If you could resurrect one defunct TRADITIONAL knife company, which one would it be?

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Was just sitting here thinking about the closure of both camillus and schrade, about how unfortunate the future generations are since they will never know what it's like being able to walk into any hardware store with $20 and buy a fine pocket knife that will last generations.

Wouldn't it be great if we could return these companies to their former glory?


I miss being able to pick out a nice 8OT or 34OT to carry at the local sporting goods store, or going to army navy surplus stores and picking up TL-29s and demo knives from camillus for cheap.

It seems like everyone in the small town I grew up in carried a schrade stockman of some sort, usually an old timer, but often an uncle Henry stockman or trapper.

So my question is if you were given the power to bring back one of great knife companies of yesterday, which would it be?

I wanted to post a poll, but I guess you have to be a paying member to do so.

I would personally chose to bring back schrade, I have the fondest memories of Old Timers and wish I would have picked up more of them before they shut down.

While I never carried camillus, I can appreciate that they made a lot of knives for other companies, and supplied knives for the US military.
 
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Camillus. They made knives for nearly everybody. Many a knife company's knife maker.

My problem with Schrade's Old Timers are the Swinden Key. Not a fan.

BTW, you can still find good Camillus knives from the old days for a $20 bill.
 
Imperial-Schrade, totally. It'd be sweet to be able to buy brand spankin new knives made with the hallowed Schrade 1095.
 
I know very little about older knife companies, as when I was younger I was very poor and had three pocket knives to cover about 40 years of my life: an Ulster scout, a Gerber Silver Knight and finally a BuckLite 424. But of the ones I've seen on these pages, the Robesons have impressed me greatly.
 
leghog said:
Camillus. They made knives for nearly everybody. Many a knife company's knife maker.
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^^^ This! Everything from the Remington Bullet knives of the 80s and 90s to the Carbon V blades on the Cold Steel line to some good military knives and a few more in between. When Camillus closed a lot more when with them than just the knives with their tang stamp.
 
Schrade included Ulster, Schrade, Imperial, Camillus and more. As for the Swinden key, Camillus made some of the old timer knives for them using the traditional through-the-bolster pivot pins.
 
Western Cutlery out of Longmont Colorado which Camilus absorbed in her pre Shrade days. One of the best looking boot knives ever made. Full tang. Exotic wood scales. Just as much thought went into the leather sheath. Oversized belt clip. It even had a lip bar to keep the opening stiff against wear and tear....Not to mention the model W49, a man's knife...
 
leghog said:
Camillus. They made knives for nearly everybody. Many a knife company's knife maker.

My problem with Schrade's Old Timers are the Swinden Key. Not a fan.

BTW, you can still find good Camillus knives from the old days for a $20 bill.
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I'm with you on that. I never knew until I started frequenting here how many knives they made for everyone. They would make the most sense to me for the "$20 knife" scenario.

Of course, if I had my druthers, I would take CASE of the mid 70s over all of them.

Robert
 
Schrade, minus the Swinden key.

Another option would be blow some air into the sails of Utica. I believe they still make some of their knives in upstate NY. That's really the heritage I would like to see continued.
 
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