Buck Making a New Buckmaster?

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Some of you may be privy to this information already, but I just received the below message from an "around the bay" knife re-seller urging folks to pressure Buck into expediting the timeline.

Message from re-seller:
"Hey everyone!
The Buck Collector's Club just finished its 30th anniversary celebrations here in Post Falls, Idaho. This was a fantastic event and many thanks to the Buck family for hosting it.

Richard Neyman gave the final presentation on Friday on the M9 Bayonet and at the end he let us hold two prototypes of a NEW Buckmaster!

Buck is planning on making this knife, but has not committed to a timeline yet. So I ask you to PLEASE call or email Buck Knives, or post on their facebook page, asking them WHEN they will be making it - this will SPEED up the production of this knife!"
 
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I saw the two prototypes at the seminar. They are unique and yet functional. I stood around CJ at the picnic and listened to most everyone tell him that they need to get with it and get them into production. I didn't say anything to him about them as I felt he looked beat up about it. I'll send him an email thanking him and all Buck personnel for their efforts and making the 30th such a success. Preston
 
We were asked not to take pictures of the knives they showed because they did not want them to be passed around on all the social media sites. I took a picture real quick just before we were asked not to so I
took it upon myself to delete it. The knife is supposed to come out in 2020 so be patient. I am sure they will release info when they are ready.
 
gedlicks said:
We were asked not to take pictures of the knives they showed because they did not want them to be passed around on all the social media sites. I took a picture real quick just before we were asked not to so I
took it upon myself to delete it. The knife is supposed to come out in 2020 so be patient. I am sure they will release info when they are ready.
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It's not me asking people to pressure Buck...that was a quote from a knife re-seller who sent that message to people who subscribed to them. I edited the text color from the re-seller to make it stand out more.
 
gedlicks said:
We were asked not to take pictures of the knives they showed because they did not want them to be passed around on all the social media sites. I took a picture real quick just before we were asked not to so I
took it upon myself to delete it. The knife is supposed to come out in 2020 so be patient. I am sure they will release info when they are ready.
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Is 2020 a meaningful year, an anniversary? Or it will just take that amount of time to pull it all together?
 
Nothing was mentioned about there being anything special about it being released in 2020. CJ Buck gave a very good seminar on what is going on at Buck Knives. By the end it was evident that
Buck is a large business that puts out a ton of knives and everything they do is very well thought out by many people. What seems like something that should just happen can actually be very difficult to navigate thru the day to day workings of a big business. If everyone is busy working making knives and all of a sudden you tell them that now we want to add another model or two where does that time come from. They have to fit it into their business plan. There isn't a bunch of guys standing around waiting for the next new model to hit so they have something to do. Everything has to fit into their business as far as time, parts, design, set up, and money.
Every time there was a question thrown out to CJ you could tell that he was thinking to himself. "I wish it was just that simple" Than he would go on to carefully explain the question in a gentlemanly way
I think it just takes time to implement new models and processes while still trying to fill all the other orders that come in on a whim.
 
gedlicks said:
Nothing was mentioned about there being anything special about it being released in 2020. CJ Buck gave a very good seminar on what is going on at Buck Knives. By the end it was evident that
Buck is a large business that puts out a ton of knives and everything they do is very well thought out by many people. What seems like something that should just happen can actually be very difficult to navigate thru the day to day workings of a big business. If everyone is busy working making knives and all of a sudden you tell them that now we want to add another model or two where does that time come from. They have to fit it into their business plan. There isn't a bunch of guys standing around waiting for the next new model to hit so they have something to do. Everything has to fit into their business as far as time, parts, design, set up, and money.
Every time there was a question thrown out to CJ you could tell that he was thinking to himself. "I wish it was just that simple" Than he would go on to carefully explain the question in a gentlemanly way
I think it just takes time to implement new models and processes while still trying to fill all the other orders that come in on a whim.
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Slick nailed it.
 
cj does not have the the end say of when a knife gets made ...
there are many many issues with getting from prototype to production and it is likely that there may be a few changes from what we seen on the table...
that cj is wanting to see this major kool tool made is good but still tnings have to be taken one step at a time
 
I can imagine the steps that it takes from prototype to the catalog. After the basic knife is decided on materials have to be ordered and scheduled for delivery. Sheaths has all the same issues. Then comes actually making it. Marketing plans have to be decided. By the time we actually see it in the catalog hundreds if not thousands of decisions will have been made. Then there's unavoidable delays in any part of the process. I would say 2020 is optimistic!
 
Am i the only one who thinks it could flop? Yes it's a cool knife that is a piece of history.

But.....the reasons I didn't buy one when they were in the stores still are valid.

It is a knife with limited appeal, and limited market. Think about it, who is the target buyer for this knife?
 
Clearly if it looks anything like the original (a replica if you will);
there would be some interest in it.
If its a reworked improved product
but has major physical alterations which
makes it quite unrecognisable from the original,
then it had better look exceedingly spectacular
if not works far beyond expectation.
Its quite a heavy burden for something to be carring
the buckmaster name and legacy.
Just saying.
 
It is not going to flop. The Buckmaster has done very well with quite a following. No matter what the new release looks like there will be a market for them.
There were somewhere close to 100,000 Buck 184's made I believe and they still have a good following and command a good price.
Maybe the knife isn't meant for everyone but it obviously has been very successful.
 
eveled said:
Am i the only one who thinks it could flop? Yes it's a cool knife that is a piece of history.

But.....the reasons I didn't buy one when they were in the stores still are valid.

It is a knife with limited appeal, and limited market. Think about it, who is the target buyer for this knife?
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I have one, it's cool looking. I paid $110 for it and an old 112 off Craigslist. It will be way over priced i'm sure, just like the black and blue machete that was the Buck of the month in July (The 75 of those has not sold out yet). However, i'm not the one they are marketing to here. If they only sell 100,000 after they are on the market for years they will discontinue it again. Buck makes different LE knives each year only intending to sell 250 of them so we will see what happens in 2020. Maybe they can pimp up a few, or do some spin offs.

JB
 
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