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

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Yours does look like MOP to me as well Roland. I can see hints of blue and red, and appears to have "the shimmer". I have several examples of what Schrade called Marine Pearl, and it seems to have a yellow haze to it, no reds or blues. If your candle-tipped lobster is MOTS, it's the best MOTS I've ever seen.

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I have a heck of a time taking pictures of either one, but these four Schrades are easy to tell MOP from MOTS.
 
The Schrade Cut. Co. catalogue "E" shows my knife as "Mother of Pearl" i.e. pearl.
Somewhere in the Schrade 'sticky', this Schrade-Walden, complete with same box, is shown, and described as "Marine Pearl", which is a man-made product.
The Mother Of Toilet Seat i believe refers to Cracked Ice celluloid.
roland
 
The Marine Pearl is what they two are in my picture, not Cracked Ice, which is MOTS, my mistake. Still say yours sure looks like MOP.
 
The end result is the same product basically, I'ts a bit like artificial insemination. Check the link out above (Introduction to pearls) This only the pearl itself though.

Nacre would be the word for the material used for knife handles etc.

Russell
 
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Nice handles on that 834 Larry. That knife looks real familiar. Nice price tag too! Nice touch when the tube still has a sticker price. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
Very nice 834 and you got a price on it too ! I have a few of these Schrade/N.Y. 834s. It's the best of the jigged Delrin. Really does look like bone.
roland
 
I have a 233 coming from the same seller. Here's to hoping it has similar handles and an original price tag to boot.

No caps for the tubes though, darn it. :grumpy:
 
Very nice 834 and you got a price on it too ! I have a few of these Schrade/N.Y. 834s. It's the best of the jigged Delrin. Really does look like bone.
roland

The delrin really looks rich Roland. I like it more every time I see it.I'll be going on the hunt for one soon.
 
I do like those birds eye knives. It hasn't been that long since I secured one myself.

Russell
 
Russell,

I have to admit I had been avoiding getting one because, and I hope this doesn't offend anyone, I thought they looked unfinished and somewhat cheap. Boy was I wrong! I really like this knife and it has completely removed any reservations I had about them. I should have known, it's a Schrade, the quality has to be there!

Chuck
 
Chuck,
I know what you mean about the unfinished look. I think its because they are without bolsters. There are many yellows with bolsters you now need to add to your collection. They are good knives even without the bolsters.
TTYL
Larry
 
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SCHRADE WALDEN 218 - Yellow tinted Marine Pearl/Cracked Ice handle. The nail nick on the pen is a bit crooked.

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Here it is paired up with another 218 with a bright white composition handle... you can see into a little. I don't think it is Delrin, but not sure. I have not seen this white colored handle on any other pattern.
 
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Maybe that is the merschaum bone? So does that cracked ice count as "Mother Of Toilet Seat?" Still trying to get my arms around the difference between MOP and MOTS, so please don't think I'm making a digg on your knife. I picked that up in another thread so I hope that is what MOTS really stands for. I like it a lot! Hoping not to offend. . .

Chuck
 
Mother of pearl (MOP) is made from the inside of the oyster shells.
MOTS (never seen before here) is cellulose a man made highly volatile material used in knives because of its beauty. I just had to throw out a set of beautiful cell handled steak knives that I found in the cellar as one of the handles stared gassing out so badly it had turned to liquid.

Definitions:
Nacre pronounced /ˈneɪkər/[1] or "NAY-kər", also known as mother of pearl, is an organic-inorganic composite material produced by some mollusks as an inner shell layer; it is also what makes up pearls. It is very strong, resilient, and iridescent.
Nacre is found in some ancient lineages of bivalve gastropod and cephalopod. The inner layer in the great majority of mollusk shells is porcellaneous, not nacreous, frequently resulting in a non-iridescent shine or less commonly in non-nacreous iridescence such as flame structure (e.g. conch pearl).
Pearls and the inside layer of pearl oyster and freshwater pearl mussel shells are made of nacre. Many other families of mollusk also have a nacreous inner shell layer, including marine gastropods such as the Haliotidae, the Trochidae and the Turbinidae.

A great link to the story on cell.
http://www.oregonknifeclub.org/celluloid_02.html
 
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