- Joined
- Apr 27, 2001
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- 595
I received one of the plain edge models two days ago. It feels really great in the hand. The liner may look thin by comparison to many other knives out there but it holds very well. With all of the mentions of the locking liner, I broke down and spine whacked the heck out of mine with no failure. Since this knife is planed as my daily carry, I didn't really care about messing it up and went for broke on whacking it. I set a leather pad on top of a book on my work bench. I then wrapped the blade in another piece of leather and went to town trying to make the lock fail. No such luck so I'm pretty well satisfied that this one isn't going to fail on me under normal working conditions. I actually didn't expect any failure as I have had opportunity to tour Josh Rummerfield's secret testing facility at the Buck plant (A heavy, metal folding chair that was nearly destroyed by abusing knives on it) when he was working on the prototypes of this knife.
The massively thick ATS-34 blade with Bos heat treat is part of the reason that the liner appears small. The knife I received has a well centered blade and the liner comes across to dead center with full even contact. The cutting edge was perfectly centered and extremely sharp out of the box. No touching this one up until it stops shaving hair. If the 880SP that I carried in Iraq is any sign of what to expect, it will be a while. Paul knows how to heat treat this steel better than anyone else on the planet.
Grip surface is exceptional and, most likely, better than you could get with G-10. (I do prefer G-10 for asthetics none the less and would love to have this knife done in OD Green for maximum cool effect.
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I've had this one in pocket for only 48 hrs so I don't have a lot to report in the function catedgory yet. I will update as I use it over the next month.
Thanks to Josh Rummerfield, Steve Tarani, the Strider gand and the entire Buck family for putting out another great blade in this line.
Doc Bretz
The massively thick ATS-34 blade with Bos heat treat is part of the reason that the liner appears small. The knife I received has a well centered blade and the liner comes across to dead center with full even contact. The cutting edge was perfectly centered and extremely sharp out of the box. No touching this one up until it stops shaving hair. If the 880SP that I carried in Iraq is any sign of what to expect, it will be a while. Paul knows how to heat treat this steel better than anyone else on the planet.
Grip surface is exceptional and, most likely, better than you could get with G-10. (I do prefer G-10 for asthetics none the less and would love to have this knife done in OD Green for maximum cool effect.
)I've had this one in pocket for only 48 hrs so I don't have a lot to report in the function catedgory yet. I will update as I use it over the next month.
Thanks to Josh Rummerfield, Steve Tarani, the Strider gand and the entire Buck family for putting out another great blade in this line.
Doc Bretz