Schrade antics

[tongueriver]

1950s knife with a late-model sawblade inserted, with a "hook disgorger" cut into the tip? This blade is a saw blade, not a fish scaler? Any thoughts? If there were better pic's of this blade I might change my mind.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285536995671?h ... R_aYs9XvYg

[Paladin]

It has been a lot of years since I took a serious look at Schrades and my memory is a little blurred but as I recall I had that pattern in my collection.
That may well be a legitimate knife.

Ray

[Jeffinn]

1950s knife with a late-model sawblade inserted, with a "hook disgorger" cut into the tip? This blade is a saw blade, not a fish scaler? Any thoughts? If there were better pic's of this blade I might change my mind.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285536995671?h ... R_aYs9XvYg

I used to have a lot of fishing knives and the fish scaler blade with the hook disgorger notch in the tip is a standard blade for fish knives. However, the blade shown looks to me like a modified Schrade saw blade. I’ve never seen a scaler blade with teeth that sharp or with two rows of teeth (that’s typically seen in the saw blades).
Just my opinion based on past fish knives that I’ve owned.
Jeff

[tongueriver]

It is clearly a saw blade, in my opinion, and the tooling for that did not even exist until many years after the knife was manufactured.

[tongueriver]

Well, I am getting responses in my email to suggest that I am probably wrong. Again! LOL.

[knifeaholic]

Did you try posting this in the Schrade forum? Been a long time since I have had one of those in hand and seems to me that the saw blade is correct - though I have no idea why Schrade made that blade a saw (that could be used as a scaler) rather than just a scaler.

[knifeaholic]

It is clearly a saw blade, in my opinion, and the tooling for that did not even exist until many years after the knife was manufactured.

Cutlery companies in general made saw blades from at least the late 1800's on...consider the WWI era medical pocket knives.

[ea42]

Cal that looks like the saw blade off a modern 97OT buzzsaw trapper, also found on some wood handled Schrade LTD stamped trappers. Definitely not the standard fish knife scaler with opener. The shield on that knife is wrong for the fish knife too.

Eric

[tongueriver]

Thanks, Eric; I had the feeling...

[1967redrider]

Pictures for future reference, I'm sure it will be back around or others were made.

[winst]

Made for Mississippi cat fisherman...catfish had no scales..saw blade for cutting big catfish heads off..

[Reverand]

That looks like a newer sawblade to me, though I am not familiar enough with the old patterns to say whether or not they ever made a fish knife with a sawblade.
But the tang on that main blade definitely looks to have been ground down and restamped.
Plus there is the fact that the sawblade has a correct finish, while that main has been mirror-polished.
I would steer clear of that knife.

[RedRaiderRick]

Looks like a typical bone saw to me