Look what I found today!

Here's an old U.S. Schrade 77OT that I got off of ebay; one blade tip was broken off and the other was bent. I worked both down to Wharncliffe profiles, and it's a great slicer & carver now.


Just some ideas for you for that main blade. ;)

~Chris
 
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orca8589 said:
Here's an old U.S. Schrade 77OT that I got off of ebay; one blade tip was broken off and the other was bent. I worked both down to Wharncliffe profiles, and it's a great slicer & carver now.


Just some ideas for you for that main blade. ;)

~Chris
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Wow... I really like that! That not only looks original, but I would bet it is quite handy, too. Makes me think I should look around for a suitable knife to grind into that pattern.

Good stuff!

Robert
 
Thanks brother! Now I know its atleast 15 years older than me :-) makes it almost a honor to carry it!

Also, that reprofile is awesome! Its got me thinking either warncliff or sheep foot for mine!
 
Thanks, guys. I like sheepsfoot and Wharncliffe blades anyway; I grew up in North Carolina, and a lot of the older generation liked them too. If you know how to use a stone, you can keep either style nice and pointy.

One of my uncles used a big sheepsfoot (Case Loomfixer?) to pick splinters out of our hands when several us kids ran our hands along an old wooden fence during a family reunion. He'd roll the top of the blade along the narrow edge of an old Arkansas stone. The point of his knife was sharper than even the narrow clip points I see on smaller Case knives today.

Good lessons from good days.

Upper left in this pic is an old 858OT with a messed up spay, that was turned into a stout little Wharncliffe type.
Upper right is an old 108OT that had the sheepsfoot's tip broken off: I worked it from the top down and it looked like new.
Lower left in the pic here is an old 34OT that had the same issues. Broke main & sheepfoot & spay. Main became a sheepfoot/Wharncliffe style, sheepfoot made shorter with a new tip, and spay turned into a screwdriver that fits most of the screws on my Winchester Model 94. They all look nasty, but they're all sharp, have good snap, and I don't mind working them much harder than I will my other traditionals.
Lower right is the 77OT from the previous post.


~Chris
 
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:eek: Definitely thinking sheepfoot! Nasty? No! Loved/Used? Absolutley! The worse for ware my knives are the more I love them. It just shows they have been used like tools as they were intended. Great looking Old Timers brother!
 
I just finnished profiling the blade into a sheepfoot! I kinda like it better this way. Well, here are the pics :) enjoy!



 
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congrats on the radical find, and a good job cleaning that thing up. Sure attests to one of stainless steels main attributes. Hows the snap on that puppy?
 
Nice find. I never find anything that nice while I'm out... :rolleyes: Did find a dollar on the ground yesterday though...
 
Wow! Get this... its been in my pockets for 4 days straight with this south Alabama heat and humidity. Has been used often. To my surprise it holds an edge better than my Case Trapperlock in cv ! :eek: can someone explain this? I very amazed at this little Schrade, yet disappointed now with my trapperlock that I've had since 2011 as a edc. Let me know guys.
 
Schrade ran their carbon steel harder than Case runs their CV. Over the years I have read a number of posts commenting on the superior edge holding of the Schrade knives.
 
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Schrade ran their carbon steel harder than Case runs their CV. Over the years I have read a number of posts commenting on the superior edge holding of the Schrade knives.
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Absolutely true, but that's been the double edge blessing and curse of Schrade. I've seen a lot of very old Schrade-Waldens to Schrade Old Timers that have had one or more blades snapped off short or missing points. The Schrade 1095 is a cutting son of a gun in a knife, but it won't stand for much, if any abuse. Probably how the blade got broken off on yours to start with. Some idiot owner in it's past thinking "Oh, I'll just stick my knife blade in here and pry this up a bit..." and then he heard a nice crisp snap. :eek:
 
An 825 huh? I have one of those, I love it! Mine's got jigged delrin. :)
 
But see that's just it! My schrade is stainless and my case is Cv..... odd that the stainless hold an edge longer than the cv in a humid environment isn't it?
 
Nute said:
But see that's just it! My schrade is stainless and my case is Cv..... odd that the stainless hold an edge longer than the cv in a humid environment isn't it?
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I'm not tracking here.
1) why would it be odd that stainless would outperform non-stainless in a humid environment?
2) Why would it be odd for stainless to outperform non-stainless in any environment?
 
I guess because I've held case's cv so highly for so long for its edge retention. That was the reason I went to case and they're cv. All of my stainless blades would lose edge retention from 100 degree heat, sweat, and humidity in my pocket in a days time. This is strange to me that this particular stainless hold out better than my beloved case cv. I'm honestly dumbfounded. Lol
 
The 2nd blade was originally a sheepsfoot... that particular rendition of the slim stockman pattern (825) changed in 1964 and put out with threaded bolsters, and razor blade finished blades... and the shield engraving was filled red in color. With Stainless being engraved on the shield and Derlin handles, I'd put it early 1960's, this one (yours Nute) I believe is a little older than the 1964 version shown in the flyer, but not 100% sure. In 1973, Walden was dropped from the stamp.

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"Schrade +" was 440A, which they ran at about 59 HRC according to an old brochure. Schrade did wonderful things with relatively simple alloys because they heat treated them to high hardness. Buck does similar wonders with 420HC.
 
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