Grand Dad's Sharp Finger

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1975StroppeBaja

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NOTE -- THIS THREAD IS VERY OLD, I JUST POSTED 03/21/13 TO SHOW A PIC OF MY FULL GDOT COLLECTION. THANKS!

Hello everyone, newbie here. I tried to do a search for this but I kept getting "page cannot be displayed".

Anyhow, I just acquired a Schrade "Grand Dad's Sharp Finger" knife #0398 that appears to be from 1975. My question is, does anyone know how many of these knives were produced?

Thanks in advance! :)
 
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Welcome to the forum! I don't know how many serialized Sharpfingers were sold in the boxed set, but someone will likely come along soon who knows. I do know that there were four knives in the series, the Sharpfinger, a Barlow, a large stockman, and small stockmen. I think these were considered to be a 70th anniversary series. 1974/1975 is the date I found in a 1977 source.

Codger
 
One of the few commemoratives/limited editions that I can't find a total on number made. A year's production perhaps? As happens with trying to find such data from knife companies, sometimes we just can't because no one thought to keep track. It was the company's business to sell knives, not cater to future collectors. We're lucky that Debbie Chase worked at Schrade long enough to provide the numbers on so many other commemoratives/LTD eds.

Sorry, 1975Stroppebaja, but I don't think the number on these things is recorded anywhere. If I cam wrong, another member will be along to correct me.

Phil
 
Thanks guys. I was just curious since it said limited edition. I suppose since the numbers have a leading zero it would be safe to guess there are at least 1000 but could be as many as 9999.
 
I had hoped that someone with more direct info would post on this, but here is what I have found. The first G.D.O.T issue was in 1974. They will say so on the shield. The demand was good, so they issued G.D.O.T. II in 1975, also dated on the shield. Both issues were serialed. I have seen high numbers on the stockman and Barlow, but not on the Sharpfinger. Still, even a thousand each is a fairly limited run. And having been over thirty years ago, quite a few have dissapeared forever. They are still relatively inexpensive as far as LE's go, but I would not expect them to stay that way for the complete boxed mint items. Being carbon steel (?), the attrition rate would be up there. 1,000 or 10,000, they are handsome knives, and assembling a mint set would be a good thing to do, even though difficult.

Codger
 
I thought Del or LT would have jumped this one.
GDOT * 4

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TTYL
Larry
 
Sorry for bringing up a thread from the grave... but I wanted to close the loop on my Grand Dad's Old Timer collection. Its been seven years since I was given the sharp finger and I spent the last year or so trying to get the other three on ebay and I finally did. I got the box with all of them except the small stockman. I might try to win it with the box and re-sell the one I have now, not sure yet.

Anyway, thanks again to everyone who replied to this thread originally!

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It took me a while too. The Sharpfinger was the hardest for me to find. Congrats on the nice set. Here's mine:

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Nice closure, getting the others in the set...
 
Looks like a nice set Bob! The barlow was the hardest one for me to get for some reason. Probably missed the highest bid about 10 times til I finally got one.

Codger -- that's what I started with too and a mere 7 years later I got the other three haha.
 
Oh, I've begun to concentrate on a few favorite patterns and their special orders and variants, and not the sets so much any more. I sold off and gave away most of the "space debris", the modern stuff from their last few years that I found I had little interest in, and am getting ready to move out a bunch of other knives I've acquired over the years to make room (and funds) to get more variants of my favorite patterns. But I still enjoy seeing the rest of the knives very much.
 
Very new to this but I have seen posts here asking how many of the gdot sharpfingers were made I'm not sure about the 1974 gdot sharpfinger ltd edition run but the 1975 limited edition run gdot sharpfinger went at least 4822 because that's the serial on the on I have I would also like to find the other three and complete the 1975 set
 
Good info, thanks for posting! It took me a long time to acquire the other three, but the only place I knew to look was ebay.
 
I find it interesting that with all the GDOT embellishements
they still went w/the sawcut black delrin. Kinda like
wearing Keds with a suit :congratulatory:
 
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