Queston for Schrade Historians on Schrade Open Stock Knives

[winchester73]

As from my previous post, I just discovered these knives and the scales on them whether bone or delrin look much much better than Old Timer saw cut delrin. I know Schrade's supplier for bone scales burned to the ground and this is why they went to delrin but why the saw cut handles when the open stock jigged scales looked so much better?

 

[tongueriver]

They were trying for a new market niche, with Old Timer & Uncle Henry branding. It worked. Other companies tinkered around with some trademarks like Shuredge, etc. but nobody rocked the boat like Baer did, with radically different look, and eminently memorable brandings. And not just handles. Some of the fixed blades especially were very different than what had become sort of a stagnant stylistic portfolio in the marketplace.

 

[thawk]

Winchester did you snag the 233?

 

[winchester73]

I got it. I still think it's delrin but I had Radial Keratotomy for near sightedness back when it was with knives not laser and after 19 years my vision fluctuates with pressure so... I am getting a magnifying glass to see if it is bone. It is a Schrade Walden but as you said it could be either bone or delrin. Either way I guess $35.00 was not too bad.