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I came across a schrade usa sc501 stamped on tang, with a black saw cut handle, but the name plate is blank it looks nickel along with the brads in the handle. it has been used well handle alot it looks not to have been repaired in good shape can you tell me about it I can't find it on the web anywhere Thanks alot
 
I have one of those SC501's too. It is a 154OT Droppoint hunter pattern. The blade on mine is carbon steel. I think the plain shield and the rivets are nickle silver. Maybe someone can tell us how they came to be produced.

SC prefix or suffix generally means "Scrimshaw", I think. I have seen a deer head scrim on white delrin with the SC501 tangstamp. Maybe they were overruns on production that were sold as seconds.

The Droppoint hunter pattern is a handy field knife. I dressed a deer with mine this fall just to try it out. The choil, like it's brothers the 152OT Sharpfinger and 158OT Guthook Skinner, forms a lower guard that keeps your finger from slipping onto the blade. Handy feature in a short handled knife.

They were made under the 154OT tangstamp from 1976 - 1998 if my info is correct. I have a Skoal edition 154G with green sawcut delrin scales and an oval brass Schrade shield. Same pattern though.

Codger
 
Welcome to our forum, TGC. I think Codger gave you all the pertinent information. I used one of these through many years of deer hunting (the 154OT with delrin handle), used it until I'd sharpened the blade into a 'warncliffe'.

Phil
 
Thanks to the both of you for the info. They must not be alot of them around or they are holding on thight to them, I still have not seen any on the web thanks again
 
Here is one with the rest of the six piece 1979 Wildlife Scrimshaw set. It was intended to have cream/white delrin scrimshawed scales with a whitetail deer motif designed by Frank Giorgianni. Look at Ebay Item number: 6529392287

Codger
 
Thanks Codger this is a nice set you said that the sc501 might be seconds (mybe?) Ithough that I read on the form that schrade did not release seconds for sell?
TGC
 
Schrade released seconds years ago with the tangstamp ground off, then with an "XXX" overstamp. Maybe they are not seconds, but over runs of production for the scrimshaw series. The same blade was used for many years and quite a few designs of not only the scrimshaw editions, but some private issues as well. I have seen them with white delrin scales with no scrim. Ours just were probably a crate a finished blades and they decided to put black delrin scales on them, instead of the white. Or brown. Or Green. Or orange.Or yellow. Or Staglon. Or jigged bone. They weren't necesarily flawed, just excess stock. Maybe even after that pattern was discontinued in 1998. At some point, Schrade even started making Old Timers with stainless blades without the "Schrade+" tang stamp. I have a 152OT Sharpfinger that is stainless. Near the end (someone here can tell us aproximatly when), seconds did indeed begin showing up with distributors like SMKW. Then in the end, all kinds of mutts appeared in many patterns.

(edit) Here is a 154UH, the staglon Uncle Henry version of the 154OT/SC501: 6529735616 And a handsome knife it is.

That confuse the issue more?? ;)

Codger
 
Yes a little, but i think i get it. Yes i did see this 154UH a real nice one, The UH always grabs my eye, but not along right
TGC
 
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