Buck 110 version and variation?

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Friends, please help to determine which versions and variations of my knife?

I could only figure out that he was manufacturing 72-74 year due to stamp without dots.






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failbot----- Welcome, your knife is a fifth version variation 2 or 3. there are data sheets that you can download from the sticky's above. It was made between 1972 thru 1974, it is made of 440 stainless.
Those are the only two that have Buck 110 USA and a stainless rocker rivet. Variation 4 has dots and variation 1 has just Buck USA. Reading over again I found that variation 2 was inverted and variation 3 was not So you own a VERSION 5 , VARIATION 3. with 2 inlay rivets. TYVM!!! The knife looks to be in very good condition:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
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Hello Stumps
I have never had to take a Buck knife apart. I read your thread and looked at the pictures and the placement of the rear pin I never noticed if it was low or middle. Were the builders of the knifes instructed where to insert the pin or did they just insert it to hold the scale on? I went back and read the whole thread from top to bottom. There was much information that I did not know and was very helpful. Thanks Stumps for the direction.
 
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Mic, a pivot rivet could be something very different than what your trying to explain. The stainless rivet on his 110 is called a rocker rivet.
fail, who ground down a 110 blade and put it in that handle? DM
 
Rocker Rivet you are correct. I had just awakened when I was going back and forth to the data sheets and it even says on the data sheets but I overlooked it.

Which blade are you referring to?
 
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Rocker Rivet you are correct. I had just awakened when I was going back and forth to the data sheets and it even says on the data sheets but I overlooked it.

Which blade are you referring to?
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Fail's top knife is a 112 frame with a 110 blade. That's what David is referring to.
 
I was given this some years back by an individual who rep'ed or consulted for a foundry that suppied Buck. It's puzzled me for some time because it has the four holes for the pins ,yet it's edges are beveled. Preston
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By the time the Two Dot knives came along, the frames were made of sintered brass supplied by Pacific Sintered Metals. If you look at a lot of the Two Dot knives from after the 4 scale pin version, you'll find that the frames were drilled for 4 pins, even though only 3 were used. I haven't really looked, but I would guess that carried on to even later versions, including the Four Dot knives.

Bert
 
That's all they were doing was filling the holes as the frames came with those holes in them. (correct)DM
 
When did they start to bevel the all edges? I know I have a four dot, finger groove that just the lock notch is beveled. Thanks, Preston
 
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Hello Stumps
I have never had to take a Buck knife apart. I read your thread and looked at the pictures and the placement of the rear pin I never noticed if it was low or middle. Were the builders of the knifes instructed where to insert the pin or did they just insert it to hold the scale on? I went back and read the whole thread from top to bottom. There was much information that I did not know and was very helpful. Thanks Stumps for the direction.
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I can't answer your question. I don't know if the holes were a process Buck did after receiving the bolster/liners or if they were already there.
Either way, I would imagine they were right where Buck wanted them at the time.
Lots of mysteries in those vintage knives.

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I don't want to derail this thread, so if this photo is out of place, I'll edit it.

I was given this some years back by an individual who rep'ed or consulted for a foundry that suppied Buck. It's puzzled me for some time because it has the four holes for the pins ,yet it's edges are beveled. Preston

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You have something there that I have not seen before.
There are lots of examples where the fourth hole was in two dot frames and not used.
I've not seen any in the later two dot frames...so to see the fourth hole in a four dot or later frame is really something!
That's not even the first of the four dot frames as the thumb press has a radius finish.

I'll send your picture to George Stinsell and see what he might be able to add if you don't mind.
 
Please do, as I said, I have been puzzled by this and did not have the knowledge to ask the person I received this from. Preston
 
Preston, Buck began to hand radius the edges on a 112 in the 3 dot era and on a 110 it was in the 4 dot era. Off topic. DM
 
Okay...I got an answer from George and it makes perfect sense to me now that I hear it.

From George;
"The square frames had a different drill Pattern than the rounded frames.The early rounded frames were used in production and custom shop.If you take notice a lot of 4 dots and later, that had say, a stag handle, they used two large handle pins.one at the front bolster and one at the rear bolster.Rather than two at the rear bolster.I hope this helps."

George knows more about the 110 than anyone I know, so maybe one mystery is solved.
 
David I probably have derailed the OP's topic and I apologize. He ask what version and variation his knife was. The topic included discussion of pins and pin placement. That's where I ask about the radiused frame I posted aabout with the three rear pins. HTH, Preston
 
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