1974-1980 Buck 110 with 3 pins vs 4 in handle

germanshepherd13 said:
is it possible the factory did it afterwards because the curves match perfectly the curves on the 110's I have that were made later that were radiused.
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It just means that whoever did it was able to perfectly match the lines of the later fully radiused 110s. No telling who that was.
 
whoever it was did a darn good job but wish they would have left it alone and kept it like the original look. Makes it a bit different I guess but glad that they at least did a good job.
 
David Martin said:
It was Larry Oden that told me he's got a 110 FG radiused as new in the box. DM
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But earlier you said it was a three-dot.

Which is it?

The reason I questioned your statement was that Vern Taylor said that the first hand radiused 110 prototypes were seen at the 112th NRA meeting in Phoenix in May 1983. That makes it highly unlikely that a factory radiused three dot 110 would be in existence.

But stranger things have happened with Buck.......it's just a matter of figuring out HOW it happened.

:)
 
Buck, reread my statement again as I've not changed it. It is a 3 dot I'm talking about. Whether or not either of us comes up with a copy of Vern Taylor's writing about the radius of a 110 to pin point it's time frame or not, Larry says he has one. DM
 
I read your statement correctly, you just didn't specify 3 dot when you made the claim the second time.

As to Vern Taylor's statement, that's easy to come up with (it's on this forum) and it puts the first hand radiused 110s as being brought to the NRA convention May 6th of 1983, because he says President Reagan was the keynote speaker.

It just took a little detective work to get the actual date and it means the time frame dictates four dot 110s.

If Larry Oden has a 3 dot 110 that's been radiused then the guessing would have to start as to when, where and how it got radiused.

It would have been way ahead of the pack, that's for sure. :)

Maybe Larry can weigh in with the story. The stories are a big part of the fun of collecting Bucks.
 
I don't see it as way ahead of the pack as at least one respected collector puts the 3dots at a 1981 mfg.. Thus a year and a half from Mr. Taylor's date. DM
 
I think most of us would agree with your respected collector.

Surely some were made in early 1981, but that still makes it more like two years early, so would not be just way ahead of the pack, it would be TOO FAR ahead of the pack to be believable.

That's why I don't think a LEGITIMATE factory radiused 3 dot exists even though there may be something out there that looks like one.

After all, there's thousands of guys grinding on 110s of all types and some of these guys are pretty talented.

:)
 
Hi, I’m extremely new here and have not too seriously collected knives since about 10.
Sorry for chiming in here after so much time. A few years ago my father passed away and I ended up with tons of boxes of belongings that were not only his but my grandfather’s. I finally have been going through to precisely identify everything and found this knife. I’m confused as to what year it is. It only has two pins (total) in the handle, is a two dot 3 line 110 with an orange-brown looking handle. It also has jimping on the blade and spine. Any help in identifying it would be very appreciated.
 
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Hout, welcome to the Buck Forum. To me the handle and blade Don't belong together. The blade is Buck's mfg. from 1974-80. The rest of the knife looks like someone else made it. (not sure it's Buck) DM
 
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David Martin said:
Hout, welcome to the Buck Forum. To me the handle and blade Don't belong together. The blade is Buck's mfg. from 1074-80. The rest of the knife looks like someone else made it. (not sure it's Buck) DM
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Thanks for the quick reply! I see what you mean. It looks custom as I’ve never seen that type of jimping and handle. Any idea about the handle material?
 
Houtx1836 said:
Hi, I’m extremely new here and have not too seriously collected knives since about 10.
Sorry for chiming in here after so much time. A few years ago my father passed away and I ended up with tons of boxes of belongings that were not only his but my grandfather’s. I finally have been going through to precisely identify everything and found this knife. I’m confused as to what year it is. It only has two pins (total) in the handle, is a two dot 3 line 110 with an orange-brown looking handle. It also has jimping on the blade and spine. Any help in identifying it would be very appreciated.
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Does the handle have any othere markings. I know sometimes custom makers put marks down inside the handle and on the inside of the back spacer.
 
Brhowser87 said:
Does the handle have any othere markings. I know sometimes custom makers put marks down inside the handle and on the inside of the back spacer.
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That was a worthwhile tip. But after looking at every conceivable angle of the knife in all positions under quality light with a magnifying glass, I’m not able to locate any markings other the Buck three line tang stamp.
 
Houtx1836 said:
That was a worthwhile tip. But after looking at every conceivable angle of the knife in all positions under quality light with a magnifying glass, I’m not able to locate any markings other the Buck three line tang stamp.
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Darn..... Well that is strange. I guess if you really want info contact buck and see if they have any info or @gsea might chime in.
 
Hello GS welcome, I was a newbie not to long ago and a good friend found out there are 6 different two dot versions and the last was a small font on the tang stamp and lo and behold I have many two dots and checked for him and the last one I looked at was a small font so not mattering to me and he was in search of it I sent it to him. Someone was telling him the stamp splays out on the die over time. Being an ex-tool and die maker I told him that could be true but they never shrink. Sure enough he got it and looked at the tang stamp and it surely was a smaller tang stamp that he needed to finish his 2 dot infatuation of all 6. there is also a 5 pin that is a 2 dot. Which I have. 4 brass scale pins and the rocker totaling 5 FYI. Somebody on this forum has approx 30 of this hard to find variation.
 
The picture shows two small handle rivets( one missing) and one larger which I have never seen before, also looks like the pivot rivet and large brass rivet are flush with the scale.
 
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