Did Buck make a factory 110 knife with the Indian motorcycles logo

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I went to my local auction house today and found this 2003 110 with the Indian motorcycle logo on side and on sheath. My question is this a factory edition or a custom job? It is a quality etching job. If it is factory, any idea on the quantity? Thank you for the help in advance!
 

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I'm guessing that Buck would provide the knife and special brown sheath and the logos would be done by somebody else after it left the factory.

Someone here will know more, I'm sure.

Nice knife.
 
According to the special projects list from the March 2004 BCCI newsletter, the were produced by Buck for Indian Motorcycles in 2003. The catalog number was 9547, model number B110-IND-0 and is described as a 110, Oak Handle laser ingraved with the Indian Motocycle logo. Unfortunatly, the scan in the newsletter cut off the number that were made.
 
Gladiator,

According to the Buck Special Project list on the Buck website, Buck knives did indeed make a 110 with the Indian Motorcycle logo and the handles and on the sheath. They made 115 of them. They also made an Indian Motorcycle logo'd knife in 2001.
 
Plumberdv said:

Unfortunatly, the scan in the newsletter cut off the number that were made.
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In February of last year you said 115 were made, Dave.

I was just searching for a little more info on these.

Maybe you had a better picture of the newsletter then.

;)
 
Thank you guys this helps alot, haven't see one of these before I was a little skeptical when buying it. I got it for next nothing at $15.00. Thanks again!mark
 
That's why people sometimes hang around auctions for hours and hours. It can get boring, but you can get some great deals sometimes (with a little luck).

And something to think about when it comes to selling knives (we should all tell our kids that if we suddenly kick the bucket that the local auction house is probably not a good idea to sell knives).

So, back to the first thing that puzzled me on this, Joe......is buck equipped to do those logos on the sheath and scale of that 110, or is that part of the work farmed out to somebody else?
 
I know we can lazer mark on wood inlays. The guy we have is pretty talented at using the lazer on all kinds of surfaces. But did we have that in 2003? I dont know. Most likely the logo on the sheath was done by our sheath maker.
 
The sheath and inlay logos look identical.....as if done by computerized equipment from a computer program.

And there we have another interesting Buck mystery.

The only reason I was in doubt about it was that I remember reading that some extras are done in-house at Buck and some are farmed out (or at least were in the past).

I suppose we'll never know for sure which is which on many knives.
 
Just wanted to add that I bought my Indian Buck knife in 2003 because Chuck and CJ Buck signed and dated the blade. It is a 186T model. So it sounds like it is authentic. (Love my Harley but ya gotta love those Indians!)

As far as the laser on the wood inlay, it was definately possible they did it in 2003 because we also bought the 9-11 World Trade Center Buck knife at the same time. The wooden handle on that one had the firefighters lasered on.

That was a great deal at $15! I had a friend find a great Indian catalog from the 40's at a garage sale. Guess I need to keep my eyes peeled. The deals are out there.
 
Hello Dav and welcome!
I checked and we only did 121 of the 186IND knives that year. Not too many of them out there.
The T after the 186 is a date code mark for the year 2003 by the way.
 
Harley is a big market and a lot of Harley guys like Indian stuff as well......I guess that's why this particular knife keeps a pretty darn good value and is not often for sale.

You really did well on this one. Right place at right time and all that.

Congrats.
 
Thanks for the info, Joe. I definitely want to learn more about Buck knives since they used to be practically around the corner from us. Both CJ and Chuck were great to us the day we met them at the event at the plant. We bought both our sons Buck knives and they both like them, too.

Do you know how many World Trade Center knives you made? My wife is selling ours on eBay right now and she didn't know how to find the answer. Sounds like you're her go-to guy!
 
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