ID old beat up Schrade?

IMightBeWrong · Nov 20, 2012

This old thing was cleaned out of my Grandparent's house years ago when I was a kid and my Grandmother passed. I'm not sure if it was my Grandfather's or my Dad's from when he was younger and he didn't remember either. It's pretty beat up, when I was younger I tried to use it to learn to sharpen (dumb idea, totally regret it) which is why the blade is so torn up. One of these days I'm going to get to polishing it up so that maybe I can hand it down someday. It's got about 3" of blade give or take, can't find anything to measure with right now to be sure. It's got a liner lock and it says it's a Schrade. Anybody know the pattern by chance?

I'm curious for two reasons:

1. As it's a knife that may have been used by the Grandfather that I never got to meet before he passed, I'd simply like to know a bit more about it.

2. I'm a big "Tacticool" lover, but I can't help but notice that in hand this little thing feels amazing! It doesn't give me a huge and filled out grip, but there really isn't any major hot spot anywhere. All the rounded edges and contours have me really impressed, so I'm actually hoping that learning a bit about the pattern can help me look at similar and more modern blades that I could carry myself and use without feeling guilty for further abusing this one.

NMpops · Nov 20, 2012

Looks like the 194OT pattern. Mine has the brown saw cut delrin scales, but otherwise the same.

IMightBeWrong · Nov 20, 2012

Awesome, thanks! I've been googling similar knives and I found the GEC #48 Slim Dogleg in single blade that's VERY similar. Any other similar patterns I can look at? I'm thinking of picking something up that would have a similar feel to this.

meako · Nov 20, 2012

It looks pretty good to me.Here's its cousins -stamped SC (scrimshaw) 503 -with a Tidioute #48 single blade dogleg trapper to compare.

IMightBeWrong · Nov 20, 2012

That's awesome! Thanks. I just ordered a #48 Templar model in Black Micarta, the last one (non BF member dealer reference removed) had left. The edges don't look as rounded, but it's style is more to my liking than things like Jigged bone (not really my thing). This is officially the first traditional slip joint pattern I've ever purchased (not including SAKs), even though I did make a thread about wanting to buy one in the past.

meako · Nov 20, 2012

Cool.If I'd a known I would have photoed them with the black micarta Templar. Yes it is more square or chunky than the bone. Bone is my preference -its a shame that photo doesn't pick out the beautiful green hue of the bone. I like the micarta as it seems to be very hardwearing.

IMightBeWrong · Nov 20, 2012

That's good, because I plan on trying out the Templar as a carry blade at work where my big tacticool stuff isn't so welcome. If I like it, I also had my eye on the Black Pearl handle. I sort of hope I'm not opening up Pandora's Box right now. If I get addicted to a whole other type of knives and buy a ton more blades then my wife just might decide to kill me.

meako · Nov 21, 2012

Make sure she takes out an insurance policy on you first. I think the P box maybe open just a crack already going on my own experience -it was an old knife of my Grandfathers that got me interested.
Start as you mean to go on mate. good luck.

thawk · Nov 21, 2012

It has carbon steel blades. Should sharpen up real good.

2Dead · Nov 21, 2012

The GEC #48 is a close one. The Templar won't have the rounded off corners. Here's a pic of my Tractor Green #48 along with my other single blade #48s. I don't think you'll find too many of the 1095 #48s anymore unless they are Templars. The 440c ones in the 3rd pic will be easier to find (Amber jigged bone (1,2) Cherry, and Elk (4-7) at least.)

Here's some older pics of a #48 along with a Queen #11 Utility and a Canal Street Half Moon Trapper. The GEC isn't as small as the last pic shows although it is the smallest of the group. The Queen uses D2 and the HMT uses 14-4 CrMo which is very similar/same as 154CM.

IMightBeWrong · Nov 24, 2012

So the Templar came in the mail yesterday. I quite like it! It is, just as I expected, a bit boxy however. It also came with a pretty dull edge. It can cut, but it won't slice paper cleanly. It's going to take me a while to get the edge performing the way I like it. But the overall style, fit and finish are outstanding. I'm going to need to buy a few more traditionals, methinks.