Buck 300 series "shield" attatchment

[cards94]

The old style black sawcut, no matter the name of the plastic scale material, are all pillar shield construction currently. Only Dymondwood scales of all colors, are glued in shields. All pre 1985 black sawcut shields are glued. All black sawcut scaled 300 models with NO date code are glued in also.

It sounds confusing but isn't, some of the black scale 300s continued to be made by Camillus a long time after Buck took back production of the 301,303,309 and 305 in 1985. All the black scaled 300s with NO date code on the tang should be glued in shields.
Buck glued on shields until they started casting the one piece liner with bolsters and shield pillar as part of the liner. So if a black sawcut scaled 300 series post 1990 knife has a spring for every blade, has a SS spring pin, has a round ended shield where the hammer imprint has a long closed ended handle, then you are talking pillar shield.

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Well I thought I had the pillar until I re-read your response and mentioned the date code on the tang part. My bought in july 2014 buck 301, I don't think has a date code on the tang. What does the code look like, and I don't think I have pillar shield.

 

[Tin Sue]

Well I thought I had the pillar until I re-read your response and mentioned the date code on the tang part. My bought in july 2014 buck 301, I don't think has a date code on the tang. What does the code look like, and I don't think I have pillar shield.

The date code is located just to the right of the number "301" on the tang of the main blade. Assuming the knife you bought in 2014 was also made in 2014, that date code would be the bottom half of a circle with a dot in the center. Date codes for the various years of manufacture can be found in a sticky at the top of the Buck subforum page.

 

[cards94]

The date code is located just to the right of the number "301" on the tang of the main blade. Assuming the knife you bought in 2014 was also made in 2014, that date code would be the bottom half of a circle with a dot in the center. Date codes for the various years of manufacture can be found in a sticky at the top of the Buck subforum page.

Thanks you.