Buck Story of the Day

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I was just talking about a early Yellowhorse Lacy with another forum member and told him the story of how I came to find and get it home. I sent a postage paid envelope and a money order in blind faith to a PO box in New York...I did not know him at all except for one email from a 6 month old add .My brother told me that I would never see the knife or the money order again but I took the chance and 5 days later it was home . Kinda foolish looking back on it but I had just started collecting 112's and the chance to get a rare 112 was exciting and I went for it. Truth be told I didn't know what a Lacy looked like and in the end it was one of the rarest early 112 with less than 20 known...
So that's my Buck story of the day and I'm looking forward to hearing yours!
 
I have bought many knives on blind faith some of which were one of a kinds and very expensive and have never been ripped off.
I have got a few though that were not as good of condition as I was told or thought they were.
Hopefully my luck will never run out.
 
The story of the hunt. .the search for rare Bucks is the next best thing to buying one! I was teasing Armand about some of the rare one of a kind collections and hoards he's found over the years. .he's shy lol. My brother David spent years tracking down retired employees and paticlure odd 110's. Advanced collectors like Skyler hunt for years tracking special Bucks. .and find them! I looked for 2 years to locate a Master Series 112 only to find there was never one made. Lots of the earliest collectors looked for the white handled fixed blades and pre 1963 D-guard Bowies. Chuck himself looked for a pair of throwing axes for years and never found them. There is a lot of Buck story's than can be told. ..
 
Neat thread, Clint, I'll tell my story, kind of like yours...but a real 'shaggy dog' type.

When the Buck Thompson Center Nessmuk No. 15 first came out in 2005 I wanted it! I was running field trial competitions with my labs and the training, entry fees and travel was a drain on my spendable income.

The desire to own one never went away. When I stopped competing and regained some financial headway I decided to pursue one. I started researching and browsing the web. Seeing pictures just fueled the fire. Then, last year, I saw a sold listing on that big auction site. It had sold for, what I thought, a reasonable price, the day before! I was then really on the hunt!

After that disappointing experience, I mentioned my wanting one to several on this forum. It was Skyler who told me some of his tactics and search methods. Not only that, he found an older ad(2015) on a rather obscure forum that I followed up on. The knife had not sold and he was still interested in selling it:D, we agreed on a price.

He lives in Canada, and neither of us was sure how or if he could legally ship a knife to the USA and he wanted payment by EMT. I told him I would find out and get back to him.

I find out that EMT payment method is only in Canada, and, thanks to Rick Marchand, BF Mod, he can ship to the USA by filling out a form at the post office. He says OK, a money order is fine with him.

We aren't done yet!!!

My credit union doesn't do money orders only cashiers check. We agree that I'll send the cashier check...which is like sending cash:eek: and he'll fill out the necessary forms at the post office and pay the postage.

I send the check, he receives it and mails the package. Three weeks later I have it! Preston
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bucksway said:
I was just talking about a early Yellowhorse Lacy with another forum member and told him the story of how I came to find and get it home. I sent a postage paid envelope and a money order in blind faith to a PO box in New York...I did not know him at all except for one email from a 6 month old add .My brother told me that I would never see the knife or the money order again but I took the chance and 5 days later it was home . Kinda foolish looking back on it but I had just started collecting 112's and the chance to get a rare 112 was exciting and I went for it. Truth be told I didn't know what a Lacy looked like and in the end it was one of the rarest early 112 with less than 20 known...
So that's my Buck story of the day and I'm looking forward to hearing yours!
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Hi Clint: I am curious as to where you got the information as to the rarity of your 112 Lacy. According to Gene Merritt, the Yellowhorse expert, the early Lacy was called a "Fancy Lacy" and is distinguished by a "Sunface" engraved on one side of the knife and had the stamp "By Dave Yellowhorse" on the bottom of the rear bolster. This knife came with a custom handmade leather sheath also made by David Yellowhorse. Gene Merritt states that approximately 60 knives of this design were made in late 1979-1980. "The Lacy" was introduced in 1983 as a standardized design. Early knives had satin finished blades and later production knives had a mirror polished blades. Again, according to Gene Merritt, approximately 800 were made. Hope this helps.
 
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Tin Sue I went to Alanta in I think 2009 and took it with me to show to Dave at the Blade show. In showing it around a dealer near the BCCI section looked at it and offered to trade for it. .He was the one who told me about 16 to 18 known made with a satin finish blade before his arangment with Buck that all had mirror polished blades. Preston also refered me to a Yellowhorse sales Web site yesterday that had one listed for sale at $699.00 stating less than 20 known . Thanks for the info on the Fancy Lacy with the Sun Face bolsters! I have never seen one. .Gene Merrit has forgot more about Dave's knives than I ever knew in the first place lol! I do know that in all my searching for odd 112's mine, Preston's and one other listing on eBay is all I've seen with a satin blade. And only one sheith period. I hope one day to find a chip flint version of any 112 by him (109 ?) that I can afford as they look exceptional beautiful to me.
 
I was 14 and we lived in a duplex.
A friend / neighbor bought a big lot of knives from Cutlery Corner and gave them to our neighbor in the other half of our duplex to sell in his garage sale.
In this lot were 6 Buck 425 minibucks , I just had to have one but had no money.
He told me I could have one and pay him $4 for it whenever I could.
Well he was kind of a bum, the kind who tries to be a decent person when they can stay clean though it never lasts.
Shortly after this we discovered he was stealing power from us, my mom didn't want to involve the police and warned him.
I think it was the 3rd time we found out he was stealing power from us.
the police discovered there were exposed sparking wires that by some miracle didn't set the insulation on fire and burn the place down, obviously out came the Cuffs.

This was my first Buck knife which I'm glad to have, but is also a reminder that you just never know what kind of danger you could be in.


I put that easy open type notch in the handle so I could flick it open Spyderco style and put holes on the other side where I had a pocket clip mounted to it, for these reasons it's also a reminder of how dumb I was as a kid.
 
1967 working as electricians helper -boss told the electrician to take me to get tool belt and tools. Hardware store had a buck display and eh said now there’s buck knife (110)- a mans knife. So I paid about6-7$ for it and I only made 1.75 an hr.. boss asks why he told me to buy that expensive knife and to take it back... But all the other guys admired it and talked it up! At 15 I was glad to have something that the men I worked with admired! I was hooked on buck from then on.
 
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