83' 5383 SC Stag with mainblade not "New Grind". Others are.

[zp4ja]

1983 5383 Second Cut Stag. Is this common? Can't find this on any of my other new grind knives. Mainblade has regular shoulder.

Crappy pic but shows what I mean well. I can provide more if requested. Any input appreciated. Thanks, Jerry

[Aimus Moses]

Jerry, thats the way Case made that whittler patter when they were making the new grind knives back in the early 1980's. Only the secondary blades were new grind, the main blade was left normal. It right as rain and a nice looking knife too.

Aimus

[zp4ja]

Hey Aimus,

Thanks much for the info! Any other new grind knives that they did that on besides the whittlers?

Thanks again. Regards, Jerry

[Aimus Moses]

I don't know for certain Jerry. Maybe Steve or Elvis could tell you. The reason I know that whittler pattern was made like that is because I had 2 of them made the same way as yours. Both had bone handles. I've seen some 1983 & 1984 era Case pattern knives with normal grind blades, then I've seen those same patterns from those same years have new grind blades on them. I'm not for sure Case made every one of it's patterns with new grind blades or that they used new grind blades on every knife they made during the new grind years of production.

Aimus

[Elvis]

The only other model of Case Knife that I can think of that MIGHT have had a mixture of both New Grind and Regular Grind blades like this would have been the 6308 Whittler although I have never seen one. Correct me if I'm wrong Steve, but I believe there is some doubt as to the transition to the New Grind blades even fully being fully complete before Case decided to do-away with it. I do remember hearing once that the thickness of the tang on the 83 is the reason it wasn't converted (yet) at the time those knives were made.

[knifeaholic]

Jerry, thats the way Case made that whittler patter when they were making the new grind knives back in the early 1980's. Only the secondary blades were new grind, the main blade was left normal. It right as rain and a nice looking knife too.

Aimus

Agreed...at least I have never seen an 08 or 83 whittler from those years with the MAIN blade new grind...only the secondarys. The 83 was discontinued in 80 or 81 before the new grind era so they were only made as SFOs so fewer of them to observe. But the 08 was still a standard pattern in 83 and 84.

May have been due to the thickness of the main blades, Maybe the new grind did not work on the thicker blades.