5th Annual: Help Us Build a Buck: 104 Compadre - Blade Grind

[PirateSeulb]

I guess I will comment some but for me when I look at the grind options Flat and Hollow look like good options to use in the kitchen and Sabre if you want to take it to the camp site.

 

[skblades]

I guess I will comment some but for me when I look at the grind options Flat and Hollow look like good options to use in the kitchen and Sabre if you want to take it to the camp site.

Agreed 100%.

 

[bikerector]

I guess I will comment some but for me when I look at the grind options Flat and Hollow look like good options to use in the kitchen and Sabre if you want to take it to the camp site.

I agree as well. Or hunting.

 

[pinnah]

skblades : can you confirm that the hollow grind option is a full height hollow grind as in your picture (and like some Case Sodbusters) or a regular (saber) hollow grind (like the Buck 110 and nearly all other Bucks).

Thanks.

 

[skblades]

skblades : can you confirm that the hollow grind option is a full height hollow grind as in your picture (and like some Case Sodbusters) or a regular (saber) hollow grind (like the Buck 110 and nearly all other Bucks).

Thanks.

It's like I said at the beginning of the post, the picture is accurate to the grinds.

 

[OLd_gUY]

I guess I will comment some but for me when I look at the grind options Flat and Hollow look like good options to use in the kitchen and Sabre if you want to take it to the camp site.

 

[Makael]

I guess I will comment some but for me when I look at the grind options Flat and Hollow look like good options to use in the kitchen and Sabre if you want to take it to the camp site.

Agreed

 

[jbmonkey]

about even so far on sabre vs. flat.

I can use a ffg on camp chores and in the kitchen. plus a knife this size ain't gonna be a real chopper. slicing ability of ffg is a plus for me. all that said...im good with either as the sabre isnt gonna be too thick, I dont think. should perform well.

 

[Grantard]

Close race so far! Another for flat here but I’ll be just as happy with saber if so.

 

[Vaporstang]

Voted sabre. Seems this knife is designed for more heavier duty tasks and less so for those requiring more finesse...

Edit to say I will be happy with any of the grinds!

 

[PirateSeulb]

I am mostly looking at it from how I would be using the knife we all know any knife can do in a pinch for me if we end up with a Sabre grind it will be something to give me an excuse to camp, I sadly haven't been camping since I was a child, but if it is FFG or Hollow just means I can try it out and enjoy it in my kitchen more. I am more partial to the Sabre I like the robustness it adds that makes me more comfortable using it in outdoors applications.

 

[Fixall]

Had to go with the sabre grind.

I’d love to have this knife sitting at the campsite ready for any light to medium task I throw at it.

 

[Ernie1980]

Definitely flat grind for me

 

[Fixall]

Sabre and flat grind are neck and neck, this is going to be a fun one!

As much as I would like a sabre grind on this particular knife to make it a bit more robust, I think the flat grind would also perform very well. My BK62 has a flat grind and is of similar thickness to the Buck 104 (.15" on the Kephart and .16" on the Buck) and performs phenomenally in the kitchen.

I think it just comes down to what you want this knife to be capable of. Are you going to mainly be using it chop a bunch of potatoes for breakfast at the camp? Go flat grind. Do you want to be able to split kindling in a pinch? Go sabre.

On another note... This thread really makes me wonder why Buck went with a hollow grind on the production 104.

 

[abbydaddy]

I'm not voting in these, because I won't be buying one, but I enjoy following the process. I just wanted to mention that while Buck might not make many full flat grind knives normally, the 2018 Traditional Subforum Knife showed that Buck can indeed do a full flat grind quite nicely.

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If I were voting, I would vote for a full flat grind, but I am biased by the fact that I have a surplus of heavy duty saber ground fixed blades. I mean, really the reason that I am not in on this knife essentially boils down to the fact that it is very redundant in my collection. If I didn't have plenty of robust camp knives I might lean toward the saber grind. But I generally find the flat grind most useful and the best balance between strength and slicing ability.

 

[sassafrassdogs]

Sabre and flat grind are neck and neck, this is going to be a fun one!

As much as I would like a sabre grind on this particular knife to make it a bit more robust, I think the flat grind would also perform very well. My BK62 has a flat grind and is of similar thickness to the Buck 104 (.15" on the Kephart and .16" on the Buck) and performs phenomenally in the kitchen.

I think it just comes down to what you want this knife to be capable of. Are you going to mainly be using it chop a bunch of potatoes for breakfast at the camp? Go flat grind. Do you want to be able to split kindling in a pinch? Go sabre.

On another note... This thread really makes me wonder why Buck went with a hollow grind on the production 104.

Really?? A kitchen knife?? I don't think anyone is building this knife to use in the kitchen...I know I'm not....

 

[afishhunter]

As stated in my initial post, I voted for the flat. I won't change my vote.
The saber grind was/is my close second choice, so I'll be happy with either one.

 

[Fixall]

Really?? A kitchen knife?? I don't think anyone is building this knife to use in the kitchen...I know I'm not....

I said "breakfast at the camp". I didn't say kitchen knife. I used the BK62 to cut up potatoes because I wanted to see how it did. We had a foot and a half of snow on the ground last week, I didn't feel like camping.

Plenty of knives do just fine in the bush with a full flat grind.

 

[BuckShack]

What I've seen from Buck for a full flat grind on the BF 301 knife and SK 110/112 is a substantially "thick" blade. On a larger blade like this, I can only image. Add Saber grind and we may get a wood splitting wedge. But it sounds like most want it for this purpose rather than cutting anyway. Does anyone have an example of a Buck Saber grind knife? This may be a unique one of a kind item.

 

[Xr6x]

A Knife this length would be a better performer with a Flat Grind but I think the Saber Grind has a better look