Craftsman confusion?!?

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Pokey2!

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Madness!
All the confusion on the Craftsman 5” folders.
I’ve seen on several occasions that the Craftsman 95206 was made by
Schrade.
Wrong!
I’m holding a flat cut blade 95206 in my hand and have one in an unopened
clam pack on my bench.
Both are a flat ground blade.
I don’t think Schrade ever made a flat ground blade for that size knife.
And the front bolster definitely doesn’t have the “S” curve of my Schrades.
I need to research both Craftsman 95233 Craftsman 95078 American Eagle which appear to be Schrade LB7 derivatives as they appear to have a hollow
ground blade.
Bolster pic for ID. Schrade, Schrade, Case, Buck
 
I want to hear what Pokey1! has to say about it.

Pokey2! said:
Madness!
All the confusion on the Craftsman 5” folders.
I’ve seen on several occasions that the Craftsman 95206 was made by
Schrade.
Wrong!
I’m holding a flat cut blade 95206 in my hand and have one in an unopened
clam pack on my bench.
Both are a flat ground blade.
I don’t think Schrade ever made a flat ground blade for that size knife.
And the front bolster definitely doesn’t have the “S” curve of my Schrades.
I need to research both Craftsman 95233 Craftsman 95078 American Eagle which appear to be Schrade LB7 derivatives as they appear to have a hollow
ground blade.
Bolster pic for ID. Schrade, Schrade, Case, Buck
Click to expand...
 
I heard a Dr. Seuss book. The line breaks in the text below represent the pauses that he built into his paragraphs to get his unique cadence. Sadly, I'm not wordsmith enough to make it all rhyme neatly like he did.

Sears may have contracted half a dozen or more sources, back when they were a Big Wheel in the brick-and-mortar retail space. I've seen these Craftsmen knives attributed to Camillus, as well.

Wouldn't be the first time this has happened. If I remember right, Queen Cutlery did contract runs for anybody who could pay the money.

Likewise, not all retailers keep good records of who did the grinding work, or those records are lost for the usual reasons.

If somebody would be willing to tag one of Bernard Levine's crew, they might be able to bring some reliable sources to the discussion, instead of just us disreputables sitting here riffing on sentence structure.

Madness!

All the confusion on the Craftsman 5” folders.
I’ve seen on several occasions,
that the Craftsman 95206 was made.
By Schrade.

Wrong!
I’m holding a flat cut blade 95206 in my hand.
I have one in an unopened clam
pack on my bench.
Both are a flat ground blade.
I don’t think that Schrade
ever made
a flat ground blade
for that size knife.
And the front bolster definitely doesn’t have
the “S” curve of my Schrades.

I need
to read
both Craftsman 95233
and Craftsman 95078 American Eagle
which appear to be Schrade LB7
derivatives as they appear
to have a hollow ground blade.
 
Shorttime said:
I heard a Dr. Seuss book. The line breaks in the text below represent the pauses that he built into his paragraphs to get his unique cadence. Sadly, I'm not wordsmith enough to make it all rhyme neatly like he did.

Sears may have contracted half a dozen or more sources, back when they were a Big Wheel in the brick-and-mortar retail space. I've seen these Craftsmen knives attributed to Camillus, as well.

Wouldn't be the first time this has happened. If I remember right, Queen Cutlery did contract runs for anybody who could pay the money.

Likewise, not all retailers keep good records of who did the grinding work, or those records are lost for the usual reasons.

If somebody would be willing to tag one of Bernard Levine's crew, they might be able to bring some reliable sources to the discussion, instead of just us disreputables sitting here riffing on sentence structure.

Madness!

All the confusion on the Craftsman 5” folders.
I’ve seen on several occasions,
that the Craftsman 95206 was made.
By Schrade.

Wrong!
I’m holding a flat cut blade 95206 in my hand.
I have one in an unopened clam
pack on my bench.
Both are a flat ground blade.
I don’t think that Schrade
ever made
a flat ground blade
for that size knife.
And the front bolster definitely doesn’t have
the “S” curve of my Schrades.

I need
to read
both Craftsman 95233
and Craftsman 95078 American Eagle
which appear to be Schrade LB7
derivatives as they appear
to have a hollow ground blade.
Click to expand...
Thanks… I think 🤔 😊
 
Pokey2! said:
Madness!
All the confusion on the Craftsman 5” folders.
I’ve seen on several occasions that the Craftsman 95206 was made by
Schrade.
Wrong!
I’m holding a flat cut blade 95206 in my hand and have one in an unopened
clam pack on my bench.
Both are a flat ground blade.
I don’t think Schrade ever made a flat ground blade for that size knife.
And the front bolster definitely doesn’t have the “S” curve of my Schrades.
I need to research both Craftsman 95233 Craftsman 95078 American Eagle which appear to be Schrade LB7 derivatives as they appear to have a hollow
ground blade.
Bolster pic for ID. Schrade, Schrade, Case, Buck
Click to expand...
I dunno. I'd always heard that Camillus was the primary knife supplier for the Sears Craftsman line.

If you were to search eBay for "Camillus Sears Lockback", I imagine you'd find something or other.

You may wish to search the Camillus Forum here in the collector section

Camillus Collector's Forum

Camillus was America's oldest knife company, started in 1875. They closed in 2007.
www.bladeforums.com www.bladeforums.com

 
How about a picture of the actual knife, not knives that might just look similar?
 
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Pokey2! said:
Thanks… I think 🤔 😊
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Any useful information that I provide is an accident! 😵‍💫

Retailers outsource manufacture, then slap their brand on it. They're not thinking about whether people fifty years down the road can figure out who "really" made an item.

Sure, I could have said that in the first place, but this is the internet, and I'm very guilty of never using one word when three will do.

Listen to Knarfeng. Not me.
 
Pokey2! said:
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First, if you are posting pictures, please follow the instructions posted in about a hundred threads just in the past month. Don't post links to websites that want you to sign in or whatever. Just post a link with proper HTML formatting so the picture appears in-line in the body of the post.
Use a real image host such as Imgur. Upload the image, locate the image on the host site, copy the proper URL, which for this forum is the BBCode, and paste that URL here in the text response box.
For this thread, this URL with the proper IMG tags
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If the knife you are referring to is the one with the brown wood handle, it was almost certainly made by Camillus.
 
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