Buck Spa and blade replacement question

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Ole Joe Clark

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I bought a Buck 501 last Friday for 10 bucks, I think the price is right. It is one of the older ones with phenolic scales with no date indicator. The blade looks like a toothpick and has the small script. I'm thinking of sending it in and having the blade replaced and spa treatment.

Maybe Mr. Hubbard will comment on my question: Will a replacement blade have the script similar to the original?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Have a blessed day,

Leon
 
I sent in a 110 that looked like it had been run over by cement truck and had a toothpick blade. First they did an awesome job polishing it up without rounding the bolsters about 90% of the gouges are gone looks great. The blade was replaced with a current year production blade and given a razor edges. I am very happy with the results.
 
J Hubbard said:
It will get the current year date stamp. We don't have any old school blade in stock.

Jeff
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Jeff, I have a 705 with a broken main blade. The knife belonged to my father. I realize the 705s are no longer produced which means replacement blades are not available. If I were to find a donor 705 and send both knives would it be possible to use the donor knife's blade on my father's knife?
 
Thanks for the quick reply. I am debating whether to follow through and send both knives, or just keep looking for the one that matches the one my wife owns. It's the cat's meow.

Have a blessed day,

Leon
 
matthewtstock said:
bayouace bayouace how long was the turn around time to get your 704 back ? I recently sent a few to the spa.
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FYI I sent a 110 to Buck for SPA and it arrived there January 19th. I received an email from Buck on February 25th that it is now being processed. That is the busiest time of the year for them from what I have read on this site. I'm looking forward to getting it back all nice and shiny :)
 
I was at a fellow employees house back around last October and noticed he had a 110 sitting on his workbench with a broken tip. I convinced him to send it in to buck for a blade replacement and spa.
I printed out the warranty information and he sent it in with a check on Nov 30th. Tracking shows it delivered on Dec 3rd. He has never heard anything. He called and was told to email in his information
which he has now done twice. He showed me on his phone the auto reply that the emails were received. He has gotten no reply. He has called and spoke to someone in warranty a couple times and gets
told again to email the information over and they will make sure it goes to the manager of the dept. Nothing. I finally called for him last Friday and was told they cannot find any info and that I should
email everything over to them and they would forward it on to the manager. They have nothing by his name. or zip code. The check he sent has not been cashed. He gave me all his info which luckily
he has everything. Copy of warranty form, Shipping receipt with tracking, and email auto responses. I guess I will send it to them again than call to verify it was received right afterwords than call
them daily until they do something. If not than I guess I am going to gift him a 110 myself and move on.
 
Yes, I think Buck has some big problems in their email system that they need to address. Both sending and received. I’ve had several emails sent in the last 6-8 months and no response from anyone at Buck. It’s been since January that I’ve had any emails from Buck. I know it’s not my spam catch because my ISP tech checked everything coming and going in the last 9 months. He could see where I was getting 2 and sometimes 3 emails a week and then it dropped. I did have an issue a few months back that my ISP had some files that were hung up and late but they came through.
 
A friend of mine has a 118 he purchased back in the 60's. It could use a spa treatment. But he refuses to let it out of his sight.

Hopefully the 110 didn't have sentimental value....

Buck is hiring.
It's one thing when a company has issues and isn't......

I wouldn't want to work there myself.
 
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