Adding a thumbstud to a 110.

robotboy175 said:
i don't know if i would get one or not, but i can't find one anywhere - anyone have a link?

is that allowed?

if not, someone shoot me an email.

thanks
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These were made in 1997 and are no longer avalible. They do show up every now and then on Ebay.
jb4570
 
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
sacrilege!!!!
"the act of depriving something of its sacred character":eek:

I think they look FUNKY on a 110
But, hey
This is America
FREE TO CHOOSE as Milton Friedman once said

Next thing ya know you guys are gonna be drilling Spydie Holes in your 110's!!!
 
My Buck 110 that I use all the time got One Armed Bandit thumb stud the day it came home from the factory with its new BG-42 blade. My Cabela's AG 110 got the same the day I received it. I have a Bass Pro 110 on its way now, but I've run out of One Armed Bandits. They don't open as easily or as quickly as a knife that was designed with with a thumb stud in mind, but just being able to open them with one hand without a "trick" is very handy.
 
If you really want a traditional 110 that can be snapped open without a thumb stud, you might want to look at the "older" style 110...before Buck changed the radius of the tang (where the backspring touches the blade)...Early 110's could be snapped open by pressing the blade release part of the backspring and flicking your wrist...Buck changed it because it was being viewed as a "gravity knife" and thus fell under the switchblade ban...

I don't have my notes anymore, but I'm sure one of the Buck Historians can tell you exactly when the tang radius change occurred, and a Search on eBay should turn up some reasonably priced examples...

The newer style tang radius keeps a constant pressure on the blade; on the early 110's, you could swing the blade back and forth with the release pressed...there was no pressure on the blade...
 
Trax, IT was the change made with the 2 dots that prevents the type of operation you state . So, 1974 . DM
 
David Martin said:
Trax, IT was the change made with the 2 dots that prevents the type of operation you state . So, 1974 . DM
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hmm... I'm sitting here playing with my oldest 110 (a fifth version, third variation.. no dots) and I can't get the blade to swing freely with the lock bar depressed. This is otherwise a very smooth opening and solidly locking (no blade play in any direction) knife.

The blade does come out about half way, but it's not a freely swinging action like you would get when disengaging an Axis lock or a Spyderco compression lock.

I also have a later two dot (variation seven) which will also open partially when the lock bar is depressed, but this knife is also a very smooth opener with no blade play when locked.

With both knives when the lock bar is released, the blade snaps back closed. I honestly can't see how you could wrist flick these knives open because they take some effort to depress the lock bar.

None of the newer 110s in my collection will do this. But I wouldn't consider the older knives gravity knives, but I would consider an Axis lock or a compression lock as gravity-like knives.
 
I've tried that as well and on a 3 line in good shape I couldn't get it to do it . But on a well worn 3 line it does it . For some reason Buck came under fire for that back then and made the change to pervent it . DM
 
Psychopomp said:
But I wouldn't consider the older knives gravity knives,...
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Somebody did...and Buck changed it before it got written into law...

My old inverted-tangstamp two-line 110, with the two small scale rivets, brass spacer, and thin nailnick, is a free-swinger...Hold the blade release in, and it swings freely...

I don't know how the old timers got these to flick out easily/smoothly, but they could...

I have one of these old blades somewhere; if I get time this weekend, I'll post a pic of the two tang radii (old + new) for comparison...
 
chickentrax said:
I don't know how the old timers got these to flick out easily/smoothly, but they could...
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I'm only about half way to being old (44), but I think has to be either "all in the wrist" or "you have to hold your mouth just right."

Those two cover just about every success at mastering a skill. :D
 
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