Post your Slenderino Knives

[KnifeSlinger#81]

I picked up a couple more nice 1950’s slenderino’s to finish out the year.

[doglegg]

I like them both. Proud for you.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Thanks Floyd.

[desmobob]

I bought this one in 1975 or '76. It spent one whole year on the bottom of a local lake. She's been retired, but I always take a look when I'm in the knife drawer...

[treefarmer]

desmobob,
That's a fine looking old Schrade! However you have left us hanging. Be like Paul Harvey and tell the rest of the story!
Treefarmer

[desmobob]

desmobob,
That's a fine looking old Schrade! However you have left us hanging. Be like Paul Harvey and tell the rest of the story!
Treefarmer

OK... you asked for it!

I was 17 years old, fishing on Lake George in upstate NY late in the fall. I had canoed out to one of the lake's many islands and was casting off a small dock over deep water. (Most of the lake's islands have state campsites and docks for the campers). I caught a small rock bass that had swallowed my little Mepps spinner and I ended up using that long, narrow blade of my Schrade to dig it out of the poor little fish. I whacked the knife against a dock post to knock off some blood/guts and it slipped out of my hand and went flying end-over-end out into the deep, cold water.

The following year, after graduating from high school, I took a SCUBA certification course over the summer. That fall, I happened to be SCUBA diving with a buddy in that same area of Lake George and remembered the lost knife. I started searching and found it! (The lake is very rocky and there was a lot of fairly smooth ledge bottom in the area I lost the knife.) It was crusted over with rust but it cleaned up pretty well, leaving the blades with a dark patina and a pattern of etched lines on the main blade that look almost like pattern-welded steel.

It was the second knife I had ever purchased and it's still with me about 45 years later.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Great story desmobob. It’s pretty amazing you found it after a year of being in the lake.

[desmobob]

Great story desmobob. It’s pretty amazing you found it after a year of being in the lake.

Thanks.

It was exceptionally lucky that there was a rocky/ledgey bottom there. If it had fallen into a silty or weedy area, I never would have found it.

Funny thing... I lost the very first knife I ever bought (a Case scout/utility) in the winter and found it in the following spring. It cleaned up OK but I was a young teenager and I didn't have it long enough for it to have sentimental value, if a kid that age can have that kind of sentiment. So, I threw it in a tool box. And found it there in that tool box several years ago. I thought about it recently and decided to dig it out and try and restore it. I couldn't find it! Maybe it will reappear a second time!

[treefarmer]

Treefarmer

[TPK]

I bought this one in 1975 or '76. It spent one whole year on the bottom of a local lake. She's been retired, but I always take a look when I'm in the knife drawer...Schrade stockman - 1975 a .jpg

Great looking Schrade and a very cool story to go along with it!

[desmobob]

Thanks Tom. I guess we all have a knife or two with a story behind it.

I always enjoyed the Schrade. The 895 sometimes attracts the attention of non-knife-nut buddies who think the main blade is that slender from being sharpened hundreds of times... they sometimes guess that the knife was passed down a generation or two!

That one spent a bunch of years in my pocket when I was younger.

[toomanyknives]

Top: Kutmaster made Schrade Walden Middle: Schrade Walden 897UH Bottom: Schrade UH897

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Today I’m carrying double slenderino’s. Slenderinos are good for collecting and toting.

[toomanyknives]

Today I’m carrying double slenderino’s. Slenderinos are good for collecting and toting.


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Those are amazing knives, Paul. The bone is spectacular!

[doglegg]

And you are carrying two!!! Sweet knives Paul.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Thanks guys, appreciate the compliments.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Here’s some delrin 861 and craftsman slenderino’s.

[Jacknifeben]

Is this a Schrade slenderino and is this a very early Schrade punch .

[bladecollectorr]

Is this a Schrade slenderino and is this a very early Schrade punch .

Tough call... Looks "Schradey". Maybe an Ulster etc. That's all I can say really. The punch looks a bit funky to me (as in "not Schrade").

[Meridian_Mike]

NICE.... I love that punch blade with the match strike pull.... VERY COOL.

[lentuk]