Schrade Uncle Henry

[James Y]

It's been a long time since I've carried a Schrade on a regular basis, but I started carrying an 807 UH (the "Jr." pocket knife). It's only 2 3/4" long closed and has three blades: a clip, sheepsfoot, and pen blade.

The blades are sharp but not as sharp as on my SAKs. I just keep it in my fanny pack. It's used to open stiff packaging, and the small sheepsfoot does it easily, whereas some medium or large-sized one-handers often lack the proper leverage or geometry to do so easily.

The blade steel is Schrade+ rust-resistant steel (whatever that is...420HC???) I find I rust Old Timers way too easily, plus I live not far from the sea, ergo my preference for the Uncle Henry. I do like the brown textured Old Timer handles better than the "Staglon" Uncle Henry handles (both are Delrin), but the stainless function won out.

It's a good, tiny little cutting tool to join the few of my many knives that are with me every day.
Jim

 

[Hoodoo]

My stockman of choice lately is a medium bone-handled Case. Don't know why but I get a real thrill out of it. Love that deep rich color on the jigged bone handle. I guess it takes me back to when I was a kid and that was all I carried.

It sits in my watchpocket, just above the miniAFCK. Lately, I seem to reach for it a lot more than the mini.

I also recently purchased a couple of schrades. One sharpfinger and the other a wolverine (I think that's what they call it). Same knife, but one's an old timer carbon and the other is a shrade+ Uncle Henry. I worked on the edges with my Gatco and now they are razor sharp.

Just love these knives. The design is wickedly beautiful and how can you beat the price on these little beauties? I'd like to find someone who would put a micarta handle on one for me for a reasonable price. And then do a kydex sheath.

I think there is a whole industry out there that could be built up around them. Someone else here made a neck knife out of one by removing the grips and wrapping cord around the tang. Neat idea! And a sweet neck knife.

I better start buying more of these before people catch on and the price starts going up.

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Hoodoo

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Blues]

Hoodoo,

My friend Jean-Manuel (Nemo) made me a gift of his Sharpfinger while visiting with him in Paris earlier this year.

The bonus was that Fred Perrin had made a kydex sheath for it!

Nice knife, but it won't be replacing my Perrin neck knives anytime soon.

By the way, can you whittle with your Sharpfinger? (And did you get my last email to you from a couple days back?)

Blues

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Live Free or Die

 

[Hoodoo]

Bluesman,

Got your email but I got distracted. Students pop in and out of my office like bees swarming around a hive (or more like wolves swarming around a nearly dead moose).

Would very much like to order the hardback on whittling. It would be a wonderful addition to my library.

I think the Sharpfinger would be excellent for whittling when you are working the wood down to manageable size. It's got a nice comfortable grip with a lot of flat to it that is good for repetitive, heavy carving. I wouldn't use it for the fine stuff though. A small shrade stockman will do an awful lot of fine work. I like little teeny blades for real fine work. Sometimes you just have to grind the blade down to the size you need to get the job down. Old timers are cheap enough you can usually afford to modify a few of them to fit your needs.

If you are carving a chain, the Sharpfinger would be good for removing those large fillets when you are forming a cross.


Let me know how your whittling goes.



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Hoodoo

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[johno]

I recently finished touching up the blades on an Old Timer jr stockman that was on sale, just couldn't let the little guy languish in the display case :^), and have to come to like it a lot. The little carbon steel blades get real sharp, I guess because they're pretty thin.