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I brought up this knife in a prior thread but here it is again. It may be of interest only to me, but I'm hoping that some forum member or perhaps someone from Buck (Joe ?) can explain what the deal is.
If you go back and look at the catalogs you'll see that the last year this model was shown and listed in the price list was 2005. It was gone from both after that, but now I find this one with the 2011 date stamp. It's not a buildout, or at least it doesn't have the "BO" in the model number on the label. It is a factory blem (see the deformed blade pin head) but is not marked on the knife itself as a FB, only on the box. The catalog number and UPC code matches the ones from 2005 and earlier but there's no date printed on the label.
I can see my son in a few years when he becomes the owner of my accumulation scratching his head over this one. Why, if it was dropped from the catalog, is it still being produced six years later?
If you go back and look at the catalogs you'll see that the last year this model was shown and listed in the price list was 2005. It was gone from both after that, but now I find this one with the 2011 date stamp. It's not a buildout, or at least it doesn't have the "BO" in the model number on the label. It is a factory blem (see the deformed blade pin head) but is not marked on the knife itself as a FB, only on the box. The catalog number and UPC code matches the ones from 2005 and earlier but there's no date printed on the label.
I can see my son in a few years when he becomes the owner of my accumulation scratching his head over this one. Why, if it was dropped from the catalog, is it still being produced six years later?




