First year stamp on 107 Scout

ChicoMike

ChicoMike

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Can someone please advise what year Buck started adding the model number "107" to the steak knife and calling it a Scout? I know...well think...there were steak knives similar to the 107 but had serrated blades and only Buck on the blade. I am just looking to satisfy my ignorance and locate a 107 2 line if there is such a creature. I have a 3 line. I checked the buck catalogs on the BCCI site with no luck as the picture in the 1976 catalog only shows a Buck stamp and no model number. :confused:
Thanks in advance to all you knowledgeable folks out there,
Mike

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Mike,
If I have my info correct. The 107 started out as a part of the Trio set in the early 1970's (1973 I think). It did not have an individual Model # at that time and was only stamped BUCK USA but when Buck actually released the 107 around 1976 the stamp was the typical 3 line stamp Buck 107 USA.
Heath
 
ChicoMike, I see you are a BCCI member so you can log into the BCCI website. For further reading....
Larry Oden did a short essay on the 107 in the June 2005 Newsletter
Joe Houser wrote on the Empress Trio Set in the March 2007 Newsletter
David Martin wrote a short story about them in the March 2006 Newsletter
 
Stone Knifeworks said:
Mike,
If I have my info correct. The 107 started out as a part of the Trio set in the early 1970's (1973 I think). It did not have an individual Model # at that time and was only stamped BUCK USA but when Buck actually released the 107 around 1976 the stamp was the typical 3 line stamp Buck 107 USA.
Heath
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Yes, those first of the Empress Trio set had the old English script stamp. The latter model with a designated model number were of the block style stamp, 1976 is correct. DM
 
Just for documentation. The small one from Empress Trio and the 107 Scout

Haebbie

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DSS, As I remeber the flap sheath is marked with 107. But I have to dig it out
and to have a look ...

Haebbie
 
What's really interesting is that the name " 107 Scout" had already been used before. The 107 was used in the Pre Factory days as a filet knife, starting in the group 1 era, and reappearing in group 3 (1948). The name Scout (122) was used for a small bird and game knife, again in the Pre factory days around 1954, and neither of the knives looked like the 107 of the production era.
 
mbjannusch said:
What's really interesting is that the name " 107 Scout" had already been used before. The 107 was used in the Pre Factory days as a filet knife, starting in the group 1 era, and reappearing in group 3 (1948). The name Scout (122) was used for a small bird and game knife, again in the Pre factory days around 1954, and neither of the knives looked like the 107 of the production era.
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Thank you, Matt, for the background to the Scout. Interesting the recycling of the model numbers too.

Haebbie
 
Here's a first year 107. Buck would at times bring out a new model with special handle material as is the case with this one. It's pouch sheath was a first for Buck. Later came the flap sheath perhaps early 80's. DM
 
Are you sure, David, that the flap sheath came after the pouch?
Or changed Buck from the pouch to the flap later again?

Haebbie

By the way: Nice knives you have. Is the 116 a barrel nut?
 
Haebbie, Thank you. As mentioned, Larry's 107 article in the June 2005 newsletter pens the pouch sheath came first and several changes began around 1984. Which I agree with. Your flap sheath could have came then or was a substitute sheath earlier from a 102. Buck did stuff like that as we see many variations with this model in it's stamping and handle pins. DM
 
Well, David, my two line 102 doesn't fit to the 107 flap sheath. The 107 sheath is too small for the 102. My old 107 is not from a set. Do you know if these knives were sold separately? If yes, wouldn't it be possible that the knife got it's own sheath?

Haebbie
 
DeSotoSky said:
ChicoMike, I see you are a BCCI member so you can log into the BCCI website. For further reading....
Larry Oden did a short essay on the 107 in the June 2005 Newsletter
Joe Houser wrote on the Empress Trio Set in the March 2007 Newsletter
David Martin wrote a short story about them in the March 2006 Newsletter
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Thank you for those references. I went and read those articles. I like the Empress Trio set. I use mine and have them hanging in the kitchen near the stove.
 
Haebbie, I'm sure the knife has it's own sheath. Where or how this came along, I don't know. DM
 
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