Hollywood's nefarious use of an innocent 152OT?

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Dave Thinkstoomuch

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I recently started watching the first season of the tv show "Boardwalk Empire". Good show, Steve Buscemi is always great.

In episode four of season one I think the "bad guy" pulls out a post-1973 Sharpfinger (even though it's supposed to be 1920) and cuts a prostitutes face with it really badly. Watch for it when he's holding it behind his back. Just thought I'd point it out for fun. I'm always looking at the knives they use on TV and in movies to see if I smell Schrade.

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p.s. for the record I don't condone this sort of activity!!!
 
Ouch! So it is. He would have been using the right knife for the period if he had used the Sharpfinger's Camillus ancestor.

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Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger used a Sharpfinger on the cover of his book "Dead in five heartbeats".

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Since the tang isn't legible, I'm going to pretend it's not a Schrade at all. :( Heck, there are probably a dozen different companies who have made a knife with the same profile.
 
Codger_64 said:
Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger used a Sharpfinger on the cover of his book "Dead in five heartbeats".

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I've been meaning to read that, thanks for the reminder. The HA MC have a strong presence in BC with a chapter here in Kelowna. I've certainly never seen any of them pull a Sharpfinger and that's probably a good thing! I think they get a undeservedly bad rap more often than not.
 
Bob W said:
Since the tang isn't legible, I'm going to pretend it's not a Schrade at all. :( Heck, there are probably a dozen different companies who have made a knife with the same profile.
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I dunno lol No way to know for sure. Anybody work on the show? That's a carbon blade, most copies were stainless I'm thinking and the handle sure looks like Schrade delrin to me.
 
Thanks for the pics Michael. Now I'm hungry! Good thing my friends all got their limit this season or I'd go into venison withdrawal. Avid hunter friends have just about got me convinced that next season I should buy a rifle and get me some deer. Mule deer are all over the place around here and mighty tasty.

I'm not sure I would get the pleasure my friends do when they shoot a nice buck when all my life I've only used my camera to capture them but I know I would love a cheap freezer-full of meat. One of these days I will fall off the fence one way or the other...
 
Hunters frequently give a friend a half or whole deer if they ask. They will also loan a rifle to a guest hunter.

So far this year I've turned two nice bucks into jerky. I am finishing up the last one tonight and tomorrow, then I start on the one in the freezer. Thankfully, that hunter took his to a butcher so I only have to thaw and unwrap, do the cure, seasoning and dehydrating. I sorta work on shares. I keep choice cuts for myself, a bit of each flavor of jerky and a 3# roll of summer sausage. Last year I made some venison/pork blend breakfast sausage that was pretty good. But my favorite is butterflyed tenderloin steak cooked in onions and white peppered gravy served with cathead biscuits. I'm expecting the ducks and geese to start coming in any day now. I like them cooked in a bed of rice with cream of mushroom soup.
 
Codger_64 said:
Hunters frequently give a friend a half or whole deer if they ask. They will also loan a rifle to a guest hunter.

So far this year I've turned two nice bucks into jerky. I am finishing up the last one tonight and tomorrow, then I start on the one in the freezer. Thankfully, that hunter took his to a butcher so I only have to thaw and unwrap, do the cure, seasoning and dehydrating. I sorta work on shares. I keep choice cuts for myself, a bit of each flavor of jerky and a 3# roll of summer sausage. Last year I made some venison/pork blend breakfast sausage that was pretty good. But my favorite is butterflyed tenderloin steak cooked in onions and white peppered gravy served with cathead biscuits. I'm expecting the ducks and geese to start coming in any day now. I like them cooked in a bed of rice with cream of mushroom soup.
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HMM HMM GOOD! I also really like to use venison non-traditionally in curries. A Guyanese friend who is a hunter fed me some awesome dishes and I was sold. The slight gamey flavor works perfect in spicy dishes!
 
Most memorable appearance of a Sharpfinger has to be by Jack Black (in a much less obnoxious role than usual) in the film Jesus' Son. It's more or less a drug movie set in Iowa in the 70's. Van Alden is in it too, breifly. I remember commenting to my now ex, he's the ugliest dude I've ever seen. Today, after seeing his expression in the dentist scene on Boardwalk, and a test scene for an upcoming movie about Richard Kuklinsky, man I wish I had Michael Shannon's face.
Dennis Leary is awesome in it, BTW.

Spoiler: The main charecter and Jack Black work together in a hospital, Jack high as a bat when calmly in walks a man with a Schrade buried deep in his eye. He explains his wife caught him peeping on the neighbor for the last time. They scrample to locate an eye surgeon and ask if they want him to notify the police. "Not unless I die." Anyway, Jack is left alone with him, and reappears, holding the classic Sharp finger, having decided to just remove it himself. Then Jack and Billy Crudup (BTW, I hear he turned down the lead in Titanic, to do this one instead. Oops), the main charecter, go on a night drive, and roadkill a rabbit. Jack goes to retrieve it for butchering with his new hunting knife and 'breakfast on it's haunches'.
 
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