500th post Buck Knife Giveaway...a Customized/slimmed down 112 ...Dec 25th

I love Buck knives because of the quality for the price. I always admired my fathers 110 my mother gave him in 1971. He still has it. Great American company with a long interesting history.
 
Quality, value, guarantee, all important. Design, usability, function, equally important. Best part, mention a Buck knife and everyone knows what you're talking about--whether they're a knife fan or not. You don't have to explain anything. Say it's a Buck, everyone understands without question.

Jack
 
WOW ! This is fun reading guys !
Thanx for replying....
Heabbie, your English is fine by me :thumbup:
 
Nice work Sit, on the knives and your 500th post. Keep those photos of your customs coming!
 
Sitflyer,

Thanks for your generosity.

I like Buck knifes because they represent everything that is right about America. A great product at a great price, backed up with personal and exemplary service. While it seemed like this philosophy used to be more or less the rule in our great country, it is becoming increasing rare.

I'd like to take this opportunity to exercise another great tradition -

Please have a blessed and truly happy Christmas, and a healthy and prosperous New Year.
 
Cool giveaway. Please count me in. When I was a kid, my Dad always carried a Buck knife (I think it was either a Knight or Esquire). So, I grew up on Buck knives. Aside from Boy Scout knives, my first knife was a Buck. I appreciate that Buck builds a quality product stands behind it with a first-class warranty. You cannot ask more from a company.
 
For me it's simple, BUCK knives outperform any other knives I have for the task at hand. Alway have and as I suspect, always will.
 
Buck knives, like the one guy said, are true Americana. My favorite is the 110 because it just looks like it belongs in the woods with me when I'm backpacking. I like the classic old-school look: no fancy colors, big writing, powder coat, etc. Just steel, brass, wood and leather. Perfect!
 
sitflyer said:
Heabbie, your English is fine by me :thumbup:
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Thank you, Sit, that's nice to read. I am always glad when i get an
answer and it seems that I was able to to express in a way which
everyone can understand with a little effort. Yes, my translations
are good enough for a small talk (or write). But when it gets down
to the nitty-gritty I have to use the one or the other more or less
usable dictionary as I did just now. ;) :)

Haebbie
 
Thanks for the chance, Sit!
I was drawn to Buck knives as a youngster, when I worked at a local nature center. The head naturalist carried a 112 in a sheath on his belt, and I watched him use that knife for EVERYthing. He was a role model for me; a real purist, very into primitive technology and minimalist survivalism. And in his eyes, the brass, wood & steel of that Buck knife were unparalleled by any of the plastic-handled jobbies us kids carried around... and he never missed an opportunity to tell us! One of his favorite jibes was "Gerber... Like our baby food? Love our knives!" ;)
He inspired me to try my first Buck, which was an orange-handled Bucklite (422). From there, I eventually graduated to a brass and wood 112.
My travels through knifedom took me down all sorts of different roads over the years... traditional slipjoints, black one-handers, balisongs, automatics, fixed blades of all descriptions... but I keep coming back to my brass Buck folding hunters. No matter what else I have on my person or among my effects, I nearly always have a 110 or 112 in my back pocket.
And, once I finally tried out one of Buck's fixed blades, the 119 quickly became King of the Hill, and kicked all the "fancier" and more expensive fixed blades back off the mountain. :D
 
Very nice! I'm in, I like Buck knives because of the company owners integrity and character, plus they are just flat out great knives.
 
The thinned 112 is inspiring!!!

I've been thinking about attempting this myself so if you don't mind, could you share how you did it?

My assumption is that the first move is to put the sides on the knife on a belt sander (or its equivalent). Is that correct?

Also, my understanding is that the pins' jobs are to keep the scales from moving laterally off of the body, not to keep them from lifting off. Instead, they are held on with epoxy. Have you had any problems with the scales loosening or did you reglue them?

I've had some luck "de-clipping" my Opinel #8 and turning it into more of a drop point. I also recently got a Buck 482 as a utility/backpacking knife and love it's more drop point profile. So, the other mod I'm thinking about for a Buck 112 is taking a bit off the top front of the blade to move it closer to the 482's profile.

I have a Buck 500 coming my way for Christmas but a thinned 112 would be a nice companion. I'm not entering the drawing and want to make my own. So, any advice you have on how you thinned it would be very, very much appreciated.
 
I'm a fan of Buck knives since I bought my first (422) as a young man decades ago, and a 110 at a garage sale later, which Buck dressed up for me. Their customer service is exemplary and I like their business ethics. I hope they're around for generations to come.
 
Buck knives are American made quality from the turn of the century. They have kept it in the family for a 100 plus and haven't been bought and sold several times like most turn of the century cutlery companies. They stand by their product whether good, bad or indifferent. I love Buck knives because there made by BUCK, a name that everybody knows...
 
Great knife Sitflyer and what a Christmas someone is going to have.
I love Buck Knives as many others do for their quality, beauty, durability, collectabilty, and The Buck Family behind all their products as just reading the different post here will attest. Thanks for the chance as I loved that knife the first time you posted and only wished I had half the talent you have with your many knives you have redone customised and etc.. Best part is you share as I have also done with my (cousins) knives as a matter of fact just got some back from buck was going to wait till christmas but maybe I will open a few days early, Thanks to Joe H and his rework crew in advance as I am sure the knives will look great and will share,
Thanks Again Sitflyer for the chance and have a Great Holiday for you and Your Family
 
pinnah said:
The thinned 112 is inspiring!!!

I've been thinking about attempting this myself so if you don't mind, could you share how you did it?

My assumption is that the first move is to put the sides on the knife on a belt sander (or its equivalent). Is that correct?

Also, my understanding is that the pins' jobs are to keep the scales from moving laterally off of the body, not to keep them from lifting off. Instead, they are held on with epoxy. Have you had any problems with the scales loosening or did you reglue them?

I've had some luck "de-clipping" my Opinel #8 and turning it into more of a drop point. I also recently got a Buck 482 as a utility/backpacking knife and love it's more drop point profile. So, the other mod I'm thinking about for a Buck 112 is taking a bit off the top front of the blade to move it closer to the 482's profile.

I have a Buck 500 coming my way for Christmas but a thinned 112 would be a nice companion. I'm not entering the drawing and want to make my own. So, any advice you have on how you thinned it would be very, very much appreciated.
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Ever since I was a kid, my dad had a 110 he used. Always loved the weight and snap of opening it. Gotta love Buck!
 
I love them because of the great tradition, and because growing up my dad carried a 110 for as long as I can remember whenever we were hunting or fishing.
 
Definitely in.

I've admired that 112 since you first showed it off.

How shall I enumerate my affections for Buck knives?

I have a great admiration for competence, especially expressed both in the skill of art in the making of the product and in the accomplishment and execution of the leadership, organization, and management of the business as an enterprise and as a family endeavor.

Buck Knives demonstrates both of these things. The viability of the product almost goes without saying: if a company produceth junk, so shall its clientèle seek other sources for their goods and trade. The viability of the organization is evident in the simple observation that, four generations later, lo! it stands before us still, dynamic and vital.

My initial failure to appreciate the quality of their knives and the quality, depth, and grounding of the company is witness only to my own juvenile preoccupations with style over substance and the "modern" over the enduring.


A Buck knife -- even a simple modestly priced classic -- is an heirloom quality tool, rendered so by the simple fact that it can outlast its owner, as so many already have.

I don't own them because they're "cool," I own them because they're effective and reliable.

I can't tell you how many I have, I can only tell you that I will have more.

 
Very gracious gesture. I love Bucks becaue they are like apple pie and baseball - it makes me feel American.
 
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