging on mine has quite small "divots" in some places, like they were trying to simulate old "pick bone" handles.

Anyway, it's interesting. 🤓

- GT
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Looks a lot like the dark amber jigged bone on knives they made for the Robeson line. That's what I would call it.
 
5K Qs said:
Superb sextet of S&M Scouts!! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:
Do you know what the "official" name is for the color/jigging of the bone on the far left Premier knife is? (I happened to recently trade for an S&M Premier whittler with that same sort of bone covers, and even received the original box, but I don't see anything about the bone color or style.)

- GT
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The Premier line was an SFO of Clarence Risner’s. The bone is called “golden root “

Dave
 
knowtracks said:
The Premier line was an SFO of Clarence Risner’s. The bone is called “golden root “

Dave
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Thanks for the info, Dave! :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:
The SFO status you noted explains why the label on the box I have says "PREMIER" at the top of the label with "EXCLUSIVE LIMITED PRODUCTION" in smaller font right below it, right?

- GT
 
Back in the 1990’s and for at least a decade after 2000 Clarence Risner was the KING of SFO’s at Queen Cutlery! Having hundreds made, that’s how Charlie got started with HJ #1, joining with Clarence, and how he met Bill.


Dave
 
I have not posted any of my Scouts / Camp knives for quite some time in here and have had quite a few arrivals over a period of time , a lot of those are displayed in the Sears Thread mostly, so I won't just dump lots of photos in here, I love this Thread as it has MANY stunning knives shared with us all, thank you to all the contributors :D :thumbsup:

Sears: etched Standard Trooper.

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Unused earlier Winchester

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A fine 5 bladed Sears

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Pristine ( not cleaned ) original condition Crucible Scout

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Quite a hard to find Wallkill River Works Scout- shortened cap-lifter, still a very nice knife/find.

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