"Custom blades" in knives

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I've seen a few posts where a poster will say a knife is (for example) a "Buck 110 with a custom blade."

How does the "custom blade" thing work? Are their companies that make custom blades for existing knives? Or is that just the poster saying they made the blade themself?

I'm new here and I still don't know who is who among the frequent posters - who amongst us are knifemakers, etc. I know I'm not.
 
T Abell said:
I've seen a few posts where a poster will say a knife is (for example) a "Buck 110 with a custom blade."

How does the "custom blade" thing work? Are their companies that make custom blades for existing knives? Or is that just the poster saying they made the blade themself?

I'm new here and I still don't know who is who among the frequent posters - who amongst us are knifemakers, etc. I know I'm not.
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They may be referring to the Buck custom shop at the factory.
 
A true custom blade would be as you describe. There are small run editions of certain knives that make them somewhat exclusive, but not custom. Some people use the word a bit elastically.... ;)

Here is a ‘different’ sort of 110, made by Buck but commissioned by SK Blades. Notice that the blade is a drop point, not the traditional clip. 20CV steel, burlap micarta and nickel bolsters. Next to it is a pen made by one of our illustrious members @Dopic1 :)

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First welcome to BF. Yeah words can mean different things to different folks. I'm a custom knife maker. Ya can order a custom knife from me or you can go on my website and order an In Stock knife with sheath ready to ship. Is that still a custom knife? Same hands made it, from the same materials, ya just don't have the months and months of wait. Sometimes my head hurts thinking about these things. Most of the time it don't matter much. I just make knives.
 
What you may have seen was out of the Buck custom shop
You will see custom blades on production knives sometimes where a custom maker( or service provider) made the blade in a certain steel or other reasons-usually pretty pricy project.
3rd option-the guy didn't know what he was talking about. The internet is loaded with misinformed and mistaken.
 
View attachment 1002189 View attachment 1002190 View attachment 1002191 View attachment 1002192 View attachment 1002194 I have 6 custom Buck 110 blades. The Stellite 6-K blade was made by Brian Harrison. He furnished the material. The ladder Damascus blade was forged by Chuck Weeber (JS) using L-6 and 15N20. The 2 CPM S-110-V blades were made by Leroy Remer. I had to furnish the material and arrange the heat treat.
The Lightning Damascus and Feather Damascus blades were made by Grand Leavitt. The handles in this post are variations of the BCCI 30th Anniversary Aluminum 110. The screw together construction allows blade and handle insert swapping.
 
Do I remember correctly that Josh at REK offered replacement blades in various steels at one point for a few models?
 
I had Josh at REK make me a custom blade in CTS-XHP to replace the factory blade on my SurviveKnife GWO 2.7. He make a beautiful blade, with my requested spine jimping and thinner blade-stock. He has his new mill all tuned in and he can make you up a whiz-bang blade to YOUR specs any time you want. He also does custom scale work and once made my AVO into a raving beauty.
Good man!
And if you want custom leather that's out of this world...get ahold of Dave Ferry of Horsewright Tack...above in post #4. He is, IMO, the supreme master of leather, whether for you, your wife, or your horse...
 
tiguy7 said:
View attachment 1002189 View attachment 1002190 View attachment 1002191 View attachment 1002192 View attachment 1002194 I have 6 custom Buck 110 blades. The Stellite 6-K blade was made by Brian Harrison. He furnished the material. The ladder Damascus blade was forged by Chuck Weeber (JS) using L-6 and 15N20. The 2 CPM S-110-V blades were made by Leroy Remer. I had to furnish the material and arrange the heat treat.
The Lightning Damascus and Feather Damascus blades were made by Grand Leavitt. The handles in this post are variations of the BCCI 30th Anniversary Aluminum 110. The screw together construction allows blade and handle insert swapping.
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Nice!

The Buck was just an example, though I do believe the one case I can remember was a Buck. I have one Buck - a Buck 110 that gets dull really, really fast. It's a "storage box queen" now. Mainly because I don't need a belt case knife that often.
 
View attachment 1002238 The knife in the middle is a skinnied up Model 560. The Titanium handle is 3/8” thick. Further modifications include pocket clip, thumb stud, and CPM S-110-V blade. Final weight = 4.2oz.
 
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