Buck 121

caine

caine

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Today I got my Buck 121. It is perfect. I really like the snap. The spacers look like canvas micarta. Fit and finish are dead on. I am planning on taking it camping this weekend.

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Caine,

Great pics, and thanks for posting them, the 121 has been on my wish list for a while now, they are priced very well too! Do you know what the spacers are made out of?
 
I just read your post again and see the spacers part, I hope they are micarta, also I spent some time at Fort Benning, OSUT, BNCOC and ANCOC. I retired this year 11B4O.
 
I love the 121, and have spent many nights looking for a complete set. The 121 started in 1964 and had a fish scaler and a vertical stamp along the spine. The 121 is the only knife that came with a two strap leather collar type sheath. I have every 121 from 1964 through 1985. I stopped when they began using year marks.



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What is the blade length on this one?


caine said:
Today I got my Buck 121. It is perfect. I really like the snap. The spacers look like canvas micarta. Fit and finish are dead on. I am planning on taking it camping this weekend.

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Blade is almost 5 and a half inches, about a half inch longer than the 105 as always, but the change in thickness is more interesting.

Unlike previous 121s, this one is just as thick as the 105 and that makes it a tough, all-purpose knife with a nicely shaped blade.

I think they first started this thickness with the Buffalo Guide a couple years ago.

With this new morph, the 121 can be found from the oldest and thinnest blade (a true fillet knife) in several variations--to today's version with the blade getting gradually thicker until this latest one.
 
Are you referencing 121's in general? or the specific one in Caine's post that I am curious about?



BG42EDGE said:
Blade is almost 5 and a half inches, about a half inch longer than the 105 as always, but the change in thickness is more interesting.

Unlike previous 121s, this one is just as thick as the 105 and that makes it a tough, all-purpose knife with a nicely shaped blade.

I think they first started this thickness with the Buffalo Guide a couple years ago.

With this new morph, the 121 can be found from the oldest and thinnest blade (a true fillet knife) in several variations--to today's version with the blade getting gradually thicker until this latest one.
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Pac Rat, BG is making a comparison with the 121s made for B&C and the 121s of the past. The point is that the 121 started out as a filet knife and as time past the blade grew thicker and it became more of an all purpose knife. This is why the 121 was phased out. Buck already had an all purpose knife, the 105.
 
Yes, yes, I well understand all of that. I have numerous 121's that range in length from 5 11/16 inch down to 5 5/16. I simply wanted to know what this one measured.

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Pac Rat, BG is making a comparison with the 121s made for B&C and the 121s of the past. The point is that the 121 started out as a filet knife and as time past the blade grew thicker and it became more of an all purpose knife. This is why the 121 was phased out. Buck already had an all purpose knife, the 105.
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Pack Rat said:
Yes, yes, I well understand all of that. I have numerous 121's that range in length from 5 11/16 inch down to 5 5/16. I simply wanted to know what this one measured.
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A simple answer to what was a simple question (:rolleyes:), I measured my B&C and it's 5 3/8" on the button. Hope that helps Larry.


EDIT: Ooops, scooped by caine.
 
Thanks Gentlemen, Just a curiosity I had with the variations in length I have seen in these old ones I have. And I don't believe any of these are short due to sharpening. At least all that much.

Thanks again.

I do wonder if they advertise it as 5 1/2 inches why it can't be 5 1/2 inches.

But variations in length seem common.
 
Just for grins, I got out my B&C 120 and measured it. The catalog says it's 7 3/8" but it measures 7 1/4" against the guard to the tip. You have to measure from the handle side of the fiber spacer to get 7 3/8". Maybe Buck just measures them different than we do.
 
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