schrade extreme survival knife under 16$

Right. But schrade is not a company. Not a corporation. It is not a maker of knives as it was from the early 1900's thru 2004. Nobody bought Schrade in the company disolution auction in 2004, just the name and IP. "Schrade" is now a nostalgia branding, as I said. All this aside, the Taylor Brands LLC contracted knife, SCHF-9 is a good buy for the dollar. Mistwalker did a good job in it's design and the factory in Taiwan that made them did a good job. And whoever was contracted to make the sheaths did a good job. If the example I have is any indicator.
 
I have the SCHF2 (made in Taiwan), it's the hollow handle (Chris Reeve knock off) Extreme Survival. Mistwalker done a review on this model & it done good ! I have never tried it out, it's still in the box. My boy's both want it(they think the hollow handle survival knife is cool) so I put it up until I can try to locate another one to trade for so they will both have one.
 
I have the SCHF3N. It's a pretty good knife. I somehow managed to chip the tip a small bit, so I need to regrind a tip onto it but other than that, I've put it through hell chopping and the blade dulled on me over time (Duh) but it hasn't chipped once.
 
coaldigger said:
I have the SCHF2 (made in Taiwan), it's the hollow handle (Chris Reeve knock off) Extreme Survival. Mistwalker done a review on this model & it done good ! I have never tried it out, it's still in the box. My boy's both want it(they think the hollow handle survival knife is cool) so I put it up until I can try to locate another one to trade for so they will both have one.
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The Schrade version is not a knock off of the Revve Project, it's an authorized, by Reeve, design. Darn good knife too. I love mine.


While all the Schrade bashing? They are who they are. They are an oversees made brand that sells knives. They are not copycats, making knock offs, etc. They do what they do, and apparently doing so well enough to keep making decent knives.
 
jimh0220 said:
...While all the Schrade bashing? They are who they are. They are an oversees made brand that sells knives. They are not copycats, making knock offs, etc. They do what they do, and apparently doing so well enough to keep making decent knives.
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Bashing? No, at least on my part trying to properly define what "Schrade" is. What it is is a name, a purchased trademark... "it" resides in a file folder at the U.S. Patents And Trademarks office, with a copy in "it's" owners file cabinet. It is not a "they". The owner of the trademark sells knives under that branding and many others that he owns. All reside in filing cabinets and none of the brands "make" or "sell" anything. Some of the trademarks in the portfolio are licensed in limited ways ("rented") to others for them to brand knives of their own design, some of them made by U.S. cutlerys such as GEC. Some have the "rented" trademarks applied to knives they contract for overseas. In the case of the "Extreme Survival" trademark, Stewart Taylor has kept it inhouse with his company, Taylor Brands Limited Liability Corporation, and has designed and bought designs to have made under that trademark. They are not copies of knives previously made under the ownership of the former Imperial Schrade Corporation, but unique to Taylor Brands LLC. At least as far as I have been able to determine (and it may have changed), TBLLC is not a manufacturer. They hire manufacturers to make products and put their various trademarks (brands) on them.

The "Schrade copys" accusation mostly refers to them making close but not exact copies of traditional Schrade (Imperial Schrade Corp., Ellenville N.Y. pre-2005) knife patterns. They are Schrade branded knives, but not Schrade knives. They are copies of Schrade knives with Schrade brandings on them. They evidently sell well for Taylor because most modern knife buyers can not tell the difference between them and are attracted by the low purchase price. Low price? The 152OT Sharpfinger knife made by Schrade last retailed for $37.95 in 2004, Imperial Schrade's last year in business. The TBLLC copies sell for about half that nearly ten years later. And the selling price of the NIB originals on the secondary market has risen. But as I said, most casual modern buyers cannot tell the difference. They see the overall shape and the brand stamp and buy. Nothing wrong with that, it is what it is. What it is not is a Schrade.
 
jimh0220 said:
The Schrade version is not a knock off of the Revve Project, it's an authorized, by Reeve, design. Darn good knife too. I love mine.


While all the Schrade bashing? They are who they are. They are an oversees made brand that sells knives. They are not copycats, making knock offs, etc. They do what they do, and apparently doing so well enough to keep making decent knives.
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No bashing here...I like the design of the reeve clone, I would like to get ahold of the spearpoint model !
 
I recently saw the above mentioned knife at a specialty store inside a BX. The knife that I viewed and had in my hands and opened was an automatic. I felt that I could perhaps get a better price at amazon so I took a picture of the box and SKU and ordered it from amazon. Sure enough the price was much less (with my amazon points). The problem is when I received the knife from the vendor I realized it was not the same knife despite having the same sku. At first I could not even get the blade to open (yes I check the safety slide). I called the vendor explaining my problem and and was advised thus model they sold had issued in the past. Later into the discussion I realized we were talking of two different knives.Their knife was not an automatic and the button only released the blade (sometimes) but was not spring loaded. I then called the Taylor company and was advised that Schrade does not make an automatic version of this knife. As a matter of fact they do not make an automatic knife. I can only guess that these knives (automatic ones) having the same sku had been modified to make them automatic. Bummer. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
 
The VW Bug was made for over a decade in Mexico post German importation to the US.
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Not comparable. Volkswagen has had factories in Mexico and Brazil and the United States for many years. They are Volkswagen factories and manufacture Volkswagens, just not in Germany.

if a company turned out Ford Mustangs AND owned the Ford brand, patents, and style, then darn right it's still a Ford Mustang.
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Again, not comparable. If Ford went out of business and later a different company started using the name to market Yugos, that would be comparable. Imagine a Yugo that looks, at first glance and from a distance, kinda like a 1966 Mustang -- but if you look closer you'll see it has front wheel drive, McPherson strut suspension, lots of plastic parts, it's made like any other Yugo and has the performance and durability of any other Yugo; it only looks similar to a Ford -- that would be comparable.
 
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