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I don't post here, but being a switchblade collector I wanted to say that I was very impressed with Buck's new switchblade. Not a conversion of the 110, but a new model designed and made at Buck.
I handled a prototype at Blade and chatted with CJ for a bit about it. The size and style was excellent for daily carry, the quality looked to be that of a good modern aluminum body coil spring automatic, the fit and finish was as you'd expect from Buck, nice. Overall it looked like it would be a very strong competitor in the modern switchblade market. Price point wasn't discussed, but the knife was still being "tweaked".
I happened to be up at SMKW this week and I always have to stop by the new switchblade counter and SURPRISE they'd just gotten the first shipment of the new Buck auto so I was able to handle the production version of what I'd played with only a few weeks before in Atlanta.
Home run! Matter of fact, Buck knocked it out of the park on their first at-bat. Terry at the counter was impressed as well (how do you impress a sales person that handles knives all day long?) and we handed the knife back and forth and discussed the features and merits and strengths. We did not discuss any apparent weaknesses because neither of us could find any. The action was crisp. The lockup was solid. The blade was well ground S30V. The safety was smooth on and off. The knife neither wanted to "helicopter" out of your hand on opening nor was it "limp". Very nice. MSRP is around $220. Then she told me they were going to go for $150. Very very nice!
She expected the 50 knives to be gone before Buck Day this Friday (today), and that didn't surprise me at all. While we continued to chat another staff member came up with one with a big grin asking "Have you seen this yet?" holding the new knife up. She had that expression of "Look what I just found!".
Yeah, I think it will be a big success for CJ and the company.
I handled a prototype at Blade and chatted with CJ for a bit about it. The size and style was excellent for daily carry, the quality looked to be that of a good modern aluminum body coil spring automatic, the fit and finish was as you'd expect from Buck, nice. Overall it looked like it would be a very strong competitor in the modern switchblade market. Price point wasn't discussed, but the knife was still being "tweaked".
I happened to be up at SMKW this week and I always have to stop by the new switchblade counter and SURPRISE they'd just gotten the first shipment of the new Buck auto so I was able to handle the production version of what I'd played with only a few weeks before in Atlanta.
Home run! Matter of fact, Buck knocked it out of the park on their first at-bat. Terry at the counter was impressed as well (how do you impress a sales person that handles knives all day long?) and we handed the knife back and forth and discussed the features and merits and strengths. We did not discuss any apparent weaknesses because neither of us could find any. The action was crisp. The lockup was solid. The blade was well ground S30V. The safety was smooth on and off. The knife neither wanted to "helicopter" out of your hand on opening nor was it "limp". Very nice. MSRP is around $220. Then she told me they were going to go for $150. Very very nice!
She expected the 50 knives to be gone before Buck Day this Friday (today), and that didn't surprise me at all. While we continued to chat another staff member came up with one with a big grin asking "Have you seen this yet?" holding the new knife up. She had that expression of "Look what I just found!".
Yeah, I think it will be a big success for CJ and the company.
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). I guess that event has made me partial to Buck knives ever since. I would carry a different knife for EDC now an then but always came back to my buck.