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Nice one Dale!
I've got one of those too, not in nearly as good condition as your though.
Great solid heavy duty work knife, made to spend quality time in the woods!
I never thought the name sounded quite right though, something more lumberjack-ish would have perhaps been more appropriate....

orvet wrote:I got a Son of a Gun, 225OT this week.

Big handful of cutting power; only made from 1990-1992.

Hi Old Mate Dale, how is the pick-up?
This is my Sun-of-a-Gun. Ken

Dale it a nice knife there not a lot of them around in good condition and if you collect Old Timers you need one in your collection.
Grant

Thanks guys, it is a hard one to find.

Ken, do you know what year that 225OT Ducks Unlimited was made?
It pickup is setting at the moment among with my Expedition.
I have to do a but more recovering from my knee surgery before I can drive anything.

orvet wrote:Thanks guys, it is a hard one to find.

Ken, do you know what year that 225OT Ducks Unlimited was made?
It pickup is setting at the moment among with my Expedition.
I have to do a but more recovering from my knee surgery before I can drive anything.

Dale, I know nothing about that knife. I belive it was only sold in Canadia.
Knee surgery! now I know about that. I had both Knees replaced at the same time.
You must move them and bend them as much as you can, for the first two monhts.
Sitting on a table, and swinging them under you is quite hard at first. However, it is a must for later on.
Hope all is OK, I will phone you soon... Ken

Here'a a George Schrade Letter Opener that came with what is believed to be its original box

Keith

Keith -- That letter opener is from 1943 to 1963 because "postal zones" were instituted in 1943 and went out in 1963 when zip codes were introduced. (The postal zone for San Diego was 40)

It's a very nice opener. I like it. Good catch.

That is a beauty Keith!

My latest are opens stock 233 jack knife. 881 stockman and a 293 trapper. The blade are the same as OT but the jigged scales look much nicer. Until I happened to run across a picture of one, I didn't know they existed. I thought after the era of using bone was over it was sawcut delrin on OT's or Staglon on Uncle henry's and that was It.

I picked up this Old Rag at a 106 year old Hardware Store sell off. Local store for me, kinda sad to see it go. Stole this one for $30!!! #8944 on this one. Even had the original sleeve over the box. This one has the aluminum (?) insert in the sheath to prevent the laces from being cut. I know very little history on it. Any help from the Schrade Pros on dating this knife????

That is a top find.

Thanks KG! It was an impulse buy. I hadn't even looked at the knife when they were available for public viewing. I got LUCKY on this one!

With the Schrade Walden stamp it is 1973 or before.
The 15OT appears in the catalogs first in 1964 and it shows the laced sheath like yours.
The sheath changed to the 5 rivet sheath in 1971 according to the pictures in the catalog.
Just a gut feeling on that, I think is is one of the earlier ones; If I had to give dates I would guesstimate 1964-1968.
If the catalog pics reflect the actual time they changed the sheaths, it would be no later than 1970.


It is always dangerous to say something definitive about Schrade, but '64-'68 would be my best guess.

Thanks Dale!

I got a 'new' Schrade Walden off ebay. It was listed as a serpentine jack with wood handles. It was missing the shield and the seller did not bother to look hard enough to see the pattern number on the rear tang.

The blades looked decent so I threw a bid on it and watched to see what happened. It went to the end of the auction without another bid on the knife.
I got it for the opening bid of $9.99!

When I got it in the mail I looked for a number, and there it was, #823!
Listed in the catalogs from 1954 to 1958, with propwood handles.
I glued another shield in the knife, (I just happened to have the correct shield), and it is a beauty!

This was the seller's pic on ebay.
I will post a current picture when it stops raining here so I can get some good light for the pic.

You got a great deal on that one Dale!!

Eric

Good one, Dale! I see that it is the 895 but with "propwood." Looking forward to seeing it gussied up.

Great score on that propwood, Dale! And a Walden, to boot!

Thanks guys.
I ran outside today between rain showers and snapped a quick pic of the 823.
There are a few rain drops on the knife as it started raining again during the lase few pics.
I haven't done anything yet to clean it up, just glued in a shield and buffed off the outside a bit.
There are the start of some light surface rust on the inside of the back springs. I need to remove that & treat it so it will not rust again.

Here's a 2 new additions to my collection from this years Blade Show

George Schrade Yale Key Knife and Presto 3 3/8" Double.

Keith

Here are some of my finds at the Blade Show 2013...

Schrade Walden 285 UH with original Hinged box and papers
Schrade Walden 885 UH with original Hinged box and papers
Schrade Walden-Keen Cutter K74 Spirit of St. Louis with original stamped box and papers
Schrade 77 OT
Schrade 8 OT
Last but not least....Two Presto Single Blade Push Buttons,
One in Bone and the other in Stainless or Nickel (Not sure of the material)

Tom

Awesome Yale Keith! I was unaware that George Schrade made those. Cool!

Nice Schrade Waldens Tom!
I especially like the Keen Kutter. Do you know when it was made?

Dale,

According to Levine, it was manufactured in 1975, even though Schrade left Walden in 1973 to move into Ellenville!

Steve Sanders has one listed in his AAPK Store with the box if you might be interested.

Tom

Actually, Schrade moved to Ellenville in 1958. Things are not always as they appear. And Schrade used that Walden tang stamp from time to time in their latter days as well. Not to mention the "stuff" being marketed now with post-2004 manufacture.

Thank you for clarifying that for us Tongueriver!

Tom