Brownings made by Buck?

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ohen cepel

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Does anyone know for sure if Buck made these for Browning:

LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION SET
SALE WAS $895 INCLUDES A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
9” FIXED BLADE•TULIP POPLAR HANDLE
THE HANDLE OF THE LIBERTY TREE KNIFE IS FROM THE LAST SURVIVING LIBERTY TREE. COLONIAL LEADERS GATHERED UNDER LIBERTY TREES PRIOR TO AND DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO PLAN THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES. TO HONOR THE YEAR OF AMERICA’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, ONLY 1,776 KNIVES WERE EVER PRODUCED.
ENGRAVED “The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America”

I like the knife and if Buck made it I would be that much more likely to jump on it.

Thanks for input!
 
I know that Buck made some knives for Browning. I saw them listed in one of the special projects lists.
 
I was going to suggest going back through newsletters but I guess Dave beat me to it.
Buck made the Browning Mastersmith Collection knives. (Fitch, Fisk, Keesler, Crowell)

But I am unsure about the Living History series. Looking at a couple of them, I would guess no, but that is a guess! ;)
 
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Is the one you're looking at on sale for $655?

I don't think anybody can tell you for sure who makes knives for Browning. That's usually not revealed.
 
Here's Buck made knives for Browning. This is from the special projects list for either 2009 or 2008, I forgot to write down which.

Someone knows who made them and it seems to have been Buck.;)

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ohen cepel said:
Does anyone know for sure if Buck made these for Browning:

LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION SET
SALE WAS $895 INCLUDES A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
9” FIXED BLADE•TULIP POPLAR HANDLE
THE HANDLE OF THE LIBERTY TREE KNIFE IS FROM THE LAST SURVIVING LIBERTY TREE. COLONIAL LEADERS GATHERED UNDER LIBERTY TREES PRIOR TO AND DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO PLAN THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES. TO HONOR THE YEAR OF AMERICA’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, ONLY 1,776 KNIVES WERE EVER PRODUCED.
ENGRAVED “The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America”

I like the knife and if Buck made it I would be that much more likely to jump on it.

Thanks for input!
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Do you have any clue as to when it was made? That would help in the search for the truth.
 
Dave, they were released at the 2004 SHOT Show. The Liberty tree was the first model.

Just doing a quick google search, "Larry Harley made the first of the Liberty Tree knives" Jim Crowell, Jerry Fisk, and Brent Evans
designed/made the prototype for the following models.

AG russell states they were 2005 knives, made using 420HC steel in the USA :D
 
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BG- they are out there for much less than the $655. Under $300, but don't want to get pounded for deal spotting.

I'm very interested if it's a Buck. Much less so if it's not.

I know some Brownings are made overseas and that would really cheeze me off to buy a Liberty knife (or any from that line) and fine it was made overseas.

May just have to wait till I can see/inspect one.

Thanks to everyone for their input!
 
Buck produced two of those knives. The Robert E. Lee Knife
and the Ike Knife
The others I could not give you an answer on.
 
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Buck produced two of those knives. The Robert E. Lee Knife
and the Ike Knife
The others I could not give you an answer on.
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Is there any documentation on that? If not, would Buck be willing to verify it in a letter?

And Ohen.......when they get too darn cheap I start to check carefully why such a low price. Enough time has passed and many fakes could be out there by now.
 
I am sure Buck would be willing to verify it. I do know Browning likes to keep things hush hush when it comes to who makes there knives.
 
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I am sure Buck would be willing to verify it. I do know Browning likes to keep things hush hush when it comes to who makes there knives.
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I can see that since I'm sure many are imports, but dang, if they are made by Buck you would think they would be proud enough of that to make sure everyone knows. :confused:
 
In the past (not that it necessarily means anything) the story on this was that Buck and Browning had an agreement that the origin of the knives would be kept confidential.

If such information has been published, it probably violates that agreement and Buck would have to disavow it as erroneous.

Of course, Buck could not furnish an authentication letter if that were the case. Anyone who has hopes of having such a letter written had better go all the way to the top (or better, the legal department) and ask that question.

Opinions of the lower levels of management may be overruled from the top or, more probably, overruled by the legal department when they check the contracts and say, "Oops, no......we can't do that."

Just saying, beware.....lest ye get yer grand letter hopes dashed in the end.

And, as Plumberdv says........the current knife business environment might dictate that Browning will change their past policies.
 
"In the past (not that it necessarily means anything) the story on this was that Buck and Browning had an agreement that the origin of the knives would be kept confidential."

Is there any REAL documentation that any such agreement existed?
 
Only Buck knows that......ask them. They haven't been willing to provide such info in the past that I know of......although I've seen the question asked a lot in these forums and elsewhere.

If it never existed, it's irrelevant.

If it does, anybody who thinks they're getting a letter of authentication is screwed.

Good thing to keep in mind just in case anybody might have gotten such a notion in their head.
 
The manufacture by Buck of the Browning Mastersmith Collection is pretty much on public record since the Special Projects list that shows them is available to any BCCI member and as far as I know, no member has ever been sworn to secrecy. ;)
 
Being on the public record is one thing......being "pretty much" on the public record is quite another.

The public record is blank as far as I know. Like I said, if anybody wants to find out, the way to do it is to talk to Buck.
 
OK then. It is on public record, not pretty much on public record, hows that?

I'm part of the the public and I made it even more public by posting the list. If it wasn't something allowed to be known it wouldn't be on a list open to any members of the public.
 
If it wasn't something allowed to be known it wouldn't be on a list open to any members of the public.
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Absolutely! Buck couldn't have made a mistake by letting that info get out. After all, they've never made a mistake up to this point, why would they start now?

One thing bothers me, though. Buck likely made other knives for Browning. How come no "public" record of any other knives?
 
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