All About Pocket Knives

Glennbad.
Like the Schrade 804 whittler.Love the bone handles

Grant

That is a great knife wannna double yer money Glenn ::super_happy::heres a new to me 194ot and 12ot love these steels

I think you stole that one Glen.

Phil that's a nice Wostenholm FJ you got ,Ill post about it soon. I have a history with those knives.

I have added some lately... Some Stag handled Schrade LTD knives and some European Market folders along side the USA Market folders!

Tom

Wow, nice additions to the hoard!

Nice ones Tom!

Great set of knives TOM


Grant

Which is European Market and which is US? What are the differences?

Fine looking pile of knives.

Jerry, the European knives usually had "440 Stainless" (or something to that effect) etched on the blade. Nice finds Tom!

Eric

The European knifes where also stamped with one different number.
I would say CHASE'S are :-

2250 USA 2260 EUROPEAN
1250 USA 1260 EUROPEAN

If I am wrong someone will correct me.
Grant

Nice knives Tom,
This is my "Canadian Duck 225 Son-of-a-Gun".
They were only sold in the Canadian Market...Ken

Grant,

You are absolutely correct....

125 OT USA
225 OT USA

126 OT European
226 OT European

Tom

Re: the European and American Sons of Guns:
I believe that you will find that the two blades are loaded into the frame in an opposite manner in the two versions (right to left, I mean).

Yesterdays mail delivered this little 3¼" Schrade+ LTD Jack. Brass bolsters, stainless blades, she cleaned up nicely. Is there anything to tell about this knife?

Jerry,
I believe schrade were working on a number of Special Order knives around 2002-2004.
I have a number of those sets, and believe they never went into production.
I have been told, some of these Special Order knives were sent back to Schrade, and their production stopped.
All used that same shield and the same tang stamp on stainless blades.
Most of them had brown or blue bone handles.
A very small amount had wooden handles, with the 100 Annivirsiay blade etch.

The last 4" knife, the "ACB8" with Blue Rope Cut bone handles, also never made it to production.
Your knife looks like a "33OT" made up with parts, in the last days of 2004… Ken
Are the handles on you knife like most Old Timers, or black?

Ken, the handles are black.

You are correct, it is the same as the 33OT (I have one). Did they make an open stock edition of that knife? Would it be the 233?

I stumble on to more by accident than I ever find on purpose.

This one came in the mail a few days ago. Looks like it has never been sharpened but I could be mistaken.

dweb1897 wrote:This one came in the mail a few days ago. Looks like it has never been sharpened but I could be mistaken.

MM152 MASTER MECHANIC SHARPFINGER.jpg

Nice one, looks pretty full to me! Is that the Master Mechanic version?

glennbad wrote:

dweb1897 wrote:This one came in the mail a few days ago. Looks like it has never been sharpened but I could be mistaken.

MM152 MASTER MECHANIC SHARPFINGER.jpg

Nice one, looks pretty full to me! Is that the Master Mechanic version?

Is that why it's stamped "MM152" ??

It has the correct tang stamp for a Master Mechanics knife and as far as I can figure, it is the only Old Timer that doesn't have SCHRADE on the tang. It's my understanding that they were supposed to have a Master Mechanics shield and this one has an Old Timer shield. If any of the experts can shine some light on this I'd appreciate it.

dweb1897 wrote:It has the correct tang stamp for a Master Mechanics knife and as far as I can figure, it is the only Old Timer that doesn't have SCHRADE on the tang. It's my understanding that they were supposed to have a Master Mechanics shield and this one has an Old Timer shield. If any of the experts can shine some light on this I'd appreciate it.

I have a few knives with the MM stamp and Old Timer Shield.( Who knows what they did at Schrade)
MM34 ( 34OT )
MM8 ( 8OT )
MM89 ( 89OT )

Grant

Here is a quote from Codger's History of the Sharpfinger

"A private issue with special markings was made for Cotter Company (Tru-Value Hardware) in 1989-90. The tang reads "MM152" over "U.S.A.", and the shield imprint is "Master Mechanic". Factory records show an order for *** pieces placed in 1989 only. I have an example of this issue in my collection and have seen only a very few other examples. Factory correspondence indicates that the knives were assembled at Camillus from components from Ellenville. And yet, other than by knowing the story of this particular issue, I can not tell a difference at this point in examples of regular Schrade Sharpfingers assembled at Ellenville and Camillus. In 1991 a small quantity was ordered with only the Master Mechanic blade etch."

But like you said, who knows what they did.

jerryd6818 wrote:Ken, the handles are black.

You are correct, it is the same as the 33OT (I have one). Did they make an open stock edition of that knife? Would it be the 233?

I stumble on to more by accident than I ever find on purpose.

Jerry, I belive the knives with all numbers (eg 233) were pre 1973 vintage.
I would say your knife was made after 2000 , with that blade and shield.
Please help me: what is an "open stockman"

Ken, are you referring to the Open Stock knives?

Must be, because "Open Stock" is what I typed and I hope I used the term correctly. Usually that term describes something for general sales intended to be available to the public for a long time. At least that's always been my understanding of it.