Last month I purchase a Gunting, had no serial number on the blade. Purchased another one today which had a serial number '798'.
Can anyone tell me what is up with this?
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Sure Kevin,
The entire first run of many of the "custom maker collaboration" model Spydercos were numbered. Since the Gunting was a collaboration with Bram Frank, it falls into that category.
The entire first run of many of the "custom maker collaboration" model Spydercos were numbered. Since the Gunting was a collaboration with Bram Frank, it falls into that category.
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As Deacon pointed out, the first production run of the Gunting was numbered. To my knowledge, the numbered Guntings were all 440V PE, with the black clip. There were limited black clips after that first run, and were eventually phased out due to cosmetic issues(the black clip doesn't stay black very long). All the 440V CE, and all the S30V models, both PE and CE all had silver clips and went unnumbered.
Hope that helps a little bit.
Hope that helps a little bit.
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A numbered Gunting with a silver clip???
Interesting.
Anyone else have one of these? Perhaps the collector's club knives were silver clipped. I find that odd though, as later unnumbered runs were still black clipped.
Interesting.
Anyone else have one of these? Perhaps the collector's club knives were silver clipped. I find that odd though, as later unnumbered runs were still black clipped.
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I can see how something like that could happen. Collectors get their knives, a couple of them post pics on the forums, someone comments on the "silver clip on a tactical folder" issue :rolleyes: , some more chime in agreeing, so Sal gets a bunch of clips blackened. Naturally, that change in turn empowers a new group of critics, who opine how the color wears off the blackened ones.smcfalls13 wrote:Perhaps the collector's club knives were silver clipped. I find that odd though, as later unnumbered runs were still black clipped.
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Very possible Deacon, I wonder if anyone else has a low numbered Gunting with a silver clip.
I was under the impression they were initially run with black clips, and change to silver later, it appears I was wrong. They may have started with silver, switched to black, and ended up silver again.
I was under the impression they were initially run with black clips, and change to silver later, it appears I was wrong. They may have started with silver, switched to black, and ended up silver again.
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Hiya Deac'!The Deacon wrote:Sure Kevin,
The entire first run of many of the "custom maker collaboration" model Spydercos were numbered. Since the Gunting was a collaboration with Bram Frank, it falls into that category.
So...by "entire first run", does that mean the whole batch? (1200 units) Or can a "run" be any amount, like 500, 600, etc... :confused:
Liked your answer BTW...ya made it sound so easy! :rolleyes: :D
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