The What Is Your Latest Old Schrade? topic is now 27 pages long.
It might be easier for new comers (as well as the old hands) to search the Schrade Walden knives if they had one topic all to themselves.
With that thought in mind I want to post a couple new Schrade Waldens I got recently.
The first is a 163. It is listed as a Rope or Hawser knife.
The pattern was produced from 1953 to 1975, so there were about 2-1/2 years (mid 1973 through 1975) that these knives were not produced under the Schrade Walden brand.
Come to think about, I do not recall ever seeing one that did not have the Schrade Walden tang stamp.
As you can see, this one is a Schrade Walden.
In the days before cargo straps, ropes were used much more than they seem to be used today.
This next Schrade Walden is pretty rare. From all I can find in the catalogs it was only made in 1958.
This is the model 900. It is the same knife as the 906, except the 906 had an extra thick liner in it to act as a spacer for the addition of the church key beer can opener on the back. The 906 appears in the Schrade Walden catalogs from 1957 to 1963.
With only one year of production I suppose the #900 is one of the rarer models Schrade Walden made.
This one is in fairly decent shape, the only major detractors are the reprofiled small clip blade and the fading of the red handle on the mark side. It appears it have spent some time on perhaps a car dash board. The small clip blade had been used as a screwdriver at some point in time and the end was broken. I reprofiled the blade. It is now about 1/4“ short.
