All About Pocket Knives

I received this Loveless in the mail today.

Shearer wrote:I received this Loveless in the mail today.

Nice one Grant,
I think the Loveless RL2 is one of the best Schrades, I have in My collection.
I see you missed out on that Blue Bone Set, that is another nice set. Ken
I stayed over night in your home town, then drove over to stay over-night at Coffs Harbour.

Ken I miss out on some knives at times because I have to do my farm work. At the moment I am feeding my sheep oats.We call it meals on wheels.Grant

I received these two in the mail today 171UH 1 of 200 but no tang stamp and 36OT Old Timer green with serial number.

Found this in my mail box today.
It is my first Schrade 3rd generation knife. Ken.

Received this Schrade 895 in the mail today.

Received this Schrade 881 in the mail Friday.

well done mate , got a coupla open stock models meself , i like the look and feel of the old school jigging on the scales.
Have ya filled that new fixed blade display you made yet ??

Aussiebosun I have filled my display and have a couple left over .I will have to find some where to put them, I am running out of walls in my office.

Standard catalog 8OT - nice and tight, great snap, full blades, takes an edge, perfect large EDC PK.

G'day Schradeaholic's , I received a couple of fixed blades today , a 13OT and 162UH , It took a while to snag a MIB 13OT at the right price and i'm really happy with this one.One thing I have noticed with a few Schrades , with 1095 & the Schrade+ stainless blades , some appear to have a visible hamon line along the edge,I have tried to take a pic of this on the 13OT (barely visible in the pic) .The other thing I noticed today on the 162UH was the tapered tang , I pulled a few other Schrades outa the cabinet and found the 164 tang is also tapered , maybe loveless inspired i dunno , but it was a nice surprise.

What the heck is a "hamon line" and is it contagious?


I'm tickled pink with this 77 OT Keith (Ozzie Marie) gifted me with at the Janesville show this weekend. Brand new, in the box, one each for me and my two grandsons. Thanks again Keith.


By the way, anyone have one of these? Not my knives, not my auction.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... SS:US:1123

jerryd6818 wrote:What the heck is a "hamon line" and is it contagious?

The Hamon line is the line where the harder metal & softer metal meet as a result of the tempering. The terminology comes from Japan and Samurai Swords, IIRC.

The swords are harder on the edge (to cut) but softer in the spine (to flex). The hamon line is where the two different hardnesses meet. The sword has to be properly polished to best show the hamon line.

Check out this article:
http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~sumie99/hamon.html

Notice the 4th paragraph: “Do not confuse the real hamon with the white made-up pattern by the modern style polishing.”

I have seen what appears to be a hamon line on Schrades and other modern knives, I have even caused the phenomenon to appear when buffing a knife, but it is not a true hamon line.



Nice Muskrat! Keith is one of the good’uns!

Nice knives AussieBosun it took me a while to find a good 13OT. The 140T is a bit harder to find.My son is shifting back west in about 6 weeks.Grant

interesting article Dale , thanks for posting it up.

Shearer , you can tell your young fella the weather over here is great and the fishin even better.
Still looking for a MIB 14OT.

I have been looking for a 14OT for several years.
They do show on ebay from time to time. They seem to go for top dollar, I guess I am just too Scots to pay the price!

This is some of my Bone Handled knives. The knife by its'-self was made in 2004, mybe ?

Dale there is a couple of 14OT on Ebay at the moment. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Schrade ... &hash=item

Thanks Shearer!
I put in a bid, but I am too broke at the moment to chase it too far.
I am going down to get my new (to me), old pickup this weekend & hope to have enough cash to pay it off.

It will be nice to have a pickup I can work on without any computers in it!

Received these 2 in the mail today.Dale the only ones I am missing of your Old Timer list is 12OT barlow( I have a 12OT 2 blade USA same as the 72OT ),19OT,512OT and 226OT which is not on the list.I have most of the 7OT.Grant

Do you have the 902OT?
They are probably the hardest Old Timer to find!

No I have not got that one but I have a Schrade ST175 it came with batteries and lighter.I use wireless internet and when the school children get home they jam the network and it takes ages to upload an image.I hope they are doing homework not playing games Grant

Hi Grant,
That ST175 was a good buy. They are getting harder to find now-a-days.
Hi Dale,
I have been looking for a "902 OLD TIMER" for some time now (for my 2000-2004 Schrade Collection)
I'm still looking for the SQ111 Black Ice - I do not think Schrade made one!

I think LARRY303, had some 902OT's at one time.

Grant, a mate gave me this IQ180 and I have not had my ST175 out of it box, to look at it yet.... Ken.

Here is another rare Schrade Old Timer I have in my collection.