Time for a new knife
I changed pants the other day, and lost my pocketknife for three days.
Now, I have a hundred pocketknives, so I had something else to use in the interim, but this knife- a Schrade Old Timer 330T– has been with me nearly forty years- the thought that I’d lost it would devastate me- had me freaking out, in fact, a lot of the week.
So I’m going to retire it. It’s always been razor sharp and in my pocket. I need it to be in my posession all the rest of my life- I intend to be buried with it, wrapped in the Hudson’s Bay blanket the Ogwife bought me for my birthday nearly twenty years ago, the blanket we snuggle under together on cold winter nights now.
So it will go someplace safe. And I will replace it. It’s possible to find the same knife on Ebay, but I’m also thinking about a three bladed knife, clip, sheepfoot, and spey. Like this Premium Stockman
I just don’t like stainless. And the modern, stainless ones are all chinese- though that concerns me less than the stainless-ness.
I’m not tied to the old-timer. I’d be happy with any high quality carbon steel knife wiht those specs- and I specificaly like the “muskrat” type clip blade of the Premium Stockman. Suggestions?
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I bought that same knife when I was a kid. My dad uses it now. You’re right about the loss, it would be devastating.
A good friend gave me a Schrade Stockman almost 20 years ago and, also being a fan of plain carbon steel, I really like it. About three years ago, though, my wife gave me a Benchmade Mini Griptilian with a 3-inch clip blade made out of 440C stainless steel and manufactured in the USA. It’s a bit pricier than a Stockman, but I find myself reaching for the one-handed-opening Mel-Pardue-designed Griptilian almost all of the time, now.
Slash, I have several of the folders like that, mostly Benchmade, but I love the traditional pocketknives the best.
It’s kinda like the difference between an old school analog watch, and a new wave, solar powered digital watch.
You know the newer design may be better, faster, sharper, and whatever, but it lacks the personality, therefore the love.
Can’t carry them for long. I don’t know why but those old guys always rust up in my pocket. I’ve got a bunch of them and I’ve oiled them till you can barely hold them but still they rust.
Can’t carry anything to large on me anymore as I work in nanny places so I keep a VictorNox in stainless in my pocket.
Still, I’ve got a couple of those. If I can find one and it is still usable its yours. I’ll look about and see if I can find one of them this weekend.
Paul, I never have mine in my pocket long enough to rust. Plus, I sharpen it constantly.
Slash, I have a couple nice newer style knivs, but I’m kinda with Dick on this one- it’s the personality I like. The solid feel of it in my pocket.
My daily-carry blade for the past four years:
http://crkt.com/litem1.html
(It’s the middle one, black and serrated — like my women)
Not a suggestion so much as a comment. I seem always to gravitate to the Swiss Army Tinker. Two decent blades and a selection of tools that are actually useful. Cheap, usually less than twenty bucks, thin enough not to be obtrusive and available everywhere. I tended to sharpen both blades to useless slivers in about two years before I encountered the EZE-LAP diamond embedded sharpener a few years back, now a few strokes on it, the blade is back to useful sharpness in seconds and the knife lasts five or more years. No more sharpening a knife to oblivion.
If you like the traditional slip joint knives, I would strongly suggest you have a look at the Case range.
Many different types of single and multi blades, and a wide variety of scale materials from traditional bone to space age stuff.
A long lived company and a very good reputation. They are not cheap, but a good quality knife is worth paying a bit more.
i’ve carried two knives for years.
The first is a Victorinox Swiss Army knife, a Huntsman.
The second is a folder, a Boye pointed blade boat knife. It has a wonderful dendritic cobalt blade. Not steel, non- magnetic and wonderfully sharp.
MC
Yeah, I have a few Case knives, and I like them, but I want the carbon steel.
I hear you guys about the character and beauty of the traditional styles – steel and natural materials (wood, bone, horn) just like my favorite firearms. When I picked up this Benchhmade, I marveled at its simplicity. No plastic, no serrations, no weird shapes, no bizarre colors, not the biggest, not the smallest; in other words, it was just right. It feels good in my hand and functions flawlessly over and over again with a minimum of maintenance. The action is so smooth and positive that it brings a smile to my face every time. The alloy scales are checked in the right places and are not too sharp nor too smooth. These scales have never been scratched or knicked in years of everyday pocket carry.
I guess what it boils down to is that this knife of mine is a good-looking and extremely functional tool – and I know what you all think of your favorite tools. However, to me anyway, this tool functions so well and is so well thought out that it contains the same kind of soul that I find in wood-and-blued-steel deer rifle. I didn’t expect to end up feeling thjis way about an alloy and stainless pocket knife, but here I am!
As of last year Case still made a few carbon steel models. In fact, just the type you’re looking for. Might check their site out.
OA, got any links? Im can’t find a thing made in carbon steel by Case. And what I can find is seventy bucks!
Will this do?
http://www.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/case/
I’m partial to the Amber Bone line, myself.
Be sure to cross reference the model numbers listed with Case’s own site to make sure it is indeed a Chrome Vanadium knife and not that damnable stainless steel.
ooh, OA, thanks, that’s EXACTLY it.
I have a Buck Cadet 303. Clip, Spey, and sheepsfoot blades. It was a gift from the parents when I was 7 or 8. It does have plastic handles, but is still a knife with good character. I lost it for 6 months one time. I carry it every day, it is a part of me. I even carried it in my pocket every day when I was in high school (gotta love small towns). One day, the ag teacher even asked me if I had a knife to open up a bundle of plants. Farmers are so predictable.
Here is a link to it, and a couple others that are very similar without the plastic handles.
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/628/238
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/631/238
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/633/238
That’s the one. Petey. I just want carbon steel. The carbon steel Case knife OA linked to is making me drool.
I’ve only really ever carried a Victorinox, myself, but Smoky Mountain has a ginormous catalogue of a bazillion makers and styles – I’m sure you can find something Just Right, if it exists in the non-custom market.
(No affiliation, I’ve just gotten their catalog a few times and it’s impressively large.)
>>>>>”I’d be happy with any high quality carbon steel knife wiht those specs- and I specificaly like the “muskrat†type clip blade of the Premium Stockman. Suggestions?”
If you don’t buy (and love) a Case medium stockman with CV steel (read: high carbon) in amber bone (http://www.wrcase.com/knives/pocket_knives/browsefolding2.php?Family='Amber%20Bone'&Folding='1'&Item='0039‘) or red bone (http://www.wrcase.com/knives/pocket_knives/browsefolding2.php?Family='Red%20CV'&Folding='1'&Item='6981‘), I will fight you. ;-)
>>>>>”… got any links? Im can’t find a thing made in carbon steel by Case. And what I can find is seventy bucks!”
Here you go, og …..
Amber bone (gorgeous!):
http://www.casexx.com/DisplayHandlePageFH.asp?MaterialAutoID=3
Yellow delrin (durable, easy-to-spot if dropped):
http://www.casexx.com/DisplayHandlePageFH.asp?MaterialAutoID=78
Red bone (also gorgeous):
http://www.casexx.com/DisplayHandlePageFH.asp?MaterialAutoID=66
>>>>>”I have a Buck Cadet 303. … Here is a link to it, and a couple others that are very similar without the plastic handles.”
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/628/238
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/631/238
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/633/238
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For the record, your 303 was and still is made by Buck here in the USA. Great knife! But the second and third links you included are for new made-in-China Buck knives.
Damn, MN, you make a compelling argument.
Hitachi Metals wins 2007th 10 superior new product of Nikkan kogyo shinbun as prime industrial newpapar in japan.This produt is high performance tool steel “SLD-MAGIC”.Winning simultaneously is high end car “Toyota Lexus LS460”.
The movie was seen after a long time recentry.
The latter overwhelms this movie “Last Samurai†with the samurai at the beginning of the Meiji era by the fight with military forces of the West type. The modernization of our country and the spirit of Japan are content something being thought.
This time was miraculously the period of the big revolution that the age of of the traditional steel manufacture method “tatara†that supplied the material of arms “Japan Steel†changed places into the modern steel manufacture method with high manufacturing efficiency.
The history of the iron manufacturing company in Japan is first Unpaku steel company in 1899. (Present Hitachi Metals,Ltd Yasugi Works),and second government-owned Yahata steel in 1901(Present Nippon Steel)established.The history of modern steel manufacture of Japan is about more than 100 years if the establishment of the latter is ths start point of modern steel manufacturing.
The operation of Nittoho tatara revived in 1977 was done in the Yokota-cho of Ocizmo in January. It is hear that about ten tons iron sand and same quantity charcoals are burnt three days and night, Ingot iron of 2.5 ton are obtained.And about 30 percent of this is roughly divided into Japanese sword smiths of the whole Japan with Tamahagane as a material of the sword.
In Izumo shimane, the exhibition related to the steel manufacture is in each place. Historical Museum etc. of the iron of of the Japan steel(Wakou) museum in Yasugi-shi,Tatara and swords museum in Oku-Izumo-cho, History of Japan iron Museum, and the route of the inquiry of the history of iron.
As for Izumo, the traditional steel manufacture method has been firmly succeeded with the steel making process in a modern factory though it is an age when people very often pay attention to the new one, and a past thing is deserted.
Because there are material etc. by our company, I will recommend the thing that it is referred, and Izumo of iron and the steel of Japan at the reason hometown is visited by all means.
I know that this steel is named
“SLD-MAGIC†which is the first high carbon alloy with appling self-lubrication mechanism and intermetallic compound in the world.
However it is applyed for industrial cold stamping die of super rigid metal sheet,it may be also suitable
for knife use.
I know this steel.Galling resistance is very beautiful in my works.But I cant get raw material of this steel in United States.