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LB-7 Steel question
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I'd lean in his direction with no +. "No such thing" and Schrade are not uttered in the same breathe. I'd have to see the picture and maybe the blade in person. What is the exact stamp?
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Just because the tang stamp does not have the + on it doesn't mean that the blade is carbon steel. However, if it does have the + it is stainless.
When the LB-7 first came out (c. 1977), it had carbon steel blades. The tang stamp was Schrade/LB-7.
I had some questions about the LB-7 some time back so I went to the source.....LT.
I think I probably posted this here or in another forum (likely both), but I will post it again so you can see it in context.
This should answer Seals question and then some.
Dale
LB Series Knife Markings
I spoke with LT yesterday. I asked him what the reason was behind the different tang stampings on knives in the LB series.
Using the LB-7 as an example, you may find knives marked as; Schrade/LB-7, Schrade+/LB-7, Uncle Henry/LB-7.
LT said the Schrade and the Uncle Henry markings were done simultaneously. The Uncle Henry knives were all stainless steel, (I know there are exceptions, I'm speaking here in generalities). Initially an LB-7 stamped with Schrade was a carbon steel blade. An LB-7 stamp with Uncle Henry would have been a stainless steel blade. At some point Schrade stopped using carbon steel entirely in the LB series and instead of dropping the Schrade LB-7 they changed the stamping to Schrade+. They made two stainless steel LB-7 knives at the same time, one with the Schrade + stamp and one with the Uncle Henry stamp.
In preparing this information I went back to check the catalogs for the first appearance of the LB-7, it first appears in 1979. In my research I have noticed that Schrade will sometimes release a knife prior to its appearance in the catalog. I was suspicious of this because the 1979 Short Line catalog does not note that the LB-7 is new that year. It does however note that the 7OT was new in 1979. So I started checking the Schrade flyers on Larry's website (collectors-of-schrades) and found flyers were the LB-7 dated 1978 and 1977. Obviously the LB-7 was around quite a while before its first appearance in the Short Line catalog of 1979.
This information brings up more questions than it answers, in my mind, but it does establish one thing: the LB-7 is always shown as part of the Uncle Henry line of knives, even if it does not have the Uncle Henry tang stamp are shield.
What this information does establish, to my initial satisfaction, is that there was never a separate line of LB patterns that were Schrade brand as differentiated from Uncle Henry brand.
When the LB-7 first came out (c. 1977), it had carbon steel blades. The tang stamp was Schrade/LB-7.
I had some questions about the LB-7 some time back so I went to the source.....LT.
I think I probably posted this here or in another forum (likely both), but I will post it again so you can see it in context.
This should answer Seals question and then some.
Dale
LB Series Knife Markings
I spoke with LT yesterday. I asked him what the reason was behind the different tang stampings on knives in the LB series.
Using the LB-7 as an example, you may find knives marked as; Schrade/LB-7, Schrade+/LB-7, Uncle Henry/LB-7.
LT said the Schrade and the Uncle Henry markings were done simultaneously. The Uncle Henry knives were all stainless steel, (I know there are exceptions, I'm speaking here in generalities). Initially an LB-7 stamped with Schrade was a carbon steel blade. An LB-7 stamp with Uncle Henry would have been a stainless steel blade. At some point Schrade stopped using carbon steel entirely in the LB series and instead of dropping the Schrade LB-7 they changed the stamping to Schrade+. They made two stainless steel LB-7 knives at the same time, one with the Schrade + stamp and one with the Uncle Henry stamp.
In preparing this information I went back to check the catalogs for the first appearance of the LB-7, it first appears in 1979. In my research I have noticed that Schrade will sometimes release a knife prior to its appearance in the catalog. I was suspicious of this because the 1979 Short Line catalog does not note that the LB-7 is new that year. It does however note that the 7OT was new in 1979. So I started checking the Schrade flyers on Larry's website (collectors-of-schrades) and found flyers were the LB-7 dated 1978 and 1977. Obviously the LB-7 was around quite a while before its first appearance in the Short Line catalog of 1979.
This information brings up more questions than it answers, in my mind, but it does establish one thing: the LB-7 is always shown as part of the Uncle Henry line of knives, even if it does not have the Uncle Henry tang stamp are shield.
What this information does establish, to my initial satisfaction, is that there was never a separate line of LB patterns that were Schrade brand as differentiated from Uncle Henry brand.
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Actually it was a customized knife with what he called Celestial scales on it.I went to get the item number and i guess i have erased it from my watch list.I was broke at the time(not unusual) and didn't bid.I do remember it sold in the mid $60 range.Pretty cheap for all that inlay.I guess the mystery wont be solved,but i've learned there are some carbon LB7 blades out there.Thanks for that.Now i feel the need to track one down and add it to my case.:thumbup: