Schrade and Keen Kutter

tongueriver · Mar 16, 2015

In 1963 Schrade printed a catalog page for a line of Keen Kutter knives. They apparently had purchased this marque. The page is quite a bizarre mashup of handle offerings. I am not sure all of them made it to market, the most impressive being a large stockman with oblique bolsters. The interesting part is the wide array of seemingly historically incompatible handle materials. I am not sure, also, if the page wasn't made up of bits and pieces of old catalogs to advertise bits and pieces of odd inventory. When I look at these knives I am struck by what I see as incongruity. Enjoy:
http://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/Catalogs/images/1963-KEEN-KUTTER-CAT.pdf

And meanwhile, Schrade released a boxed 897UH made up as a Keen Kutter, complete with milled liners in 1969. A pretty little fellow. I have seen a 225-H folding hunter from the Walden years with a Keen Kutter etch. What other KKs did they offer?

Codger_64 · Mar 16, 2015

I've been wanting one of those KK897s for some time. I've only seen a couple of them over the years. I don't recall how many were made. Evidently not many.

koldgold · Mar 16, 2015

Nice knives.

thawk · Mar 16, 2015

A few Keens made by Schrade Walden

1969 Commemorative 855

Wharncliff Stockman

Composite 834 type pattern

tongueriver · Mar 16, 2015

Oh, my beating heart! That yellow wharnie is to die for! thanx for posting! Lemony cell goodness, not? :thumbup::thumbup:

tongueriver · Mar 16, 2015

As you can see from two below, Schrade was making KKs before 1969.

897:

881Y:

879:

Codger_64 · Mar 16, 2015

I didn't realize there were two variants of the 897 KK pattern. Cool. So whereas I was missing one from my 897 collection, I now see I am missing two. Not counting a lot of other special editions and limited editions.

tongueriver · Mar 16, 2015

Codger, we have a 165 thread, a #7 lockback thread, a thread for those funky 153 UH Waldens; if you are a mod maybe you could start a 3 9/16 inch slenderino thread and move some pics around. Those be your cuppertea, righto? I have been thinking of starting a thread for some of the more obscure full-size stockman patterns (eg. the 879 with round bolsters, above).

Codger_64 · Mar 16, 2015

tongueriver said:
Codger, we have a 165 thread, a #7 lockback thread, a thread for those funky 153 UH Waldens; if you are a mod maybe you could start a 3 9/16 inch slenderino thread and move some pics around. Those be your cuppertea, righto? I have been thinking of starting a thread for some of the more obscure full-size stockman patterns (eg. the 879 with round bolsters, above).

I am not a moderator of this subforum. However if some here wished it to be so, they could petition Spark via the Service And Support forum to make it so. I would not be opposed. The members of this subforum are some of the most mature, well behaved and on-topic members on the multitude of forums comprising Bladeforums so you surely don't need a resident hall monitor. But it might be handy to be able to do some housekeeping from time to time.

By the way, if I remember correctly, there is an 897UH thread way back there. But as a member in good standing you can start and title a thread appropriately if you wish. Or you can bring forward that thread and build on it. If I was the OP of that thread and it comes forward, I can modify the title even without superpowers.