Elusive Schrades

Campbellclanman said:
Nice Score there Augie ( grumble mummble cursing mummbly ahh!) :D
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Thanks Duncan, pretty lucky on this one:D

The milling or jimping is interesting as it was applied after the knife was assembled, Eric stated a lady that worked for Schrade would apply the jimping with a machine she had on her kitchen table, if you look you can see the jimping goes into the bolsters.


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Augie said:
Thanks Duncan, pretty lucky on this one:D

The milling or jimping is interesting as it was applied after the knife was assembled, Eric stated a lady that worked for Schrade would apply the jimping with a machine she had on her kitchen table, if you look you can see the jimping goes into the bolsters.


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Now that is just :cool::cool::cool: !
Talk about old world craftsmanship! :thumbsup: Done at home on the kitchen table!!!! :eek: Try to get an employee to do THAT for ya!!!
GREAT knife Augie!! :)

Dave
 
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Augie said:
Alright guys, this one may not only be elusive but may be a Unicorn and Bigfoot rolled into one. Stag handled 972 4 blade 3 1/2" Congress, can find no reference to Schrade ever making them but it sure looks legit to me.
What do you all think?


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I was at a show in Maine last year, and missed one of these. It was sitting in a knife roll on a sellers table, and I must have glossed over it, and Steve Pfeiffer sniffed it out and showed it to me after.
 
I have posted all of these early walden stamp 856's spread about but here they are all together for a sibling photo, and I'm the proud papa. The top three have the factory edge on all blades. These knives make me grin every time I look at them. :D

(Charlie I borrowed your knife pose, hope you don't mind. It works quite well. You've got things figured out!)

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TheChunk91 said:
I have posted all of these early walden stamp 856's spread about but here they are all together for a sibling photo, and I'm the proud papa. The top three have the factory edge on all blades. These knives make me grin every time I look at them. :D

(Charlie I borrowed your knife pose, hope you don't mind. It works quite well. You've got things figured out!)

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To die for!! Beauties every one, Paul!!:thumbsup:
Please use that pose some more!!!:)
 
Charlie, I saw the term wavy bone used by somebody else and I don't remember who. I like the term and think it's suiting so that is what I choose to call it. Both of your trappers have what I would call wavy bone. It is always some shade of red from what I've seen so far.

I don't know exactly when wavy bone came around, but it's assumed to have been used from the mid or late 50's into the early 60's. I'm pretty sure 1961 is the last catalog that lists bone stag handles. It's the same jig pattern that they used for many years on delrin with their open stock line.
 
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Paul T., your wavy bone 861 is one of the nicest stockmans I've ever seen; drop-dead gorgeous, eminently useful, and undeniably rare.

Just to keep this thread up to date, I post once again my newly nabbed Cut Co EO, pattern #2012.

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