305 lancers on 3/05

[Hickory n steel]

Getting a head start on this before I forget , I can't let somebody else beat me to it.
I did forget to take my pictures today , so I'll have to get them tomorrow morning.


For now I'll just have to kick this off with a picture I have handy of my favorite 305.

 

[bertl]

305 first version 1968-1971—no model number, handle pins, and small EZ open notch.

 

[bertl]

305s with some color—smooth red and saw cut yellow.

 

[wonderboy1377s]

 

[DrMegabyte]

The 305 ... The only one of "The Chairman's Series" I don't have ...

A photo from a shop that had one a while ago ...

 

[FranklinG]

I really like this one with brass liners.

I also noticed that 5 out of the first 7 Lancers posted today are from 1989. That must have been a good year!

 

[Hickory n steel]

I really like this one with brass liners.

I also noticed that 5 out of the first 7 Lancers posted today are from 1989. That must have been a good year!

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It's one of the best years for the 305.

 

[Hickory n steel]

A smooth red 305 clipper FranklinG sent me, along with a 350.

 

[Hickory n steel]

A 305T4, I'm not sure I ever really figured out what the T4 was all about.

 

[Hickory n steel]

My 1st love.

A big standard 305 from 2003 that I bought BOS for $35 on eBay.
I really need to carry this one more, but it's kinda hard to choose black valox over nice stag and bone.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Speaking of nice bone

 

[MT_Pokt]

No pic... but I promise I have the one that came with my B&C 303 with green paperstone.

 

[Hickory n steel]

1998 limited edition in brown bone.

I don't think they used this particular bone before or since on anything, but I could be wrong.
I really like the shield.

 

[Hickory n steel]

 

[Hickory n steel]

No pic... but I promise I have the one that came with my B&C 303 with green paperstone.

A standard 305 came for free with your paper stone 303, or are you telling me that the B&C green paper stone 305 actually exists ?

 

[Hickory n steel]

 

[Hickory n steel]

 

[Hickory n steel]

Here are the last 305's in my arsenal , they don't have boxes.

I just realized that this yellow 305 is a transitional, 1989 but still single spring.

It was also very generously sent to me by FranklinG, and actually I realized when putting everything away that I actually do have a box for it.

 

[DeSotoSky]

A 305 Lancer from 2010 in gray Dymondwood. The Lancer is a fun one to collect and I have a bunch of them but is too small to ever be a "user" for me. It's lost in my big 3XL hand.

 

[DeSotoSky]

A Camillus manufactured 305 knife with the model number stamped on the backside of the clip blade. Also notice the frame recess notch for the secondary blade. Paperwork dates it to about 1972 or soon after.