Burgundy micarta models

A good buddy of mine gave me this sweet 501
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Haebbie, thank you. I have a 2 line 106 like that. Something odd about the maroon micarta is, it came out in 1973 on the Empress Trio. But here we find it on a 2 line 106, likely dated 1968.? Which is 6 years prior to being used on the model 200. I'm certain this color material was used all through the 70's on different models. DM
 
Thank you, David, for your detailed Answer. As I understood Buck used another time line for the 106 hatchet in comparison to the 100 knife series. My other two black micarta 106 have a two line stamp too. I don‘t know how long Buck made 106 two liners. I only can assume they had a lot of two line stamped 106 blades and they sold them through the years. I can’t remember that I ever saw a micarta three liner neither inverted nor upright. Another guess is: Buck started the three line stamp together with the wooden scales for the handle. David, what do you think?

Haebbie
 
Yes, I have both of the ones you mention, a 2 line maroon micarta and the 3 line 106 with wood laminate 'birch'. I have not seen a 3 line
106 with micarta handles. DM
 
Badhammer said:
Cant recall if I or others have asked this before but what models did Buck make with burgundy micarta scales?

Also I’ve seen it described as both burgundy and maroon. I take it the terms are being used to describe the same thing or were there actually two different colors?
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I wonder if it was a supply issue as to when and what models got what material and what color. I recall Joe Houser commenting on the use of yellow micarta for spacers for the 100th Anniversary 119 model. The supplier ran out of the burgundy and Buck was in the middle of a production run and had to use the yellow for spacers on some of the 119s. Just a SWAG!:)
 
I made a post earlier in this thread that I had a 1973 after hours knife made by a former Buck employee.
He also made a 124 with the same Burgundy handle, but I have since sold that one.
I found a couple photos of it tonight.
He added no pins and he made it a slim version.

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Technically, maroon is brown pigment added to red, and burgundy is purple pigment added to red; but sometimes the difference is hard to see—it probably depends on who is mixing the colors.

Bert
 
pjsjr said:
I wonder if it was a supply issue as to when and what models got what material and what color. :)
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I think this has some factor in it. For example on the Empress Trio model 200 it is hard to find a set with black micarta handles. Especially with square handles in black micarta. But I have come across several sets with maroon micarta handles and they are always radiused handles. So, between the black handle version to the maroon micarta version the handle style was changed. This could be consistent with other models using this material? DM
 
MT_Pokt said:
Welcome back Stumps Stumps

Thought you might have left civilization behind.
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David Martin said:
Stumps Stumps , I like the nickle frame with the drop point blade. You hiking near Reserve? DM
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Thanks Greg and David.
Haven't been hiking this year and it's driving me crazy. Hopefully in the next couple months, but it will be in the east. Hoping for a trip in the west next year.
Got into long distance canoe tripping and have been loving that.
Getting ready for a big trip later this year.

Still love and use Buck knives, just not much of a collector anymore.
 
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