What's your latest Schrade? END DATE 8/12

[howieareyu]

Roland - I've always been an LB7 fan - I'm up over 20 myself.

Great Catch - Ya know when they're all in the boxes they stack very well and you probably only fill 1 drawer - that's not too bad LOL!!

Just visited with my 2 brothers last week and gifted #C35626 & #D89161 to them.
They were VERY happy!!

Howie

 

[rprocter]

Larry, thanks. I thought that Codger had posted a long time ago that 1978 went up to serial # ~ 212,000. Either i'm mistaken or more info has lead to more accurate numbers. It doesn't really matter, but i do have a few of these first year of production LB7's.
I'm surprised that they still crop up on ebay and that "nobody else" seems to be collecting them.
roland

 

[Dave Thinkstoomuch]

Nice find Roland! Nice price too. More is better when it comes to LB-7s. You'll find no argument here.

 

[lrv]

Roland,
Schrade did make more LB7's in 1978 than I posted. I was agreeing with the year you thought it was.
Here is the full list of LB7's that I was able to compile. It does not include the Scrims or the SFO's
I'm not sure what some of the numbers like the (1107) mean yet.

1977 LB-7 (107) 17693
1978 LB-7 (107) 179999
1978 LB-7 (1107) 88072
1978 LB7ND (109) 48821
1979 LB-7 (107) 33544
1979 LB7ND (109) 233026
1979 LB-7ND(1107) 184095
1980 LB7 (107) 34952
1980 LB7B/D (111) 11514
1980 LB7ND (109) 286704
1980 LB-7ND(1107) 101458
1981 LB7 (107) 30533
1981 LB7BLK 6011
1981 LB7ND (109) 223408
1982 LB-7 (1106) 3960
1982 LB7ND 226241
1982 LB-7ND (1107) 89817
1983 LB7 (1107) 23533
1983 LB7 BW(116) 208
1983 LB7(109) 198052
1987 LB7NS 1502
1988 LB7NS 1719
1989 LB7NS 1406
1990 LB7NS 976
1991 LB7NS 940
1992 LB7NS 1017
1993 LB7NS 10
1994 LB7NS 1689
1995 LB7DP 754
1995 LB7NS 458
1996 LB7NS 13
1997 LB7NS 22
1998 LB7NS 1
2,032,148

 

[rprocter]

So adding up the numbers for 1978 it looks like about 285,000 LB7's were made. Given a 5 day work week and a week off for Christmas plus about another week off for statuatory holidays, that's an average of about 1140 made each work day. Wow !
Schrade factory was a busy place in 1978.
roland

 

[rprocter]

The Folding Hunter is another of my favorite Schrade patterns. Maher & Grosh was a mail order retailer (1877-1980) of high end USA made knives, so when i saw this M&G branded Schrade-Walden 225H it became a 'must have'. Unused with a small steel still with it's original plastic sleeve, and sheath.

The sheath is not particularly attractive but i do like the embossed "Alaskan "Combo"/No. A.C. 225"

I have a drawer-full of Schrade Folding Hunters and prefer the single blade "125" model.
So when i come across one of these about to be sold for 'almost free', i have to nab it.
This Schrade-Walden 125OT has the older style tapered sheath which i really like.

And i enjoy the bit of history that someone scratched into the sheath 37 years ago: "Camp Mikquano 6th year 1974".

I do love my Schrades !
roland

 

[winchester73]

A Schrade D'Holder.

 

[edbeau]

rprocter, very nice hunters you have, the first is super clean.

 

[meako]

i'm waiting on a nice looking schrade sailor knife.with the marlin spike and some sort of locking bail .

 

[Casares]

Just got a Schrade Walden 34OT in nice condition. It has a pen blade instead of a spey........ which is different to the other 34OTs I have. Is this normal ??

 

[thawk]

Not normal Casares, but variations with Schrade are not unheard of. In the 1950's Schrade Walden made 833 and and 834 open stock knives with pen/sheep and spey/sheep secondary blades. How about a picture of your knife? I've got a couple of 34OT Waldens. Both have very thin spey blades, almost pen like.

Here are a couple with variations (not Old Timers of course). The Keen Kutter is marked 886, the Schrade Walden NY (late 40's) is not marked with a pattern, but all three blades are stamped. It is a spey/pen combination, the 834 at that time. There are 832 patterns with the sheep/pen combination too.

 

[delmas2nd]

just got these two Frontier knives in. came with box which looked nice. any idea on production years for the Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone knives?

 

[edbeau]

The information I have, on just the 4625, is that they were made between 1979 - 1983. Hope that is a start on your search. Nice knives!!

 

[Rusty1]

The Folding Hunter is another of my favorite Schrade patterns. Maher & Grosh was a mail order retailer (1877-1980) of high end USA made knives, so when i saw this M&G branded Schrade-Walden 225H it became a 'must have'. Unused with a small steel still with it's original plastic sleeve, and sheath.

The sheath is not particularly attractive but i do like the embossed "Alaskan "Combo"/No. A.C. 225"

I have a drawer-full of Schrade Folding Hunters and prefer the single blade "125" model.
So when i come across one of these about to be sold for 'almost free', i have to nab it.
This Schrade-Walden 125OT has the older style tapered sheath which i really like.

And i enjoy the bit of history that someone scratched into the sheath 37 years ago: "Camp Mikquano 6th year 1974".

I do love my Schrades !
roland

I really like the MAHER & GROSH 225 Roland.......Vvvverry Nice!!

Russell

 

[ea42]

Wow Roland, pristine condition on the Maher and Grosh! Very cool combo, I've never seen that before:thumbup::thumbup:

Eric

 

[waynorth]

Sorry - I've been snoozin' for a while. There's always something interesting in this thread!
Here's a Buffalo Cut Co, made by Schrade. I believe Schrade started making D-Es sometime in the interval when Empire sold (ca.1919) and closed(ca.1929). Buffalo closed ca. 1939, so this knife may be from that 1919-1939 period, especially with what looks like a reversed D-E shield. It's been cleaned, but not buffed. Traded for it in Oregon two weeks ago - 4 1/2" long.

 

[thawk]

That's a dandy Charlie! Wonderful seed on that one.

 

[ea42]

What a knife Charlie!! That clip blade is a work of art!:thumbup::thumbup:

Eric

 

[ea42]

Here's an unusual one that just arrived, a floating first aid/survival knife that was part of a kit on life rafts for both the Navy and Air Force. It's about 6 3/4" long, with a stainless blade (440B) and anodized aluminum handles, which are hollow and stuffed with a block of styrofoam. I understand it was a nightmare figuring out how to bend the aluminum in all those different directions! There were some that had an additional row of holes punched into the length of the blade, I'll have to find out what the difference was between the two. From the late 1950's, not sure how long production lasted. The blade was curved and blunted to prevent punctures to the raft:

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Eric

 

[waynorth]

Cool tool! Went to school! And made me drool!!

I've bid on a couple of those, but never got one - eventually I will. . . . . .

Thanks for the tale of production Eric!