DeSotoSky
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Well, I crossed over into the darkside and set up a Facebook account yesterday. Mostly I used my wife's account to access Marketplace but there are some private Facebook groups relating to radio control I wanted to check out so I succumbed to creating my own account. While I was at it I checked out the BCCI group. A few familiar names. A bit hard to judge the knowledge base there based on a brief visit. Most interesting thing I saw was this 112 (posted by David Meier). According to Tim Lindsey it is a WBC (Wilde Bill Cody) one-off and going to be auctioned on the BCCI website.
Here is the story on the origin of the 112 and its connection to the USS Ranger as told by Chuck Buck in a 2011 interview.
Buck: In the late ’60s, the aircraft carrier Ranger was in port in San Diego when a couple of sailors got into a fight and they both had 110s. So the captain said, “No more 4-inch blades.” That’s when we developed a 3-inch version of the 110, and of course we named it the Ranger.
Link to full interview here.
www.spokesman.com
Here is the story on the origin of the 112 and its connection to the USS Ranger as told by Chuck Buck in a 2011 interview.
Buck: In the late ’60s, the aircraft carrier Ranger was in port in San Diego when a couple of sailors got into a fight and they both had 110s. So the captain said, “No more 4-inch blades.” That’s when we developed a 3-inch version of the 110, and of course we named it the Ranger.
Link to full interview here.
Buck Knives keeps its knifemaking legacy in family
Buck Knives’ roots trace back to 1902, when 13-year-old blacksmith apprentice Hoyt Buck developed a method of heat-treating steel so that hoes and other tools would hold their edges better. But the business wasn’t launched until more than four decades later, when Hoyt and his son, Al, started...
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