To fold, or not to fold, that is the question!

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Pardon me while I move this fun reparte' to it's own thread. I hate wasting this fun on the sticky sightings thread!
El Lobo said:
OK,OK,

You got me....... :footinmou

In fact, it's possible that I only have ONE FIXED bladed Schrade.....a 152OT. :o

Here in AZ, it was pretty much Wally World or eBay for Schrades...... :(

My first Schrade was an LB6.
Only when Phil fixed me up with an Imperial Double Eagle, and I got a couple of nice Stockmen from LT, did I start to accumulate a few Schrades.

My collecting habits are quite "Rudderless" (Sea Hunt reference) and I am sore ashamed........kinda, I guess.

bill




FOLDERS RULE!
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I sure understand the regional differences in sources for Schrades. Even the folders were not evenly distributed in the states. And many patterns were made that never appeared in the catalogs or shortlines, like the 512OT I mentioned before. Then we have the complications of low production knives that weren't popular enough to warrant their continued production beyond a year or two, and the last of the last, those introduced in late '03 and early '04, and the ones they INTENDED to introduce as anniversary issues but lost heart at the end, the infamous elusive blue bones, and some blackies I think, besides the ones first out in the tins. My last anniversary (24th) with my first wife was pretty much a non-event, her living with another man and all, so I understand.

Some time this year, I will turn to gathering a representative collection of folders. Butter and molasses, bones, maybe even some cells.

But until then, I am completing my FIXED blade Old Timer and Uncle Henry frames. After all, as David Crockett, James Bowie, Mike Nelson, Marshall Dillon, Rooster Cogburn, Charlton Heston and the Rifleman would tell you.....

FIXED BLADES RULE!

codger :D
 
Very good. We were due for some silliness here in the forum.

Folders or Fixed? Stay tuned for my answer, what is yours?

Phil
 
Thanks for moving this "Discussion".....I was beginning to feel pangs of "Hijack Guilt"....or something.

Well, I'll bet that where/how we live probably has influence on our preferences in knives.

Here in the desert, everything is skinny and moves real fast. So you got to shoot it, then dice it up. See, we can't just sashay along some primo trail like you lucky folks have, stickin' things with your favorite FIXED blade Schrade, until you got your limit hangin' on the end of the blade. Maybe we could throw our knives at things (like John Wayne did :D ) like scorpions and such but they're pretty small and fast (and REAL ornery). You can probably see where I'm goin' here.....the gist is that with that Ruger Blackhawk and 300 rounds (just in case) on your ownself, there's no room for no big honkin' FIXED blade.

Soooo, FOLDERS it is for me.

Oh, 'cept maybe if LT was to dig around and find Jim Bowie's real deal knife in one of those boxes at his wareHOUSE of knives, and give it to me.....then I'd make an exception and carry it.....even if it is a FIX'd blade knife.

Bill

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Bill, hitching up pants.....

Well, where are you folks?

What movie....."Well, lets get to hagglin'" ....??

Bill
 
Sorry, Bill...

Don't know the movie, but for me, it's...

FOLDERS

Glenn
 
My only Schrade fixed blade was a Sharpfinger that my mother gave me for Christmas 1975, as you know it is a fantastic knife. In 1977 I moved from Queretaro to Mexico City and the knife never appeared when I unpacked.

So now all of my Schrades are folders, though I do have a bunch of fixed blades. An old German Boy Scout knife, marked "Filus" was often with me when backpacking around the US Rockies during my years in the USA, along with my Schrade stockman and my SAK, truth is my other fixed blades have never seen much use, except for a Buck 105 in the kitchen.

Luis

PEOPLE WITH KNIVES RULE
 
Luis,

You are sooooo diplomatic..... :D

You could be our representative to the Bladeforums Senate! But don't let that persuasive Codger guy sway/influence you....... ;)
Pleeeze say you KNOW it's all about the FOLDERS!!!

Guillermo
 
I like big and solid knives. I have to go with.....


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Codger, my man......I can't stand it any longer.....
In my post that you kindly pasted here I said....

My first Schrade was an LB6.

Did Schrade make an LB6? I thought that was the one number in the sequence that they didn't make, and you'd be on me like, well, like, er, a wounded WOLF(e). Now you've got me wondering....did they make an LB6? :footinmou

What do I know... :confused: I like fixed blades.....well, I do, really.

Just not as well as FOLDING SLIPJOINT Knives.

Bill
 
Perhaps you were thinking of the 6OT Old Timer Golden Bear lockback. The UH's did skip the LB6 number I think, but I am no expert on the folders either. Want a list of all the tangstamp variations for the 165OT and 15OT fixed blades?

I suppose that if I did not hunt and fish, or live in an rural area, I would be less prone to favor knives that do not collapse for storage and concealed carry. There are many areas of the country, particularly post 9-11 that would not be amused to see me strolling down the street with a nearly foot long knife on my belt. I feel, as do many, that these are covered by the right to keep and bear arms...shall not be infringed. Like Pancho Villa, I carry openly for all the world to see. I carry my Ruger the same way. And I ask no man's permission to do so. Neither did my father, or grandfather, or great grandfather.

My EDC is indeed a slipjoint. I like my 897UH, and it's little OT brothers. I agree, many everyday tasks require a much finer tool than most of the larger fixed blades. But they are the focus of my collecting, my "knife that started it all". Heck, I have carried my Walden 165OT since about 1972 or '73. It as an old and trusted friend. I am at heart an outdoorsman, and the big spaces beg the need for bigger tools.

Besides SCHRADEOPHILES RULE!!!

Codger

PS: Someone send Luis a replacement 152OT!
 
Well said. We have open carry here in good old AZ.

I was just playing a bit about the LB6......to see if anyone was paying attention. :rolleyes:

In fact, my first Schrade was/is a 6OT, exactly as you surmised. I carry a fixed blade every day....as well as a folder....so I guess I'm just your average knifenut.

"Hello, my name is Bill and I like all kinds of knives". ;)

Bill




P.S.
Chicks dig folders... :D
 
I would think something in a nice traditional OT brown. A dash of 1095 carbon steel, sprinkled lightly with nickle silver. Perhaps a blank shield inscribed with his name?

Codger (well, you asked ! :p
 
Only one for the display, and two beaters. But you, on the otherhand, have more sharpfingers than you can shake a lens at! Dare you to post a picture of that one frame. No, double throwdown dare you! :D

PAYL
Codger
(Poke At You Later) :p
 
Repartee.....
P.S. Chicks dig folders!

They DO?? I always thought they didnt!

Well, they do dig the LONG ball as well.....(obscure baseball reference from another thread....long ago, but still FIXED in my mind).

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More collectable FOLDING version....in stag, of course.
 
Just looked in, BUSY BUSY. The Shootist, Scatman Cruthers. NEWS bulletin The High and the mighty is being shown Sat the first time in 20 years. Pretty pathetic when the showing of an old John Wayne movie is important on your agenda. Oh well pilgim into every life a little rain must fall. " Pilgrim " The man who shot Liberty Valence (among others ) . " Into every life a little rain must fall." John M Striker ( Sands of Iwo). Next weeK Island in the sky ( really rare ) remastered version. Watch it and see a skinny Andy Devine swimming ( now that is pathetic). If you like the Duke copy these two rare movies. LT. PS why should you have to choose. Most people have at least a phillips head as well as a straight screwdriver. Own them all there is a use for them all even if it is just to look at.
 
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