Different colors for Buck folders.

MercyfulfateXX

MercyfulfateXX

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Good day Buck Friends,

I just bought a yellow 309 and a red 309 to go in my Buck folder collection and was curious as to the significance of the different colors and why they don't seem to pop up often? Does Buck just decide when they should put out different colored handles? How many years has this different color thing been going on ?
 
Look at the date stamps, likely late 80's or early 90's. Not much since then. There is no method to the madness. You get a different 300 model scale treatment whenever someone thinks it will sell. The last change was red dymondwood (rosewood) and brass tangs. Black sawcut keeps rollin'. Any time someone starts a "I want some new scales" thread, I always say classic brown jigged bone that lightens at the bolsters. As a 'collector' you have about four or five different scale treatments across the board in the standard folders centered around the late 80's. This will include one or two in stag. Go back to the 305s with scissors and you will have a couple more. Such as Pink and Lavender.

Some people like different scaled knives, other makers rotate scale color and material but make less numbers and charge more. My grandfather always favored a yellow scale pocket knife.

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300Bucks said:
Look at the date stamps, likely late 80's or early 90's. Not much since then. There is no method to the madness. You get a different 300 model scale treatment whenever someone thinks it will sell. The last change was red dymondwood (rosewood) and brass tangs. Black sawcut keeps rollin'. Any time someone starts a "I want some new scales" thread, I always say classic brown jigged bone that lightens at the bolsters.

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Thank you for your reply, Yes the yellow is an 89 and the red is a 90. All of the rest of my Buck folders are Black. I think the classic brown jigged bone that lightens at the bolsters would be very nice.

I thought maybe there was a reasoning for the different colors.
 
No reasoning other than someone wants them and will buy them. Reasoning would fall into the sale-ability. Buck usually chooses a general production design for both ability to easily modify their production line to produce it and the hoped for ability to sell it in their normal market place. Custom runs for knife sellers or clubs are different. If I were to actually buy a lottery ticket and then win, I would contract with them to produce a 303 in jigged bone that had 300Bucks etched in the shield. Ha.... Would likely take a order of a thousand or more to get that.......
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300Bucks said:
No reasoning other than someone wants them and will buy them. Reasoning would fall into the sale-ability. Buck usually chooses a general production design for both ability to easily modify their production line to produce it and the hoped for ability to sell it in their normal market place. Custom runs for knife sellers or clubs are different. If I were to actually buy a lottery ticket and then win, I would contract with them to produce a 303 in jigged bone that had 300Bucks etched in the shield. Ha.... Would likely take a order of a thousand or more to get that.......
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Better idea: Have them build a two blade Barlow, and call it the model 300. :)
 
Sorry for the poor photo. This is some of my 303s. I'm missing the red sawcut and jigged buffalo but otherwise this covers the majority of colors.


WOW! That really is a poor photo. I'll have to work on that...
 
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