Carbon steel...?

Pete,
It looks perfect (I think maybe without the nail notch). Can I buy one now?

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Wray Harrison
Buck Collectors Club
Life Member #1440
 
Pete-

Don't do it!!! No drop-point blades!!!!

I can't afford that many knives!!



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Peace, Al
alan@folsoms.net
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then if he gets mad, he'll be a mile away, and barefoot!
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Buck Collector's Club #1334 (oh man, this is gonna cost me...)
 
Pete,

Now you stop that! I'm anxiously awaiting my first custom (BG-42, stag, finger grooves, pins). In fact, I'm in NJ on business right now and it may be waiting on my desk back in Colorado! I will have no choice but to order 2 more the minute D2 in a drop point is offered!!

Ron Fanning

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GronK
Just 'cause yer paranoid don't mean someone ain't out to get ya!
 
I'm going to go broke!!!!!! I just got my partially serrated BG42, but I'd pick up a D2 drop point in a heart beat. I wish the drop point was available when I ordered last. I absolutely love that shape!!!

Oh yah. That BG42 is amazing!!! As terrible as it is, beating up on a custom Buck, I've been working that BG42 110 very hard. It's my "out in the great outdoors" knife, that'll be passed onto my future son. The way it's held up so far, my kid will probably inherit it with the factory edge still on it. Wow!

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Pete,
Add my name to the drop point list. Take out the nail notch, but a stud?
I think I'd still prefer BG-42, but I'll take D2...
Rob

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Without data, it's just another opinion
 
That's what I'm talk'n about Pete!!!
I don't care if it has a nail notch or not but thumb stud just wouldn't be right.

How about only offering the drop-point in D2 and only offering D2 in a drop-point?
That way there are fewer combinations to take all of my money!
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…oh, but a D2 traditional clip point would also be nice….


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Buck Collectors Club Member #1058
 
Pete,
The drop point is great and I like the concept of it only being available with D2. I am already trying to decide which handle inlays to choose with this one. I suspect that when word gets out that a D2 110 with drop point blade is available, PCKS will be swamped with orders!!
Larry

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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose".
 
I sure do like the way this thread is going, sounds like a real possibility to become a reality!

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Buck Collectors Club Member # 572
Dedicated ELU
Knifeknut(just ask my wife)
Sebenzanista
 
Well, since we are throwing out awesome new knife suggestions, how about a Stockman with D2 or BG42 blades? I have many friends who would buy these pocketknives.

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Danbo, soul brother of Rambo
 
If D2 is avail, then do it in both clip and drop. (Gotta get a 560 in both...)

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Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.
 
I'm in for (30) D2 110's, stag/nickle bolsters, drop points, and stockmans if you can swing it. Looking to spend corporate $$$ on these for gifts, and a few more for family & ME !!

Tom H.
Buck Collectors Club Life Member 918
Santa Ana, CA
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jeff O:
I hear that D2 is tougher than 52100(I could be wrong) but for me that is not a major quality that I look for in a 110. However, I have a Marble's in 52100 that holds an incredible edge, and would like to see that steel offered on a 110.
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Heat treated to identical hardnesses, 52100 should be a good bit tougher than D2 actually. D2 isn't really very tough in the scheme of things... well below 3V, 10V, and any of the simpler carbon steels at a given Rockwell hardness. D2 is really designed for abrasion resistance. That doesn't mean D2 isn't tough enough for a slicing type blade, but I wouldn't have a big chopper type knife built out of D2. Most any carbon steel would be a better fit.

From a Crucible handbook I have, D2 is about 1/2 as tough as A2, and I would suspect A2 and 52100 would be close enough for this discussion. (Crucible is stating the Charpy impact toughness for comparison).

Also, question for Pete.... does anyone make 52100 in a flat stock suitable for easy blade making? I know Marbles is doing blades of 52100. Does Marbles machine/hammer forge? Hand forge? Or are they doing stock removal on this stuff? They do bother to put a flat grind and then convex edge on the blades...

But short of a big production run to get economies of scale going from someone who would do a run of 52100 flat stock, I believe most of the bladesmiths still take big 3" diameter ball bearings of 52100 and forge it to shape.

Would Buck buy a big enough lot to get flat stock?

[This message has been edited by rdangerer (edited 06-27-2001).]
 
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