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A very strange 112
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Hi, I suppose that's enough I'm getting mixed up, it eats up lots of time, photobucket isn't bad I never needed a service like it untill now, Thanks for any answers, the other 112 is the newest one I have where I can get to it without taking a half hour maybe I have a newer yellowhorse it will take a lot of time to dig one out their on the bottom of a lot of knives in a safe and it's rough on my back to get to them I don't think it's worth the effort. Thanks again George God bless
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Thank You for taking the time and effort to share this with us junom. It was a big learning curve with me to figure out how to post photos and host them, and link them when I started out. I really didn't even know how to use a digital camera till I got started on the forum. That 112 looks like someone had an idea for a modification, and either got in over their head or lost interest and probably sold it? How did you come upon this knife? I think the blade looks pretty much stock, I would have to dig one out to compare, but there is a lot of metal removal that happened with the handle, and the pivot pin looks flush to the covers ( sanded flat). I am not even sure that it started out as a finger grooved model. If the blade is solid without any abnormal play, it looks like it might be a fine user knife. You never know what they've been through when you buy a used knife. But again, thanks for sharing it here with us Buck nuts.
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Junom, Thank you for taking the time and effort inorder to learn to post pictures in the Buck Forum. It is a Real Pain to do it. There is a learning curve. I would have never done it had the guys here not been sooo into Pictures. I still don't care to have a studio format to take pictures like some. Still, I recognize that those photos are of good quality.
Your 112 is not a factory modification. Someone did it then sold it. DM
Your 112 is not a factory modification. Someone did it then sold it. DM
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George, good pictures! That appears to be a very nicely done customization job - it looks like it will be much more pocket friendly to carry now. OH
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I don't know if I told you ,it came from a estate buyer they don't know anything about knives. The problem I have with it is, it has what looks like a wide and tall rocker, that has a long hook end, you can see where the tang is milled out larger than the other 112, the picture of the butt shows the rocker bar looking wider than the 2 dot, it has a completely different tang that's polished , if the tang was standard it would stick out of the frame when the blade was open. The blade is new and it has a choil and a different looking kick all done by some one who had good tools and knew something. The inlay holes don't match the holes in the frame, the handle holes just dead end at brass, I surface filled them I was going to put it in my pocket I still may it's very light and feels good in my hand. The knife was almost finished, whoever was working on it quit at the butt it had grinder marks in the butt end, making it flat, also on the top of the butt there were grinder marks, it was ground at a angle and they touched a butt rivet on one side, I am guessing that's when they stopped. I had to finish it off, I had to go deep to get it flat and it just touches the butt rivet heads, the hole in the stainless spacer was countersunk, making it look like file work now. I also finished the flat on the butt I did a fast job but it looks like it's done. As I was doing it , it made me think of some knives that I had and that were models, most of them one of a kind, they had two different handle colors like this knife, they were made to show the boss and see how they liked them and if they wanted to put them in production, most of them were old Ka-Bars, one Case and a Benchmade that Mel Pardue made, it was rough, steel pins file marks all over it and the blade was loose but Benchmade did produce the knife, I sold it, it had a pick blade a long blue anodized bolster and a synthetic ivory handle ending in a bare head it may have been a auto I may still have a picture of it. I thought this knife was just a 112 that was cut down maybe it is, I don't have any new Bucks to compare it to, whoever did the choil and kick knew what they were doing,they didn't do as well with the hand work on the brass, maybe it was a machinist. I don't know about the rocker bar maybe it's stock on the newer FG 112's. Thanks George God bless
I don't know if I told you ,it came from a estate buyer they don't know anything about knives. The problem I have with it is, it has what looks like a wide and tall rocker, that has a long hook end, you can see where the tang is milled out larger than the other 112, the picture of the butt shows the rocker bar looking wider than the 2 dot, it has a completely different tang that's polished , if the tang was standard it would stick out of the frame when the blade was open. The blade is new and it has a choil and a different looking kick all done by some one who had good tools and knew something. The inlay holes don't match the holes in the frame, the handle holes just dead end at brass, I surface filled them I was going to put it in my pocket I still may it's very light and feels good in my hand. The knife was almost finished, whoever was working on it quit at the butt it had grinder marks in the butt end, making it flat, also on the top of the butt there were grinder marks, it was ground at a angle and they touched a butt rivet on one side, I am guessing that's when they stopped. I had to finish it off, I had to go deep to get it flat and it just touches the butt rivet heads, the hole in the stainless spacer was countersunk, making it look like file work now. I also finished the flat on the butt I did a fast job but it looks like it's done. As I was doing it , it made me think of some knives that I had and that were models, most of them one of a kind, they had two different handle colors like this knife, they were made to show the boss and see how they liked them and if they wanted to put them in production, most of them were old Ka-Bars, one Case and a Benchmade that Mel Pardue made, it was rough, steel pins file marks all over it and the blade was loose but Benchmade did produce the knife, I sold it, it had a pick blade a long blue anodized bolster and a synthetic ivory handle ending in a bare head it may have been a auto I may still have a picture of it. I thought this knife was just a 112 that was cut down maybe it is, I don't have any new Bucks to compare it to, whoever did the choil and kick knew what they were doing,they didn't do as well with the hand work on the brass, maybe it was a machinist. I don't know about the rocker bar maybe it's stock on the newer FG 112's. Thanks George God bless
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Hi, David
Thanks for all the help, can you tell me what year Buck started making a heavier blade for the 112's, I found a 112 yellowhorse on top of the pile I don't know what year it is I've forgotten when I bought it, it's the one with a Confederate flag, the tang stamp is a old custom shop tang stamp, I suppose that was before 2002, or 2004 it still has a thinner blade, maybe just the FG's have a thicker blade and longer tang, I would have guessed they changed the blade when they started fineblanking, but I would have been wrong. Someone had to make it from a stock 112FG, where would anyone get a blade that had a larger tang so they had some steel to work with, who ever was making it was good ,maybe they passed away before they were finished, it came from a estate. All I have to do is find when Buck started making a heavier blade for the 112 and the mystery is gone
Thanks again
George God bless
Thanks for all the help, can you tell me what year Buck started making a heavier blade for the 112's, I found a 112 yellowhorse on top of the pile I don't know what year it is I've forgotten when I bought it, it's the one with a Confederate flag, the tang stamp is a old custom shop tang stamp, I suppose that was before 2002, or 2004 it still has a thinner blade, maybe just the FG's have a thicker blade and longer tang, I would have guessed they changed the blade when they started fineblanking, but I would have been wrong. Someone had to make it from a stock 112FG, where would anyone get a blade that had a larger tang so they had some steel to work with, who ever was making it was good ,maybe they passed away before they were finished, it came from a estate. All I have to do is find when Buck started making a heavier blade for the 112 and the mystery is gone
Thanks again
George God bless
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Hi,
The 112 came from a estate, its rock solid, and works like a new knife, someone must have split this knife, then remade the tang, the entire tang from the newly made choil to the kick and where the tang rides the rocker closed has been milled and polished, someone knew their geometry, it must have been a tool and die maker, A strange thing is the inlay rivet holes in the inlays don't match up with the holes in the frame, I surface filled them they dead ended at brass, I'm beginning to think they passed away before they were finished, I think I'm going to carry it, it's a great knife. I'm sure of one thing ,it was worth the $36.00.
Thanks for your help
George God bless
The 112 came from a estate, its rock solid, and works like a new knife, someone must have split this knife, then remade the tang, the entire tang from the newly made choil to the kick and where the tang rides the rocker closed has been milled and polished, someone knew their geometry, it must have been a tool and die maker, A strange thing is the inlay rivet holes in the inlays don't match up with the holes in the frame, I surface filled them they dead ended at brass, I'm beginning to think they passed away before they were finished, I think I'm going to carry it, it's a great knife. I'm sure of one thing ,it was worth the $36.00.
Thanks for your help
George God bless
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Yowersir junom
dems sure is som sure fired good pictures ya gots there !!!
good ways ta gets yer foots in the door is wit gooder pictures!!!
dat or do ya BKF ( dat be buck knife facts) studys
once'n ya gets real good at it ya might do like lots o old timers and
sit back and watch de youn'ens try to be de first to post the facts dey jest learned !
heck is what I did back when I was a newbie wantabe buck collector...
look up soon as some one posted abouts some thing dey did not know about ... lol
heck don't ya feel bad bouts dem folks what likes to use high fa-lute-n words...
times I get in to the shed to get home made rust remover an I cant rite good either!!
and I tells ya what .. if'n and when I gets my book done
ya can buy it to find out any thing ya might wants to know about
a folding hunter... nad may happs some o the other bucks out there....
keep up the good work on the photo'n !
dems sure is som sure fired good pictures ya gots there !!!
good ways ta gets yer foots in the door is wit gooder pictures!!!
dat or do ya BKF ( dat be buck knife facts) studys
once'n ya gets real good at it ya might do like lots o old timers and
sit back and watch de youn'ens try to be de first to post the facts dey jest learned !
heck is what I did back when I was a newbie wantabe buck collector...
look up soon as some one posted abouts some thing dey did not know about ... lol
heck don't ya feel bad bouts dem folks what likes to use high fa-lute-n words...
times I get in to the shed to get home made rust remover an I cant rite good either!!
and I tells ya what .. if'n and when I gets my book done
ya can buy it to find out any thing ya might wants to know about
a folding hunter... nad may happs some o the other bucks out there....
keep up the good work on the photo'n !