My growing collection of Craftsman knives

[Doug Add]

The arrival this week of the Craftsman 9507 peanut adds a knife that is similar (in different ways) to my other two Craftsmen.

The 95041 and 9507 peanuts have a similar frame and size.

The 9473 stockman and 9507 peanut have similar jigged delrin.

All three together

 

[glennbad]

Nice ones, Doug! Scooping them up, eh? I believe at least one of those is a Schrade.

Glenn

 

[Doug Add]

Thanks Glenn. Yes, I believe the two jigged delrin knives are made by Schrade. I have been told the sawcut delrin peanut is a Camillus-made knife.

 

[glennbad]

That looks about right. I have an Ace Hardware Peanut in smooth delrin like yours that is a Schrade.

Now, go get more!

 

[Jack Black]

Interesting knives Doug. Had to Google them as I'm embarrassed to say I'd never heard of them before.

 

[Doug Add]

Now I'm not so sure about the manufacturer of the Sears Craftsman 95041 cream sawcut peanut. When I first got it I assumed it was Schrade, and posted accordingly. Then someone told me it was probably Camillus. I noted its similarity to my Camillus 22 pony jack, and agreed.

Now that I have the Craftsman 9507 I am wondering if both of these Craftsman peanuts are Schrade knives. The size, frame, and blades appear to be identical. To me, the 95041 looks much more similar to the 9507 than to the 22 pony jack. The main similarity between the 95041 and the 22 is the angle of the clip blade when open.

95041 pictured between the Camillus 22 on top and 9507 on bottom:

 

[Doug Add]

Interesting knives Doug. Had to Google them as I'm embarrassed to say I'd never heard of them before.

Well, Craftsman is a U.S. brand of tool sold by the Sears company, so they probably don't have much international presence.

 

[rprocter]

I have been collecting the pre WW II Craftsman jigged bone folders that were made by Camillus. Here are pictures of a few of them:

They are very solid 'work' knives of the same quality as Ulster Knife Co. or Schrade Cut. Co. of the same era. You can get an idea from this pic of the knife spine springs:

Here are few representative examples:

roland

 

[festerfromnzed]

those are some beautiful knives there!....the only Craftsman i own or have ever owned is the Deerslayer in top of pic (thanks Codger 64)...It was definitely better finished than the other 2 OLD TIMERS i own.... FES

 

[Doug Add]

Wow Roland, those are fantastic! Thank you for letting us gawk at them.

 

[rprocter]

The old time Sears & Sears Robuck had very savy buyers for just about everything. It was the reason behind The great success Sears used to have. The Sears knife buyers (Codger knows a lot about them) managed to get Camillus to provide them with standard patterns but usually with some features changed to make it 'better' and unique to Sears. So, yes, these are really fine knives.
But, don't go to Sears now, all this has been 'dead' for decades.

roland

 

[zippofan]

I love smaller knives and those Craftsmen are sweet. So are Roland's, that gunstock is terrific!