Schrade 12ot

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CASECLOSED

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Hello all, I just recently started collecting schrade knives. I've owned many before but just for users. So I got my hands a 12ot still factory sealed for a pretty good price so I junped on it. I do not know the year but that's not what I'm worried about. I've always been told that when the tang is stamped schrade + it means that the blade or blades are stainless is this correct, this knife is stamped + but the packaging says schrade high carbon steel. So which is it. Thanks for any info y'all can provide me.
 
Cutlery steel, whether stainless or non-stainless, is high carbon. The addition of carbon is primarily (although not completely) what changes iron into steel. Steels unsuitable for cutlery might have lower levels of carbon. The "plus" sign always denotes stainless steel in Schrade products, but the absence of that "plus" sign in the most recently made Schrades before their bankruptcy in 2004 does not necessarily mean that the blade in question is NOT stainless. They abandoned non-stainless steel either largely or completely in the last days of the company. These changes were running, and not a sudden event, to my understanding, but don't quote me on that.
 
CASECLOSED said:
...So I got my hands a 12ot still factory sealed for a pretty good price so I junped on it. I do not know the year but that's not what I'm worried about. I've always been told that when the tang is stamped schrade + it means that the blade or blades are stainless is this correct
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The 12OT is a nice little knife.
 
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$300-$400 US dollars??? More like under $20. Didn't feel the need to post a pic it's just your typical old timer in the PITA hard plastic package.
 
Ok that's what I figured about the carbon content. It just threw me a loop because no where on the package does it say stainless. Or give reference to the blade material other than high carbon steel.
 
tongueriver said:
Cutlery steel, whether stainless or non-stainless, is high carbon. The addition of carbon is primarily (although not completely) what changes iron into steel. Steels unsuitable for cutlery might have lower levels of carbon. The "plus" sign always denotes stainless steel in Schrade products, but the absence of that "plus" sign in the most recently made Schrades before their bankruptcy in 2004 does not necessarily mean that the blade in question is NOT stainless. They abandoned non-stainless steel either largely or completely in the last days of the company. These changes were running, and not a sudden event, to my understanding, but don't quote me on that.
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COnsider yourself quoted!

A photo of the clampack would help us to estimate when it was made but, judging from the "+" mark, it was likely '02-'04. That would have been the last art design on the clampack, blue and gray with a "diamondplate" design.

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I cant figure out how to post pictures but it doesn't look like the one you posted. Mine is solid blue with long corrugated lines running vertical.
 
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