Buck 301 BladeForums stamp?

[Old Hunter]

Actually the very earliest ‘in-house’ Buck 301 had the two secondary blades on one spring. I have one, maybe two of them, need to look up the years made. I also have one 303 built that way, around 1987 iirc. OH

 

[AR-Trvlr]

What other two-blade 301s have been made? I know of this paperstone version, the bladeforums elk, the green micarta, and the black burlap micarta. Anything else?

 

[Hickory n steel]

Actually the very earliest ‘in-house’ Buck 301 had the two secondary blades on one spring. I have one, maybe two of them, need to look up the years made. I also have one 303 built that way, around 1987 iirc. OH

I'm pretty sure Buck went to additional backsprings in 1989, so from '85-'89 you'd have blades sharing a spring.
Maybe the 305's don't speak for the entire 300 series, but my '86 & '88 305's have one spring and the '89 has 2.

 

[Hickory n steel]

What other two-blade 301s have been made? I know of this paperstone version, the bladeforums elk, the green micarta, and the black burlap micarta. Anything else?

There was a paper stone version?

That example I posted is a standard model, just boxed with the pen blade closed.

 

[kuramatd]

There was a paper stone version?

That example I posted is a standard model, just boxed with the pen blade closed.

The knife pictured in the OP is the paperstone version.

 

[kuramatd]

The Connection to BF:
The 2018 annual BF Traditional sub-forum knife was a 2 blade Buck 301 sold through SK Blades.
Flat ground CPM154 blades, long pull on the clip. The Spey/Budding blade was omitted in one of the many polls. (I voted to retain the Spey/Budding blade) Nickel Silver/German Silver bolsters.) Natural fall/shed Elk covers (no Elk were killed), sourced from Idaho, Washington, and Montana.
Every feature of the 2018 BF knife was decided by a poll, from which Buck knife (we had a choice of every model Buck made, folding and fixed blade), blade steel & grind, and all the other features.
Cost was $79.00.
Here is mine.

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At the time, it was my most costly knife.
It is also my first BF knife.

Thank you for the insight! I picked up my first BF knife (the super sized Stockman) a few weeks ago, though I've been around for years, I honestly never even realized there was an annual knife until then. I'm really curious what the 2025 is gonna be.

Either way, this was my first Buck 301 (plenty of larger bucks, but never picked up any of the smaller ones). I've been waiting for the refreshed 301s to come out so I could pick up an Ebony version, and this knife reinforces my desire to do so.

 

[Hickory n steel]

The knife pictured in the OP is the paperstone version.

I thought it looked like it.