Bigfoot, My 80T

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Bloefield

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Just thought I'd share one of my 80T's which has a larger than normal sheepsfoot blade.
It's here with another 8ot and an 881.
Consensus amonst Schrade afficianados is it's a Cammilus blade. I don't know for sure.
It is my favorite 80T.






Thanks for looking.
 
Bloefield said:
Just thought I'd share one of my 80T's which has a larger than normal sheepsfoot blade.
It's here with another 8ot and an 881.
Consensus amonst Schrade afficianados is it's a Cammilus blade. I don't know for sure.
It is my favorite 80T.
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I've never seen one like that, or not that I noticed anyway. Could be a Camillus, but I can't see any exposed pins on the bolsters. It's a little hard to tell though, since you used a flash and it's glaring off the shiny metal.

It could be a 'normal' Schrade mix-up knife, with the longer blade intended for a different knife model but ended up in the OT parts instead.
 
That actually looks like an unserrated 89OT sheepfoot.
Not surprising since Schrade did all kinds of crazy stuff.
 
Thanks to all for your comments.
I showed this 80T over at the AAPK forum awhile back. Among the helpful comments was one by Dale Vincent who provided a copy of an order form from Schrade to Cammilus in 1986, I believe, for
30,000 each of the three blades for an 80T size stockman.
It could be possible that Cammilus made the sheepsfoot blade and not the entire knife?
I have enclosed a few more pictures. I included another 80T for comparison. I have three or four 80T's and "Bigfoot" is my got to 80. It has dark Delrin too.
Sorry for my photography skills or lack there of.





 
Hi Ray,
I think your knife could be an 8OT, with the 89OT Blazer sheep foot blade; that missed out having the machining done for the serrated part of blade.

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