Another strange 110?

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Pack Rat

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My continued addiction to Buck knives has scrounged up this one.

It's a no dot three liner.

Only one I have ever seen with a steel blade piviot pin. The head of the pin on the tang side looks to me about 3/16 across and on the back side about 1/4" across.

I polished it up and can't see any indication of rear bolster pins.
Steel rear spacer.
Steel blade rocker pin
Medium or large scale pins ( I have one with smaller pins)

Nothing I have read talks about a steel blade pin. Or I just missed it.
Knife is in pretty good condition. Tight blade unless I aggressively make it slightly wiggle.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Could that possibly be the result of the blade being replaced by the owner rather than sending it in to Buck? :confused:
 
Blade looks to be original Mike. Just like the other no dots I have. No obvious reason for it to have been taken apart..

I thought about that also, but then what about no rear bolster pins...

hummmm..... where's that Chickentrax?? :D ....nah....he wouldn't have sold it.
 
I think someone replaced the pivot pin with steel Pack Rat. If it had been sent BKI for repair it would have come back as original.
 
I wouldn't use steel there, because after you press the old pin out, the hole is oversize [~.130" or so]. A brass pin will "bulge" when you crush it in place and take up that extra space; steel won't. That would have to be an odd size pin, if it fits good. I'd second ZZJake's assessment. The different head sizes is odd, too.
 
Something else occurs to me...all the 110's I've seen had the blade/rockerbar interface level and the joint almost invisible. Can you see or feel an obvious 'step" between the two???

How about the pin heads...are they buffed flat with the bolster???

Just because it has a good blade doesn't mean it hasn't been transplanted. That homemade 110FG I got from eBay has a good blade that will be going in a good frame, just not the original one...
 
The pinheads are buffed flat with the bolsters. You can rub a fingernail across them and feel the seam in some places.... like the pin doesn't totally fill up the hole and become seamless as a regular brass pin.

Yeah, ZZ, someone should have had it repaired right, if that is what happened.
 
It might be a Nickel silver pin, rather than steel...Nickel silver will "bulge" much like brass when you crush it in place...

3/16" and 1/4" are awful big heads...I wonder if that pin is so big because the bushing was shot and the repairer just fitted a pin the size of the bushing OD/blade hole ID (about 7/32", IIRC)... :confused:
 
...Hey Trax...I don't believe that knife had a blade bushing...I'm thinking that didn't appear til around 1980 or thereabouts...:cool:
That knife should be somewhere around '73...
 
Good call on the sizes Trax. Went and found the good metal ruler. Looks closer to 1/8 on front and 3/16 on rear on the fraction scale. 4mm and 5mm give or take on the foreign scale. That old wood ruler needs to go..:rolleyes:

I guess it could be NS on the pin also.
 
Well, my thought is that you should peddle it on flea bay as a titanium pivot, if you don't decide to keep it.
Goose.
 
Titanium Pivot... Goose cracks me up... :p

ebay......hummmm....... nah.. I think I will keep it. ...........for now......
 
I don't really have a problem with how it looks. It is as clean as the better no dots I have. That camera and res setting makes it look worse than it really is.

Just curious about that shiny blade pin mainly. And I thought it was supposed to show rear bolster pins.
 
ZZJake said:
I think someone replaced the pivot pin with steel Pack Rat. If it had been sent BKI for repair it would have come back as original.
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I'm with you on this one, that looks like a "home repair" job to me, the knife also looks like it's had a lot of time on a buffing wheel also.
 
The Last Confederate said:
I'm with you on this one, that looks like a "home repair" job to me, the knife also looks like it's had a lot of time on a buffing wheel also.
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Good observation LC. It does look like it has been worked on. Maybe a little Brasso will smooth it up some. Again, that high res pic makes it look a little worse than it really is.
 
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