Are there Buck fakes?

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Porkchop3223

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My Knife Buddies,

I just recieved my big Blade's Guide to Knives and I was reading page 35 and they talk about the problems collectors have with counterfeits.

Is that the Big time, Big money collectors or do we have to look out for the rarer Buck models?.

I see "new"discontinued Bucks on eBay all the time. Whats up with that?

Trax Pointed out a seller misrepresenting a model 110. What up with that too?
:confused:

Porky
BCCI 1107
 
Porky...

I was wondering the same about some of my fellow scouts when I was a kid in the Philippines. It was a Boys Scouts of America unit attached to the air station at Cubi Point. ANYWAY, a few scouts had "Buck" kinves and I am almost certain one or two were fakes made in the local market. Recall the steel didn't look right and the stamping was not clean. But I was a kid, and what did I know? Not that I know much more now. And, BTW, this was 1969-1970. But they just looked crummy.

One of my favorite knifes was one that was made of a jeep leaf spring by a negrito tribesdude. I think my mom threw it out when we were transferred with my dad and I never saw it again.
Well, I can't offer much insight on the current state of fakers, but I am certain I have seen them.

Also, on page 38 of "Blade's" I am glad they were not referring to me...:p
Goose.
BCCI 1190
 
Porkchop3223 said:
Is that the Big time, Big money collectors or do we have to look out for the rarer Buck models?.
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If I can make a 110/112 Transition Model knife in my celler, I pretty much think anybody can... :rolleyes:
 
There was a thread here in the past about 3 dot buck 110's that didn't start out that way. If I can find it I will post a link.

Tom
 
Porkchop3223 said:
I dun know Trax, You are a pretty talented Guy.
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I think the word you are looking for is..."cheap"... :D

I don't make these blade/liner swaps for $$$...or for compliments...but for my own gratification...and I display them in hopes of enough outcry/support from the blade community that Buck bean-counters will read and think "hmmm...maybe we could do a small run and see what the reaction is"...but so far, there have been few favorable posts about any of these hacks... :( and even fewer emails to Buck asking "Why not???"... :grumpy:

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But to get back on topic...Anybody with a HS metal shop course under their belt can fake a Buck...the question is, is it worth it??? :confused:
 
trax
would that be easy for buck to do or would they have to invest to make it work? Can they make stuff up like you do in their Custom Shoppe?
 
I remember seeing a bunch of Striders coming out of China last year. They looked pretty good but I thought at the time they had to be forgeries, priced at a dollar with $40.00 shipping, just like all those supposed WWII Japanese officers swords that have been recently found in China, yah right.
 
to ad my .02 $ worth -
i think buck has taken idea's and made it happen... look at the club fund raser... and the assocations with the horse clan and others...
leroy talks of some of the custom and play around knives he made there and there was a post of an hand drawn image that looks like a veration of a 186 !

it is my belife that buck can not aforde to cater to collectors only... the collectors via the bccc DO have imput and what we say on this forum does get noticed!!!

it is my feelings that buck should consiter an "authorized buck custom" shop were that they would honor the warenty type thing ... and it would be my hope and dream that leroy would be one that would have that autherizon not unlike the horse clan guys ... you know he does so much restration for buck collectors and buck sends some to him for restoration as he is the best da()*^&)))_+~ buck fixer i know of ...
after all he did the 2 balde 110 or 112 years ago, he also does a brass selector type of 110 in addation to a fixed blade 110 !! i mean the guy is amazzing ! quite fast also...
i wish i could work in his shop as slave labor to learn how he does it ...

oh yes on conterfits - there was a knife (110 type) marked buck i guy bought at a flee market and then pulled it as a keeper jest to have a fake
another lister has 'clones' so close as to be inter changable as parts for 'pratice for knife makers'
at 6 to 9 $ each... so they are out there!
 
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