Schrade factory pictures

Carl,

Thank you for posting these photos. I have been very interested in what the plant looks like. If you have any more, please share what you are comfortable with.
 
Velly clever pictures ( MR TOOTHPICK) ) roundeye we have placed your name on file. AHH SOOO. LT
 
Um, I should specify these are the "real" factory once run by schrade, not Taylor's quaint bamboo operation. :)

I just ran into them on that website when searching for knives. I wish I had been on a tour of the factory when I had the chance, but I never "got around to it."
 
Sorry to step on your thread, Carl.
There is an ebay market for pics of the old Schrade factory in the very olden days. Just watched a postcard go for what??? $17?

Got to be more of the real factory in action somewhere. Inside photos, showing people at work and the machinery.

Phil
 
Sorry it was such a big file Phil. I should have sent it to Larry with his Cray computer for resizing. But it should display in fine detail. I like to see the fiber in the paper, don't you? :D

Codger
 
Let me see what I can do. BRL can't lecture anyone here!

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Pretty impressive number of people involved. Thanks Mike, thanks Carl for starting the thread. Any other contributions?
Phil
 
That was one from 1976, our Bicentennial. Schrade's 72nd year in business. I have several more older ads, but they do not show the factory or the workers. Larry has some too.

Codger
 
And ain't it the truth? I was for years a manufacturing engineer and my job was to hand produce samples for General Motors and Ford (Grilles you saw at the Detroit car shows a year before manufacturing and sales), and to design the automated systems to mold, paint, and assemble the grilles. All the robots, all the microswitches, proximity switches, robotic program routines, and other automation did a poor job of replacing the operations done by hand and eye. My customers noticed the differences between the grilles I painted and assembled by hand and the ones in preproduction and run-to-rate. Same with Schrade knives.

Codger
 
Some oldies most have seen before. Both Schrade and Ulster fact picts.
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TTYL
Larry
 
Yes nice pics, I have them also, but just do not have any heart left to show them. Look at the faces.( haunting for what we have let happen ) For some reason all that goes through my mind is. God shed his grace on thee. This if anyone cares is the DNA that helped make america free through 2 world wars and places like Korea, Viet Nam, and hell everywhere else in the world that america has proved that the conscience, heart, and balls of the world live in the USA. This is the Yankee stock that fought for all mens freedom during the civil war. Watch them close because they are a dieing breed. Dieing every day for for the same tenants now as then. Now go out and buy that gook knife or tool or car and tell me it is competition or just dosen't matter. I do not want to see these pictures and frankly do not want to remember this history. AMERICA TO HELL WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. LT
 
Is that Buddy Holly shown there as the "Back Grinder"..... :eek: :D

Schrade knives were so honestly made and finished, that that's what I use as a standard for pocket knives, and they stood tall in my opinion.....what do I know? :(

Bill
 
Codger_64 said:
Mr. Levine would spank me for that pic!
Codger
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Is that "doesn't leave the factory" pic from Levine's guide? I was going to ask if I could get it e-mailed to me in original resolution.
 
No, he has no ownership of my ads. They are clipped from original era sporting magazines. I do believe I can e-mail it to you, but from me it is a very huge scan.

Codger
 
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