Anyone ever have a 110 lock fail?

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In a non-traditional weapons sub-forum, several folks bemoan the fact that their, or usually a friend's, 110 failed while cleaning game, etc. Some admit to their example failing a 'whack test', where they whacked their shoe sole with the spine. I stated that I first discovered the 110 when Mr. Nixon was President and that, despite my careless youth, and especially ever since that epiphany that knives were for cutting/slicing chores, I'd never damaged a 110. You'd think I had impuned their family lineage. Some were most insistent.

Have any of my fellow 110-lovers ever really had a lock failure? If so, please enlighten me... and offer cooking instructions for crow, please!

Thanks!

Stainz
 
Never, ever had a Buck 110 lock fail!!! I never saw those post of I would have taken them on for it.
 
I never abused one to the point of failure.Been packing one on and off since the mid 70s'.
 
I've never even read about one failing, much less seen one that did. IF one failed, I'd be willing to bet that there's a lot more to the failure than the owner is willing to admit to doing to it.
 
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No failures here-my guess is anytime one collapsed during use is that they hadnt kept it clean and it wasnt fully open and locked.

remember the old nursery rhyme. "Deer guts Dear guts keep your 110 clean otherwise it will bite you and fingers wont be seen":D
 
Never on a Buck 110, but did have the lock break on the Schrade copy of the 110 (forget the model #, you guys know what it is). In this case the lock spring snapped in half.

Vinny
 
In my entire life, I've seen one failure of a 110, with distasterous after affects.

I saw a young man using his 110 to make some square holes in a plastic pickup bed liner, where the tie downs needed to be. He'd hold the knife against the plastic where he needed the hole, and bang on the butt, forcing the knife through the plastic. Then he's lever the back of the knife against the material so as to cut the stuff. He'd be lifting up on the handle in the direction the knife folded up, forcing the blade through the plastic bed liner. He was yelled at several times by the older men, but was a real smart a$$. We, the older men at the shop told him to knock it off, he's gonna cut his fingers off. He laughed and said thats what locks were for, and it's a Buck Knife.

About an hour after lunch, the inevitable happened, and the lock gave way. It cut off his right index finger at the second joint, and almost took off the second. His fingers were between the knife handle and blade when the point was still burried through the bed liner. It worked like a guilletine on his index finger.

The idiot was taken to the local ER, and the shop foreman picked up the finger and put it in a cup of ice from the caffeteria and sent it to the ER with him. They shipped him up to the hand clinnic in Baltimore, and got it re-attached.

The idiot was abusiing his knife in the firm belief that the blade lock was infallable. He was out of work for 10 weeks, and then terminated for his carelessness.

Locks are like saftys on guns; don't count on them to stop a disasterous accident. If you wnat a knife that absolutly won't fold, use a fixed blade!
 
jackknife said:
In my entire life, I've seen one failure of a 110, with distasterous after affects.

I saw a young man using his 110 to make some square holes in a plastic pickup bed liner, where the tie downs needed to be. He'd hold the knife against the plastic where he needed the hole, and bang on the butt, forcing the knife through the plastic. Then he's lever the back of the knife against the material so as to cut the stuff. He'd be lifting up on the handle in the direction the knife folded up, forcing the blade through the plastic bed liner. He was yelled at several times by the older men, but was a real smart a$$. We, the older men at the shop told him to knock it off, he's gonna cut his fingers off. He laughed and said thats what locks were for, and it's a Buck Knife.

About an hour after lunch, the inevitable happened, and the lock gave way. It cut off his right index finger at the second joint, and almost took off the second. His fingers were between the knife handle and blade when the point was still burried through the bed liner. It worked like a guilletine on his index finger.

The idiot was taken to the local ER, and the shop foreman picked up the finger and put it in a cup of ice from the caffeteria and sent it to the ER with him. They shipped him up to the hand clinnic in Baltimore, and got it re-attached.

The idiot was abusiing his knife in the firm belief that the blade lock was infallable. He was out of work for 10 weeks, and then terminated for his carelessness.

Locks are like saftys on guns; don't count on them to stop a disasterous accident. If you wnat a knife that absolutly won't fold, use a fixed blade!
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As Paul Harvey said "Now you know the rest of the story!"

Thanks
 
i have never had a lock fail on me and
i have cut through metal banding on conduit with a 2 dot..

however i do buy 110's when i can..
and ...

but have see, after the fact, 4 failures -
i dont know what was done to them but
two had bent rocker bars at the blade
and two had the notch of the bar broke off..

as wonderful and durable as the 110 is
it is NOT a fixed blade and
should not be used were one is called for ..
 
I buy mostly used knives at garage sales, pawn shops, etc. I've seen lots of Bucks that had broken tips, dinged blades and cracked handles. But I've only ever seen one 110 that had a damaged lock, and it wasn't broken, just bent.
 
Any lock made with tight tolerances by a reputable company isn't going to fail easily.
 
My guess is that any broken Buck knife is a result of using it for a purpose for which it was not intended. It's not a hammer, chisel or crowbar. Use the right tool for the right purpose and the 110 will serve well. :)
 
I like to get 110's from pawn shops, the bay, or antique shops, have yet to see one that had the lock fail. HL
 
Like the rest of you have stated. If you use a lock back folder as it was intended and keep it clean there will be no failures. I have only had one folding knife close on my finger. It was totally my own fault..it was a large browning no lock folder and I was poking knot holes out of a fence when I was about 12 years of age and the blade closed due to the pressure I put on it. That lesson and a few stitches taught me to use a knife to cut things. If you want to do something besides cut...use a different tool! There is a tool that is designed to do just about anything you want. If you are doing something that results in your folders lock to fail...you are using the wrong tool for the job!
jb4570
 
In 35 years of seeing guys wag those around on construction sites for daily hard use - saw no failures. Some looked and felt ready to fall apart in your hand to be sure, but didn't. I heard about one failure, but didn't see it in person.

Never seen an occasional use ( 4 -5 times a day ) Buck 110 fail.

Robert
 
I've not seen a 110 lock fail. Though I have used them alot,--most of the time properly.
Its a good, strong, sound designed, locking knife. Thats why I carry one and use it. If I thought otherwise I'd carry something else. Yes, one needs to keep the locking knotch on the blade seat clean, to allow the lock to fully seat/engage. Just that will help eliminate, flirting w/ disaster. DM
 
I got one in one time in a lot buy. It had a lock failure, as the area of the lock bar that touckes the back of the blade was seriously bent. I wish I had taken pics of it.

Naturally sent it to Buck and they replaced it. The letter I sent, basically told them that this one came to me in a group and I thought that their engineers might want to look at it, or whoever, and I wasn't looking for a replacement or repair.

I think that was back in 05 and they sent me a nice Idaho. What a company...:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

My Dad carried it till he passed away, and then I gave it to my brother. I expect it to show up here at the hunting camp next week.

It's hunting time again....:D There are two 118 D2's laying right here just waiting their turn.
 
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