Buck's Kustom Knife Shop IS still OPEN!

Thats really sad... Looks to me like a good way for them to NOT have to make many customs..
I can see the prices going up some, everything else has, but that is rediculous...
 
Pack Rat said:
Jeeez,,,,I am afraid to go look. Burying my head in the sand again....

should I quit EDCing my latest bg42 110 from the custom shop before I actually use it?
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Yep Fella's,

Looks like things have changed for us and the custom shop:eek:. Now I wish I would have gotten one of the custom Alphas in DM and Elk....Now just the DM blade alone cost's what 2 completed knives cost before:confused::(. I think it is odd but Elk scales on a 110 are an additional $165 and only an additional $83 for the Alpha. I guess I'll just make due with what I already have:grumpy:. Larry...BG42 is no longer offered on the custom site.

Not to stir the pot....But....funny how this big price jump hit just before the big BCCI gig in Post Falls:barf:.

Nuff said about this from me!!!

jb4570
 
I don't think I'll be ordering anything else from the custom shop and will stop telling others it's a good deal.

For the prices they are charging I can get a complete custom from many custom makers out there. Also, my first and only experience with the "custom shop" was not a good one. No way the knife I was shipped was worth the price they want to replace it now!

Dissappointing to say the least.

The fact that you can even put together a Buck 110 that would cost over $1,000 blows my mind!!!!

The cost for a damascus blade alone will buy many nice complete knives today.

Pretty bummed about the whole deal. May have to stick with my damascus/stag (which will cost you over $400 now!) till the end of this deployment and start buying Chris Reeves stuff to carry when I get back. In a bizarre twist some if his stuff is now cheaper!

I'm confused, dissappointed, and disgusted by it all. Not many Bucks in my future now.
 
334dave said:
well .. to be the devil's advacate...
if you were a retailer and wanted to sell a LE or custom buck knife
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:cool:...The Buck Customs were never sold by dealers as to do so would eliminate the word "Custom" in the description. They also were never the part of the production philosophy that was intended to support the company. They obviously made money at the price point they were at, prior to this slap, to be able to move "lock, stock and barrel", to Post Falls. It seems incredible for Buck to do this at a time of tremendous hardship on everyone when, economically speaking, there aren't too many people not already reeling from food costs, fuel costs and on and on. Not many of us are Bank presidents or owners of oil stock...The "Senior Partner" must still be on His way between El Cajon and Post Falls...I don't think He had as high a markup on those "loaves and fishes"...:(
 
I just hit the website and a NS 154CM w/serrations and Koa was $192.00 The same knife was $125.00 on the old site with BG-42 steel. I just started about three(3) weeks ago really liking the 110's and 112's again after years of overlooking them for the "HighTech" stuph out there. I guess I should feel lucky I nabbed a couple BG-42 Stags in the last few weeks. I live in Michigan and it cost me $25.00 to fill the tank on my MotorCycle last night! When I bought it in "98" it cost about $6.50 to fill the same 5 gallon tank. Wow you guys are all correct. This economy is really showing it's Ugly teeth Now!!!
Guess I'll keep an eye to the Bay for any deals on Nice Bucks???
 
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babakanoosh45 said:
Guess I'll keep an eye to the Bay for any deals on Nice Bucks???
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The starting bid price on my eBay Bucks just doubled... :D

I agree with y'all, there'll be no more Custom Bucks in my future. I guess this is Buck's excuse to close the Custom Shop and lay off some workers. :rolleyes:

Well, the Chinese Bucks will still be around...Anybody check if Buck increased their prices???
 
334dave said:
well .. to be the devil's advocate...
do I need to... duck ?
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Of course not, Dave!!! When the quarterback drops the ball, nobody boos the cheerleaders!!! :D

Say - How about posting Joe's email address now, so that we can all email our thanks for putting the Custom Shop web site back up??? :)
 
chickentrax said:
Of course not, Dave!!! When the quarterback drops the ball, nobody boos the cheerleaders!!! :D

Say - How about posting Joe's email address now, so that we can all email our thanks for putting the Custom Shop web site back up??? :)
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:cool:...:D:D:D...Not with those cute "kilts" ...errr...skirts I meant...:p
 
You can't do without food--gas--ect......but a high priced knife--gun---or gear will be sitting around a long time in this economy-----might as well close the shop down if that is the true cost of customs.

I was waiting for the site to come back up to order another one----not anymore---I'll be using the funds to get a Marlin 39A that I've been eyeing for some time now.
 
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I was waiting to order a simple NS with KOA wood and 420HC blade, which would have been $85.00 before, now it's $167.00.

Elk scales were $37.00 now they are $165.00?????

This is ridiculous for knives that are stock production parts with special scales.

Hope Buck thought this through better than it looks.
 
The "Good News"....since very few orders will be placed.....you may get your knife the same week you order it:D:p:D
 
On a more serious note, steel prices are sky-rocketing(almost doubled from last year), including brass. Many of us knifemakers are stock piling steel while we can still afford it.
 
334dave said:
well .. to be the devil's advacate...
if you were a retailer and wanted to sell a LE or custom buck knife
would you like it if some one could go to the web site an order the same knife you were thinking of haveing made so you could sell and make money on it and they pay less then you can buy it for?
realy the only way they could reasonablely sell us a knife for less then on the site is to sell it at whole sale through the BCCI... a speachel link with our club password! ... then the retailers whom buck realy needs for busness will not worry that buck will under cut them...
jest a thought...
do i need to... duck ?
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Dave, first of all, I don't think that any retailer sells custom shop knives, and second, most retailers, if they are going to actually sell them, greatly discount the LE knives. I guess we are all doing our venting here!!
 
Pack Rat said:
I think you are right Dr. TS. Joe is no doubt as wrought about this as we are.
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Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
He is Head of Customer Relations at Buck.

I think that's who were supposed to go to isn't it?
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:cool:...Even though Jeff makes a great point here, I agree also with rodent...Joe has the avenue for a ton of input to Buck's administrative board but I don't think for an instant that the Custom Shoppe's ludicrous pricing has anything to do with him...this pricing policy, however, doesn't happen without the approval of that board. I'm just too pi$$ed to even think straight anymore...I better shut up til I have a few more cups of coffee...
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omaha-beenglockin said:
I'll be using the funds to get a Marlin 39A that I've been eyeing for some time now.
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I'm with you on that one...A used long-barrel [not Deerslayer] Ithaca Model 37 at my local gun dealer for $199 caught my eye a couple weeks ago...and my Economic Impact Check came today... :D

Time to pull up my socks and help the economy!!! ;)
 
Scott Hartman said:
On a more serious note, steel prices are sky-rocketing(almost doubled from last year), including brass. Many of us knifemakers are stock piling steel while we can still afford it.
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well another cheer leader playing the devil's lawyer... humm

i took a good long look at the site again and did some hard thinking
other then on the shock that i can not afford new dream knives any more...
( i only hope the knife i won for the slogan contest is a goodie!)
strangly I had these thoughts come to me…:confused:
Blades: as pointed out steel is going up... and for most the regular steel it is not much higher on the site... other steels have gone up a lot! Damascus blades - well there are requirement on the MIN size of the billet before the laser can be used to cut it... they don’t do one blade at a time .. if they did it would be in orbit... so though we see were we can buy a billet and get 3 blades from it… buck can't use one that small ...again size maters large billets are Hard to make!

scales : wood is not too bad ... koa is because of restrictions from the island national protection league... but the other woods are not that much more...
stag- well there are export restrictions on it from the countries that have it..

elk and horn and ram, lets include stag also here...and we can not leave out my personal fav! Mother of Peral (hubba hubba!) these are NOT mass cut or made!!!the new pala i think it is a composit like chip board wood.
they have to be hand cut and fitted and require lots of time!
Seems I recall many of you have had issues with a lot of non matching antler!!
what did you expect from standard bin lots..
you asked for hand fit and match you got it !!!
how many of you have sent back knives for "bad stag"
normanly i wont talk of ME sending a knife back but ...
i have sent one, a club knife and like the another nut ,
got a correct blade in a non finger grove handle back that had nice stag!..
and as they are naturnal materals some times ... they break ...
i had a horn scale snap... Joe replaced it..

frame : yep the price of the frame went up... copper and related materials are so high that the govt. is looking at not putting copper on the pennies any more !!!

believe me i don’t like the price increase on a custom buck any either...:grumpy:
it is jest that when talking of dream materials knives that we were saving for go out of were we can dream of them ...
it hurts... :mad:
i have other thoughts on buck customs that i will risk voicing later ... or sooner... :eek:

basically it is why the "custom shop" should NOT be a big profit maker! :eek::confused:
will explain in a later post…
go’na get me my jar and drown my sorrows on not being able to buy my dream MOP buck 110 from buck any more …sniff, sniff – snork -- blow & wipe nose …:foot:
 
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