Knife story - need knowledgable advice

rebeltf

rebeltf

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Thanks in advance for your time.

Howdy folks

I'll put this in a nutshell.

My Dad was in the Coast Guard after high school , while he was enlisted he bought a knife to use , it had a medium Sheepsfoot blade and a rigging spike that released via a lever.

I'm sure you folks have seen these before.

Anyways , since I was a kid I admired that knife , Dad used it fishing mostly , well he gave up fishing several years back and one day was going thru his tackle box , he asked me if I wanted the knife knowing I collect them and honestly I had forgot about it but my eyes lit up , "hell yea I want it Pop !"
Well one night about 9-10 years back I had a small party and the next day I notice my knife was AWOL.
Dunno who stole it or why , that was a long time ago.... anyways.
Since the advent of eBay I have been looking for a replacement for that knife , if I can get the exact same knife I will feel better , I was pissed when I found out the knife got stolen.
However , since then I have also bought five of these types of knives over the past few years , hoping to get the right one to replace it , but it is hard to tell from the pics , when I got the knives in the mail they turned out to not only not be vintage ( some sellers really tick me off) but were quite different from what I thought.
Four of them have been the Camillus models of varying ages, one was a British model that has a blade duller than Saddam's sense of humor.
Point is , none of them have been the right one and until today I could not remember who exactly made Dad's rigger , then I saw this pic on this auction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=190070293938&rd=1&rd=1

I am certain this is the knife (not the exact one :D but a replacement) , I remember the scales on it didnt feel like plastic , they felt solid and not hollow and cheap like the Camillus one's I have got. I remember the lever had writing on it just like this one , even the "look" of it seems right.

Sooooo......... What I am looking for is someone on here who knows about these knives or was maybe in the U.S.C.G. during the 50's or 60's and remember's seeing one of these , or maybe even had one themselves.
I really need to buy a replacement of this knife but I am tired of buying the wrong blade.

Comments , suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Todd
 
It sounds like the one you are looking for is the Schrade, right?

They were made during the Schrade Cut co years, the Walden years ('46-'73), and and even a few years after that. They came in the black composite handles (I don't think these were celluloid), and the jigged delrin as well. There were versions with and without the lock. There was even a Ted Williams model.

I don't know about the CG connection, but the Schrade version is a solid, well-built knife.

Glenn
 
I referred to the Camillus forum because it gave the 1944 Coast Guard specification number. Schrade made these from at least 1932 forward (#7353), almost always illustrated both the lock and shackle. They were mostly jigged bone, but for a while before WWII they were offered with solid nickle silver covers. I don't see the stamped lever appearing in the catalogs until 1961. At that time, the jigged bone had been replaced with the newly available jigged delrin, called "Unbreakable Staglon". Other plastics may have been used as far back as the early to mid 1950's. The pattern number is 735. Of course a knife stamped Schrade Cut Co. would be prior to 1946, and a Schrade Walden stamp would be 1946-1973. Schrade would be 1973 -2004, and Geo. Schrade would be pre 1958, if such a puppy exists. The government specs on this knife may well call for cocobolo or ebony wood, I dunno. The Staglon Delrin does look and feel like solid bone, but it is more dinensionally stable and impact resistant.



Michael
 
Wow thanks a ton for the replies.

I am glad I remember the scales feeling - heavy and authentic - is the way I would put it , you know how hollow plastic handles feel , they dont feel right. That's how the Cam's I have bought so far feel , the British one is a Spencer from 1977 assuming so because it is stamped on the blade , nice dense wood for the scales anyways...

I'm pretty darn positive now that it was a Schrade , post 61 since it had the stamped lever.

Thanks again :)
 
Here is one with the plastic handles but it's not hollow, feels nice and solid.
Rick
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