Today's Schrade eBay LOL!

Well done, Ira! It's about time we saw a little truth in advertising! Btw, I can see why you only have 26 posts so far; it must take a little while to whup up these yarns!
 
You forget that Stewart is now the President of Schrade (Schrade the trademark, not Schrade the company).
 
i think i may have one of there original hammers?
it says lizzies best....i wonder if it's worth anything other than
what a hammer is worth if it wasn't hers,or theres?
anyone want to see it?
i have some pictures of it while it's being used in the actual making
of a real stewart knife...
jd
Ira Aten said:
Regarding the E-bay ad, anyone who knows anything at all about the founding of Schrade knows full well that Liz Taylor's fourteenth husband (Stewart) indeed was the pioneering founder of the Schrade Knife Company of Roanoke Virginia. A noted Blacksmith and Farrier to the Stars (back in 1952) Stewart met Liz on location of the filming of the movie classic "Black Velvet", and, utilizing funds loaned to him by his betrothed (which Liz was quoted as saying she earned from a prior film classic entitled "...Me Love You Long Time...!" ( filmed on location in the Llano Estacado region of Northern New Guinea) Stewart and Elizabeth spent their entire honeymoon heating and melting down old discarded Whiskey barrel staves, and pounded their recycled steel into the first Schrade knife ever made (known as the Schrade-Walden Model, which the happy couple named in joint honor of two former film industry Key Grips, who, trusting mightily in Stewart's visionary plans for recycling, quit the film industry to help Liz and Stewart with the marketing and distribution division of Schrade, Inc. of Roanoke Virginia. But tragedy was to befall the happy couple, for Liz fell deeply in love with her co-star (Richard Burton) while filming "Cleopatra" on location in Helena Montana in 2004.

Liz filed for divorce from Stewart Taylor in 1998, married her co-star (husband number 15) but kept her the name "Taylor" as a tribute to her fond memories of the days she spent working in the cutlery manufacturing industry. In fact, she kept her hand in for several years up to her death, making custom "Taylor" knives for her Housekeeping staff and close friends. These were later to be known as "Taylor Maid" knives.

Devastated, Stewart Taylor, unable to even set foot within the factory he and his beloved Elizabeth had built over the years, simply gave full ownership of the firm to his marketing and distribution managers (Mr. Schrade, and Mr. Walden) and returned to shoeing horses. However, due to years of wear and tear on his sciatic nerve, he could only shoe miniature horses, and thus had to concentrate on the circus horse shoeing market. In a tragic shoeing accident, Mr. Taylor was kicked in the ankle by a miniature circus horse, and had to discontinue his shoeing career. No longer able to keep up with the big boys, Mr. Taylor took to the streets in 2002, and has not been seen or heard from since.

Mssrs. Schrade and Walden, to this day, continue to produce some of the finest crafted knives in the world, and the two old gentlemen can be seen pounding away (still using Liz and Stewart's old anvils and hammers) at the Schrade Walden Knife factory (located at 3941 Thirlane Road N.W., Roanoke Virginia, 24019-3018).
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