Schrade Old Timer - maybe I simply missed this

ISCS Yoda · Sep 21, 2018

Did Old Timers always include a single blade knife with a liner lock or is this a very new product? I bought an Old Timer a couple of weeks ago expecting it to have a couple of blades but none that locked and, lo and behold, I opened the box and the knife was a single blade with a liner lock.

It's just me, right? Everyone knows this knife but me, right?

Sigh.............

dusty3030 · Sep 21, 2018

Schrade, Old Timer, Uncle Henry were all acquired some years ago by Taylor Cutlery, who also had the license for S&W knives.
Taylor was then acquired by BTI tools which was then acquired by American Outdoor Brands aka S&W.
For several years now they are all just brand names used for different markets and classes of trade. The models within come and go and are reviewed each year. Long story short, you are liable to see anything from any of the brands.

mauser9 · Sep 21, 2018

dusty3030 said:
Schrade, Old Timer, Uncle Henry were all acquired some years ago by Taylor Cutlery, who also had the license for S&W knives.
Taylor was then acquired by BTI tools which was then acquired by American Outdoor Brands aka S&W.
For several years now they are all just brand names used for different markets and classes of trade. The models within come and go and are reviewed each year. Long story short, you are liable to see anything from any of the brands.

Good post dusty. Most of these models made in China now I suppose? Always liked that Schrade Sharpfinger fixed blade but foreign made now since Taylor took em over I believe. I prefer Buck knives including the sheath knives for skinning.

dusty3030 · Sep 21, 2018

mauser9 said:
Good post dusty. Most of these models made in China now I suppose? Always liked that Schrade Sharpfinger fixed blade but foreign made now since Taylor took em over I believe. I prefer Buck knives including the sheath knives for skinning.

Yes China and Taiwan.

dusty3030 · Sep 21, 2018

Here is a link to current line up.

Old Timer - Battenfeld Technologies

You can click any brand at top to see the line up for each.
Old Timer supposed to be knife if you wanted a traditional one.
Uncle Henry a step up / more premium offering.
Schrade for younger crowd. Offer more multi tools etc.
Imperial for price point / hardware store brand.

RobertJ. · Sep 21, 2018

ISCS Yoda said:
Did Old Timers always include a single blade knife with a liner lock or is this a very new product?

I had one like you describe when I was 14 (1974), and it was the first liner lock I'd ever seen. It wasn't a throwing knife- I broke the blade attempting to stick it in a wall!

mauser9 · Sep 21, 2018

China and Taiwan. Yeah that figures.

THE PILGRIM · Sep 21, 2018

Don’t know if they always made them, but Shrade has made Liner Locks for a while. They were some of the first liner-locks that I remember seeing.
I Did have some, but sold them.

shouldazagged · Sep 22, 2018

I know they made a single-blade trapper model with a liner lock, back when the Old Timers were made in the USA with good 1095 carbon steel. I had one. I seem to recall a single-blade folding hunter with liner lock as well.

I preferred the carbon steel Old Timers to the 440A stainless Uncle Henry line, but both were great value for the money.

The new stuff, since Taylor bought the name and moved production overseas, is all stainless and doesn't impress me at all. That's probably putting it mildly.

Racer X · Sep 22, 2018

Yup. I have an original. It is an 125OT. I like the liner lock as I can push it to the side with my thumb, and close it against my leg, and slide it into the brush pocket in painter's pants one-handed.

Stevens · Sep 22, 2018

Here is Schrade Old Timer 250T, no liner, or other lock. I bought a large group of woodworking tools in the early 80s this was in the bunch. I'd guess it is from the 1960s or 70s?
Steve W

garddogg56 · Sep 22, 2018

Schrade made many linerlock knives in the Oldtimer and UncleHenry lines. Here is a 55UH,125OT AND A 194OT..

doublesharp · Sep 22, 2018

2nd from bottom is a single blade Shrade liner lock

Buford57 · Sep 22, 2018

I have a Schrade single blade liner lock that I bought in a hardware store in Wyoming in the early 80s. Nice, heavy blade, holds an edge well. They called it a bear paw or something similar. It is in a pack in my deer hunting go box or I'd post a picture.

shouldazagged · Sep 22, 2018

garddogg56 said:
Schrade made many linerlock knives in the Oldtimer and UncleHenry lines. Here is a 55UH,125OT AND A 194OT..

I owned the two Old Timers, many years ago. Great knives--the 125OT was a splendid hunting knife. I don't remember how I let it get away.

k22fan · Sep 22, 2018

There were also U.S. made tiny Old Timer single blade liner locks made on the frame commonly called a peanut.

In other brands liner locks were around during the mid 19th Century. So were rocker back locks like the ones in Buck 110s. However, slip joints were less expensive and workmen were not flush with cash.

Mike SC Hunter · Sep 22, 2018

dusty3030 said:
Schrade, Old Timer, Uncle Henry were all acquired some years ago by Taylor Cutlery, who also had the license for S&W knives.
Taylor was then acquired by BTI tools which was then acquired by American Outdoor Brands aka S&W.
For several years now they are all just brand names used for different markets and classes of trade. The models within come and go and are reviewed each year. Long story short, you are liable to see anything from any of the brands.

And most of them come from across the pond.

Drm50 · Sep 22, 2018

The whole Schrade line is now junk. Same as Marble and some
of Bucks, Gerbers and other leading brands. These knives are
sold by the reputation they earned when made in USA. along
with fancy handles. The old HWD store Imperial $1 hunting
knife from the 60s is made of better steel.

C J · Sep 24, 2018

Drm50 said:
The whole Schrade line is now junk. Same as Marble and some
of Bucks, Gerbers and other leading brands. These knives are
sold by the reputation they earned when made in USA. along
with fancy handles. The old HWD store Imperial $1 hunting
knife from the 60s is made of better steel.

I've actually seen some models that are back to being fairly good in recent years. For a long time the name meant Chinese junk. You can buy them on Amazon. They aren't the quality of the original but they are decent knives for the price. They were never truly great knives. I carried one for years when I was younger but now I buy high quality knives. There's no comparison really. But you pay for what you get too.

ISCS Yoda · Sep 24, 2018

Thank you, one and all. Learned a lot here.

The knife I bought is decent; it is not super high quality but reasonably decent and all I use it for is to have a knife in the pocket of my robe when I am going about casually in the morning when I awaken. I might open mail, I might open a bag of doggie treats, etc. I don't like to ever not have a knife in my pocket and the one that was in my robe pocket is currently in storage with everything else that survived the fire last April.

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