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65hoss

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I'm happier right now than a kid at Christmas. Every so often we see someone that finds REAL Schrades at old hardware stores. I always get a little jealous over it.

But not today. I have 5 brand new "Proudly Made in the U.S.A." Schrades sitting in front of me.
3--LB7 Bear Paw Lockback Uncle Henry Schrades with the leather sheaths and boxes.
2--Old Timer 890T Blazer pocket knives with Carbon Steel.

I'm not sure what year these were made, but I know they haven't seen the light of day in several years.

I couldn't resist due to it was probably a once in a lifetime opportunity these days.

I...I...I...I...may have to leave the Yellow handle CV Case medium stockman at h...h...h...h...ome. That is hard to say, but this 890T is one well built jewel of a knife.
 
Congratulations Hoss.

That steering wheel is going to pull a little harder from now on when you pass a store that might still have a Schrade in there. Did you find them in a store? If so, did you feel a little like a bandit when you headed for the truck?
 
I found them in an old small mom and pop hardware store about a mile from my house. I did leave 2 or maybe 3 LB7's there. Nobody has touched these knives in several years...I was amazed to find them right under my nose all this time. I've walked by them many many times. I bent down a little lower today and noticed U.S.A on both. My heart started pumping a little harder...then as I got them in my hand, I knew today was a GREAT day!
 
Yes, Schrade used 1095HC for their carbon steel. Schrade stainless was... well...

mactheknife350 said:
The carbon steel is 1095C, heat-treated to around Rockwell 58C (57-59C).

Schrade stainless was originally 440C, until in the late 1970s they trademarked Schrade Plus for 440A which had a special heat-treat, enabling the steel to come out of the heat-treat with two points more carbon than it went in. (i.e., originally, about .6 carbon, after heat-treat, .8 and a fine grain structure.)

A few years before they went belly-up, Schrade changed Schrade Plus from 440A to 420 High Carbon, which they claimed gave as good or better results. In doing so, they were following the lead of Buck and Camillus, both of which had gone to 420HC because it was much cheaper than 440A (i.e., at one time, 72 cents a pound for 420HC, compared to about $2 a pound for 440A at the time. When you make hundreds of thousands of blade a year, these savings can add up.)
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