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

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I thought I could rehabilitate this old Ulster, but I gave up on the blade. It's scratched up so much and so deep that I got tired of sanding on it. After I got my hands on it, I realized that the 'ULSTER BRAND' blade etch was pretty much toast because of all the scratches. I swear, whoever tried to sharpen this thing took more metal off of the side than they did the edge. So I wound up just polishing the scratches instead. Still a cool old Ulster with nice bone handle. I couldn't find this 5" model in any of the catalog pages that I have or found elsewhere. I have tried to make sense of the many discussions about Ulster tang stamps and general dating and have failed. Can anyone comment on this tang stamp? Old, new, pre-Baer, post-Baer, pre- war, post-war, fake made in Japan? :eek:

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I just picked up one of these Schrade-Walden Eli Lilly doctor knives. I believe Lilly used to ply doctors with these as a perk for buying their medicine or as an incentive to buy it.
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kootenay joe said:
That 896K does look new. Not even a speck on the carbon steel blades and does not appear buffed.
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Thanks. The only flaws I could find were a few tiny rust spots, right on the mark side edge of the sheepsfoot blade. I hit those with a Schrade SK1 diamond sharpener. If you look closely, you can still see faint little spots on the edge. I may stroke it again to get the rest of that gone. Otherwise, I just cleaned it up. I put off getting an 896K for years, (for reasons unknown), and in the last year I have been waiting for the right deal on one. This was the right deal and the right knife. This one is most likely a late 1970s model, near the end of the run in 1980.

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I got this one yesterday with the 896K. Craftsman 9552. I got this one because it has less dye in the scales and looks better, in my eye, than all of the over dyed ones that I have seen before. It has a couple of scars on the pile side that are more like cuts instead of scratches. Maybe from the factory?

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tongueriver said:
A very nice example of a nice pattern. Perhaps the reason that you held off until now was that the earlier examples (with Walden stamps) were celluloid, as opposed to the Delrin example which you show here.
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I do tend to shy away from the incredible shrinking handles. The Schrade Waldens are nice, but condition and price is the fine line I walk. So far, I only collect pictures of the old celluoid ones, and the condition of those is not too good. This one has more molasses than butter, which I like too. Now to get one of these with the thumbnail cutout on the handle.............
 
That is a dandy, tongueriver. I don't see many in that condition. I wonder how many butter and molasses designs there were on the scales, or was it random. I've seen different colors and shades of colors and several different designs and many repeats of the same. After they went to Delrin it seems they stuck to one pattern and color.
 
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