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It's Old Timer time, fellas: Show your U.S.-made OTs
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This knife looks like an 8OT, if it has "Schrade Walden USA" on the main blade and "8OT" on the other side.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.
Just check if it is stamped "8OT" or if it is a "935"
Schrade made then from the mid 1960's to 1973... Ken
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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.
The Spey is now a nice wharncliffe!
Yep you got a 8OT and that spey a Wharncliff now.
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It is very hard to believe the quality of these knives, without having them in your hand.... Ken.
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That knife was an "Old Timer 935" - made by Schrade for Belknap Hardware
Actually, it's stamped 8OT
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Thanks! Does anyone know if there is some place, or someone, that could replace the worn Spey blade and possibly the back spring on that blade? Would it be worth the cost? The other two blades still have a nice snap, but that one is lazy due to wear.
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I was lucky enough to be gifted this beautiful, NIB 98OT Ramrod this week.
Interesting story...I was visiting my Dad for Christmas and he asked if I wanted to go and see a friend of his who owns a hardware store out in the country, as he had a nice display of Case knives. I remembered this man from my youth, during the time when I worked in the hardware store that my Dad managed. "Of course, let's go!" We drove there and walked through the store, admiring the new knives and talking to my dad's friend and his wife. Knowing that I liked knives, the owner said he had some old displays back in his office if I wanted to see them. He asked if I collected knives and I told him I did, but I also carried and used all of my knives.
He had several old Schrade displays that people had offered him money for over the years, sans knives, but he didn't want to sell them. I assumed they were empty, but he unlocked one and opened it and there was still stock inside! I was shaking my head, looking at these new "old" knives, still in their plastic sleeves and dripping with factory oil, when he told me to pick one out if I saw something I liked. I wasn't familiar with the Ramrod, a serpentine medium stockman with a Turkish Clip main blade, but liked the way it looked and felt. I asked him how much and he refused to accept any money for it..."We're not taking any money for knives today."
I now have a beautiful new knife that is even more special, because it was a gift from a fellow knife-lover and good friend of my father.
I had always heard these stories, about the store out in the country with old knives squirreled away, just waiting to be discovered. I had thought them to be mostly fairy tales, but they can be true!
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Now that's a great story!!!
I was lucky enough to be gifted this beautiful, NIB 98OT Ramrod this week.
...I had always heard these stories, about the store out in the country with old knives squirreled away, just waiting to be discovered. I had thought them to be mostly fairy tales, but they can be true!
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Here's a 108OT I cleaned up and sold a week or so ago. I bet someone found it in their stocking this morning!
I've got another one that needs to be de-rusted and the sheep and pen have broken tips to be fixed. That one I'll probably keep for myself.
I've got another one that needs to be de-rusted and the sheep and pen have broken tips to be fixed. That one I'll probably keep for myself.
Hello! A friend recently gifted me this Old Timer when I expressed interest to buy it because of its Wharncliffe blade. I was surprised to find out that it's US made and has liner lock. I tried Google search to find its exact model designation but couldn't find any. Can someone help me identify this? I'm really liking this little knife 
Update: Found the info I wanted:
Update: Found the info I wanted:
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