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So I've got a pair of Buck 887 BKX-B folders. Both of them bought at the same time in 2007 from, IIRC, A.G. Russell. I'd had one previously but lost it and wanted to replace it. Both of my knives are marked as 2003 (T) production, while the back up knife, which remains new in box, has a label with the date of Aug 2007.
Where it gets interesting is that these knives are all but identical. Well, with the exception of wear and use on the regularly carried one, and the untouched blade and scales on the NIB one.
Both are ATS34, both are BOS heat treated, both have the SB-4 with the T date code marked under it. And both have the Strider logo with Buck Tarani below it above the choil.
One knife, the Strider is up with tip down, the other, the Strider is down with tip up.
Here's the box end label from the NIB one.
Here's the right side of both blades
And here's the left side of both blades where the logos are normal on one and reversed on the other.
I even went through the various flea bay listings for this model of knife to see if there would be other examples and there's versions of both available.
Since the simplest answer is usually correct, I'm guessing the stamp die was upside down during a certain run of blades, and was installed correctly during most.
Just thought it was interesting and that I'd share.
Where it gets interesting is that these knives are all but identical. Well, with the exception of wear and use on the regularly carried one, and the untouched blade and scales on the NIB one.
Both are ATS34, both are BOS heat treated, both have the SB-4 with the T date code marked under it. And both have the Strider logo with Buck Tarani below it above the choil.
One knife, the Strider is up with tip down, the other, the Strider is down with tip up.
Here's the box end label from the NIB one.
Here's the right side of both blades
And here's the left side of both blades where the logos are normal on one and reversed on the other.
I even went through the various flea bay listings for this model of knife to see if there would be other examples and there's versions of both available.
Since the simplest answer is usually correct, I'm guessing the stamp die was upside down during a certain run of blades, and was installed correctly during most.
Just thought it was interesting and that I'd share.