All About Pocket Knives

I picked up a couple more nice 1950’s slenderino’s to finish out the year.

I like them both. Proud for you.

Thanks Floyd.

I bought this one in 1975 or '76. It spent one whole year on the bottom of a local lake. She's been retired, but I always take a look when I'm in the knife drawer...

desmobob,
That's a fine looking old Schrade! However you have left us hanging. Be like Paul Harvey and tell the rest of the story!
Treefarmer

treefarmer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:25 am desmobob,
That's a fine looking old Schrade! However you have left us hanging. Be like Paul Harvey and tell the rest of the story!
Treefarmer

OK... you asked for it!

I was 17 years old, fishing on Lake George in upstate NY late in the fall. I had canoed out to one of the lake's many islands and was casting off a small dock over deep water. (Most of the lake's islands have state campsites and docks for the campers). I caught a small rock bass that had swallowed my little Mepps spinner and I ended up using that long, narrow blade of my Schrade to dig it out of the poor little fish. I whacked the knife against a dock post to knock off some blood/guts and it slipped out of my hand and went flying end-over-end out into the deep, cold water.

The following year, after graduating from high school, I took a SCUBA certification course over the summer. That fall, I happened to be SCUBA diving with a buddy in that same area of Lake George and remembered the lost knife. I started searching and found it! (The lake is very rocky and there was a lot of fairly smooth ledge bottom in the area I lost the knife.) It was crusted over with rust but it cleaned up pretty well, leaving the blades with a dark patina and a pattern of etched lines on the main blade that look almost like pattern-welded steel.

It was the second knife I had ever purchased and it's still with me about 45 years later.

Great story desmobob. It’s pretty amazing you found it after a year of being in the lake.

KnifeSlinger#81 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:58 am Great story desmobob. It’s pretty amazing you found it after a year of being in the lake.

Thanks.

It was exceptionally lucky that there was a rocky/ledgey bottom there. If it had fallen into a silty or weedy area, I never would have found it.

Funny thing... I lost the very first knife I ever bought (a Case scout/utility) in the winter and found it in the following spring. It cleaned up OK but I was a young teenager and I didn't have it long enough for it to have sentimental value, if a kid that age can have that kind of sentiment. So, I threw it in a tool box. And found it there in that tool box several years ago. I thought about it recently and decided to dig it out and try and restore it. I couldn't find it! Maybe it will reappear a second time!

Treefarmer

desmobob wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:41 am I bought this one in 1975 or '76. It spent one whole year on the bottom of a local lake. She's been retired, but I always take a look when I'm in the knife drawer...Schrade stockman - 1975 a .jpg

Great looking Schrade and a very cool story to go along with it!

Thanks Tom. I guess we all have a knife or two with a story behind it.

I always enjoyed the Schrade. The 895 sometimes attracts the attention of non-knife-nut buddies who think the main blade is that slender from being sharpened hundreds of times... they sometimes guess that the knife was passed down a generation or two!

That one spent a bunch of years in my pocket when I was younger.

Top: Kutmaster made Schrade Walden Middle: Schrade Walden 897UH Bottom: Schrade UH897

Today I’m carrying double slenderino’s. Slenderinos are good for collecting and toting.

KnifeSlinger#81 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 1:59 pm Today I’m carrying double slenderino’s. Slenderinos are good for collecting and toting.


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Those are amazing knives, Paul. The bone is spectacular!

And you are carrying two!!! Sweet knives Paul.

Thanks guys, appreciate the compliments.

Here’s some delrin 861 and craftsman slenderino’s.

Is this a Schrade slenderino and is this a very early Schrade punch .

Jacknifeben wrote: ↑Sun Oct 03, 2021 8:21 pm Is this a Schrade slenderino and is this a very early Schrade punch .

Tough call... Looks "Schradey". Maybe an Ulster etc. That's all I can say really. The punch looks a bit funky to me (as in "not Schrade").

NICE.... I love that punch blade with the match strike pull.... VERY COOL.

My little collection of 3 9/16 slenderinos is growing, I have some I carry and some I just look at.

Left column down
Schrade Walden 823
Schrade USA 825
Schrade Walden 825 / K77
Schrade USA 893
Schrade USA 895

Right column down
4 variations of the 896k
Schrade Walden 899
I had fun finding these knives and really like the pattern.