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Absintheur

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Here are my Sharks, Taylor Cutlery Sharks to be precise. This is my favorite offbeat pattern, great for crafts, slim in the pocket, and just interesting. The newest, of course, is the Schrade and it is called the Landshark rather than Shark but it is still part of the family. One of the oddities of the original sharks here is they have a double half stop, one that holds them at the angle in the picture and one that holds at 90 degrees.

Fins to the left....fins to the right....it's a shack attack tonight!

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Here is the new Schrade, nice, well made, but nothing too fancy. Beside it is my favorite Shark, the Stag. This has nice stag front and back.

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Next we have the showoff of the group in candy strip glitter, this one also carries a shield. And then we have my green Shark, sadly his scales have cracked...perhaps a scale change in the future?

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Those are my Taylor Sharks...I am still collecting the different colors, there are blue, gold, white, black, etc...hopefully it will be fun finding them all.
 
Now that is different!
And i quite like it actually, nice lines, with the angles.. copping blades are handy,

OK, so how big are we talking here?

G.
 
They are about 3 3/4 inch closed with a 2 1/2 inch blade, nice small to medium size.
 
Thanks for sharing:thumbup:

Interesting half-stops. Closed, 45 degree, 90 degree and open? I can assume:eek: no stop between 90 degree and open?

Ken
 
There is a stop spot at 135 degrees as well so I guess I was wrong...3 third stops? It is an interesting pattern to say the least. Two of the Older ones are marked 1980, the candy stripe is marked 1979. And the new Schrade version can be bought for under 10 bucks online.
 
OK...quarter stops...lol. It seems as if these additional stops are there just for display purposes, I don't really see a purpose for the as the half stop would serve to keep the knife from closing accidently on a finger.

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It looks like that type of knife could come in quite handy. Kinda cool.
 
Quirky but I like 'em, especially the stag one. They must have figured, "what the heck...we are breaking some "rules", let's make 1/4 stops too!" :D

Thanks for sharing :thumbup::cool:
 
I've had a knife or two with 1/4 stops or 3/4 which ever way you were going like that, Custom knives I mean :0 but I don't think it was intentionally made that way...
 
They are useful, I have been using the Schrade sort of like a renewable box cutter, it resharpens easily enough and holds the edge well even on cardboard. I love the easy open style, much easier than the nail nick. The coping blade also lends itself to cutting cordage, mine has served here cutting paracord for lanyards. I have also used it to trim some wood in a cigar box style display box for some of my knives. It worked almost like a chisel getting into a tight corner. It really is a useful little thing and the more I use it the more I like it.
 
Thanks for sharing the pics. I have looked at them for sale online and debated buying one of the new ones, but never have found one in the flesh nor known anybody that owned one. Looks like a perfect box knife for work.
 
I like that pattern. I saw the new Schrade version last week online and was struck by how unusual the pattern was. I thought it was something new- it's cool to see that it has some history behind it. Thanks for sharing!
 
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