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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Hey AE,
I just sent you an email throught the Supertopo mail.Please let me know if it came through to you.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Dec 15, 2017 - 07:33pm PT
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Steve - I tried contacting many people through ST email and never got a response. The email system has been down for many months. Merry Holidays!
This lot of Forrest Titons was recently listed on ebay. The #6 Titon has the FM stamp with no tree outline.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Dec 20, 2017 - 09:39am PT
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Cool old Leeper nut tool...
No mystery...
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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Dec 20, 2017 - 11:09am PT
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Back to those Boreal Fires. The photos are comparing very different ages of shoes. The Wild Country tag was a common way to bring something into your product line when you were the exclusive distributor within a country or region.
The Boreal logo is still clearly visible on the ankle bone circular patch. These are some of the older ones with the brass lace eyelets. The second photo shows Fires from near the end of their reign, probably in the early 1990's. From that point, I believe they morphed into the Ballet.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Dec 21, 2017 - 01:49am PT
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Marlow - You are showing a Leeper Jiggle-O nut tool but I have not seen that Jiggle-O style before. If you ever find another, I know of this museum in Arizona that is looking for one. Wow it is beautiful! The regular Jiggle-O nut tool has 7 holes but yours has 8 and the hook is completely different.
The generations are identified by the end of the nut tool. First generation has three cuts on the end. So the nut tool you show Marlow may be the first batch of Jiggle-Os made. Second generation has two cuts on the end and tiny hole added at hook, third generation has one cut (flat) on the end.
Looks like a mystery to me!
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Dec 27, 2017 - 09:06am PT
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Does anybody know who produced these nuts? Are they early Wild Country Stones?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 27, 2017 - 07:36pm PT
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Yes on Wild Country. They might have been called Microrocks if I recall correctly.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Dec 27, 2017 - 09:12pm PT
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Steve - awesome, Thanks!
 Next question: Are these Wild Country Stones? Hmmmmmm.....
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Dec 27, 2017 - 09:39pm PT
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WC Microrocks? (0-2)
WC Stones (1 & 4)
These have less rounded edges than yours Marty, different groove in the casting as well.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Dec 28, 2017 - 12:08am PT
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WILD COUNTRY Micro Rocks (1983) #0 to #6
WILD COUNTRY Stones (1991) #0 to #6
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Dec 28, 2017 - 06:42pm PT
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So on my display it looks like I have WC pretending to be HB.......I can fix that!
WyoRockMan - Your Stones are really cool! The ones I have don't have the stars on them and are completely unmarked. I wonder if the Stones you have are first generation, or the ones I have predate yours? Also yours have a channel on the front face and mine have a scoop..........Hmmmmmmm
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Dec 29, 2017 - 12:34am PT
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Marty, Hughie Banner made the Micro Rocks for Wild Country before he set up his own business, HB Climbing Equipment.
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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Just keep driving it deeper as the rock erodes away.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Redmond, Oregon
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Or pull it and sell to me... : )
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ClimbingOn
Trad climber
NY
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These Coca Cola logo pins showed up on eBay. Were these officially sanctioned? I've never seen them before and am curious as to if there is a story behind them.
Link to auction: https://tinyurl.com/colapitons
If someone here buys them, I'd like to purchase just one from you.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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I have not found any connection between Chouinard and Coke in any advertisement way, but this is the third time these same pitons have been posted on ebay.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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they're done now, and it certainly coulna be some tape eh boys?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Yesterday I received this cool old well used tool. I have seen it before on ST, but had not recognized that there's three firm names on it: Lowe - Camp Interalp - Salewa
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Marlow, the name of your nut tool is Chock Tocker.
And this Lowe one predates it a little:
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