Photos Can i get a second opinion on my new Custom Buck? Am i overreacting?

Quiet said:
Well yeah, that story being "I don't like it." Seems like something you'd not want to keep around. I'd send it back to Buck and ask them to sort it out.
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If you going to use it then whay does it matter. In 15 to 20 years it will possably be so worn and out of color that it won't look close to when you first bought it. Over 1 year if heavy use many of my knives look totally different. So are you gonna send it back to buck when you use it and demand they refurbish it back to sayisfaction?
 
fanofsteel said:
If you going to use it then whay does it matter. In 15 to 20 years it will possably be so worn and out of color that it won't look close to when you first bought it. Over 1 year if heavy use many of my knives look totally different. So are you gonna send it back to buck when you use it and demand they refurbish it back to sayisfaction?
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It might* matter to the OP, so it's odd that you'd dismiss his concerns so lightly. Not every knife is a beater for folks.



* Actually, it does clearly matter, given that he created this post.
 
Old Biker said:
I would agree, but add that for that same $35 more, you can get the Web exclusive version with a S30V blade. Another bargain in my opinion. As for a reason to pay extra for the custom shop version. I was told once that they were going to use the lighter colored ebony in the custom shop. The ebony pictured in the custom knife builder, is definitely not the dark black, that is pictured for the standard line..

O.B.
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That's totally different from the guitar world.
For guitars the ebony has to be black, lighter color or streaked ebony is seen as being undesirable.
They can't tell what color the wood will be until they cut the tree down so they used to just leave them lying in the forest to rot.
 
Buck states on the 110 custom shop page that color variations in natural handle materials are to be expected.
 
Just for anybody wondering or finding this thread in the future, I did get in contact with someone. Don't email buck, you'll never hear back. You have to call them. The lady on the phone was not surprised and already knew which handle I had ordered when I told her what was wrong. There was no haggling or pleading from me, she just said alrighty I'll have the shipping department send you the prepaid shipping and we can take care of it for you. I am not going with a wood handle. They are allowing me to pay the difference and upgrade to elk scales. I have no problems if the elk scales dont perfectly match. As they aren't being really altered outside of being shaped for some reason. As a woodworker I just expected a little more care to be put into the wood scale prep, amd staining. Lesson learned, I am pretty excited that I changed to the elk scales and look forward to getting my knife back!
 
CoreyC25 said:
Just for anybody wondering or finding this thread in the future, I did get in contact with someone. Don't email buck, you'll never hear back. You have to call them. The lady on the phone was not surprised and already knew which handle I had ordered when I told her what was wrong. There was no haggling or pleading from me, she just said alrighty I'll have the shipping department send you the prepaid shipping and we can take care of it for you. I am not going with a wood handle. They are allowing me to pay the difference and upgrade to elk scales. I have no problems if the elk scales dont perfectly match. As they aren't being really altered outside of being shaped for some reason. As a woodworker I just expected a little more care to be put into the wood scale prep, amd staining. Lesson learned, I am pretty excited that I changed to the elk scales and look forward to getting my knife back!
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Glad to hear that Buck is going the extra mile to satisfy your concerns. Please post photos of the knife when you get it back with the stag handle covers.
 
Just wanted to share what I eventually did for anybody that may find this and has the same issue. I called and told them what my concerns where. They sent me a free shipping label and I sent the knife in. I asked to change to the elk scales and they said sure! If you are wanting to contact buck then call them, they never responded back by email. After about a week and half they refunded me the money from my initial purchase so that I could go in and order a knife with the scales I wanted. There was a mixup somewhere over there and they ended up sending me another knife with blue scales. Two knives for the price of one! After calling and asking what happened they said i was still getting the elk handle and asked that I send the blue handle knife back to them. I did find it kind of annoying to go through the trouble of shipping it back for their mix up, but I didn't pay for two knives. I recieved my elk handle knife in the mail. I like the scales, for some reason the nickel oxidized extremely fast after carrying it in my pocket for a day so it just looks like cloudy brass. I know it wont stay pretty forever as i intend to use it everyday. I only mention this because the buck that im replacing was also nickel, I carried it around forever and i never had this issue. At the end of the day I'm much happier having this in my pocket than the blue wood though.
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That’s a lot of hoops to jump through for a knife that you still aren’t happy with. I’m genuinely sorry to hear of this.

The Nickel Silver oxidizing after one day of carry has me puzzled. I’ve carried Nickel Silver bolstered knives on days so hot and humid that the dollar bills I pull from my pocket are soaking wet from the sweat soaking through my jeans. My Nickel Silver knives in my other pocket only suffered minimal oxidation on those days. On cooler days they stay nice and shiny.

I can’t for the life of me figure out what happened there.
 
You paid $130 extra for this. Quality control should have caught it. Just my opinion but once you offer this type of service up, you should do it correctly.
 
https://imgur.com/a/mnPuneJ

pjsjr said:
C CoreyC25 I have heard/read somewhere that some people's chemical make up effect metals differently.
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Today my knife that I gave up on a long time ago was returned to me! It was buried in a garden under some leaves next to a fence post I had dug! It won't let me directly add the picture for some reason but if you click the link you can see the knife I've carried for a very long time and has been out in the rain for a year now and it hasn't take on any kind of brass color at all! I'm ecstatic to have my old knife back. Its like I found a long lost best friend. The only reason I got the custom was because I lost this one. This mass produced buck knife seems like it's better quality than my custom to be honest. I'll put this custom in a drawer for now.
 
CoreyC25 said:
https://imgur.com/a/mnPuneJ


Today my knife that I gave up on a long time ago was returned to me! It was buried in a garden under some leaves next to a fence post I had dug! It won't let me directly add the picture for some reason but if you click the link you can see the knife I've carried for a very long time and has been out in the rain for a year now and it hasn't take on any kind of brass color at all! I'm ecstatic to have my old knife back. Its like I found a long lost best friend. The only reason I got the custom was because I lost this one. This mass produced buck knife seems like it's better quality than my custom to be honest. I'll put this custom in a drawer for now.
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Your membership probably expired from the creation of the post until now, hence the problem posting photos directly.

Congrats on finding your old knife! That's pretty miraculous.
 
CoreyC25 said:
https://imgur.com/a/mnPuneJ


Today my knife that I gave up on a long time ago was returned to me! It was buried in a garden under some leaves next to a fence post I had dug! It won't let me directly add the picture for some reason but if you click the link you can see the knife I've carried for a very long time and has been out in the rain for a year now and it hasn't take on any kind of brass color at all! I'm ecstatic to have my old knife back. Its like I found a long lost best friend. The only reason I got the custom was because I lost this one. This mass produced buck knife seems like it's better quality than my custom to be honest. I'll put this custom in a drawer for now.
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That's always a great feeling when a lost one turns up.
It appears to be aluminum bolsters though.
I do have some older 501's with NS bolsters that never tarnished as bad as some of my more recent ones, and I worked harder and sweated more back then. Therefore I prefer the even older 501's with SS bolsters, I wish they would go back to it on those.

As to your op that wasn't as bad as I have seen, not sure what I'd have done, but for the price you pay for the customs there should be an effort to match the scales with any of the materials, that's craftsmanship, that's having pride in what you do, not just slapping parts together.
 
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