Posted on 07/30/2004 1:39:33 PM PDT by Willie Green
Hey Willie, send me your snail mail address and I'll send you a Bush/Cheney '04 bumper sticker!
Sounds like a complete failure by top management. Let's see you add how much floorspace to your factory and then shut down. Wonder how Case Cutlery is doing? Bet they are getting by just fine. Reminds me I need to check out the latest knives they have for my collection.
30 years ago Schrade made good stuff. I still have an Uncle Henry that I got at a second hand shop 15 yrs ago, who knows how old it was when I got it. Great knife. Now they just make crap.
This is awful - Schrade made a great knife, and I go out of my way to buy them.
What am I supposed to buy for gifts now (yes, with a penny taped to them)? Knife suggestions anyone?
Couldn't they have made something else ?
Benchmade, Kershaw, Cold Steel, Gerber, Spyderco, Case, Buck ...
I don't consider myself a collector but I have over 200 knives. Quite a few of them are Schrade. I always thought their quality was first class and usually a good buy.
One of my first knives was an Imperial sheath knife. I think I paid $1.00 for it new around 1955. That was a low price even back then. It was a cheap knife in many ways but I always thought it hit just about the perfect compromise between edge holding and toughness. Easy to sharpen and holds edge too.
Now that I think about it, I don't think any of the American made knives are of poor quality.
This article makes no sense. Terrible management, but everyone in town wanted to work there... 9/11 caused a drop in knife sales... An entire town being supported by a 250 employee shop... No raises in 3 years, but people begging for the jobs anyway. Everyone wants to WALK to work... Evil management docks employees who are late, even though they took a cab to work...
Sounds like a one-size-fits-all whine against business. I wonder what solutions these workers would have suggested. Better healthcare and more vacation I would imagine.
Schrade used to be a good knife - it's too bad it went downhill in value. My Father's Schrade is the one I'm most familiar with, and it was a great knife - but it's twenty years old.
Glad to see you like "Benchmade" - my daughter got a "Benchmade" knife for a wedding gift! She paid a penny for it just so it would be lucky; she nearly used it to cut the cake...
Agree with you...Schrades are a goodly part of my collection. Use some of 'em too!
Semper Fi,
I have bought a couple in the last few years and they were anything but junk. I guess it is possible they were old stock but I doubt it.
It is a little odd looking and really doesn't fit in the pocket, but is well made and possibly the most useful one I have.
Since it has "Vice-Grip on the handle it may have been made by them tho.
I just bought a Spyderco that I love. SOG makes some very nice knives.
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