It's Old Timer time, fellas: Show your U.S.-made OTs

[BladeCommander]

I'm a big fan of the 8OT. Happy to find this one with factory edges, but some pitting. Makes it a good user. Blade grinds are super thin on this one.

 

[TheChunk91]

Old timer at work.

 

[tongueriver]

Old timer at work.

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Work? Where's the video???

 

[screened porch]

I'd never seen one of these before.

 

[TheChunk91]

77OT, same frame as the 8ot. They are fairly easily found. Ignore the ''improved muskrat'' etch. It's a regular muskrat.

 

[TheChunk91]

Work? Where's the video???

Cal, is it really that hard to believe that I would do any work?

 

[screened porch]

77OT, same frame as the 8ot. They are fairly easily found. Ignore the ''improved muskrat'' etch. It's a regular muskrat.

It has broader blades than I expect in a muskrat. But I don't have another Schrade muskrat to compare it to.

 

[TheChunk91]

It has broader blades than I expect in a muskrat. But I don't have another Schrade muskrat to compare it to.

The schrades did have broad blades compared to some, especially ones like the old remington's. I like to think of them as a muskrat with a longer lifespan.

 

[screened porch]

The schrades did have broad blades compared to some, especially ones like the old remington's. I like to think of them as a muskrat with a longer lifespan.

Exactly. It's like they're half sharpened away when new, the usual muskrats.

This one just floated to the top of my former sock drawer.

34OT. Nice little knife.

 

[TonySal]

Love little 34's

 

[TheChunk91]

Here is a 34ot with what I believe to be stainless blades. Schrade typically marked later stainless knives with the + symbol, but not always (858OT and 51OT are two examples of not always). This one has patina and stains all over the springs but not a speck on the blades. I stuck one of the blade tips in lasagna and let the sauce sit for about 15 minutes- no staining whatsoever. I will do some more testing to make 100% sure. In later years schrade put stainless blades in models that were previously only carbon. This was a running change and I don't know if the stainless took over completely in some models by the time schrade went under.

 

[rt dak]

A 34OT with an older sibling

 

[Cvrobinson]

Chit chatting with the cashier about a GEC Blackjack due for delivery tomorrow. “She’s oh you like knives, this one’s been in lost an found for years, it’s all yours if you want it”. No she didn’t have to ask twice.

 

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Here is a 34ot with what I believe to be stainless blades. Schrade typically marked later stainless knives with the + symbol, but not always (858OT and 51OT are two examples of not always). This one has patina and stains all over the springs but not a speck on the blades. I stuck one of the blade tips in lasagna and let the sauce sit for about 15 minutes- no staining whatsoever. I will do some more testing to make 100% sure. In later years schrade put stainless blades in models that were previously only carbon. This was a running change and I don't know if the stainless took over completely in some models by the time schrade went under.

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Paul, weren’t all the Uncle Henry knives stainless?

 

[TheChunk91]

Paul, weren’t all the Uncle Henry knives stainless?

Most of them were.

 

[bRCwZJ]

A gift from my Dad more than 40 years ago. He ran the press room and dealt with paper vendors (thus the Norpac swag). Love that sheepsfoot.

 

[Bloefield]

6OT

 

[TheChunk91]

 

[joeradza]

 

[cbach8tw]