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I'm getting a bad feeling about this. No, The handle scales are not saw cut delrin, they are wood, something I should have noticed. The seller does claim that the tang stamp says USA.
I paid $35.00. How badly did I get hosed?
No, entirely different blade pattern. But his does have the Asian wood laminate handle covers and small brass rivets so... Well, at $35 you got a decent user blade but discriminating collectors generally do not consider the overseas finished pallet blades to be collectable.I would not buy a knife that came with one of those "special certificates".
A friend in the U.S.A. sent me a book of those "special certificates" containing 100 certificates.
This is a knife that may have been were the blades came from, to make the knife you have shown above.
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My knife arrived today. the inscription reads "Shrade + USA Ltd" It looks exactly like the one on Codger's post.
The blade looks quite nicely finished and certainly well sharpened. I still don't understand why there would be any unfinished thirty year old blades left at the Shrade plant but, perhaps, someone here has the answer.