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Western was a different company that was out of Boulder Colorado .

Thank you! USA Schrades are one of favorites and I keep adding more and more

Actually swapped the lb 7 out with a Sears/camillus large lockback whenever one needed to be touched up on the blade… that camillus had finger groves back in the 80’s … it had rubber grips . Nickle silver bolsters …

Thanks for watching Ronald!

That's a Chinese production "Schrade in name only" version so it's post 2004. It's probably not possible to nail down an exact year without contacting the company and I doubt even they can tell you. Even when Schrades were really Schrades they didn't use a date code on their knives like Buck and Case do and the most you could usually do was narrow it down to a handful of years based on things like the tang stamp and pin numbers and positions. Some of the old US-made Uncle Henrys came with a serial number either on the bolster or inside the liner, but I don't know how effective they are at nailing down an exact production year.

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There's plenty of modern traditionals with carbon steel and plenty of modern one hand openers with D2, which is a high carbon, non stainless steel, but different from, say, 1095, which is closer to what most people are talking about when they say "carbon steel". The price range of the knives in the video goes from about $20 to as high as $100+, though, depending on the model and condition. Even the same models in the same condition can have different values depending on the version, like that 4 pin 7OT lockback, which has a higher collector value than an identical 3 pin, or an 8OT with a matchstrike long pull vs an 8OT with a standard long pull, so "for the same price these go for" is difficult to determine, but you'll be able to find modern production of either type all the way across that range of prices. You won't find many one hand openers in 1095 (Condor makes one), but you'll find a huge number of them in D2. If modern slipjoints is your thing and you're looking at the lower end of the price range, don't discount Rough Ryder's Classic Carbon series. I used to make fun of Rough Ryders until I actually bought some. I bought four of them all at once and each one has better build quality than any Case I own that was made in the last 20 years and most of them can be had between $15 - $20.

you can get ungodly amounts of modern d2 pocket knives. the only 1095 modern folder ik of is a model made by tops, esee makes their avispa in an sk5 carbon steel which is basically 1084.

depends on what you need it to do the buck has a lock so it can do things like piercing and won’t shut if you accidentally bump the back of it