Old Timer Handle material

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I am looking through an older Schrade catalog that shows many knives dated 1998 for Duck Stamps on the third page. I am very curious about page 4 where there are many Old Timer knives and there is a statement where they are manufactured by saw cut Derlin, when was this handle material, color, design etc... started for the Old Timer line of knives.

Thanks in advance for any info-

Arnold
 
I think the only bone old timers were the 2OT (discontinued), 3OT (never made it to production, most examples now in Australia:grumpy::D), and a very limited number of 8OT's, I'm not sure on the dates for the 8OT's but I believe the 2 and 3OT's were circa 1959 or so. All other OT's started and continued as delrin save for some special edition bone models. There should be some other folks here with more info, including some possible corrections on my dating and models :confused::D.

Eric
 
You have it pretty well covered Eric. The Dupont Delrin factory didn't get up and running until about 1960, though there were very limited amounts of Delrin available before then. Delrin was patented in the mid/late 1950's, but it took some process refinement and an entirely new dedicated factory to bring it fully to market. Bone Old Timers (before bone was reintroduced as special order and limited editions) are fairly rare, though a few were made in the first years.

Michael
 
G'Day, Larry has a flyer on his outstanding site...page 3 top left corner,Schrade Walden flyers which is dated 1965 showing the 8OT in display box stating Meerschaum bone handles.I have that model minty in original box with papers...beautiful knife.Different nail nick to later model 8OT's. Hoo Roo.
 
Welcome to the forum from one Arnold to another.I hope they don't confuse you with me they will ban us both.:DArnold
 
I think the only bone old timers were the 2OT (discontinued), 3OT (never made it to production, most examples now in Australia), and a very limited number of 8OT's, I'm not sure on the dates for the 8OT's but I believe the 2 and 3OT's were circa 1959 or so. All other OT's started and continued as delrin save for some special edition bone models.
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The 34OT SS commemorative had bone handles I think.
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The 1985 Anniversary set (108OT, 34OT, 8OT) had smooth red bone handles. The Old Timer Classics (OTC 72, 80, 94, 96) had beautiful jigged red bone handles.

Some other Old Timers were made with wooden handles, like the 14OT that I have. It was probably destined to be a DU knife or similar, but was never marked with the logo.

Of course the Safe-T-Grip Old Timer models had molded rubber handles.

And the Grand Dad's Old Timer knives had black handles, but I think they were black Delrin.

Now, if you check eBay, the Chinese Reproductions are available in all sorts of materials. Ram horn, turquois, desert ironwood, etc.
 
Wow!!! Thanks to all for such quick responses and all of the information provided!

Larry303 mentioned a website that pictured a Schrade Walden flyer on page 3, does anyone have that webaddress and I will give it a look?

I am also curious about Schrade's line of staglon handles, with basically the same questions.

Once again thanks in advance-
Arnold LF (LF to keep me and TobyRogers for being mixed up :) )
 
Staglon was also injection molded Delrin but with a stag antler texture molded in. It was accent dyed, then buffed to reveal the lighter colored Delrin base material on high spots and near the bolsters. Staglon is first seen on the 897UH in 1967 and was used on most other Uncle Henry knives thereafter. Exceptions being the lockback patterns which used "Winewood", or Fibron impregnated wood. There were some variants of even some of these where Staglon was tried. A few other patterns of faux jigging were also tried both before and after the Staglon pattern was adopted for the UH line.

The website you are asking about is here:

http://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/

With a lot of time and effort, Larry Vickery has archived a load of Schrade information for collector research. He has made the site as user friendly as possible without dancing bears, lettering that chases your cursor, or picture files that take forever to load on dialup. The images are slightly degraded from the originals and in most cases watermarked to prevent them from being pirated and sold as originals on eBay. It is the best resource available for Schrade research in addition to this forum.

Michael
 
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