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

I'm pretty fond of the Sharpfinger...152OT The 4 in the center were done by Herman Williams....jigged bone with the jigging done with the same machine Schrade used, Ram's Horn, Amber carved bone and Sambar stag. The ones with the New York Knife Co. tang stamp were made by Schrade. Herman did the two 156OT's as well with Crimson carved bone and Lapis Blue carved bone.

 
Cheers, Deltaboy, Blademan 13.

Yeah, if you haven't already looked it up, the 36OT only had a two year production run from 1990-92.

I reckon it's a fantastic configuration. The Stockman's one of my favourite patterns, and it was actually a clapped out 8OT that came into my hands a few years ago that brought me back to traditional patterns, and into being a Porch denizen.

One thing I love about the pattern is how people utilise the three-blade toolbox it presents. You've got the Mr Van school (from Jackknife's tales) who keep one butterknife dull blade as a shoe scraper and gasket cleaner, and general dirty work tool.

Then you have the punters who keep the spey ground thin as a razor and hair-poppin' sharp, in reserve, and rarely used for whenever you need a scalpel blade.

I tend to be one of the latter, but because my clip and sheepfoot tend to get 95% of the work, I was pretty excited to see a knife with those two blades in a well heat treated carbon steel with a good punch instead of a spey.

Banished my misgivings about whether I should have ordered a 2016 BF Traditional Forum knife in an instant, I can tell you.

Mostly, what it's been used for is sticking a Ballistol or Camellia oiled bit of cotton wool onto the awl end and cleaning out the blade channel of my other traditionals!





 
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This is a NIB 36OT.
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Very nice 36 there, koldgold.

I was pleased to recently receive these three users from the US. I'm kind of new to Schrades and OTs. Handling these, I can see why they became the post-Sheffield standard for good quality, sturdy, inexpensive cutting tools for farm and station use and small game hunting here in Australia.



The 8OT at the bottom of the photo was very well used and worn from rough power grinding and filing, when I received it as a gift. Originally it had been brought back from the 1999-2000 Interfet operation in East Timor, as a souvenir.

The 194OT was pretty much new, and is a particularly nice design, I think. Big enough to be a useful paring and camp cooking knife, with beautiful slim lines, it sits really well and has great poise in the hand.



Maybe one of you Schrade experts could tell me why it has that Limited Edition shield?

I can't see anything different about it from other standard OT badged 194 photos on the net. It does seem to have particularly nice fit and finish. In fact it was so clean, I was struck by the awful thought that it might be a late model stainless blade without the + stamping, but a quick lemon and onion slicing test put me at ease on that front! (All my knives get used, so I'm never concerned about keeping them in collector condition.)
 
I think the Old Timer shield went missing and someone used the LE shield as a replacement. Lots of those shields were interchangeable so they could use the same tooling and jigs. Great knives!

Eric
 
Thanks for the kind words Eric.

Right, that would make sense about the shield - it does sit quite proud of the covers in a way the OT shields don't. Although the knife does seem in almost new condition, I'd be surprised if there was another shield previously there that was knocked out. I did find an old photo of a 194OT on the exchange with the same shield - but of course that could be a photo of this same knife a couple of owners ago.

Orca8589, who I got these from, did mention that he had two more of these - I wonder if they also had the same shield?
 
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Very nice. I had no idea U.S. Schrade had made a gut hook in a pattern that size.

~Chris
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I just saw one of these for the first time last Sunday at the flea market. There's an old timer there who specializes in Old Timers ;) and he made sure to show me that one. Sadly my debit card had just expired so I wasn't able to pull out any cash, but I'm hoping to see him again tomorrow morning... hoping, because I don't know if it will be open on Veteran's Day. I sure would love give and handful of dollars with one of our most celebrated hero's face on it to a veteran in exchange for a USA-made traditional pocket knife on Veteran's Day though! :thumbup:
 
enjoyed everyone's pictures.

I would love to find a usa made 36OT user. It may be the perfect blade combination (my opinion). There are some out there, collector quality, that fetch a pretty penny.
 
Only have a well used/abused 7OT (needed a brass hammer a couple times, and I 'graved my name onto it in case it was ever stolen, so it would lack pawn value and make it easy to I.D.) and a run of the mill 6OT.
 
Bloefield, you've got some great knives there! Thanks for sharing!
 
Here's one I picked up recently at a flea market. I don't know much about it though. The main blade and the sheepsfoot blade still have great snap, but the Spey blade has seen better days.
 
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Sorry for the confusion in the previous post. I think it's fixed now
 
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