108OT long pull

[Edgewise]

Which 108OTs have a long pull on the main blade?

[jerryd6818]

My 108OT from the mid '60s has a nail nick. That's the only thing I know about them.

[Edgewise]

It’s nice knowing your knife’s date, Jerry.
I thought maybe my long pull might indicate an approximate date. The nail nick seems more popular.

[jerryd6818]

It's easy. I bought it from Thorne's Hardware, just after we bought our first house in very late 1967.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Jerry, are you sure that's the same knife you bought in 1967? A 108ot from 1967 would be schrade walden stamped and have a long pull. The one you show is a post 1973 knife and was also made after they stopped using long pulls on the main.

Here is a walden 108 and a post walden long pull 108. Same knife other than the stamp. The walden pattern number is stamped on the back and they often had darker handles than later 108's.

[jerryd6818]

We bought the house in late '67 and sold it in mid '72. I remember sitting at the kitchen table sharpening it on my Bear stone. Now, that said, I remember going home to Rockford, IL from MCAS Cherry Point when we were given a 96 for Thanksgiving weekend in '64. There was a guy from Madison, WI that went with us. Up until a few years ago, I would have sworn on a stack of bibles that guy was Steve Kjentvet who was from the Madison area. I mentioned it to Steve during one of our "remember when" conversations and Steve told me it wasn't him. I argued until he told me that he was never stationed at MCAS Cherry Point. He said he was at 29 Palms, CA. That tale will only make you doubt my memory even more but the kitchen table sharpening memories are pretty "sharp" in my memory banks.

[Edgewise]

..... A 108ot from 1967 would be schrade walden stamped and have a long pull. The one you show is a post 1973 knife and was also made after they stopped using long pulls on the main.
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Does this mean that my long pull was made before 1973? Or maybe later but with a long pull blade that happened to be left over from an older batch?

[KnifeSlinger#81]

..... A 108ot from 1967 would be schrade walden stamped and have a long pull. The one you show is a post 1973 knife and was also made after they stopped using long pulls on the main.
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Does this mean that my long pull was made before 1973? Or maybe later but with a long pull blade that happened to be left over from an older batch?

It was probably made fairly soon after the name change from schrade walden to schrade. It's pretty safe to say it was made somewhere in the 70's, but not earlier than 73.

[Edgewise]

Thanks KnifeSlinger. The tang stamp was also XX'ed out as a factory 2nd due to some factory error. I don't know if that's relevant. the sheepsfoot blade was bent sideways and rubbed against the pen blade. That was so easily fixed I'm wondering if there's another fault that I'm missing completely.
Jerry, it seems that now we can also use our knives to date our memories, like a knife display journal.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Thanks KnifeSlinger. The tang stamp was also XX'ed out as a factory 2nd due to some factory error. I don't know if that's relevant. the sheepsfoot blade was bent sideways and rubbed against the pen blade. That was so easily fixed I'm wondering if there's another fault that I'm missing completely.

You're welcome. What's funny about the factory seconds is that sometimes you can't find any real flaw, but I have seen schrades that were not marked factory seconds that had real flaws.