SEARS KNIFE WORLD

[Amir Fleschwund]

High Carbon Premium Cattle
High Carbon Cattle. The spey has been oversharpened into more of an awl.
Camp knife, and my personal proof of the relationship between the High Carbon tang stamp, and Sears, Roebuck & Co.
The tang is stamped High Carbon, and even though some goof tried to sand it off, the blade is etched Craftsman Sta- Sharp.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

I had to have a Craftsman Linesman, right?
My niceest one ~

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

My Stockmen, and the little matching Jack
An obvious pair of Scrade mades, a folding Hunter and the Woodsman ~

All of my Sears in one shot ~

 

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I have one more Craftsman knife, but I can't show it because it is my Precious, and if I ever see another one to buy, I don't want any competition.

 

[echoscout]

Jeff nice collection of Craftsman knives.

Cal you got a lot of beauties there!

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

The rare version of a 165OT/165UH made for Sears had a brass pommel plate over hidden-tang construction, advertised as weatherproof, or something to that effect. They dropped the idea quickly. It was a spin-off from the 153UH and 49rs series construction. From then on they went to the regular 165OT/UH slab-handle version.
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Now I’m confused. I always thought the Schrade 165 was called the Woodsman, while they called the 15 the Deerslayer. Now your Sears version of the 165 (which I also have, but in the slab handled version), is labeled Deerslayer…

Have I had it backwards all this time, or is this just a Sears thing?
Craftsman and Schrade Walden 15OT

Here is a lovely Schrade 293 for Craftsman which I received from Roland.
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That is lovely.

Cal, you’ve reminded me that I forgot to include my Craftsman Whittler!

 

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Sears did some goofy switcheroos on the names. You are still quite sane.

 

[gentleman_edc]

This craftsman lockback is a mystery to me. I found it someplace, probably fishing, and my wife took position a long time ago.

She used this primarily for food prep while picnicking, camping and hiking with the kids.

This knife still has some life left in it.

 

[herder]

Thanks Duncan, black mamba, and Jeff. And what a great group of additional knives shown!!!

 

[Campbellclanman]

Jeff my friend- Thank you, I will be staying on the Sears road for good now and continuing learning as much as I can.

Augie- Two nice examples matey, That 9474 Trapper is in stunning condition, note the sharp scroll type font of STA-SHARP on the tang- This is what fascinates me with Sears as there are so many doorways and tunnels, that Font I see here and there, they did s many changes and your Trapper wouldn't have had any Etches- where some people mention that the Etches may have worn- not all Sears had etches - but they sported the Sears owned Brand name on the Tang.

That's a Barlow I haven't seen much, most early Sears Barlows are the Kwick Kut or Fulton's - not the Sta-Sharp - Nice my friend!

Thank you for sharing Augie!