Elusive Schrades

Some interesting old Schrade Cut Co.s!!! The first is a Corn Knife!!
Maybe the most dangerous knife that Schrade produced, for slicing "corns" off the feet of those who exceeded their daily "step" requirements!!! 😁 Corn knife 1.jpg
This knife has a thin, razor-sharp blade!!! I wonder how many people sliced into their feet/toes with these knives??? o_O

The next one is interesting - perhaps it is a missing link in the development of machine jigging??? The research and development into the jigging machine!!!Link to machine jigging 1.jpg
With a cutter wheel of some kind, the divots were cut in rows down this bone, sometimes overlapping depending on the rate of travel! It looks like a cross between pick bone and jigging!!! Such a cool old Schrade!!! Tells a partial tale of bone cutting!!
Oh to see the machine that did this!!!😮😁
 
And here's me imagining a hearty rural farmer in his bib n brace overalls with stalk of grass in his mouth and a straw hat to shade him ambling through his field of golden, sun drenched Corn using his corn knife to lovingly slice a few juicy ,sweet kernels to taste. That was until I was confronted by some womans gangrenous foot wound, weeping with rancid pus. At least theres a sound warning about the dangers of home surgery....As a Type 1 Diabetic it was.....music....to....my ears😆😆😆😆😆😆 ears of corn get it😂
 
I am struggling to find what number this knife would be. Dug through some catalogs and crawled the Internet, but nothing stood out. Any help from you guys would be much appreciated!!

I picked this one up about a week ago. I was quite excited, despite a hairline crack in the bone, as it was about 3.5 inches, had a pen blade instead of a spey, nearly sunken joints, threaded bolsters, and had nice looooong secondary blades that are longer than they appear in these photos. Plus, how could you not like that peachseed jigging! A very well put together knife. It is also my first Schrade Walden NY with no USA which should mean it is an earlier model. Pictured below with my only other peachseed jigging Schrade, a cut co 8813 (to the best of my knowledge).







 
It looks like an 825 if stainless, or an 895 if carbon steel, but with a pen instead of a spey. I don't find an exact match in the catalogs, but several years are missing between 1946 and 1954, which your knife dates to. Could be they just made it with the pen for a couple years, or could be a franken knife. VERY knice!
 
black mamba said:
It looks like an 825 if stainless, or an 895 if carbon steel, but with a pen instead of a spey. I don't find an exact match in the catalogs, but several years are missing between 1946 and 1954, which your knife dates to. Could be they just made it with the pen for a couple years, or could be a franken knife. VERY knice!
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Oh awesome, thank you very much!! It is definitely carbon steel. And I had found the 895 in my research but it always had a spey rather than a pen. You can tell from the kick this clearly is not a reshaped spey.

I was unaware of the lapse in catalogs. And this was certainly made in that timeframe. So perhaps this answers why the pen version isn't well known. And, if this is a frankenknife, I certainly can't complain! 😂 The nice long pen knife just feels right to me.

Put a fresh edge on it and it's been in the pocket for a few days now. A very nice knife indeed! Thank you again!!

Edit: I meant to add in one of my comments that this has nickel silver liners as well which is a nice touch!!
 
waynorth said:
Schrade Bail Jacks are not often seen!! Here are a couple of nice ones I lucked into some time ago!! An EE Jack and a serpentine Jack!!View attachment 2471370View attachment 2471371
(As soon as I scrub that pesky ink off the EE, it'll be nice "Kentucky mint"!!) 😂
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Lol, I was searching for the phrase "Kentucky Mint" to try and explain it to a person (on why they should not sand and buff a very clean antique pocket worn knife.

Of course I find a "Kentucky Mint" reference from Waynorth! (And some perfectly preserved Mint knives with original sales samples with dealers prices on the blades!).
 
My dad was a fan of Schrade Walden pocket knives back when I was a kid 1960s -70s .He liked the three blade stockman pattern and he had one that looked very similar to the darker one in post 4149. Sorry I don’t know the model number, wish I did and I would try to find one. I remember his bone handle scale broke down the middle of the pins on one side and he quite using it and got another stockman but not the same. I was very fascinated by the stockman pattern back then and still am. Seeing all these old Schrades bring back a lot of fond memories of people and of knife displays in the local hardware store. I was a knife nut back then and didn’t know it . 😆
 
Bigfattyt said:
Lol, I was searching for the phrase "Kentucky Mint" to try and explain it to a person (on why they should not sand and buff a very clean antique pocket worn knife.

Of course I find a "Kentucky Mint" reference from Waynorth! (And some perfectly preserved Mint knives with original sales samples with dealers prices on the blades!).
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My apologies to the fine people of Kentucky, who got saddled with the term!!! :rolleyes:
I'm sure most don't deserve it!!😁
 
Lesknife, the stockman you are referring to in post 4149 is an 881, their iconic 4" stockman. I'm fortunate to have a nice one from the mid 1950s.

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