122 filet knife

mbjannusch

mbjannusch

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So I won a bid on the bay for a 122 filet knife. This knife has a rosewood handle and a small bass pro shop pad stamp on the blade. It doesn't have a year mark next to the model number. Did these come without a model number of did they get manufactured prior to '86 when year marks began? It is new in the box with paperwork, but the paperwork doesn't have a date on it anywhere. It did come with an advertisement for a cedar display box for several fixed blade knives with a due date of Jan 31, 1987, but this is well into the period of date stamps. Any help would be of interest and appreciated...
 
I'm thinking that model was for Bass Pro but its a varation off the 'Mates'. Buck's fillet knives at that time were the model 123- Lakemate, 125- Streammate and 127- Oceanmate. Only they didn't have wood handles like the Bass Pro model. These knives came out in late 84 and are featured in the 85 catalog. I remember seeing a model 125 with the old English script stamp (Buck, USA) without a model number. They also could have used that stamp as it was being used on the Empress Trio knives at the time. Same size knife. So, yours could be close. Maybe the Buck website will have more info.. DM
 
Thanks Dave, I looked on the BCCI website, and it didn't list the 122 in any of the catalogs. That was the first place I looked. I'm not sure but guessing because it was a BPS exclusive they may not have listed it in the catalogs. It is a beautiful knife and I hope to get some info on it. It is the size of a common filet knife, so I'd imagine it would be close to the 123 but with a checker textured rosewood handle. Maybe the BPS could give me some insight on when they carried it. The blade stamp is a regular stamp as apposed to the script stamp. I don't have a BPS anywhere close to me so i'll give this thread a few days.
 
I bought one new from BPS back in the middle 1980's. I think it was 1984 because that was the year I bought a new boat.

Mine has seen lots of use over the years, so I was trying to win the only one I've seen come up on the auction site, but SOMEONE wanted it more than me mbjannusch!! :)

I love the wood handle and the way it feels in my hand when I'm filleting fish..... and it came with a nice sheath.
 
Stumps, Were those sheaths the pouch type in brown or black? Yes, the 123 had a 6 1/2" blade if thats close to your 122. Probably a Bass Pro Exclusive. Thanks, DM
 
This one came with a brown leather sheath and a 6 1/2 inche blade sounds about right. A Bass Pro shop Exclusive explains why its not on the catalog. 1984 sounds about right as well, sense the blade has no date mark.

SORRY STUMPS ...
 
:D

That's the way the e-Bay splashes.

Another one will float by......let's all remember to tip off Stumps if we see a 122 auction.

:thumbup:
 
The 'Mates' were offered with either a brown or black sheath. So, again with yours we see close similarities. DM
 
Thats the same one, I must have mis-spoke on the checkering. I didn't have the knife in front of me. That is it... Does that knife have the BPS logo on the blade. I can't see it in the pictures. My knife has the BPS pad stamp on the blade just above the Buck stamp and vertical along the spine of the blade.
 
David Martin said:
Stumps, Were those sheaths the pouch type in brown or black? Yes, the 123 had a 6 1/2" blade if thats close to your 122. Probably a Bass Pro Exclusive. Thanks, DM
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Mine is brown just like the one in Kurie Osity's pictures.
 
That is identical to mine....except mine has cleaned several thousand fish and been sharpened a bunch.

I really like those wooden handles....the quality of them and the way it feels in my hand.

That is a real beauty!!
 
It went until about '93, but I was wondering about the possibility that a different steel was used in a real fillet knife such as that........I know they've departed from the 420HC in some recent fillet knives.
 
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