Schrade Walden #808

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navihawk

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Does anyone know if this small stockman has bone or delrin scales? Someone had a link to Scrade patterns, but I can't find it.
Thanks
 
What I have found through experience, backed up by references, the S-W 808 could be purchased with Delrin, yellow composition, or real bone handles.
Riata
 
navihawk,

I believe riata is correct, but just for grins you may want to confirm this with the good folks at the Schrade Forum located under the Collectors sub-forum..

BTW, riata Welcome to the Forum.:)
 
No pic of the knife showed up....

I have seen very few of the 808 pattern in bone - with the SW stamp the bone handled version would be 1950's era.

Schrade made a ton of them in delrin though, again with the SW stamp the delrin version would be 1960's to ealry 70's.

If the shield is stamped SCHRADE or SCHRADE WALDEN then its delrin. If a blank shield could be delrin or bone.
 
The 808 is an old pattern. Early ones were indeed stagged bone. Delrin began being used circa 1961. In 1947 the pattern number was... "8". Probably was a Schrade Cut Co pattern continued after the Baers bought the company in 1946 and renamed it. In the Belknap 1950 catalog, it was called 808.

Codger
 
The knife in question....it's hard to tell.

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Thanks for the info guys.
After collecting all these years, I've discovered a new brand in Schrade. I've had a few over the years, but it wasn't until I got ahold of a little 766 did I really grow to appreciate them.
 
navihawk, that's definitely delrin, the bone Schrade Waldens had peachseed jigging similar to the ones below. It was only used for a short while in the late fifties- early sixties I believe:
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Eric
 
Very nice, ea42. When one says Schrade to me, these are the knives I think of, Schrade Waldens and Schrade Cutlerys, not the more plentiful and newer OldTimers and Uncle Henrys.
 
Starting to look unmistakeable to me.That is why I was never a great fan of Shrade, because of the oldTimers and Uncle Henrys.Athough well made I always regarded them as utility or workers rather than collectors.I've always preferred natural handle materials.
Nice Stockmans. Always been my pattern of choice.
 
navihawk,Using visegrips and a needle,heat the needle to glowing on the stove burner,locate the MOST inconspicous spot on the handle.Apply the needle tip.You'll find out quickly if it's stag,bone or man-made synthetic.I,ve done it and put that needle there for only a nano-second! Dale
 
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