Buck 110 vs Modern Folders

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I'm buying current production, if the new ones are crap it just how it is. My other was dead tight out the box, loose in all directions within fifteen minutes of light use, my thirty dollar Kershaws do years with no loosening.
 
$39.99+tax for another one, vs $4.95 to send it to Buck and get it fixed, or exchanged for a new one?

Honestly not trying to be a wisea**, but I don't follow the logic here?

Although, as much as I like the 110's, I can see both sides here. As far as it "holding up" against "modern folders", I think if used for what a knife is supposed to be used for, cutting, it will do just fine. Pocket clips and thumbstuds have nothing to do with how well a knife "holds up", so I won't address those, the only real point here is the locking systems. And "if" someone goes beyond the cutting tasks that the folding hunter was intended for, and starts treating their knife like a splitting maul or hatchet, then yeah, I can see a 110 developing play. A few twigs or sticks, no, mine have done that many times with no problem, but brass bolsters with a brass pin, were never intended to be beat on, or hacked with against wood.
 
No the current production ones are fine. I just favor the older ones more. The new ones have a melt in your hand feel. Tell u what how bout i send u one of my favorite 110s and u try it out? Send it back of course.
 
If it can hold up cutting small thorn bush branches, like briars and multiflora rose bushes off my hiking trails, without coming loose I'd be satisfied. I do not misuse any knife, period never have.
 
buckman110 said:
No the current production ones are fine. I just favor the older ones more. The new ones have a melt in your hand feel. Tell u what how bout i send u one of my favorite 110s and u try it out? Send it back of course.
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OK, I'll email you my address send it and I'll use it just as I did the other one that fell apart and report how it does here. Of course I'll send it back, my feedback here is 100%. Your email is turned off, so email me instead I'll get my address back to you.
 
Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
$39.99+tax for another one, vs $4.95 to send it to Buck and get it fixed, or exchanged for a new one?

Honestly not trying to be a wisea**, but I don't follow the logic here?

Although, as much as I like the 110's, I can see both sides here. As far as it "holding up" against "modern folders", I think if used for what a knife is supposed to be used for, cutting, it will do just fine. Pocket clips and thumbstuds have nothing to do with how well a knife "holds up", so I won't address those, the only real point here is the locking systems. And "if" someone goes beyond the cutting tasks that the folding hunter was intended for, and starts treating their knife like a splitting maul or hatchet, then yeah, I can see a 110 developing play. A few twigs or sticks, no, mine have done that many times with no problem, but brass bolsters with a brass pin, were never intended to be beat on, or hacked with against wood.
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I think that's the point, the 110 isn't a hard use knife so start doing certain things with it and they will loosen up.

I have known this for 40 years and have had a number of 110's and 112's myself.

The biggest flaw in the design IMO is the lack of a threaded pivot so the side to side can be adjusted.... Up and down is a basic lock back flaw....

But that's they way they have been made from the start so....
 
I like slipjoints more than modern designs with pocket clips and I think the Buck 110 is a good attractive knife for the $$$.

Still, one thing I have always wished for in my slippies is a screw pivot.

I used the screwdriver on a camper pattern once to make a school electronics project for my daughter (wood screws). I don't know why I was surprised that the blade was rattling around after. I guess they are meant to be light use screwdrivers. Squeezed it in a vise and peened it, all good.

I'll have to try using a TL-29 screwdriver hard one day.
 
Ankerson said:
I think that's the point, the 110 isn't a hard use knife so start doing certain things with it and they will loosen up.

I have known this for 40 years and have had a number of 110's and 112's myself.

The biggest flaw in the design IMO is the lack of a threaded pivot so the side to side can be adjusted.... Up and down is a basic lock back flaw....

But that's they way they have been made from the start so....
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There's people in this thread claim they've used them years hard, no blade play at all.
 
jill jackson said:
There's people in this thread claim they've used them years hard, no blade play at all.
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And I have a bridge to sell you in NYC...... ;)

Used hard is subjective and can vary based on what different people think hard use is....

Let me have any of them for 15 seconds and it will have blade play like crazy.... Up and down and side to side.....

I used to do it for fun back in the day, people would tell me how awesome their knife was....... Then bet me I couldn't hurt it......

15 Seconds later... And that's not batoning the knife either or hitting the knife with anything...... It would be wreaked......

Been doing it for around 40 years now..... Testing knives.... I know how to wreak a lock back...... Fast.....
 
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Yea if u abuse it. Ppl use your God given common sense. Let me use any folder you have and i can f*** it up to. Seriously come on now guys. Yes i have a 112 ive had since i was 7 or so ithink. My dad had it before me. And its still solid as the day it was made. Yes its been used a great deal.
 
buckman110 said:
Yea if u abuse it. Ppl use your God given common sense. Let me use any folder you have and i can f*** it up to. Seriously come on now guys. Yes i have a 112 ive had since i was 7 or so ithink. My dad had it before me. And its still solid as the day it was made. Yes its been used a great deal.
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Email me I'll send my address and try out your best, report the findings back here, then send it straight back.
 
buckman110 said:
Yea if u abuse it. Ppl use your God given common sense. Let me use any folder you have and i can f*** it up to. Seriously come on now guys. Yes i have a 112 ive had since i was 7 or so ithink. My dad had it before me. And its still solid as the day it was made. Yes its been used a great deal.
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Not in 15 seconds you can't without hitting it with anything, batoning etc.... ;)

I have tested almost 1,000 knives in the past 40 years........

The lock back design has flaws in it and if it's not screw construction it's not strong...
 
Then explain how you would do that. And i have all kinds of folders. My two favs are a bencmade adams folder, axis lock. And a sog spec elite 2 with a arc lock. That arc lock breaks at 1,100 lbs! Crazy hu?
 
Things are what they are. Each one of us has our preferences. Let's just not make things out as better than they are.

Buckman, you have been speaking in absolutes since you got here. It is a bit hard to do that when you're speaking to the whole world and not just to your local community.

But you did say that you're world class...:rolleyes:
 
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