Schrade 225 Folding Hunter

[orvet]

That is spectacular Jim!
Great job and outstanding save!

[tinkerer]

That’s really amazing work!

[1967redrider]

I would have told him that I polished the blade, just to see his reaction!
Great job all the way around.

HA!!! Yeah, you should have told the recipient you just buffed it a little and oiled the joints.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Thanks to all you for the comments on the 225. Thanks again to Dale for supplying the 2 replacement blades. You seriously under charged me for them!

[Brumbydownunder]

Super Impressive Save OLD CUTLER....

[Colonel26]

Very impressive! I’m not typically a fan of wood handled knives, but those scales are down right fine!

[OLDE CUTLER]

I found out a little of the history of this knife from my brother in law when he picked the knife up over the weekend. Seems this Schrade has had multiple chapters that it has gone thru in its lifetime. Once upon a time it was new, and I am sure the owner was very proud to own it. But one day something happened, and the owner lost it out in the country on a farm in South Dakota. He must have been devastated to have lost such a fine knife, which he no doubt paid good money for. The knife lay on the ground for who knows how long, until it eventually was buried in the dirt. It probably laid there buried for some time, not a long time or there would not have been anything left of the steel blades and springs, but long enough to cause some deep rust pits in the steel. But then one day a kid who then lived on that farm was walking around and something caught his eye, something in the dirt. He kicked at it and saw it was an old knife in the ground. He dug it up, and saw that it was a two blade folding hunter knife that some body had lost. He wondered how long it had been there. He wondered if maybe a cowboy or maybe an Indian had lost it. But now it was his, and he took it with him and kept it for over 40 years. He wondered how the blade had gotten broken, and thought maybe someone had been using it for prying, and the blade had broken that way, or they had laid the knife down with the blade open and lost it. Then a piece of farm machinery may have run over it and broke the blade. But he kept the knife for all that time until he heard that his brother in law was fixing old knives after he had retired. So then it came to me to rejuvenate and try to give another life to. The owner made his choices and I did the work and it is now back among the living, the working knives. After I had gotten it apart, and the owner decided on replacing both of the blades, I told him the springs were still usable with good snap to the blades, but that some rust pits were going to show and maybe the springs should also be replaced. He said "No, those pits are the reminder of the knifes previous life for every one to see, I want to keep them". Anyway, he took the knife home with him to start another chapter of its life. He was real happy with the way it turned out.

[Landersknives]

Thanks to all you for the comments on the 225. Thanks again to Dale for supplying the 2 replacement blades. You seriously under charged me for them!

What type of wood did you use for the scales? It really turned out beautiful.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Thanks to all you for the comments on the 225. Thanks again to Dale for supplying the 2 replacement blades. You seriously under charged me for them!

What type of wood did you use for the scales? It really turned out beautiful.

The wood used is ironwood, very hard durable stuff.