Review Handmade Buck Knife?

[AZbuckNM]

Hello everyone! I just started collecting Buck Knives and let me tell you....What an addiction this can become. I just ran across this Knife claiming to be a Handmade Buck. Wanted to see if anyone can help identify. It does say Handmade Stainless Steel 440 on the blade.

https://imgur.com/a/93PGICr

 

[afishhunter]

Are you sure it's a Buck?
"Hand Made" and "Stainless Steel 440"
does not sound like anything Buck would stamp on the blade.
The pommel also looks off in the picture, like it's mounted sideways.

 

[David Martin]

That pattern is not something I've seen Buck make. DM

 

[gedlicks]

That is not a Buck Knife. Many people use buck as a term and not necessarily a brand. As a generic name for a fixed blade knife.

 

[kossetx]

It definitely looks handmade...

 

[sportingspecialist]

 

[ohen cepel]

I think the pommel is on backwards. Not a Buck in any case.

 

[Badhammer]

Not a Buck.

 

[David Martin]

It looks like a Western model F39. DM

 

[BuckShack]

Looks like it got stuck in a grinder and then run over by a truck. Not a Buck knife.

 

[AZbuckNM]

Thank for your input guys...On a side note I received my never used 2 dot 112 Ranger in the mail yesterday and am very excited about it. Also picked up a No Dot 110 from an antique shop yesterday for a very decent price! Can't believe it's taken me this long to start picking up old Buck Knives.

 

[RevolverGuy]

Definitely not a Buck. And technically all of Buck's knives are handmade.

 

[DocT]

DM is correct. That is probably a Western M39 (wood handle). Western made decent knives for the era. That one has been taken apart and reassembled incorrectly. The blade design is very useful.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Hello everyone! I just started collecting Buck Knives and let me tell you....What an addiction this can become. I just ran across this Knife claiming to be a Handmade Buck. Wanted to see if anyone can help identify. It does say Handmade Stainless Steel 440 on the blade.

https://imgur.com/a/93PGICr

It's not a Buck knife, it's cheapo made in Pakistan.

Many brands import them including Budk, but I think this one looks like a Frost cutlery Deer Skinner II.

Normally they Pakistan and the brand stamped on the blade in ink or an extremely light acid etch which can easily be scrubbed or worn off.

 

[Hickory n steel]

It looks like a Western model F39. DM

They are based on the f39.

 

[sassafrassdogs]

Western W-39, not "F"....That's what it is, someone just messed with it...

 

[Hickory n steel]

Western W-39, not "F"....That's what it is, someone just messed with it...

The weird looking pommel is a dead giveaway that it's not a western.

 

[sassafrassdogs]

Somebody has taken it off and messed with it.... The only real difference is mine is much older....

 

[Hickory n steel]

The pommel seems to have been put back on upside down, but here's an example of the Pakistan " Deer skinner II "

The westerns had a forked tang, the Pakistani cope does not.

 

[sassafrassdogs]

OK, it's either a Western or a counterfeit Western... I don't have any pakistani knives to compare it too...