Buck 112 - pawn shop find, advice & opinions requested

I gotta pay attention to date of old threads,,,,

Wasnt me,,,
 
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Pack Rat said:
I gotta pay attention to date of old threads,,,,

Wasnt me,,,
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Yeah, it had to be a different packrat. Unless, of course, you had an admirer who was customizing a knife as a gift for you. If that was the case, I ruined the whole thing!

Update: Packrat (the knife, not the BF member) no longer looks new! He's got scratches and tarnish on the bolsters . . . from carry and use. Darn the luck!
 
Scratches, tarnish!! I resemble that remark,,, :rolleyes:
Someone here once said he was older n dirt.. Found out later on that i'm older n him...

But. Your 112 came back looking like a new one. Sorta trying to figure out something on this 112 V1 Var1 laying here, Mainly it is a slightly short blade that leaves a tad of the tip sticking up.

So im thinking ill tinker with it and see what I can do. No biggie to do some profile work and keep it original.

Wifie offered to get out a better blankie than the recliner one I used through the winter. Told her no that I liked this one. It has character.

So its one of those round tuits on this 112..... No, not carving Pack Rat in the handles..:cool:
 
Pack Rat said:
Scratches, tarnish!! I resemble that remark,,, :rolleyes:
Someone here once said he was older n dirt.. Found out later on that i'm older n him...
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I'm not older than dirt, but when the guy who invented dirt was a senior in high school, I was a sophomore.


Pack Rat said:
But. Your 112 came back looking like a new one. Sorta trying to figure out something on this 112 V1 Var1 laying here, Mainly it is a slightly short blade that leaves a tad of the tip sticking up.

So im thinking ill tinker with it and see what I can do. No biggie to do some profile work and keep it original.
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Can you file down the kick enough to drop the point into the frame when it's closed?

Pack Rat said:
Wifie offered to get out a better blankie than the recliner one I used through the winter. Told her no that I liked this one. It has character.

So its one of those round tuits on this 112..... No, not carving Pack Rat in the handles..:cool:
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Aw, man!
 
Pack Rat said:
The kick should easily file down. I've done that before.
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I did the same on the sheepsfoot blade of a stockman back in the early 1980s. It was an old Parker Cutlery/Eagle brand, but sold as Craftsman by Sears. I filed the kick down so that the point was no longer exposed, then I couldn't easily access the blade after it closed (the nail nick was block by another blade). Fortunately, since it was sold as Craftsman, I took it back to Sears and got a new one in a few weeks. The replacement was a different model, but still a good knife!

Of course, with only one blade in a 112 that won't be a potential issue!
 
Been carrying the refurbished "packrat" two dot for a while now in a Buck 112 LT sheath hanging from my neck lanyard. While I was absent from here, I embraced stropping. My edges don't slice as aggressively, but with some steels it's the only way to remove most of the burr. On the upside, it cuts paper much more smoothly now. It's fun to crease a a strip of thin receipt paper so it stands and cut it all the way down. It's a circus trick, but harder than the classic printer paper cut. Good times.
 
rhino said:
Been carrying the refurbished "packrat" two dot for a while now in a Buck 112 LT sheath hanging from my neck lanyard. While I was absent from here, I embraced stropping. My edges don't slice as aggressively, but with some steels it's the only way to remove most of the burr. On the upside, it cuts paper much more smoothly now. It's fun to crease a a strip of thin receipt paper so it stands and cut it all the way down. It's a circus trick, but harder than the classic printer paper cut. Good times.
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I don't think I'll ever forgive you for what you did to that knife.
 
FranklinG said:
Man, that was fun re-reading this thread. The suspense between the before/after photos (posts #16 and #99 I think) was killing me. Thanks for the update rhino rhino !
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You're welcome! It was fun for me too. I really like this knife. It has the squared-off lines since it started life as a two dot, but it's noticeably thinner since a significant amount of metal was removed to "heal" the damage to the bolsters. It's a one of a kind!
 
Meadowlark said:
Nice interesting thread.

I would have sent it to the Custom Shoppe and had them put Magnacut steel and elk slabs on it.
Engrave it with Packrat.
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At the time I sent it, Magnacut wasn't available in the custom shop. I don't think you can get all of the cool custom shop options when you send a standard production knife back for repairs.
 
So what has happened with this lately? Update? Pics? Thanks for a neat project for us to tag along with and hear. Sorry I saw where there updated pics from the 112, what else have you been doing or working on?
 
cbach8tw said:
So what has happened with this lately? Update? Pics? Thanks for a neat project for us to tag along with and hear. Sorry I saw where there updated pics from the 112, what else have you been doing or working on?
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No old Buck rescues lately. I keep my eyes open, but the "well" where I used to find cool old stuff (the local pawn shop) is dry now. I think someone else is beating me to anything good that comes in.

Knife-wise, I was finally sufficiently motivated to learn how to strop properly over the last year or so. I started sharpening back in 1978-ish, so I was pretty good at establishing the apex, etc. What I didn't realize is that with some steels, it's difficult to remove enough of the burr without at least some stropping, whether conventionally, or stropping on a stone or rod. In years past, I would polish the apex too much and while it would shave and cut paper like crazy, the edges would generally have poor performance when slicing fibrous materials. I'm learning to strop enough so that you remove enough of of the burr so there isn't enough to "fold" over the edge, but not so much that I remove all of the tiny imperfections and jagged parts that make an edge "toothy" enough to really bite into stuff when you slice without applying excessive pressure like is necessary with an over polished edge. So I'm sacrificing a small bit of slicing performance for edges that last longer between touch-ups.
 
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