Unusual looking Schrade 7OT

[Rusty1]

Guy's, take a look at item # 6618269819 on e-bay, look at the open knife picture, the picture is out of focus, it appears that the blade has serrations.
Is this genuine or has the blade been modified. What do you think?

thanks

rusty1

 

[orvet]

It looks like a 7OT with a partial serration. I have never seen one nor heard of one, but that & a couple bucks will buy you a cup of coffee.
Codger, Phil, Larry, Del, LT, anyone ever seen or heard of one of these before?
I like the look. I have a Buck 110 that I sent took to the factory & had a BG42 serrated blade put in it. I love it. This reminds me of my Buck.

Maybe one of the former Schrade people here can answer this for us. Did Schrade ever make one of the larger knives with serrations?

Dale

 

[relodr36]

It looks like a 7OT with a partial serration. I have never seen one nor heard of one, but that & a couple bucks will buy you a cup of coffee.

Dale

Gee,Dale,most restaurants around here only charge a dollar!
You must be going to Starbucks or drinking the fancy stuff.
Of course,this is the "Rust Belt".
Ron

 

[Codger_64]

I don't recall ever seing a 7OT with a partially serrated blade (scalloped, Schrade called it). That is likely a custom alteration done aftermarket, though it is possible the guys in the Schrade custom shop did it. Impossible to tell from the pictures. Also impossible to tell if it was professionally done or someone took a file to it in their garage.

Schrade was an innovator of sorts with putting serrations on production knives. They trademarked their "Wonda-Edge" in 1958, and it was available on several rigid blades and also a few folders. It was full blade serration, all cut from the same side of the blade, leaving the other side flat for ease of sharpening. Of course, in the late eighties/early nineties, Schrade began producing partially serrated blades as the fad became industry wide.

I have several Schrades with partial serration, but I bought them as "type" knives to fill out series in my collection, not because I like serrated blades.

Codger

 

[orvet]

Gee,Dale,most restaurants around here only charge a dollar!
You must be going to Starbucks or drinking the fancy stuff.
Of course,this is the "Rust Belt".
Ron

Ron,
I live in Oregon, The Coffee Capitol of the USA. I was drinking gourmet coffee from small local roasters in 1973, right after I came home from the service. I think it spread from Oregon up to Seattle and then went all over the country.
The joke out here is "You are probably from the Pacific Northwest if you know at least 5 different ways to order coffee," (black, sugar & cream don't count).

In Oregon, Starbucks is usually looked down upon as bad (though not cheap) coffee. Out here good coffee tastes much better than Starbucks and is often less expensive. They are fast getting the reputation of being the cheap Safeway coffee, as most of the Safeways out here have a Starbucks in them.

Actually a 20oz cup of decent coffee, (Folgers, Yuban, etc doesn't count), costs about $2 here at a drive-up coffee vendor. Even the bad stuff is better than what you get in a restaurant most places (even here).

Good coffee doesn't need help getting into your cup..........it does it on it's own! But......if you need to stir it, you first must cut it with a Schrade (inserted for forum content). DO NOT use carbon steel, unless you want instant patina. This is why Schrade+ Steel was invented, (more forum content).

 

[ISC_RIP]

I don't recall ever seing a 7OT with a partially serrated blade (scalloped, Schrade called it). That is likely a custom alteration done aftermarket, though it is possible the guys in the Schrade custom shop did it. Impossible to tell from the pictures. Also impossible to tell if it was professionally done or someone took a file to it in their garage.

Codger

It could have come from the factory, it looks like the edge and serration were done together and they look fairly uniform. This most likely would have to have been done on a shaped wheel (serrator).

 

[Rusty1]

After posting the original thread, the knife became more and more of a mystery, so I thought I would bid on It. I was not going to go far and finally won it for $25.00 + shipping. The knife looks like the blade has been serrated by a proffesional or maybe the custom shop at Schrade's Ellenville factory.

I have posted a closeup of the serrations.

Rusty1

 

[textoothpk]

Cool knife, Rusty! I like that one a lot. Congrats on the win.
Phil

 

[woseyjales]

But......if you need to stir it, you first must cut it with a Schrade (inserted for forum content). DO NOT use carbon steel, unless you want instant patina. This is why Schrade+ Steel was invented, (more forum content).

Orr, I thought a Starbuck was one of those federal reserve notes with a star after the serial no. instead of a suffix letter.
As for the coffee, I prefer mine shaken, not stirred. Jales, wosey jales. (0014)

I'll have to remember that about carbon steel and coffee patina. Never know when that might come up on Jeopardy. It also takes awhile to get PB&J off a 153UH if you don't get it off right away instead waiting until Monday after returning home from the camping trip.