Blade protectors

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Hi, I come to this site a few times ayear as I have in interest in Schrade/Camilus knifes, & really enjoy reading about them! some of you really impress me with your knowledge!! I wouldn't consider myself a collector, but I do pick them up whenever & wherever I can, I just recently joined as I have a question & who better to ask then the people who know, I picked up another sharpefinger the other day & when I put it with the others I noticed some had plastic sheaths over the blades, I thought this might be a something for all the knifes to have, could anyone direct me to where these can be purchased? also should the leather sheaths be treated with anything while in storage? some of them seem to be quite dry, Thanks for any & all advise
A couple of pictures,
i notice the Blanks are a little heaver on the Camilus
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I really like the look & feel of the Uncle Henry
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I don't know much about the "Badger" ?
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Nice knives! I think those plastic blade covers were more to protect fingers during handling than to protect the blade. I've seen some made out of cardboard too, and some with a cork to protect the tip. I doubt you will find them for purchase unless someone has an empty box, which is not unheard of. It is nice to have all of the items that came "NIB". I would leave the leather alone, to preserve the NIB status, although on a used knife you could use some leather dressing to soften the leather up. Definitely do not store knives inside of the leather sheaths.
 
It is my understanding (which changes, often enough) that vegetable (think oak) tanned leather (more expensive) does not have an acid component which would potentially aggravate oxidation, whereas chrome tanned leather (less expensive) does have a weak acid residue. ?
 
Welcome! Nice group there! The blade protectors seem to be vinyl on the earlier knives and fiberboard on the later. Replacements? I don't know of any stocks of them anywhere. They were like the wrapper on a stick of gum, first thing tossed by many new owners. They did serve several purposes. They kept fingers from tarnishing the blades. And kept the knives from cutting their way out of boxes in shipment. As well, most sheaths came polybagged seperatly.

The vinyl ones on older NIB knives are often seen with dried oil inside from the factory. Measuring one vinyl example, it is 1 1/4" x 4" long with 1/4" of one end being removed from one side to allow it to fit snugly against the scale behind the choil. They are about the same weight vinyl as heavy duty photo album or sheet protector pages so you might make your own from an example. Or possibly recycle cleaned tubes from jumbo freeze pops.

The later fiberboard ones are very nearly the same dimensions and in fact the flat coin tubes made to hold quarters are very nearly the same size, though made of slightly thinner paper. You might find some fiberboard stock or buy Bristol board (acid free) to fold up your own.

If/when you hit upon a workable solution, please do a show and tell here. Missing packaging components are a bugaboo many of us NIB collectors face.

Michael
 
And I can attest this would happen, as I've seen a blade poking out of a pretty thick USPS box...

I ALWAYS request that knives be wrapped seperatley from the box for shipment, and haven't had one protrude since. If it is one of the older gift boxes with stone, the knife and stone can eat each other, the tray and sheath. But at least Schrade, when they learned not to box/ship knives in the sheaths (tarnish before sold), developed the blade protectors and those helped. As you can see, this was begun on the 152 blades at least as early as the 152GDOT.

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Welcome! Nice group there! The blade protectors seem to be vinyl on the earlier knives and fiberboard on the later. Replacements? I don't know of any stocks of them anywhere. They were like the wrapper on a stick of gum, first thing tossed by many new owners. They did serve several purposes. They kept fingers from tarnishing the blades. And kept the knives from cutting their way out of boxes in shipment. As well, most sheaths came polybagged seperatly.

The vinyl ones on older NIB knives are often seen with dried oil inside from the factory. Measuring one vinyl example, it is 1 1/4" x 4" long with 1/4" of one end being removed from one side to allow it to fit snugly against the scale behind the choil. They are about the same weight vinyl as heavy duty photo album or sheet protector pages so you might make your own from an example. Or possibly recycle cleaned tubes from jumbo freeze pops.The later fiberboard ones are very nearly the same dimensions and in fact the flat coin tubes made to hold quarters are very nearly the same size, though made of slightly thinner paper. You might find some fiberboard stock or buy Bristol board (acid free) to fold up your own.

If/when you hit upon a workable solution, please do a show and tell here. Missing packaging components are a bugaboo many of us NIB collectors face.

Michael


Thanks to all! Exactly, I have some that have this covering & what appears to be oil on the inside, & thought it could be beneficial to do the rest, your idea of "Freeze pop" or "Coin Tubes" may just be what I am looking for. here is a NIB that also has the sheath in plastic, first I have seen of that, but then I am pretty inexperienced when it comes to these things, I am pretty sure it is the way the knife was shipped because of the fit & Finnish of the plastic. Thanks again.

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Another avenue for the plastic sleeves might be to check with a collector's supply. I am thinking flat vinyl tubes to store stamps or currency. I am not certain that common cheap paper coin tubes would be acid-free? I know that Bristol board is and it is what I put my drawings on for the USPTO patent applications where they required archivable media be used. I got it (in several weights) from art supply houses like Michaels. The later chipboard sleeves were indeed white like Bristol. Earlier ones were brown/tan. So technically, you might say there were three "types" of sleeves.

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WoW, those are some beautiful knifes, 162UH/165OT, I have only focused on the "Sharpfinger", I really do not consider myself a collector, I just have a few & use some of them as gifts, however looking at those I may have to take it to a different level, (although I think I am a little late to the dance) but I will be Looking, again, It should be noted that although I like to look at the knifes they are not all "Queens" I use my sharpfingers, my first one was given to me as a gift & I have dressed many deer with it, Without a doubt (mop) the best knife there is for this purpose, all of my kids (3) use them as well as most of my friends, they are just a great knife!!!
My hunters
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Doing a skull
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or two
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This one gets a lot of use, it has a number 078 stamped on it, what would that mean? anything?
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This one gets a lot of use, it has a number 078 stamped on it, what would that mean? anything?

In some years and issues, they were sold in numbered sets of patterns, each with different wildlife art. They had matching serial numbers stamped on them. Over the years many of these sets have been broken up and the knives sold individually.

I agree that it is a very useful pattern, one that I have used every year since I bought my first one in the early seventies.
 
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