Old Timer Question

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Hello Everyone
I’m new here and am here to learn. Recently I saw an old timer(34ot) with the Schrade NY USA marking. It had what appeared to be saw cut bone handles. Would this have been some kind of limited edition? I'm sorry but I didn't get pictures.
Thanks MC
 
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Mud Cat said:
Hello Everyone
I’m new here and am here to learn. Recently I saw an old timer(34ot) with the Schrade NY USA marking. It had what appeared to be saw cut bone handles. Would this have been some kind of limited edition? I'm sorry but I didn't get pictures.
Thanks MC
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There was a series which had bone covers and had a shield with dots around it I seem to remember.
Is that what you're talking about?

I know they were some kind of special edition or commemorative of some kind, but can't remember what for or when they made them.
 
BTI Schrade has a few "Generational" (or is it "Generations" or "Heritage"?) models that are made in the USA in production.
I am pretty sure the 34OT is one of them.
I don't know who makes them for BTI, or if like the original US made 34OT they have 1095 blades, or like the 34OTY/OTW have 440A blades, or if the covers are bone or Delrin.

I don't "think" they are a "Limited Edition", since they have been in production for a couple years now.

I think the lower cost offshore 34OT (and 8OT) with saw cut Delrin covers is still in production.

One thing:
Prior to the bankruptcy in 2004, Schrade USA made a change to the tang stamp on Old Timer knives with covers other than the standard Saw Cut Delrin.
For example: "8OTY" for an 8OT with smooth yellow Delrin covers, and 8OTW for the same knife with wood covers. I think they also had "Schrade+" in the tang stamp.

BTI Schrade has an offshore produced 8OTB and 858OTB with saw cut bone covers and a 9CR18MoV blade steel upgrade from the standard 7CR14MoV used on the 8OT and 858OT.
 
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Thanks for the replies gentleman, however this knife was not a recent example. It had bone covers and the blades were pitted with a very heavy patina. It looked just like any other original Schrade NY USA. Except with bone. I’ve seen the BTI—this wasn’t it.
 
RickHuf said:
The newer generational series has the 34ot (middleman) included and it has saw cut looking chestnut bone covers. Made in USA. Darn good looking knife too.
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The current / recent examples are made by Bear & Sons and do not look anything like the original Schrades because they are just rebrands of existing B&S knives.
They are 1095 carbon steel as far as I know and of course because the handle covers are all wrong.
At least the Sharpfinger in the series does resemble an original since B&S has been making their close copy for quite awhile now.
 
Always like the Sharpfinger from the past. Recall when a subscription to Outdoor Life Magazine would get you one for free back in the 60s or early 70s. Am certain those were still the U.S.A made knives too back then. Quite a deal back then.
 
I did some Googling and all I could find with bone covers were the silver anniversary series from 1984.
They had the shield I was thinking of, but were smooth bone.
I could swear I've seen some others with the shield I was thinking of, I don't know if there were anything with Sawcut bone though.

There were some kind of premium special edition Schrades made by QUEEN or GEC or somebody in the past 20 years, they weren't OT's and I believe they had some sort of reproduction Schrade tang stamp.
 
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Zoom in... Something like this?

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The Heritage Series are all I can think of. During the “last days” of Imperial Schrade a lot of unique knives were assembled. I have a red bone 8OT that was clearly assembled using Heritage parts (bone handles and bolsters) but without the Heritage shield. Check out Codger in the Bernard Levine historic knives forum, he knows as much as anyone alive about Schrade. OH
 
mauser9 said:
Always like the Sharpfinger from the past.
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I'm a huge fan of the original Sharpfingers. We had an old biker, friend of the family for years who wore one in the front. He was killed in an accident back around 1980 and I've inherited his knife. It's "as it was" 40+ years ago.

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I have a few and will still buy them when I bump into them if the price is right, although that's getting to be less and less these days.
 
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