BUCK *110* what year or version did they bevel the scales on wooden handle's?

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Newbie question: I just purchased a Mint condition never used *110* and has beveled wooden handles/scales starting even with the brass bolsters and rising to the pins an then stopping. Is this from the custom shop? I can't find any discription of these beveled handles on any links that I have for dating Buck 110's. I would really appreciate some help with this one....
 
You're going to have to post pictures so we know what your are talking about.
 
I didnt think they started beveling until the later 3 dots. The first of those were hand beveled.
Mr. Dave Martin, the answer please.
 
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If I am understanding the question right, the answer would be the four dots. With the first style of four dots not having the frames rounded then hand done then the way they are done now. HL
 
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I didnt think they started beveling until the later 3 dots. The first of those were hand beveled.
Mr. Dave Martin, the answer please.
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Thank you iamfritz, yes you can tell this has some serious beveling MASTERFUL......it is a 2 dot *110* like right out of the box. I took photos but can't post them here I guess. Tried photo bucket and right from my P.C.
 
I'm thinking that isn't due to production but rather from heavy removal of the brass to eliminate damage to the metal. They had to blend the wood down into the brass. Good looking knife but it looks like a heavy rework/spa treatment to me.
 
I didn't notice the beveling on the handles of my 2014 110 I didn't have it long enough. I got rid of it right away after buying it from L.L. BEAN did not like it at all! not for me. I sold it on E-BAY and opted for the classic ones from the 60's & 70's with the 440c steel. especially the thinner & sleeker 2 pin with brass rocker pin, inverted. those are some fine knives.
 
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Badhammer, I think you may be right....took the knife to my Calipers, using both bolsters together [front] is 15.23mm thick. The rear bolster 14.84mm thick at the edge of the bolster where it meets the scale. Yes the knive does look thin know that you have mentioned it.
 
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Badhammer, I think you may be right....took the knife to my Calipers, using both bolsters together [front] is 15.23mm thick. The rear bolster 14.84mm thick at the edge of the bolster where it meets the scale. Yes the knive does look thin know that you have mentioned it....
 
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Badhammer, Never mind I just checked using my calipers using a 3 liner no dots...it came up in the same ranges 15.20mm and 14.89mm.....
 
What Mule is showing is something else. Not what we refer to as a 'radiused frame'. His 110 has had the bolsters sanded down and into the wood slabs. I've never seen one with this. It looks to have been modified for some reason. I would suspect to lighten it or to get rid of dents in the brass. There is a sticky at the top of the Buck Forum with 'Tips on Posting Photos'. I can barely make out what your describing. More light would help. DM
 
took the knife the *110* 2 dot to my Calipers, using both bolsters together [front] is 15.23mm thick. The rear bolster 14.84mm thick at the edge of the bolster where it meets the scale. tried another knife from the same era a
3 liner no dots...it came up in the same ranges 15.20mm and 14.89mm.....
 
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done....took some snaps. Now I'am confused...LOL has hit the grinders or not. The caliper readings tell me no......
 
added more photos david thank you.....took the knife, the *110* 2 dot to my Calipers, using both bolsters together [front] is 15.23mm thick. The rear bolster 14.84mm thick at the edge of the bolster where it meets the scale. tried another knife from the same era a
3 liner no dots...it came up in the same ranges 15.20mm and 14.89mm.....
 
thank you 2TonyB.....I thought I had missed a varation? or this wasthis custom? or as D.M. said reworked? but the numbers off the comparison of this knife *110* with another 110 a 3 liner with no dots. This is what I got. The *110* 2 dot with using my Calipers, measuring both bolsters together including the spacer on rear and the blade for the front. The readins [front] is 15.23mm thick. The rear bolster 14.84mm thick at the edge of the bolster where it meets the scale. tried another knife from the same era, the 3 liner with no dots...was very close front 15.20mm and rear 14.89mm. the rise of the bevel wood is way above 3mm's on the front bolster or 14.89 on the rear bolster.
 
I'm sure I have some older 110s where there is a bit of a taper due to sanding, but not as exaggerated as yours.
 
2TONYB, Pre-1980? or **110** 4 dots or the newer models? I happened to see a early 70's that had been totally reworked by an artist and he had rounded the bolsters completly/totally both ends! but the scales remained the same. I should of bought it...since Im a artist and understood what he was trying do with the knife and founded it done with a twist that made it a iconic statement. Like Warhol with Cambell Soup cans.
 
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