Codger_64
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The schrade site is still online, and you can still send in an employment application. I didn't know they had a 70 employee operation overseas. Wonder what will become of that? I certainly wish they had gone to the trouble to do a knife model production archive on line, maybe even a virtual tour of the collection. Little late to wish for that, though.
Visiting the site is a little like reading your deceased Uncle's mail. You can almost hear your footsteps echo in the empty plant, though I guess today there is quite a crowd there. If there is really an auction, that is.
Wonder if they have a skid of unused 165 Deerhunter blanks. Maybe a bin of Sambar stag. Bet there are several bins of 100th aniversary inlays. Who knows how many prototypes laying around in machinists cabinets.
The owners of the machine shop where I work winters will be bidding on bar and rod stock, maybe some smaller CNC's. If it is auctioned. Maybe it will be bought in it's entirity and become Smokey Schrade Cutlery, instead of becoming container ship cargo bound for the orient. Or Pakistan.
Excuse my rainy day musing here.... there are times when I wish I were wealthy and could persue a very expensive hobby, like buying a knife factory just for the continuing tax writeoff. Heck, I could start my own custom knife series prototyped by the best custom makers out there. Real natural material scales, carbon and damascus steels, and of course, a line of Uncle Albert knives for the everyman. Revive and reissue some classic old patterns too. Rainy day musings of an old country boy seemingly stuck in the past.
Only........ heck, I don't even play the lottery. Just have to content myself with my Old Timers and Uncle Henry's and plan to hand them down to my children and grandchildren so they can see the timeless quality an old timer like me appreciates.
Codger
Visiting the site is a little like reading your deceased Uncle's mail. You can almost hear your footsteps echo in the empty plant, though I guess today there is quite a crowd there. If there is really an auction, that is.
Wonder if they have a skid of unused 165 Deerhunter blanks. Maybe a bin of Sambar stag. Bet there are several bins of 100th aniversary inlays. Who knows how many prototypes laying around in machinists cabinets.
The owners of the machine shop where I work winters will be bidding on bar and rod stock, maybe some smaller CNC's. If it is auctioned. Maybe it will be bought in it's entirity and become Smokey Schrade Cutlery, instead of becoming container ship cargo bound for the orient. Or Pakistan.
Excuse my rainy day musing here.... there are times when I wish I were wealthy and could persue a very expensive hobby, like buying a knife factory just for the continuing tax writeoff. Heck, I could start my own custom knife series prototyped by the best custom makers out there. Real natural material scales, carbon and damascus steels, and of course, a line of Uncle Albert knives for the everyman. Revive and reissue some classic old patterns too. Rainy day musings of an old country boy seemingly stuck in the past.
Only........ heck, I don't even play the lottery. Just have to content myself with my Old Timers and Uncle Henry's and plan to hand them down to my children and grandchildren so they can see the timeless quality an old timer like me appreciates.
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