Buck 103 Skinner Question

I don't know either... I do like the shape of the blade and the size... I would like to hear from someone that has used it and what they thought of it...
 
It was before the current model numbers. Those numbers were different. I'll have to look it up but ball park is 1958. DM
 
The answer is really more of an evolution. In the late 1940's there are model 112 and 113 knives in a skinner pattern. In 1954 the skinner pattern is now called the model 110 Skinner which closely resembles the modern 103. The model 110 Skinner appears thru the 1961 catalog and in 1962 it becomes the model 103.
 
Here is a late 50's group 10 model 110 Skinner shown with a factory barrel nut model 103. The handle is ebony and the spacers leather. Looks like there has been some blade loss and the pommel has been trimmed. When you find these early ones you take them any way you can. I would date the 110 to about '56-'61 and the 103 '62-'63 so they are not far apart chronologically.
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In 1961 Buck incorporated and production was moved to the Congress street plant. So, still 7 years later before we saw (current) model numbers on the sheath. At the Federal blvd. plant. DM
 
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Kind of funny that the first 110 was a fixed blade skinner and nothing like the famous 110 that we all know and love.
 
DeSotoSky said:
Here is a late 50's group 10 model 110 Skinner shown with a factory barrel nut model 103. The handle is ebony and the spacers leather. Looks like there has been some blade loss and the pommel has been trimmed. When you find these early ones you take them any way you can. I would date the 110 to about '56-'61 and the 103 '62-'63 so they are not far apart chronologically.
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I noticed the 110 model was stamped on the left side of the blade, still is, and the 103 is stamped on the right. When did the stamping change on the fixed blade knives?
BTW really nice knives!!

Don
 
One of the 30th Anniversary knives is a David Yellowhorse fixed blade, 112. I'll try and get a picture, however, with my skill at the computer it might be ready for the 35th.:rolleyes: Preston
I've exhausted my options...it's on the BCCI website, members shop section.
OK, here what I come up with...I'll try and do better
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sassafrassdogs3 said:
I noticed the 110 model was stamped on the left side of the blade, still is, and the 103 is stamped on the right. When did the stamping change on the fixed blade knives?
BTW really nice knives!! Don
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My Collection of pre factory knives is too skimpy to give an authorative answer but I have examples marked on either side. I think we can safely say the with the advent of factory manufacture in 1961 things became more standardized. /Roger
 
DeSotoSky said:
My Collection of pre factory knives is too skimpy to give an authorative answer but I have examples marked on either side. I think we can safely say the with the advent of factory manufacture in 1961 things became more standardized. /Roger
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Thank You...

Don
 
There are a number of fixed blade models that were stamped opposite of the 100 series fixed blades. Such as the Empress Trio set model 200, Windsor set model 206, Scout model 107, Kalinga model 401, Akouna model 402 and the axe model 106. DM
 
pjsjr said:
One of the 30th Anniversary knives is a David Yellowhorse fixed blade, 112.
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There was a model 112 skinner in the 1940's. This Yellowhorse 112 looks alot like the 212 Ranger LE in the 2018 catalog. I wonder if the "112" was a typo and intended to be "212"
 
Good going Don, yes, that Yellowhorse was the one I was referring to. For got about the other. Thanks for posting. Preston
 
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