George Schrade request

[tongueriver]

The George Schrade cutlery company in Connecticut was never part of the Baer family of cutlery companies, the latter being the focus of the Schrade Knives Collectors Forum, as I understand it. Therefore, I would request that all these George Schrade posts be confined to a single George Schrade thread, if that be practical. ?

 

[oregon]

I would combine them into one thread if I could. Perhaps a mod can accomplish this.

I won't post to this forum any further. Sorry for your trouble.

 

[tongueriver]

It is no trouble to me; I find the George Schrade knives interesting. I just was idly speculating that the posts could be better organized. I appear to have given the wrong impression.

 

[Dave Thinkstoomuch]

It is no trouble to me; I find the George Schrade knives interesting. I just was idly speculating that the posts could be better organized. I appear to have given the wrong impression.

Take a poll perhaps? George Schrade knife discussion on this sub-forum? My vote would be no George Schrade Connecticut knives here. I'm personally not interested in those wire-jacks and see George Schrade worthy of memory and a place in knife history as a switchblade maker not a jack-knife maker.

This is just my opinion and I don't have to read things I don't want too so I don't really care either way but these knives had nothing to do with the ISC/Baer products we usually discuss here. No offense meant, oregon. We all enjoy different things

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I can merge threads but prefer not to once they collect responses. They will end up a jumble. I am not familiar with the differences here so I hesitate to get involved.

However, as long as George Schrade are marked as such in the thread titles, I don't see a problem at all in leaving them as they are now.

 

[ea42]

I really don't have a problem with it, after all he was a large part of the group who founded Schrade Cut. Co., had a slew of inventions, not just autos. Some of the best inventions were machinery and jigs to make the manufacture of knives more streamlined and cost effective. Schrade sold knives of his design right up until the ban in the fifties. The Schrade era goes back to 1904, not the 1940's, the Baers were only around for half the company's existance, so there's a LOT of Schrade history pre-Baer. I was always under the impression that we were following that aspect as well.

Oregon, maybe rather than opening a new thread for each and every new subject, you could just add them on to an existing thread. Since they all have to do with the wire jacks it'd be easier to read and easier to look info up at a later date as well. I think it's the steady addition of new wire jack threads having to do with the same subject that makes things mighty repetetive and jumbled on that first page of the forum.

Eric

 

[Upstream]

I really don't have a problem with it, after all he was a large part of the group who founded Schrade Cut. Co., had a slew of inventions, not just autos. Some of the best inventions were machinery and jigs to make the manufacture of knives more streamlined and cost effective. Schrade sold knives of his design right up until the ban in the fifties. The Schrade era goes back to 1904, not the 1940's, the Baers were only around for half the company's existance, so there's a LOT of Schrade history pre-Baer. I was always under the impression that we were following that aspect as well.

Eric

Very well said. It's really very sad to even see a thread like this.

 

[Dave Thinkstoomuch]

Very well said. It's really very sad to even see a thread like this.

It was sad when a friend of mine hung himself. It was sad when the twin towers got bombed, it was sad when there was a genocide in Rwanda. This is just a discussion as to what this particular sub-form on this particular website is meant for. If you don't know the answer to a question I think it's fair to ask for some clarification.

 

[tongueriver]

I regret my original post. It was more a frustration about organization to make research easier than anything else. These threads, and their posts, tend to get a little chaotic at times. We talk about sister companies like Ulster and Ulster USA, Camillus, Colonial, Imperial, etc., here. But Ulster Dwight Devine, and the earlier versions of some of these companies may be a little off the mark in some ways, as interesting as they may be. For some reason I may have put together some illogical or inappropriate assumptions about all of this. I guess there is plenty of room for the Kastors, Challenge, et al. I promise not to go off half-cocked in the future, unless the post-2004 Schrades start to make claims for some sort of legitimacy.

 

[ea42]

Totally understandable there Cal, I can definitely see what you mean by the chaos, and subjects like the Devine era might be pushing it a little. Although.....ya know when Devine sold the Ulster plant to the Baers, he didn't sell all the property with it. His property holdings involved so many seperate plots that it looked like a patchwork quilt, so when the Schrade shop was moved to the plant, and they at times needed a piece of land for expansion or maybe an outbuilding across the river, they had to go to Mr. Devine to buy it. The old coot had a steady stream of income from that property long after the initial sale. Mighty shrewed. So you see, it is all intertwined in some ways

Eric

 

[Codger_64]

There were also some strings attached to the sale, as there was with the sale of Schrade Cut Co. Check out the boards and officers lists of those two some time.