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Comment by Steve"Hog"Hanner on March 11, 2012 at 18:43

The only thing I could find on eBay was an Imperial, kind of a gold color and stainless steel bolsters. very fancy! No guard and the asking price was $85.00 the funny part was on vintage Schrade knives there were maybe 4 pages once you throw out new ones that always appear as Vintage. In fact from there you might get it down to about 3 maybe 4 pages of actual vintage Schrade. Makes me wonder if people are not selling because of the lower prices or are they just not of great interest anymore.

Comment by Steve"Hog"Hanner on March 11, 2012 at 16:34

We had a new member join recently asking about the BowTie knives. he called them fish tails which many to this day still call them, me included. Anyway he had two that appeared to be brown or maybe black in color. Including original boxes, he was looking for value.

Comment by Steve"Hog"Hanner on March 10, 2012 at 18:55

Just wanted to stop by and introduce a chat with you Schrade collectors in mind. iKC's own Gus Marsh will be presenting the Schrade Cutlery Chat. The chat will be presented on March 14th in the iKC chat room.
All chats will take place at 9 p.m. Eastern (8 Central/ 7 Mountain/ 6 Pacific). The time of the event listing is given as central time to check listings for your time.

You just have to watch as it is a scripted chat. At the end of the chat Gus will take questions or atta boys or whatever. Please join us for the next in our series of scripted chats!

Comment by Jim Child on December 14, 2011 at 10:30

Hey Rick & all the rest of you Schradies: gotta apologize for being so quiet for so long -- didn't realize it had been THAT long. My wife and the animals (sheep, chickens, pigs, etc) demanded my attention. I have been dropping in here and over at Blade Forums hit and miss trying to keep an eye on what's been going on.

I even missed the Nov NCCA show down in Mass.  :-(  which I had REALLY hoped to attend.

Okay, I'm running back to battle with the internet -- something is throttling our up bandwidth. ???

Comment by Rick Cothren on October 3, 2011 at 10:36

Wow!! Finally a Schrade group. Was wondering if this would ever happen. Been away for a while and just thought I would check in and ran across this. Good deal and I'm and avid Schrade guy but still learning too.

Thanks to Jim for creating this group.

Comment by Rusty R Halsey on October 1, 2011 at 19:03

Hi!  I just had to show a knife I found today.  It's a Schrade SS825, 3 1/2" slim serpentine stockman stainless.  After a little research, I found out it was only made from 1971 to 1972 and the MSRP was exactly half of what I paid.  Oh well.  I especially liked the "RAZOR BLADE STAINLESS" etch and the script "Stainless" on the shield.  It looks to be in pretty good shape.  Carried some, but maybe not sharpened or used.  Anyway, it is the second oldest knife in my collection now.

Comment by Gus Marsh on July 20, 2011 at 12:24

This is a Presto switchblade-pruning knife made by Schrade. This knife is 4 inches long closed and 6 ¾ inches when opened.  It had nickel silver bolsters on one end and a bail hook on the other end.  Black jigged bone handles, lined. On the tang, on side says “Presto Pat Jan. 30, 1940 made in U.S.A on the other side it says Geo. Schrade Knife CO. Inc. Bridgeport, Conn.

I picked up this knife at the Great Western show in Los Angeles, California in 1983. A dealer had three of them for sale, all in original boxes. He wanted $45.00 each or all three for $100.00. In those days, I would go up with $100.00 in my pocket for all three days and I didn’t want to blow all my money on one deal. Why doesn’t someone have a crystal ball that we can look into and see the future?

Comment by Jim Child on June 17, 2011 at 6:46

D ale wrote:

I don’t get it .. have the primary be 2~3 times as thick (robust) as the secondary’s .. by design !!!

Then purposely grind it down to the flimsier thickness of the secondary’s .. right after the tang ??

I'm with you D ale. The modern spine grind concentrates any sidewards prying stress right at that spot where the thick tang becomes thin blade. AND, for those of that sometimes place a thumb on the back of the blade the thicker spine is lot more comfortable.  

Comment by D ale on June 17, 2011 at 1:57

Stamping on that sleeveboard =    SCHRADE    over    CUT. CO.    over    WALDEN, N.Y.  ...  both primary & secondary pen blade stamped.

Both secondary’s have a 1/2 stop.

 

And something I’ve noted with split back whittlers and the passing of time. The grind on the primaries used to retain more of the stout thickness of the primary.  That btm one is a Waterville.

The Schrade in the middle was mid/late 40’s production. You still cannot tell where the tang stops & the blade grind begins .. top view anyway.

The top one is Queens current production #48 .. no problem telling where the tang stops & the blade grind begins on that one !!!

I don’t get it .. have the primary be 2~3 times as thick (robust) as the secondary’s .. by design !!!

Then purposely grind it down to the flimsier thickness of the secondary’s .. right after the tang ??

I prefer the older grinds !!!!

Comment by D ale on June 17, 2011 at 0:48

Here's a sleeveboard whittler I carried for a couple years .. GREAT STEEL

then stored for a couple more yrs .. only to gas out on me

she was a beaut in her day .. note the damage .. it could probably be cleaned up w/ a new set of scales

the stamping combined with the celluloid puts it @ mid/late 40's for production

 

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