110 blade steel !?!

would you like to see a 110 blade in carbon steel

  • no to carbon steel

    Votes: 22 27.2%

  • yes to any old plain carbon steel

    Votes: 41 50.6%

  • yes to mirror polished 5160 carbon steel

    Votes: 22 27.2%

  • yes to chrome plated 5160 carbon steel

    Votes: 6 7.4%
  • Total voters
    81
I'm not too particular regarding blade steel. I like Buck's 420 just fine. I also like 1095 or Cases carbon too. A 110 model in carbon steel would definitely be something I'd like to have!
 
Not a fan of carbon steel for my hunting blades. Other use blades; fine. I'll stick with stainless for my hunting knives since they'll be basted in blood, rinsed in the creek or wiped on my pant leg until I can get someplace to clean it up. By then I'm in Butcher mode which means it's a few more hours before it's going to get the attention.

I'm with the other guy who's spent many years perfecting the art of neglect... :D
 
I'd love love love to have a carbon steel 110,as far as rusting,well if you are that lazy you can't keep a carbon blade free of rust,you shouldn't even own a knife.lol..I have my dads old premier lifetime 3blade pocket knife which is over 50 years old,all carbon blades and zero rust on any of them.lets also remember buck has the dlc coating on their ag series,if that was applied to carbon steel blades....there goes the rusting issues out the window.lol
 
RAZORBLADES said:
I'd love love love to have a carbon steel 110,as far as rusting,well if you are that lazy you can't keep a carbon blade free of rust,you shouldn't even own a knife.lol..I have my dads old premier lifetime 3blade pocket knife which is over 50 years old,all carbon blades and zero rust on any of them.lets also remember buck has the dlc coating on their ag series,if that was applied to carbon steel blades....there goes the rusting issues out the window.lol
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Yes I am lazy, but besides that who are you. Anyway it's America, as I saw on another board, "Stainless is for closers!". Anyway I had my share of carbon steel blades, mostly 1095, and when you use them, they rust. Had a Case moons ago out on the East Coast when they wouldn't offer stainless, just carrying it in my pocket got it rusty, 420 to me is just as good and it doesn't rust. If you like carbon so much, get it. I prefer stainless. If that makes me less than you in your eyes, that's ok.
 
I'd like to see a drop point 1095 carbon steel blade option for the 110. NOT mirror polished, since mirror polished shows every fingerprint and smudge.
 
I was just thinking about how cool it would be if Buck put out a 110 in 1095. I've never bought into the special edition 110s before, but that is definitely one I would pick up.
 
It would have helped if the OP would have given us more choices on the poll. There are a lot of high end carbon steels available, now, that would be stellar in a 110.
 
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It would have helped if the OP would have given us more choices on the poll. There are a lot of high end carbon steels available, now, that would be stellar in a 110.
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well ... I didn't cause I was in to a small glass o shed juice... :eek::D;) and did not think of all the non stainless steels ...
I mainly was wandering as I heard ( no I cant quite recalls jest how I might o heard this ...
and don't know ifn I really heard this or if I jest had to much shed juice and dreamed a little k nite dream)
that carbon steel was being tested as a possible blade in a eleven zero ( now jest what the he bell might that be?)
and jest got to wandering if any one else thought it might be a good or bad idea to do that ....
so far seems that it would sell ... and if it would sell ... why not make it ...
hay any thing is possible in my day dreams and who knows ...
those elvises in post falls might make any thing if ya asks for it ...
but ya gots to ask .... cause if ya don't the answer was no any way...
dang sure miss the other old timers ...
see a lot o new nicks I don't recall ...
hay any one out there remember 334dave? :confused:
or the push to get the buck for sale forum started?
edit : I put the chrome plated there as I recall the shinny knives of my youth way back then
I also recall the chrome pealing off o the cheapest ones
and it seems I heard that mirror polishing will make it so it wont rust near what it would other wise...
as to sharpness ... could be my age is showing ... but I learned to sharpen carbon steel early on
and still can get carbon steel sceary sharp ... can do stainless also
but it is that one carbon steel I use in my wood working planers ...:D
 
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Dave, Personally, I think a 110 with a 1095 or some other carbon steel blade would sell, at least to us knife knuts. But the question is, would enough of John Q. and Elsa May Public buy one to make the investment in the required tooling pay off?
If memory serves, the Schrade Old Timer 7OT had a carbon steel blade while its brother, the Uncle Henry LB7 had stainless. I don't know which had the higher sales numbers, but considering the fact that the "new" Schrade makes both with a stainless blade now, and as far as I recolect, Puma and the other big names in lockbacks don't make one in carbon steel, my guess is there is not a large enough market for a carbon steel lockback to be a regular production item.
Folks now-a-days just don't know how to properly care for a carbon steel blade.

(also, the THEY may be working to eliminate carbon steel blades, as they are wood cutting boards, as "unhealthy" around food. (so what if wood cutting boards were used by Adam n Eve and every generation since?) The THEY want to control everything in our lives - and our lives, for that matter.
 
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I would pick one up in any carbon steel! It would be great to see polished 5160 though...
 
I have wanted a carbon steel 110 for a Long time.
Not the "high carbon stainless" that some companies use. I want a 110 that will develop a nice patina.

They would sell a lot of these.

Look at how many carbon folders companies like Northwoods and GEC are selling.

There are some that will never buy one and tell us we're stupid for buying a knife that rusts, and there are some that will buy one, put some mineral oil on the blade and enjoy it as it ages with us.

I think this would be a great seller for Buck.
 
Why would 5160 not be good for a folding hunter? I'm just asking because I don't know and I'm curious.
 
Personally I have no desire to deal with carbon steel, and not because I don't know how to take care of it, but because Life happens and I don't want rusty blades.
When working my pants will get soaked with sweat, while I don't work that hard that much anymore I still don't want to deal with it on a freak'n daily basis.
If I could every tool I own would be stainless steel, hand tools to power tools such as the table on my table saw.
 
I know what you mean. I do still work that hard but I'm just not in the humid South. So, this helps. I've made some knives of 01 steel and it will tarnish (turn black) and rust just looking at it. Plus, I've noticed it imparts a foul taste to things I cut with it. I must agree with you. DM
 
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