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

Schrade.

I carried an Old Timer around the farm when I was a kid, getting my first at about 13. After that, I carried one for or another around the farm for years.

It's funny this would just come up. Amongst all of my old kid stuff, I found a boxed, single blade liner lock Old Timer single bladed trapper just yesterday. It has "Laddock" printed on the blade, assuming that it was a sales "spiff" given by the ag chemical guys back in the day. I'll be carryin' this one for a while. Hope I can get that Laddock business buffed off.
 
ONE only? That's a tall order.....

Say a 'proper' Sheffield made knife with the qualities of pre-1920s say Rodgers , Wostenholm or any maker from the quality era.

For American, I like Remington, their bone is wonderful.

Thanks, Will
 
Anyone else seem to notice camillus fit and finish wasn't as good as schrade?
I have several examples of both companies, and the camillus always have something wrong them, usually minor like springs not flush at all, or handle scales not flush with liners, or the edge doesn't extend all the way to the tang.
I also dislike the jogged plastic used by them for a lot of their folders.

Now with say an Old Timer, the blades were always well finished and much thinner than camillus stock, the springs and liners were much more likely to be flush.
Just seems like camillus knives were sort of rushed out the factory and not enough care was taken to properly finish an otherwise nice knife.
 
Napanoch, now there is a company whose slogan would be sure to catch some attention today.
 
Bob6794 said:
Schrade, I still need to buy an old USA made schrade knife and I would love it if they were still making those so I could go into a store and look at them.
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Well the 100 years of knives produced did not dissapear in 2004 when the factory closed. The knives are still out there and in quantities, in all conditions including complete new in the box examples as they left the factory. One does have to be familiar enough with them to avoid the modern copies and recently finished items put together from parts in the last ten years. But today we have the people and resources to help you learn all that if you have genuine interest. I generally buy several new in the box schrades several times a year still. But yeah, it is a different game than being able t ogo into any local store, point to a knife in a display case and have it laid on the counter in front of you to coon finger and chicken eye.

So... in this "wish upon a star", do we get to pick the year/decade of the revived company, and do we get to stop their evolution of designs and materials in that year/decade? ;) Otherwise we will be like the movie Groung Hog Day with the company failing over and over again for the same perfect storm of reasons. :)
 
Camillus made some great knives through the years...

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BJE said:
Anyone else seem to notice camillus fit and finish wasn't as good as schrade?
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It all depends what you are looking at. Camillus made many different grades of cutlery. They made lots of lower end stuff. But they also made higher end models which were exceedingly well finished.

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I rest my case.
 
Camillus made what ever their customer wanted quality wise, including many Case, Buck, Schrade, Gerber, Remington, Sears etc folders. I remember listening to a person praise a Case folder over Camillus when I knew for a fact that Camillus was making that model on contract for the other company. :)
 
Since Camillus is in my neck of the woods, that'd be my pick. I was really sad when they closed.
 
No question. The Robeson Cutlery Company and all its workers circa 1900 - 1935.

Sigh.
 
I'll have to put my 2 cents in and say Schrade also. My parents owned a mom & pops country store for 25 years ('67-'92) and sold a lot of Schrade knives over the years, I would always do extra chores to get "that" next new knife when they came out. Lot of great knives and memories from those days.
 
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