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

[Bob W]

Here are the four knives released in the Grand Dad's Old Timer series:

Here are the four from the Old Timer Classic series. These were sold individually or in a complete framed set.

Someone posted an Old Timer honesteel earlier. There are several variations.

Old Timer knives were often ordered with special markings for safety awards, sales awards, or as promotional items for businesses.

Ford Racing anyone?

I even have one for Leggs pantyhose.

 

[Bob W]

A couple oddballs. Schrade had a long history of factory error knives, and mix-and-match knives were sold by the truckload during the final days of factory production. If the parts fit together they belong together, seems to have been the motto during the rush to get as many completed knives out the door even as the banks were padlocking the factory.

I don't think the 8OT blade belongs on this Heritage knife.

I have no idea what this was originally destined to become.

There aren't too many of these around.

The trappers were especially prone to having parts swapped. UH, OT, and Schrade blades and handles mix-matched in unlimited configurations.

Especially confusing to new collectors, China-made modern imported Old Timer knives and parts enter the mix. Sometimes the parts were mixed in a less-than forthright manner. Here we have 100th Anniversary shields and tins, remnants from the Schrade factory, being added to Taylor Brands' imported Old Timer knives.

 

[koldgold]

Here are the four from the Old Timer Classic series. These were sold individually or in a complete framed set.

Hi Bob,
The knives in the Classic set, were sold one at a time (over some months) - and came in white boxes.
The Display came at no cost, to start your collection.
The knives were all numbered in sets, and the little man with the hammer (under the bird hook knife) was engraved on the bolsters.
The knives sold by them self, came in the white box - without serial numbers or the little man.

This is one of the knives, that were sold separately.

I also have the Classic's that came in tins. Ken.

 

[Bob W]

Hi Bob,
The knives were all numbered in sets, and the little man with the hammer (under the bird hook knife) was engraved on the bolsters.

Hi mate. I have one of the framed sets also, but no photo handy of those. Mine is set #12.


Notice in the photo here that the stockman does not have the blade etch. It came loose with no packaging, I think an unfinished example from the closed factory. The stockman came loose with no packaging; the other three came in tins.

 

[deltaboy]

Great thread I am learning so much.

 

[Bob W]

Among the ocean of 34OT and 8OT knives, there are some much less common.

An Old Timer with scissors, the 106OT.

Two models contained a scribe and tweezers in the handle, the 96OT and 97OT.

 

[ea42]

I have no idea what this was originally destined to become.

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Bob, that was actually a legit knife done as a budget promotional item for Walker Mufflers and Monroe shocks. Strange as it may seem those handles are finished, only thing missing is the etch.

Eric

 

[Bob W]

Bob, that was actually a legit knife done as a budget promotional item for Walker Mufflers and Monroe shocks. Strange as it may seem those handles are finished, only thing missing is the etch.

Eric

It sure looks unfinished, especially where the wood tapers down to the tang. I prefer this one:

 

[koldgold]

It sure looks unfinished, especially where the wood tapers down to the tang. I prefer this one:

Hi Old Mate Bob, nice one there. When are you coming back, down-under.
Those "14OT Timberline" knives were only made from 1978 to 1980.
I looked for some time, trying to find one of those 106OTs - A friend in the U.S. sent me two of them NIB... Ken

 

[Bob W]

Hi Old Mate Bob, nice one there.

Those "14OT Timberline" knives were only made from 1978 to 1980.
I looked for some time, trying to find one of those 106OTs - A friend in the U.S. sent me two of them NIB... Ken

The 15-OT seems less common, but neither is abundant if looking for NIB examples.

When are you coming back, down-under.

Not until tomorrow. I'll be in Campbelltown for a couple of days, prepping equipment for a longer trip in November when I'm driving from Sydney to Perth.

 

[deltaboy]

Keep them coming .

 

[DWWEBBER]

A couple oddballs. Schrade had a long history of factory error knives, and mix-and-match knives were sold by the truckload during the final days of factory production. If the parts fit together they belong together, seems to have been the motto during the rush to get as many completed knives out the door even as the banks were padlocking the factory.

I don't think the 8OT blade belongs on this Heritage knife.

I have no idea what this was originally destined to become.

There aren't too many of these around.

The trappers were especially prone to having parts swapped. UH, OT, and Schrade blades and handles mix-matched in unlimited configurations.

Especially confusing to new collectors, China-made modern imported Old Timer knives and parts enter the mix. Sometimes the parts were mixed in a less-than forthright manner. Here we have 100th Anniversary shields and tins, remnants from the Schrade factory, being added to Taylor Brands' imported Old Timer knives.

I know this is an old thread but here is a picture of a completed wood handle 14OT before and after the Herman Williams treatment. They were a SFO for Walkers Mufflers and were give-ways.

 

[deltaboy]

Great old Timers.

 

[FatCity67]

Nice mammoth tooth 14OT.

Here's a couple of Trappers I picked up. 97OT Buzzsaw and 96OT Bearhead

 

[DWWEBBER]

"Nice mammoth tooth 14OT."
Thank's but that's Ram's horn on the 14OT

Here's a couple 33OT's all dressed up with some jade bone and Sambar stag
.

 

[deltaboy]

Great looking OT's

 

[WhittlinAway]

Wow. Fantastic!

 

[Cambertree]

Cool thread, lots of interesting knives and information. :thumbup:

Reposting this from the EDC thread -

I was at a friends place last weekend and almost as an afterthought, they pulled out a tupperware container from a cupboard and showed me the contents.

One of their previous jobs had been at a place where people have to go through a metal detector and empty their pockets before entering. He told me that there was a huge box there full of sharp and pointy EDC tools people had forfeited or didn't care about enough to come back to get when they left. The good stuff got picked over pretty quick, he said, but there were a few odds and ends he picked up for his toolbox on site. Some cheap chinese junk, of course; warehouse workers' boxcutters and Stanley knives, an imitation SAK...

I immediately zeroed in on this treasure, though.

A Schrade 36OT in excellent working order, pretty much unused, with just a bit of rust and some paint spots on it.

I cleaned it up, refined and sharpened the edges, and that sucker went straight into my pocket!







And a before shot -

 

[DWWEBBER]

Thanks Greg, I've been collecting Herman Willliams' Schrades for quite a few years. He just did the one in jade bone...amazing that he is still working on knives at 79.

 

[deltaboy]

Cool thread, lots of interesting knives and information. :thumbup:

Reposting this from the EDC thread -

I was at a friends place last weekend and almost as an afterthought, they pulled out a tupperware container from a cupboard and showed me the contents.

One of their previous jobs had been at a place where people have to go through a metal detector and empty their pockets before entering. He told me that there was a huge box there full of sharp and pointy EDC tools people had forfeited or didn't care about enough to come back to get when they left. The good stuff got picked over pretty quick, he said, but there were a few odds and ends he picked up for his toolbox on site. Some cheap chinese junk, of course; warehouse workers' boxcutters and Stanley knives, an imitation SAK...

I immediately zeroed in on this treasure, though.

A Schrade 36OT in excellent working order, pretty much unused, with just a bit of rust and some paint spots on it.

I cleaned it up, refined and sharpened the edges, and that sucker went straight into my pocket!







And a before shot -

Nice clean up of that Old Timer.