Cutlery, Full Set, 13 piece, Cabernet, Paperstone: ?

The thing about buying one of the kitchen sets - from any manufacturer - is that all too often the majority of the knives never get used. For actual kitchen users, I advocate building up a set piece by piece - knives that you'll actually use frequently.

Unless, of course, you're just collecting them for show, but that's different.
 
While I may never use every piece (more than likely the fork) in the set, I have no issue with that. After all, I have hundreds of knives that never have nor ever will be used as long as I own them. The set will be used sorta like Grandma used her good china, when I have guests to impress as an example!

I had e-mailed Joe and he just answered a few minutes ago. He said he'll follow these through the process and try to make sure that I get some nice dark elk on them when they're built for me.
 
Plumberdv said:
I had e-mailed Joe and he just answered a few minutes ago. He said he'll follow these through the process and try to make sure that I get some nice dark elk on them when they're built for me.
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Now that's customer service. You're essentially getting a custom built set. :thumbup:
 
oregon said:
Thank you David.

I'm pretty sure I need to see a photo of you up a coconut tree. :) Ahhhh, the good old days and tropical good eating.
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Well, I don't have a photo but it occured in the Cayman Islands. Which as some know is a playground for wealthy snoots and while I was up the tree getting my wife the coconut one of 'those couples' walked by and the man said; O, darling look at the hick up the tree. Where upon my wife replied, 'yes and he also opens doors for me and pulls out my chair at dinner'. Then the man said, why does he do that? The woman, now raising her voice said, O-- SHUTUP! DM
 
LOL

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Coconut Crabs enjoy the fruit of the coconut palm also. It would be surprising to encounter one while way up in the tree with a tenuous grip on the trunk and the other hand picking a coconut.

Encountered my first crab, Dungeness version, while a small child surf fishing with my father. He carefully pulled in the legal-sized male crab (not the fish he was hoping for) with the huge pole and I waded into the surf to fetch it before it dropped off the baited line. Unfortunately, its claw caught me and in my excitement/pain to remove the large crab I flung my hand about and the crab flew off to the seaward. My father, ever the clever one, suggested that the next time I help land a crab via throwing it I should fling it toward the beach. I knew enough to grab it from behind, nevertheless, the crab pinched the heck out of my thumb. Still embarassed about this epic failure to this day. I can't begin to appreciate how much pressure the Coconut crab could muster on a human thumb...
 
The Paperstone and the Elk cutlery sets are built as ordered so no standing inventory according to the Buck site. So I've got about four weeks to wait. And, Dave so do you, as you've said. Good. Gives me time to figure how I'm goin splain this non-joint decision. The possibility that Buck might disco cutlery all together probably won't carry much weight with my princess. Maybe its a Christmas present...
 
oregon said:
The Paperstone and the Elk cutlery sets are built as ordered so no standing inventory according to the Buck site. So I've got about four weeks to wait. And, Dave so do you, as you've said. Good. Gives me time to figure how I'm goin splain this non-joint decision. The possibility that Buck might disco cutlery all together probably won't carry much weight with my princess. Maybe its a Christmas present...
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Yeah, yeah....that's it. It's a Christmas present...............................................for your princess!! It was NEVER for you. You would never spend that much on yourself, but, yeah, your princess, she's worth every last penny of it. In fact, you've been thinking seriously about getting her a Sambar stag mirror bladed 124 next time one comes available....just cause she's your princess and she is worth it.

Been good knowin' ya there oregon. Hope ya survive this mess you've got yourself in. :eek:
 
David Martin said:
Are those creatures real? DM
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Video of a man and his land crab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2_YYQrYTAg

I don't blame you for harboring doubt Desert Dave. They are rare in places where people live because they are so easy to catch and eat so you have to look elsewhere, remote islands without fresh water for example. I've never ever seen a live one myself so I have my own skepticism.

I have seen smaller versions of land crabs in Central America near the coast many years ago. Their shells were very brightly colored in a psycedelic manner. They, in small numbers, would be climbing in the bushes and vines just off the beach as I was swimming alone in a lagoon on the Pacific side of Costa Rica. Since then that beach, Manuel Antonio, has developed hotels and such so I expect those crabs may have all gone thru digestive tracts over the years.

Bishop Museum in Honolulu rotates exhibits of preserved land crabs so a visitor could see one there. Their Cane Spyder, no pinchers, is larger than the Coconut Crab and reminds me of the Alaskan King Crab in size and shape but it is said to be extinct. I highly recco the Bishop Museum. Put it on your bucket list. Their collection of Pacific Islander weapons is outstanding. King Kamehameha united the Hawaiian Islands by eliminating those who disagreed with him and he didn't use harsh language. Instead, he employed huge hardwood clubs with row upon row of imbedded sharks teeth for blunt force trauma and cutting, among other persuasive tools.
 
Stumps said:
Yeah, yeah....that's it. It's a Christmas present...............................................for your princess!! It was NEVER for you. You would never spend that much on yourself, but, yeah, your princess, she's worth every last penny of it. In fact, you've been thinking seriously about getting her a Sambar stag mirror bladed 124 next time one comes available....just cause she's your princess and she is worth it.

Been good knowin' ya there oregon. Hope ya survive this mess you've got yourself in. :eek:
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LOL. Really.

She's met and been charmed by (sipped the koolaid), who wouldn't be since they walk the earth like giants in the eyes of the cognizanti, the legends of Buck cutlery @ OKCA: Leroy, Joe Houser and his lovely wife, Wild Bill and David Yellowhorse to mention a few. She cheerfully volunteers to be a second set of eyes at the shows and scours the tables for my targeted item(s) with great enthusiasm. However, I've my own column of sums with her: Orchid shows, crocheting/sewing as art, antique shows (found cool anvils there) and such. Quid pro quo, something for something. Well, you already know how it works. The calculus of companionship/partnership cuts the loneliness down to a near manageable amount.

All that being said, I am working on my pitch justifying the purchase. For example, the bargain price, due to BCCI discount, will appeal to her frugality. And, she already loves the idea of and the actual members she has met of the Buck Family, the hard-working and spirited American legends. There you go, Buck products sell themselves.
 
Question answered: Does the 13 piece Paperstone Cutlery set include a steel/sharpener? NO it does not include a steel. Spreader in its place.

Here is the quoted info: "Thank you for your inquiry. The 13 piece set has the spreader and not the sharpener, yes the block is one of the 13 pieces. Cabelas is selling an Elk Horn handle set that comes with a sharpener and not the spreader. This is sold exclusively through them."

So Dave I don't think you get a steel either...

I wonder if I can order a steel in the cabernet Paperstone? I'll ask.
 
I couldn't find the Cabelas' Elk Horn handle set online. Perhaps it is only sold in the store and not online. I wonder how else (swap in steel for spreader), if at all, it differs from the Elk Horn cutlery set shown on Buck's site?
 
oregon said:
I couldn't find the Cabelas' Elk Horn handle set online. Perhaps it is only sold in the store and not online. I wonder how else (swap in steel for spreader), if at all, it differs from the Elk Horn cutlery set shown on Buck's site?
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We will all know tomorrow and if there is a spreader rather than the steel/sharpener, I'll raise a fuss. I still have a couple of paperstone spreaders that were given away free with some Buck offers last year and have never had a use for them.

So much for the four week lead time. My set was shipped on Monday @ 6:20PM (ordered on Sunday) and will be here tomorrow, the 26th. My concern is that I wouldn't think Joe would have had time to track down my order and check them out before they were shipped as he promised to do. They must have had a set built and ready to ship contrary to the "lead time" statement.
 
I think they usually have a few especially lovely sets saved out and put aside as potential gifts for special V.I.P. visitors like presidents, traveling royalty or Ted Nugent.

That may mean you're gonna get a really nice one!

:)
 
Plumberdv said:
We will all know tomorrow and if there is a spreader rather than the steel/sharpener, I'll raise a fuss. I still have a couple of paperstone spreaders that were given away free with some Buck offers last year and have never had a use for them.

So much for the four week lead time. My set was shipped on Monday @ 6:20PM (ordered on Sunday) and will be here tomorrow, the 26th. My concern is that I wouldn't think Joe would have had time to track down my order and check them out before they were shipped as he promised to do. They must have had a set built and ready to ship contrary to the "lead time" statement.
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy! I can't wait to see em. I betcha yours was one built special for Cabelas. Gonna be good. :)

BG42EDGE said:
I think they usually have a few especially lovely sets saved out and put aside as potential gifts for special V.I.P. visitors like presidents, traveling royalty or Ted Nugent.

That may mean you're gonna get a really nice one!

:)
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I am sure you are right. Dave's set was probably built just for Chuck Buck and when Dave's order came thru the pipe Chuck said "sell em" without skipping a beat. Yea. It could happen.
 
Chuck probably signed it.

(I think he signs anything he sees that isn't moving.)

:)
 
On the other end of the scale, it could also be a set that was sold, built and then returned because the buyer was unhappy with the elk. :(
 
Plumberdv said:
On the other end of the scale, it could also be a set that was sold, built and then returned because the buyer was unhappy with the elk. :(
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I think I read in their book, "History of Buck knives," that they send those to the missionaries, so you may still be ok.
 
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