4 pin 110??

DarrylS

DarrylS

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Hello all. Now that you've gotten my interest in Buck knives and 110's in particular all fired up I seem to find time to actually ask you some questions. I have 2 110's...the one that Buck refurbished so beautifully(thanks again Joe) and an older 110 with 2 pins and the inverted Buck USA on the blade. I've just seen a 110 2 dot with 4 pins. There are 3 pins located at the rear bolster area and the 1 pin up towards the front bolster as is normal. The 3 pins are in what you may call a triangular pattern. Is this a known configuration or is this an aberation? Lord...now I'm thinkin' of buying more knives...LOL...TIA...Darryl
 
Darryl, I'll tell you what I know. I have an old 110 with the inverted Buck USA and it has three pins, one large steel pin and two smaller brass pins. The newer Buck 110's have three brass pins and the larger steel pin for a total of four. These four pin 110's have two of the brass pins back towards the rear of the scales with the third brass pin and the large steel pin towards the front. On my older 110 there is only one brass pin to the rear of the scales and the two forward pins are in a similar position.
 
Thanks Mike...This one actually has a total of 5 pins showing on each scale. 1 at the front towards the blade, the larger pivot pin and 3 pins at the rear of the knife. I have pictures of the knife but I don't believe I can post them. Thanks so much for the input...Darryl
 
Darryl,
I think this question has been addressed in past forum threads but I do not want to take the time to search. The following applies to both 110 and 112 models. Buck used to use two handle inlay rivets in addition to the rocker rivet. When they went to using three handle rivets ( two at back and one at the front of the inlay), they already had a supply of inlays drilled for the two holes and they did not want to waste the material. Because the two rivet models were more or less centered vertically, they just went ahead and drilled two more rivet holes at the one end, one above and one below the original rivet hole. The result is a triangular look at that end due to the fact that the holes are not vertically aligned.
These knives will always have 2-dot blades (unless they have been replaced) and this took place in approx. 1979.
Hope this helps.
 
DarrylS,

Its seems that I recall Joe Houser saying that when the change was made from the two pin handles to the three pin handles they wanted to use up the remaining two pin handles. In seems in doing this they re drilled the older handles for three pins by drilling the two new rear holes. This left an extra hole were the older handle had the rear pin and they simply filled it so it wouldn't be left open. The handle then ended up with four pins and the rocker pivot on each side. I believe this would have occurred between 1974 and 1980 on the two dot knives. Maybe Joe will chime in and verify it but I believe that is what I remember hearing.

Tom
 
Thanks Larry and Tom...I thought that the way it looked, it was a matter of using up some old stock...Now to figure out how I could own a couple of Buck knives for so many years, just to get all excited about them now...LOL...Thanks again...Darryl
 
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