What is Your Latest Old Schrade?

[Ivoryman]

Thanks guys, appreciate it. The bones of course, sucked me right in.

[doglegg]

Thanks guys, appreciate it. The bones of course, sucked me right in.

As they would a lot of us. Great knife.

[DM11]

Got a little boys knife type from the Cut Co years in the mail from Knifeaholic, with no numbers on it. About 3 1/4 or 3 5/16 or there abouts. Sweet little old knife although I thought it would be bigger. Isn't that the oldest one in the book I guess. Fine little knife though with good bones. Thanks Knifeaholic, always great knives, appreciate it.

[mumblypeg]

Got a little boys knife type from the Cut Co years in the mail from Knifeaholic, with no numbers on it. About 3 1/4 or 3 5/16 or there abouts. Sweet little old knife although I thought it would be bigger. Isn't that the oldest one in the book I guess. Fine little knife though with good bones. Thanks Knifeaholic, always great knives, appreciate it.

Great knife. I'm a sucker for that old bone

[Ivoryman]

Thanks DM, doglegg, mumbly. Appreciate the comments and glad you like it.

[Meridian_Mike]

I found myself another 123OT....
I don't think I will even try to clean up this blade.... I will just stick a new blade in it.

[JohnR]

Several years ago I found a Schrade Cut Co large jack with different era bone on each side, pretty well thought it was a one off anomaly. Imagine my surprise when one of my vintage knife friends, Roger Cunningham, offered me a Cut Co sheepsfoot jack with 2 different era covers on it.
It's in high condition and has early pick bone and early peach seed bone, interesting in that the pick bone side has 4 pins and the peach seed has 3, the liner on the peach seed side is drilled for a 4th pin.
Now there are 2 known examples I wonder why they are like this, factory prototypes, salesman sample, factory repair, probably will never know.

[Ivoryman]

Gorgeous pair JR, great finds, congrats. Wow are they some sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet bones.

[TPK]

I'll second that comment.

[Duffer]

Very cool John! I have this SCC Jack (pattern 2271) with pick bone and peach seed handles. Much more heavily worn and used than your pristine examples but nonetheless illustrative of this phenomenon. You have peach seed and pick bone and also peach seed and divot bone. Interestingly the divot bone came after the pick bone but before the peach seed. I think this is generally well accepted. Anyway here is my example. By the way my theory is they were just using up handle inventory until all production revolved to peach seed. I think this transition occurred in relatively fast order since you don’t see a lot of examples (at least I haven’t) with two different jigged handle panels.

If anyone else has an example please post some photos—thanks!

[tongueriver]

I like your knives and also your theory; it makes good sense.

[JohnR]

Very cool John! I have this SCC Jack (pattern 2271) with pick bone and peach seed handles. Much more heavily worn and used than your pristine examples but nonetheless illustrative of this phenomenon. You have peach seed and pick bone and also peach seed and divot bone. Interestingly the divot bone came after the pick bone but before the peach seed. I think this is generally well accepted. Anyway here is my example. By the way my theory is they were just using up handle inventory until all production revolved to peach seed. I think this transition occurred in relatively fast order since you don’t see a lot of examples (at least I haven’t) with two different jigged handle panels.

If anyone else has an example please post some photos—thanks!

Great to see another Lloyd, thank you. Your explanation is as good as any other I can come up with, I wonder why on the sheepsfoot they decided to only use 3 pins on the peach seed side even though the liner is drilled for 4.

Thank you all for the comments.

[doglegg]

Amazing find the both of you.

[tongueriver]

I have other Schrades with more holes in the liners than there are pins.

[Ivoryman]

You too Duffer, that is some great bone on both sides and what a knife period. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet one.

[garddogg56]

My latest finds were a Keen Kutter said to have been made by Schrade and a Copenhagen 12ot both have been avoiding me for years
What does th SW Cut USA on the Keen Kutter tang stand for?
Thanx

[black mamba]

SW Cut stands for Schrade Walden Cutlery. It's a newer knife (1980s most likely) which is made to be an homage to the older Schrade Walden and Keen Kutter knives of the 1960s and earlier.

[tongueriver]

That Keen Kutter was an 1869 to 1969 commemorative, marketed by Schrade, and made by Camillus. Or so I have heard. Could be wrong. Schrade did make some Keen Kutters themselves, and may have owned the trademark by that time. I have one 881Y Keen Kutter, made in the late 1950s or maybe up until 1961, with celluloid covers, definitely made in-house by Schrade Walden.

[garddogg56]

Thanx for the reply’s guys

[Quick Steel]

Just came in last week. This Schrade is from 1983; made for MATCO.

[tongueriver]

Nice. Now you need the MATCO daddy barlow.

[tongueriver]

I found these pic's off the internet for the KK discussed above. Oops... edit... The Spirit of St. Louis is not the same one. My bad.

[garddogg56]

That is a beautiful knife love the staglon

[Jeffinn]

I found myself another 123OT....
I don't think I will even try to clean up this blade.... I will just stick a new blade in it.

123OT NO3.jpg

Nice find Mike!
I’ve found one of these in the past year that was priced right and in decent shape. I have also found some individual parts for them (other than the spring). So my plan is to make a few springs using the one I have as a template. And to assemble a few from parts.
They’re a nice little knife!
Jeff

[Meridian_Mike]

Oh yes!
I can't wait to see what you come up with using the 123OT parts!

Some nice bone or stag covers would be SWEET!



I got some Statue of Liberty blades a couple of weeks ago.