My new Lit'l Finger

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I just bought this knife on Ebay. It's a Shrade 1560T. I haven't received it yet, so I posted this photo I copied off the Ebay post.

Can anyone supply info on this model?

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Mfg. '79 to '84. I believe the certificate was just a marketing scheme for post-bankruptcy vendors. Maybe. In this particular case, none had been made for some 18 years. I think someone said those papers were printed in amounts that required pallets to load onto the truck to perhaps Smoky Mountain and others. Maybe.
Is yours the standard brown sawcut Delrin with OLD TIMER shield or does it have Chinese pakkawood handles on a "real" Schrade blade, or....?
 
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?
 
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?

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.
 
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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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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.
 
well, strictly speaking I'm not a collector. All of my blades are "users," having been used at one time or another by me, some other family member, or someone else. Like the Shrade knives of the same name I'm an Old Timer; someone who believes that knives are tools and are meant to be used.

I do hope that at least part of the blade I just paid for was made somewhere in the United States of America, although there's probably no way to determine that.

I'll use it to peel potatoes and for a reminder to do my research next time, before I spend my cash. That you all for your input. I'm not so much embarrassed as edified.
 
The blade is original USA. I don't peel my potatoes. The skins have good stuff in them. I do peel my whitetails.
 
Here is the original 156OT Lit'l Finger. Don't feel bad about your purchase. It's a good knife for 35 bucks.

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I've always liked small size fixed blade knives. They're non threatening on your hip and the blade is usually large enough for whatever I use a knife for.

As for peeling whitetails, I'm more of a fisherman than a hunter. This particular blade shape isn't really appropriate for the "peeling" of walleye. In any case, that particular task has been passed on to my grandson, along with a bunch of my knives.

I'm just curious how the blade of a knife that hasn't been manufactured for thirty years came3 into the hands of whomever attached a handle to it. I guess I'll have to wait and see what information is contained on the tang inscription.
 
Looks like the blade isn't finished yet. There was a post in the past where it was said that the unfinished blades were bought and sent to China to get handles but I am sure they would have put an edge on the blade.
 
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.
 
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.


Here is one explanation for the markings on the blade. The standard 156Ot didn't have the Schrade+ blade, so your blade appears to be something left over from a limited run. Probably just layed around with a box full of them in a corner somewhere in the plant till they closed.

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I bought one of them also. Has a laminated walnut handle stamped schrade+ usa Ltd. Nice knife and sheath, very sharp. Its a user. I seem to be turning into a collector though. Its still a schrade usa blade to me.
 
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