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What is unusual about this knife?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Schrad ... 1438.l2649

Doesn't a stockman usually have a sheepfoot in the frame?
Treeefarmer

treefarmer wrote:Doesn't a stockman usually have a sheepfoot in the frame?
Treeefarmer

Yes, but that is not what I am looking for this time.

It has a spey blade where it should have a sheepsfoot and a pin blade where it should have the spey blade.

orvet wrote:It has a spey blade where it should have a sheepsfoot and a pin blade where it should have the spey blade.

Yes. But one more thing! Next?

Probably not what you're looking for either, but I don't see Schrade on the shield.
Rick

The sheepsfoot has been reshaped into a spey. Handles look bleached out. Shield looks glued on.

It has the same blade configuration as the older bone handled 834s, but with funky Delrin covers. That's all I got.

Any and all of that could be true. I don't know. When I first saw it I thought the covers were Bonite, which I had assumed was strictly Ulster. ? So Mustanger wins (which means he should buy the knife?)

tongueriver wrote:Any and all of that could be true. I don't know. When I first saw it I thought the covers were Bonite, which I had assumed was strictly Ulster. ? So Mustanger wins (which means he should buy the knife?)

Bonite crossed my mind too. But I have no knowledge of a Bonite handled 834. The discoloration of the mark side cover is familiar to Delrin.
(I'll pass on the knife)

tongueriver wrote:Any and all of that could be true. I don't know. When I first saw it I thought the covers were Bonite, which I had assumed was strictly Ulster. ? So Mustanger wins (which means he should buy the knife?)

I don't think that is bonite, however, seems like I read/saw on the interwebs somewhere the 8OT had bonite for a short time after bone and before delrin.

Strangely it looks like delrin that was dyed for staglon, but somehow got the bone jigging.
Odd knife.

Eric

It looks to me like someone rehandled the knife and perhaps jigged their own Delrin. If you look at the inlaying of the shield, it looks like it was hand inlayed not inlaid into a preformed hole. The fact that the front and rear handles are two different colors is rather strange also. That was not uncommon in the old days with bone handles but when you can dye Delrin pretty much any color you want, why would you have mismatched handles?

Without reading anybody else’s posts it looks to me like somebody took a pre swinden 834 (which this has the correct blades and pattern number for that era) and put some delrin on that appears to have had a touch of bleach on one side and buffed the heck out of it. An unfortunate fate for a once nice knife.