Elusive Schrades

Glad you enjoy the thread S-K! You are a regular contributor also, and deserve thanks!!

Another "only one I've seen" knife; I'm sure there are others, but who knows where??

Barry, here's your cue to go out and find another!!:D

A crack in the bone, but still nice!

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waynorth said:
Definitely not abused, Darrell! I wonder if any of the good folks here know exactly how that wrench was employed??:confused: I understand it was to adjust automobile lights which ran on gas of some kind.
I doubt it's a skate key!:D
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The square wrench is a Prest-O-Lite key -- it was for opening the valve on small tanks of acetylene gas that fed the headlights. The Prest-o-lite tanks were quite robust - though small, they weighing over 25 lbs apiece, IIRC. Apparently these guys were one of the first to figure out how to handle acetylene gas on an industrial scale. There was also a smaller bicycle light Prest-o-Lite tank - that apparently had a smaller valve stem (at any rate, there exist dedicated Prest-o-Lite keys with two sizes of square valve holes).
 
I want to take this thread to a highrise hotel room in Vegas, smack it's hiney and yell "Who's yo daddy!".... :eek::o:o uh...I really like it...A LOT! :D
 
Charlie,

All of these are incredible. Thanks for posting them. You accidentally did me a great favor :D.
 
Thanks, now my wife thinks I'm lookin' at pictures of nekid women 'cause of all the drool on my chin, gorgeous knives, I am truly envious. :)
 
waynorth said:
This knife is actually a factory altered Stockman, making it a Typesetter's knife! It is in a Schrade catalog as such. Schrade took a punch, and ground/cut it down into an awl, to assist in wedging/tightening type for a printing press.
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Charlie,

I had a question about this altered stockman going back to our phone conversation IE that muskrat. Does the tip of the spey blade sit below the frame when the punch blade is all the way open or closed? If so, it is an interesting phenomenon that happens with a single spring working on two blades at opposite ends.

Again thanks for sharing and teaching here in this thread and elsewhere in the forums.
 
Charlie, Although I have seen Rx knives stamped Schrade in that Rhode Islander's collection, I don't have any to post to the thread. I do however have a contribution to the thread in the form of a PREST-O-LITE key. Here ya go:
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That's a beauty, Barry! I have never seen that big USA stamped on a tang before!!
Anyone know more about that???
 
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner on those Half Trappers! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
Very interesting trappers? Half trapper? I like how the mark side master has a saber grind, and what looks like a full flat on the pile side. :D:thumbup:

Ken
 
In Schrade's Cut. Co. catalog, they were called Serpentine Jacks, Ken.
A Rose by any other name. . . . . . . . .:)

These next two are relatively simple knives, with some nice touches; Peachseed on one, Cocabola on the other, threaded bolster on the Barlow, cap and Shield on the Jack. But the "elusive" part is their condition!
I suspect they have the same handle pattern.

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Charlie,These all are outrageous :thumbup:
Thanks for posting them,what a thread :thumbup:
-Vince
 
Just throwing my thanks out there as well. I've re-read this thread a bunch of times already, outstanding job showcasing these older Schrades.
 
Beautiful knife, Beaver. Aging nicely, and an EDC doesn't get any more aesthetically pleasing than that one!!
 
In the late 1920s-early 1930s, Schrade produced this pattern they called a Balloon Jack.
It is quite a handful, at 4" long, with thick convex bone handles, and a seal cap.
The picture of the seal cap gives you an idea of the "full" handle profile.
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