Buck Family of Knives.

GeoKost said:
Now that I have taken the time to learn how to post a picture, here is one with some of my slipjoints.
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OH YES:eek: ...GeoKost you belong here. Nice collection. Preston
 
Thank you for posting the pic's. Very nice Geokost, now keep em comming! Where's the 110's.....112"s....102, 105.....show em off!
 
WOW............I have not seen a 317 in quite some time. That is a nice collection you have there:D :thumbup:


Cerberus
 
...cerberus...when did that 317 come out. My ol' neighbor next door has been retired some 20 years and he has one on his hip every day. Kind of a nice brown sheath, it looks worn but the knife looks unused. He said he can't remember when he got it just always seemed to have it...LOL...He's in his 80's . Thanks.:)
 
DarrylS said:
...when did that 317 come out.
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DarrylS, I've been doing some reading of BCCI articles today and L. Oden wrote an article on the 300 series. He states that the 317 was first pictured in the 1972 catalog. You might want to check...seems some 317 had handle pins and are very rare:eek: maybe your neighbor's??? Preston
 
Preston...Where are these handle pins supposed to be??...I won't see the ol' guy til the week end sometime?...Don't recall pins but I wasn't looking either. I do remember that it was stamped Buck Made In USA on the side other than the side you'd expect the stamp to be on.
 
DarrylS said:
Where are these handle pins supposed to be??
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Darryl, there were no pictures...I would expect them to be in the same or approx. place as those on the other 300 series. Any handles pins would indicate that it would be a rare one, JMHO. Preston

Edited: I'll check the 1972 catalog...but doubt it would have a picture with pins. In the article L. Oden said he saw a picture.
 
Hope you find another one with pins, here's the picture of the one Larry Oden was talking about. If I ever decide to get rid of it, Larry has first dibs. He thinks it's a first made salesman sample, and I think he is correct. I haven't gone to any meeting or show he was at but if I do I will bring for examination. Maybe BCCI meeting in Idaho in 2008. Also pic of another hard to get 317 with serrated secondary blade.


 
...Just got back from the ol' guys house. My wife puts eye drops in his eyes til his daughter moves down here. That's the knife he has...pins and all. The only differences are it has no serrated blade and the stamp is on the other side of the ricasso. Quite a story with that knife. He holds it like gold and only uses it to open letters and cut string. Wouldn't even let me hold it...and he'll never part with it.
 
300Bucks,

Thanks for posting. Great knives you've got there, hope to see them someday. I was trying to get an image from the 72 catalog. Yours far exceeds anything from that. Preston
 
First, I have never seen one with tang stamp on wrong side, Second, if it has pins in the handle it will be only the second known to Larry Oden. The serrated blades are on the USA tang stamps, Made in USA and pins pre-date that by several years. Get a picture if possible, several folks would want to see it.
 
Gonna work on that 300bucks. A closer look showed that there were no pins there. They were just shiny spots from handling. The stamp is on the opposite side though.
 
Is still vvvery interesting situation to me . But I am odd being 99.9% 300 guy. I must confess, I have a two dot 112, a new canned 110 and a half dozen 425's I carry in jeans watch pockets. Maybe hope for me yet.
 
I was digging through my box of sheaths tonight looking to switch out my 110 sheath when I stumbled across a used 317 sheath. No idea where I got it. Wish I had a 317 to keep in it...
 
...Here's a follow-up on the knife my neighbor has. I actually got him to allow me to hold that "317" this evening...it seems to me that it is a hell of a good copy of what it's supposed to be...at least from a distance. The stamp looked okay as I glanced at it till I looked closer and saw the letters. Now I might be wrong here but I don't THINK Buck ever stamped their knives using lower case letters after the "B"...did they?. I've never seen a 317 or held one to be sure, but this one weighed about as much as the 704 I got my wife and it's much bigger. I think the scales are plastic(hollow plastic)...but they looked good enough to fool me by their appearance. I hate to tell the ol' man that what he has isn't what he thinks ...so I left it alone. What a shame.
 
DarrylS said:
...Now I might be wrong here but I don't THINK Buck ever stamped their knives using lower case letters after the "B"...did they?. .
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My two 111 three dot Urban Cowboys (aluminum with scroll work on the handle) has capital "B" with the rest in lower case...it is in a old english kine ("kind of") font.
 
...Yes mfinden...That's the old "script" stamp. I have a couple of 501's and a 500 with that stamp. This is just plain "block" type lettering. I'm sure that knife is a knock-off. I think Schrade makes one yet that is quite similar but I'm sure that the Schrade version is a whole lot better than this thing. It's the seemingly hollow plastic scales that grossed me out...sheeesh...:thumbdn: :barf: :thumbdn: :barf: ...oops...I forgot that Schrade is not making anything at all any more...
Did some digging and it appears that Case makes a clone of the 317 that they call the Case Folding Hunter Staminawood Working Knife. 5 1/4" closed. Stainless clip and skinner blades. Jigged brown Staminawood handles. Looks almost identical but without lanyard hole and the size is right as well.
 
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