Buck 110 25th anniversary

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Bighaze51

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Did the 25th anniversary 110's all have nickle silver bolsters? I just bought one on eBay fairly cheap as fixer upper and it's tarnished pretty bad. But I'm just curious. If so, I'm pretty stoked because I've been wanting one with NS.
 
Mine are all packed away, but if I remember right they are all NS bolsters. That makes sense in a way since it was the silver (25th) anniversary.
 
Thanks Stumps. I just kinda stumbled across this one last night. It looks rough but I have a feeling it's going to turn out real nice!
 
Haha, I'm not sure what happened to this knife but I figured it would be a good project knife
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I know I know. Poor little feller, he looked so pitiful I had to take him in. I'm goin a feed him and give him a bath and nurse him back to health.
 
Well, just got this one in the mail. Poor fella is in sad shape. This thing must have been left outside for a WHILE. I believe I'm going to tear it apart and give it the old Bighaze spa treatment. The ebony is done-zo so it's going to get new scales and the bolsters need some sanding too. So what do y'all think will look best with the NS bolsters? I have some teak and cherry I used in slingshot builds I could use. But I think it will ooo better with darker wood. Walnut?
 
Hahahaha! I'm might go to Lowes tomorrow and get me a peice of walnut hardwood flooring sample. It's a cheap way to get scale materials.
 
Okay, I've made some progress on this one. I decided to use some old blue cypress I had laying around. I made a small vacuum chamber out of a mason jar, attached a valve and hooked an AC vacuum pump to it. I used some Minwax wood hardener and pumped it down. So the scales have dried out and I epoxied them on and sanded everything flush. I've started oiling the scales with boiled linseed oil. I've also worked on sanding and polishing the rust spots out of the blade. Unfortunately the 25th anniversary printing on the blade didn't survive the sanding process but I was more concerned with preserving the blade. No pics of the blade but I do have the handle portion with me. Hopefully I'll be able to put it back together tomorrow. So far I'm pleased with the transformation.
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I polished the crap out of it and it didn't clean up very well. It's hard to tell from that picture but even the ebony scales hade started to rot. This thing sat outside for a good while. There was no saving the scales so I decided to go for a complete redo.
 
Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is, this buck turned out beautiful. Polished up nicely and everything fit back together great

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The bad news is there is something wacky going on with the blade steel. The edge up towards the point seems soft. I get the edge down to a good apex and then it starts to chip out. I know this knife was exposed to a lot of moisture and there
was a bit of rust on the blade. Do yall think the steel has degraded? I've sharpened a good bit ink the blade and it keeps happening
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good job!
could be anything.
but the fact remains that you're sadden by this.
by the looks of it,
you did what you could.
time to reconsider "options", maybe?
 
Well, I contacted the Buck Repair Department and told them my situation. It's a knife I bought to fix up and I did all this work to it and the blade is pretty much useless for cutting. The rep told me that even though ive done this work to it they can still replace the blade. My main concern was that the lockbar for this knife wouldn't match with the new blades. If that was the case, the. The scales I put on there would have to be removed, and probably destroyed, in order to replace the lockbar as well. But the rep told me that the old lockbar and new blade will match. Of course, I will pay for the replacement blade but I'm cool with that. Buck has the best customer service out there. I'm glad that I didn't waste my time on this one after all
 
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