Bad Blade Exchange

Buckaholic said:
If you didn't know, you do now Mr. Buck...you have some very loyal fans that appreciate your work and leadership to the point of fanaticism for your product and company. Defensive, suggestive, and understanding.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
God Bless you and your family in 2007.
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What he said :D :thumbup: :thumbup:
 
Buckaholic said:
If you didn't know, you do now Mr. Buck...you have some very loyal fans that appreciate your work and leadership to the point of fanaticism for your product and company. Defensive, suggestive, and understanding.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
God Bless you and your family in 2007.
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...Thanks for looking in today CJ...As Buckaholic has already mentioned here...you, Joe, Buck Inc. and your product line have a lot of support and admiration located in this one small piece of Bladeforums yet even though it's a small part of BF, the group members here live throughout this entire country as well as many who live abroad. When left on our own for extended periods of time you tend to see many types of comments on the forum's main topic...that of Buck knives. Most all of it is extremely positive and passes on various experiences with Buck knives , personal histories relating to Buck knives, comparisons between Buck knives owned years ago versus newly purchased Buck knives and much discussion of what has been produced and what might someday be produced by Buck. You'll see moments of levity and humor throughout the threads and you'll see moments of worry and concern when we think one of the group may need a prayer or two tossed his/her way or just a few words of a positive nature to help them through a bad time. You'll see the "tinkerer's" among us give out tips on how to fix or patch or simply "tweek" a Buck. You'll also see comments concerning some negative experiences with Buck knives or about Buck's response or lack of response to problems that might have come up. Suggestions to improve the products or processes involved in making Buck knives pop out of the minds and experience of this small group of BuckNuts almost daily. Many of us have a lot of experience from which to pull these suggestions from. All of these things are what makes this forum as great as it it. Almost without fail...even those with the most serious or numerous complaints about their knives ends his/her comments with something about how much they hope that Buck continues to make the great products they are noted for. All you have to do is see what Guyon wrote...he knows things will get corrected. That's the bottom line CJ...through all the gripes, laughter, jokes, suggestions, grumblings about chips, dings or blade steel availability, concerns for each other and Buck Inc and on and on...we are just BuckNuts...we'll grumble and praise, we'll criticize and suggest...but we'll always buy and carry a Buck...When I've tinkered with a Buck...It's still my Buck. They don't come much better...even before I've "tinkered" 'em to death...:eek: ...Thanks for poppin' in...
 
Buckaholic said:
If you didn't know, you do now Mr. Buck...you have some very loyal fans that appreciate your work and leadership to the point of fanaticism for your product and company. Defensive, suggestive, and understanding.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
God Bless you and your family in 2007.
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:thumbup: You are always a class act "Buck Brother" :D
 
Ok, I take it all back, start candy coating again it while I still have some tums left!!:eek: :rolleyes:
FYI, we have NEVER sharpened our knives on a machine. They have always been, and still are, sharpened by hand. The edge 2000 was a change in edge geometry. Remember when you always heard people say that Bucks are great, but boy are they hard to resharpen? We changed the edge geometry to make the edge easier to see and therefor, sharpen. We also invested $$ and training to make sure the edges are consistant. I can say that I dont hear about them being hard to sharpen anymore and I didnt see a jump in the number of chipped out blades in warranty after this change. It is actually a rare occurance.
Maybe the new edge grind does not work for your individual uses? I dont think there is a certain edge grind that will be perfect for everybody just like there isnt one blade steel that works for everybody.
One other comment, my rework man has over 30 years with Buck. Not to sound too much like I am making an excuse but out of the thousands of 110's that he repairs each year, I only get a small percentage back. Having said that, I will talk to him about that small percentage because he has a tremendous amount of pride in his work. He is always asking me if folks like the job he is doing.
We both want to make the warranty experience one that will be pleasant. We realise that you could easily be someone else's loyal customers and we consider it an honor to work for a company that has such loyal customers or as Al Buck used to say, "family members".
 
Buck_110 said:
Joe:

The quote below is from the Buck website. It goes on to say after this process that the human hand then comes into play. If the machines determine the edge thickness, is it just polishing of the edge after this stage?


"The initial part of creating the edge is performed during step #7, hollow grinding, which is a computer controlled, automated machine process. During this grinding process, blades are tapered to a specific profile. This yields a consistent blade thickness at the edge that cannot be duplicated by hand."
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The hollow grind is machine ground, that is the main grind on the blade that tapers from the spine to get the narrow edge, which is then hand ground to put the cutting edge on. (if this makes sense) :D
 
Joe Houser said:
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One other comment, my rework man has over 30 years with Buck. Not to sound too much like I am making an excuse but out of the thousands of 110's that he repairs each year, I only get a small percentage back. Having said that, I will talk to him about that small percentage because he has a tremendous amount of pride in his work. He is always asking me if folks like the job he is doing.
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Joe..

Tell him that he is doing outstanding work. From what I have seen the work coming out of the repair department is stunning. He should have pride work as it is beautiful. And (Hope I am speaking for everyone) we LOVE what he is doing..
 
Maverick4546 said:
Joe..

Tell him that he is doing outstanding work. From what I have seen the work coming out of the repair department is stunning. He should have pride work as it is beautiful. And (Hope I am speaking for everyone) we LOVE what he is doing..
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My repairs were stellar :)
( NO CANDY COATING WAS USED IN THIS POST) LOL
Thanks again!!
 
Buck_110 said:
Jim:

I fully understand. There's the blade grind and the edge grind. That quote from Buck's website states: "...blade thickness at the edge that cannot be duplicated by hand."

I know, I know, I'm too damn technical.:(
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LOL Yeah I get ya! You are too technical :D

I think they mean before the cutting edge is put on, but I see your point ;)
 
...I received a Buck 110 "Duke" commemorative blade from my daughter for Christmas. Somehow she "cajoled" it out of one of the forum members we all know and love. This blade is hollow ground and finished "except" for the final edge. Needless to say this blade couldn't cut thru softened butter in the sun on a 95 degree day in the middle of Tampa Bay in August...The "edge" that's left is approximately .020 in. of total flat from choil to tip...Great for display...lousy for cutting salami. This is where the "hand sharpening" comes it...Quite a lot to do to get it to a proper cutting edge IMO...:D :cool:
 
Buck_110 said:
I know EXACTLY which forum member you got that baby from.:) I wonder if it is the same since the debut of E2K though. I know The Duke 110 was long before their new edging process. I recently saw another one of those blades; also not sharpened on eBay from another forum member here. Don't worry Jim, I won't tell them it was you.:D
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Yeah I wont tell either... I know where it originally came from too!
Darryl knows too I asked him first, the day after he received his :D
Too bad I didnt have a way to use it, it looks really cool in my other "custom" 110 with ironwood...

Oh yeah, this one would cut salami very nice... IF I would use it...:D


 
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