How many Schrade collectors?

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I wonder how many folks collect Schrade knives? A few of the true afficionados chime in at this forum and an analog at AllAboutPocketKnives (please check it out). I am sure there are many who dabble in it, and an occult handful of paranoid millionaires who wouldn't dare to show their face. Ebay shows a constant flow of buyers, but their privacy policy makes it hard to track. I am thinking 75% of the knives are bought by less than... (whoops! I can't come up with a guess!) Any thoughts?
 
tongueriver said:
I wonder how many folks collect Schrade knives? A few of the true afficionados chime in at this forum and an analog at AllAboutPocketKnives (please check it out). I am sure there are many who dabble in it, and an occult handful of paranoid millionaires who wouldn't dare to show their face. Ebay shows a constant flow of buyers, but their privacy policy makes it hard to track. I am thinking 75% of the knives are bought by less than... (whoops! I can't come up with a guess!) Any thoughts?
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It is gaining popularity Calvin. Every time I sell knives I get a whole new crop of bidders and buyers to go along with some faithful old timers. A lot of the ones I competed hard against 2-3 years ago don't bid anymore, probably because they got all of the fairly common examples. There are are a few old names that used to make me say, "Not that guy again." I'm sure I get cursed a few times too, when I pull out the Sharpe's Carbine.
 
One of my very first posts of BF (I cannot find it) had to do with a knife my dad gave me (turned out to be a de-marked 165OT). Some guy named Michael Just gave me so much information that it piqued my interest in the blade. Since then I have probably bought 30 of them of different dates and types, including several with removed tang stamps, taking thickness measurements and other dimensions and thus realizing and documenting that the tang stamps had indeed been ground off, sometimes almost imperceptibly.

But I digress. In short, I fell in love with the 165, (same pattern the Little nut that got me interested likes), and have probably bid on most 165s put on that auction site in the past few years. Not sure if anyone can search for when that post was, but it was a WHILE back. edit: found it - http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=424051

In addition, I have recently acquired a display, which I of course had to complete. My latest addiction is UST SFOs. (NOT the whole list!) Mainly the more common COPE and SKOAL varieties. I have always loved stock knives and now carry a COPE89. Looking for more. There MUST be a support group. The problem is that the addiction is expanding slightly, but home base is still the 165. Off to bid on one now! :D

So here I am today, no doubt still competing with a few of you here for that missing "one".

Greg
 
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Apparently there are some folks who don't even know they're collectors; I was talking to a guy today who used to buy a LOT of the seconds and overstocks at the store in the Schrade plant, says he has a tupperware tub, (you know, the monster ones that are as big as a small bathtub), FILLED with knives, estimates there are at least 2000! Funny thing is he's not even sure what's in there anymore!

Eric
 
ea42 said:
Apparently there are some folks who don't even know they're collectors; I was talking to a guy today who used to buy a LOT of the seconds and overstocks at the store in the Schrade plant, says he has a tupperware tub, (you know, the monster ones that are as big as a small bathtub), FILLED with knives, estimates there are at least 2000! Funny thing is he's not even sure what's in there anymore!

Eric
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Grounds for confiscation, IMHO. :eek:
 
I'm sure glad I never had a Schrade addiction...I wonder how many I would have, if I had, which I havnt,...maybe I've been had?...it just seems these were the Schrades I had to have.........<I'm looking at 25 large box fulls' of Schrades as I write this>..I wonder why my wife doesnt understand when I say I just somehow developed a passing interest in Schrades... ..my true addiction has always been WW11 Australian Military...and thats another long story.....Hoo Roo.
P.S. I do know that by giving out hundreds of different Schrade catalogs to Aussie buyers through the years I have helped create an Australian desire for Schrades.....one Aussie collector with very substantial Schrade collection is about to make himself known on here he has just informed me....now he knows this site exists........
 
I still check in here from time to time, and check the bay on occassion. But my renewed obsession with fishing has taken most of my surfing time away. Perhaps once its to cold and dark after work to fish, I can devote more time to this interest.
 
thawk said:
I'm sure I get cursed a few times too, when I pull out the Sharpe's Carbine.
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1874 Shiloh (Big Timber) Sharps in .40-65. good mortar round.

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Now I know why it took me so long to score a Deer Hunter and why it cost me an arm and a leg! :D Not to mention the elusive Craftsman 165!!!
Still looking for that one.

Very nice!
 
I've often wondered this myself and have no answer except to say that there aren't many in Canada judging by how many vintage Schrades come up for auction on eBay.ca. Sometimes eBay.com will show 7000 items when eBay.ca only shows 30.

I figure that many also get sold not to collectors but to folks who just want a USA Schrade "user" since very good to excellent shape USA models sell at auction for same as new Chinese stuff. Sometimes you can grab vintage Schrade at original dealer cost or less so why not buy 'em and use 'em.
 
More of a stumble upon'er. For me Schrade is local history and that makes the knives interesting.
 
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