Anyone have a pic. of the box for a 112- Cat.1- Ver 1 ???

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I now openly admit that I am completly OFF MY ROCKER...BONKERS...Stark Raving Mad....
But I need to know what is the correct box for a 112 Cat.1....first Ver. Micarta Scales with Brass spring Holder...

Thanx for any help here.....
 
Don't know, don't have a pic or a clue.

However, I don't like the look of that box for that knife.

I'd guess it as an 80s box.

Nice box and knife, though, to me......they don't seem to match well.
 
Yes,I beleive the box to be wrong after going to the BCCI site and digging around....ho hum....us collectors do funny things.......
 
Those knives are getting awful hard to find.

The buyer should ask for a partial refund if the box is indeed wrong.

Of course, the seller did call it a "First Edition" box rather than a "First Version" box. Was that an intentional distinction? Could be.

:)
 
Yes, I'm perusing notes and it seems the change to one-piece boxes came mid-1977 or so on the 110, so the 112 would be fairly close to that, I would think.

:)
 
Here is the correct box,knife ,sheath and paper work for the 112 1st version.
Micarta112s008.jpg
 
One of these days.......I'm going to have to buy one of those just to HAVE it.

One fine little knife, even if Dave thinks it girly.

:D
 
Thank You Evil Eye, Heath, and BG...
Luckily, I have one of those boxes that EEE pictured...
Yes BG...I just had to have one to have one... And it looks to be mint...
They won't be making any more of them, and I've been looking for about a year for a mint sample...
So I guess I don't mind bumping up the spot market value on this one :eek:
 
I'm just happy that now there's one less person looking for one.

Maybe I'll get one yet.

:)
 
Earl, Thank you so much for the photo of your 1st 112 and its box. I was hoping you'd have one. DM
 
FWIW, The box in that auction came out when we redesigned the 110/112 and gave them radiused edges. Thats what the "NEW" designation on the end of the box is for. I'm guessing that the seller assumed that since the box said new, the knife must be the first version. In Buck's 1984 dealer catalog, these two models are touted as new, and the text goes on to explain the change.
 
Thanks, Joe......I thought it looked like an 80s box.

Can you add a little about the radiusing of the knives? I know it's a complicated issue, starting with some hand-radiusing in the early 80s (probably '81).
 
Joe's computer blow up again?

Maybe he's working hard to get that backlog down today.

:)
 
Chuck used to tell the story of how he kept hearing customers complain about their 110's were eating up their sheaths. The sharp corners of the bolsters, over time, would wear a 110 shaped hole in the leather and the knife would fall out.
The decision was made to add a radius to the perimeter of the sides. Since the brass sides are a cintered (sp?)product, this meant that the dies would have to be changed. It was decided to do the radius by hand until we could get the changes made to the dies and get those new parts in house.
You can tell a hand radiused side by looking in the thumb depression area. If the corners are still sharp there, it was hand done because it was too labor intensive to do that area by hand and it did not really effect the sheath so they left the hard corner in that area.
Once the tooling was changed, the entire perimeter was radiused.
One thing to keep in mind...it is possible to find 110's from before this time with radiused bolsters. A LOT of customers did it themselves. They are a smart lot after all! :)
 
Thanks Joe. Several collectors had suspected this and I did not see the box on this 112 but I have in my collection a 4 dot with the 'New' on the box and one without that wording. So, I had looked and that thinking, thats got to be it (the difference). DM
 
Thanks, Joe.

I'd add an old note from Vern Taylor on this forum (as to time frame).

At the NRA show in 1981 (?) in Phoenix (I'm sure of the city but not the date), Chuck brought some samples of the 110 and 112 with radiused bolsters. They varied from mild to radical rounding and they had all been hand done. We voted on a design at that show and Chuck went home determined to change the tooling. Before that became reality, Buck started hand rounding the bolsters; those are NOT as radiused as the tooling came out. SO - if it has a small radius it was done by hand and if it is really noticeable it is the new tooling. All of this took about six months. Funny, I hadn't thought about this in 20 years!
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Yeah, the fact that a few guys did a little informal radiusing on their own does muddy the waters a bit.

:)
 
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