Re-bladed Remington Camp knife?

Parke1

Parke1

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I found this locally in a small thrift/antique store, and I'm not 100% sure what I have here, although I have a good guess.

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It's a nice scout/camp pattern, but the tang stamps don't make any sense, and I'm thinking a couple pins were either replaced or someone attempted to tighten them up somehow... The awl blade has REMINGTON UMC in a circle, and the main blade has SCHRADE CUT CO WALDEN NY very faintly stamped on it. I got a decent picture of the Remington stamp, but the schrade one just wouldn't show up for me.

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Even if it is a homebrew knife, which I'm pretty sure is the case, I don't mind too much. I paid a whopping $5 for it, and it has rather nice snap to the blades.

Let me know what you think.
Thanks for looking!
-Parke1
 
Wow! You got a Frankenscout!:eek:

It looks like someone with an old Remington scout that had a worn out blade, transplanted a Schrade clip blade into it. Not bad if it works, and you say it does have good snap. Probably by the time the original Remington blade was worn down, they were long gone out of business, so the next best thing would have to do. Like an old soldier with a wooden leg, the wooden leg is better than no leg at all. The owner was probably not a real knife nut, because he would have known the Remington in original condition would have been worth more than the Frankenknife. But he may have been an old country boy blue collar worker, and loved that knife for beyond normal reasons, so he made do with whatever blade he could lay his hands on. He got more years use out of it for his purpose. Good for him. This would be common for someone who lived through the great depression, and didn't want to waste anything that could be made to serve a little longer. My own dad was like that, never throwing anything out if it could be scavenged in some way for more use.

At least he used a great blade to replace it with. The old 1095 that Schrade used was great stuff.

That's some great old bone on that knife!!

Carl.
 
Frankenscout! I love it!

Thanks for weighing in, Carl. I was pretty sure that was the case, and as I've sat here this morning cleaning it up a bit, I'm sure of it. Whoever grafted that Schrade blade in there certainly did a good job of it. The pins heads could stand to be cleaned up a bit, but I'll leave them just the way they are as a memorial to the effort put into the knife.

-Dan
 
Looks like the bone might be from two different knives as well. The pinched bolsters and punch alone were worth the price of admission. Nice find.
 
ptradeco said:
Looks like the bone might be from two different knives as well. The pinched bolsters and punch alone were worth the price of admission. Nice find.
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Yes, if they were the original scales, there should be a scout shield in there, but there isn't. Good eye!:thumbup:

I thought there may have been pinched bolsters, but I wondered if my old eyes were playing tricks on me or a reflection in the photo.

All in all, it's actually a pretty neat knife. Whoever did the job didn't botch it up.

Carl.
 
Hey, way neat! I love stuff like that, it screams of history from a loving previous owner, and sings ballads of epic adventures it's been on. :thumbup:
 
puukkoman said:
Hey, way neat! I love stuff like that, it screams of history from a loving previous owner, and sings ballads of epic adventures it's been on. :thumbup:
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This captures my sentiments perfectly. This knife tells a story!
 
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