Sharpfinger

[LONE WOLF]

About a year ago I bought (and within a month) lost a Schrade carbon steel Sharpfinger. Of recent I had a craving for a new one, but with the demise of Schrade, I decided to buy a United Cutlery "Outdoor Life" copy of it. The UC copy is made in USA of 420HC. I have no clue if the same machinery is used as the old Schrades where made from. Now, I realize that Taylor Cutlery, under the Schrade name, is making a schrade marked Sharpfinger overseas. Anyways, I realize the UC one probably is not as good as the REAL Schrade ones, but I still think it would be better than the Taylor Cutlery imported 'Schrade'. Does anyone here who has handled the 3 models (Schrade, UC, Talyor 'Schrade') have any opinions on how they stack up against one another?

heres linx

Original (no longer made) http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.knifecorner.com/knrus/hntrs/schrade-sharp-finger-1_t.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.knifecorner.com/knrus/hntrs/hntrs_1.htm&h=89&w=100&sz=4&tbnid=vimVuc0tPzwJ:&tbnh=68&tbnw=77&hl=en&start=18&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsharpfinger%2Bschrade%26svnum%3D10%26 hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8 (page is a little old, asSchrade has been out of buiisiness for a while)

Taylor 'Schrade' http://www.crocblades.com/store/catalog.cfm?product=15OT

Outdoor Life model http://www.unitedcutlery.com/shop/site/productpopup.cfm?id=D53C22E5-06AB-4456-8FFE58DF471B0F51

[jivedaddy]

the sharpfinger is a great knife-I use it all the time for field dressing deer. I have had one for about 20 years and it is irreplaceable. It looks like the outdoor life model is the closer to the original of the two.