All About Pocket Knives

That one is a beauty Cal!
They don't come along that nice too often.

A couple more oldies.

Here's a Schrade Cut Co. Nice little knife

Here are two pre-1947 knives. Both blades ride on a single spring on both knives. Very svelte little darlings.

Don't know about the svelte but they sure are little darlings

Those are nice!

Woah Cal, those are BEAUTIES!!!!

Schrade cut. co jack, a beauty.






Mike

i got this recently

That is a good one, Wiseguy; very wise of you! Is that a tobacco leaf? Collard?

tongueriver wrote: Is that a tobacco leaf? Collard?

I asked him the same question a while back in another thread........


http://www.phoenixtropicals.com/bertosLoquat.html

Thanks MB .....BTW , thats not my tree but is the same kind

This Schrade 2203 turn up in the mail today.Could some one tell me in what years where they made.

Nice one!
Not sure when it was made.

Dale I just looked up a price list.They show a 2203 in the 1932 price list on page 3.There is a 2203 and a 2203 3/4. Do you know what the 3/4 means
http://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/ ... CELIST.pdf

Grant -- Notice the similarity? What's the closed length for the 2203? Is it by any chance 4-1/2" ?????

Grant, that knife was in the 1926 catalog as well, so it likely goes at least a few years before that. The 3/4 indicates a clip blade master, no fraction means it's got the standard spear blade. Beautifual knife!

Eric

Jerry it's 3 1/2" long the a same size as the Old Timer 2OT

ea42.Eric thanks for the information .I have a computer program and I like to add all the information on my knives.
Grant

I picked up this Schrade Walden NY USA at a garage sale in a bucket of stuff. I think it is a hand held gouge for carving wood.There is no number seems to be a walnut handle,chrome plated bolsters.Any body ever seen one?I think I found a nice addition to my collection.

I believe what you have there is known as a "timber scribe"....used by lumberjacks of a different age to mark selected trees for harvest. Or something along those lines....

Mike

Mike, that sounds like what it would be used for.What luck I collect USA schrades.I wonder if there were different sizes?

Edarick, there are about a dozen names for those knives, depending somewhat on locality and on the trade they were used in. As a kid, I learned to call them "rase knives" ("timber scribes" had a fixed blade and a fixed point, to cut circles as well as straight lines); my kid brother is currently living back east and says there they use the opposite terms. It doesn't really matter, because anyone who knows how to use one will understand what you mean when you describe it.

In my experience, they were used to cut marks (letters/numbers/Roman numerals) into wood to mark it for assembly (as in a timber-framing project), to indicate ownership (as on the end of a log), or the estimated number of board feet in a log heading to the sawmill (in the case of a log owned by the mill). I've twice seen a log cabin that was disassembled and marked in an impermanent manner, finally re-assembled by someone who knew enough to understand the marks the framers put on more than a hundred years earlier. Back then, as now, when you need a permanent mark, you cut it into the wood.

Shipbuilders and early builders of airplanes would "loft" (layout) their designs full-size, often right on the floor. Any kind of mark would get erased by people walking over them, so they used a rase knife to actually cut the design into the floor. Coopers would use them to mark sizes, or ownership on barrels, wholesalers used them to mark contents on boxes and barrels, and kids used them to cut graffiti on various surfaces . . . .

I've never seen different sizes from the same maker, and for the most part the folding rase knives seem to have varied little, if at all, from each other.

Jim

This Buck 301 made by Schrade in 1965-66 arived today.

Jim, Thankyou for the history of my RASE, its great to hold a bit of history and rescue it. I have a modest collection i think ill leave it as is just clean it a little.

ED