A New Buck 110 Injury For the Books

Hickory n steel said:
Personally I would like to think fewer Buck owners have to test their edges because they already know it's going to come razor sharp.

The only exception seems to have been the 305, none of the 4 NOS 305's I've bought were that sharp for some reason.
Everything else about them was/ is perfect and consistent from 1989, 1998, 2003, and 2017.
That's 4 decades represented and all had the same F&F.
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Interesting perspective!
 
I had to stop carrying my 110 drop point. Every time i used it I got cut. It was the strangest thing.

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It's not quite the same mechanics of injury, but I accidentally poked my finger with the tip of my newish Buck 112 LT while I was opening a box earlier today. I felt a little stick, but I didn't bother to look at it. About a minute later, my finger was somewhat . . . bloody. You could just barely see the tiniest of tiny slits in my finger. Maybe 1/16" long at the most and the width of a hair. rhino is not smart.
 
Once in a while you will get a 110/112 with a incredibly sharp point. I have tried to sharpen a few 112's to achieve the same results with absolutely no luck. I spent hours on one that I carried just for self defense a dozen years ago and it ended up worse than when I started.
 
bucksway said:
Once in a while you will get a 110/112 with a incredibly sharp point. I have tried to sharpen a few 112's to achieve the same results with absolutely no luck. I spent hours on one that I carried just for self defense a dozen years ago and it ended up worse than when I started.
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I feel your pain. I rounded the points on all of my knives over time for decades because I didn't understand that you should let the knife tip "slip" off the edge of the stone on each stroke. Now that I stop the stroke while the point is still in contact with the stone or rod, I am much less prone to that error.

It also seems to help me get the sharpness at the point consistent with the straight part of the edge, so win-win.

And I have not injured myself with the knife today. Yet.
 
Not a Buck story but still one of those inadvertent injury (very minor) things.

Last 4th of July there was a riverside picnic that involved watermelon. The melon was sliced and it was my duty to cut it up into eating sized pieces. On a cheapie paper plate. Started dicing it with a brand new PM3LW. Had a little sting on my thigh, thought nothing of it and carried on. Felt another sting or two. When the task was completed and the plate set on the cooler, I had about six drops of blood showing. THAT is a pointy knife.

My 110, 112LW, 55 and 301 give nothing up to that spydie though. They are the shiznit. Dangerous to the careless person.
 
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Summer of 84. A friend and myself were camping and gigged a few dozen frogs. We cleaned them and chopped off their legs with my 110. One frog jumped on me and I sliced my palm pretty good. Wrapped it up with my bandana and kept on getting it.
Fried those legs in bacon grease. Hmm......
 
I know this will be considered blasphemy to some. But, I've taken to rounding the tip on my 102s, just a hair. (*Yes, on purpose)

At some point, getting stabbed isn't fun anymore.
 
Alone said:
I know this will be considered blasphemy to some. But, I've taken to rounding the tip on my 102s, just a hair. (*Yes, on purpose)

At some point, getting stabbed isn't fun anymore.
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Apparently, you are smarter than I am.

I will say that pointy clip points come in handy when you need them, though. When I started practicing carving different kinds of notches on sticks, I learned that I preferred the clip points to the drop points. I was all onboard the drop point train until then. Unless it's so pointy that it breaks under reasonable use, I like it pointy. I may revise my opinion after a few more self-inflicted stabbing incidents, though.
 
rhino said:
Apparently, you are smarter than I am.

I will say that pointy clip points come in handy when you need them, though. When I started practicing carving different kinds of notches on sticks, I learned that I preferred the clip points to the drop points. I was all onboard the drop point train until then. Unless it's so pointy that it breaks under reasonable use, I like it pointy. I may revise my opinion after a few more self-inflicted stabbing incidents, though.
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I've never cared for drop point blades. Far and away prefer clip. Have a few spear point folders and one fixed (BK62) but everything else that isn't a kitchen knife, filet knife or pen blade on a folder is clip. Except for a wharncliffe on Lionsteel Warhorse.

Totally agree on a pointy tip.
 
Boattale said:
I've never cared for drop point blades. Far and away prefer clip. Have a few spear point folders and one fixed (BK62) but everything else that isn't a kitchen knife, filet knife or pen blade on a folder is clip. Except for a wharncliffe on Lionsteel Warhorse.

Totally agree on a pointy tip.
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It's interesting how eager I was to get my hands on drop point 110s. I still love them, but learning new skills changed my preference. If I spent more time opening the thoracic cavities of critters, I might be more inclined to favor the drop point because it makes it easier to not poke things you don't want to poke. For woods uses and general utility, though, the clip point is it for rhino.
 
rhino said:
It's interesting how eager I was to get my hands on drop point 110s. I still love them, but learning new skills changed my preference. If I spent more time opening the thoracic cavities of critters, I might be more inclined to favor the drop point because it makes it easier to not poke things you don't want to poke. For woods uses and general utility, though, the clip point is it for rhino.
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Belly on a clip blade that is sharp opens up a deer just fine for me, don't like points near things that I do not want to cut (stomach, intestine, etc.). Opening animals is what steers me away from drop point.
 
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