Here's Another One With STRANGE Dots in Stamp.

For the life of me, I can't find a way to say this was once a Four-Dotter.

The way the year symbol hit......the third dot should still be visible--but there's no sign of it.

Enough to drive you bonkers.

:D
 
I think you meant Houser.

Good idea, although we've been through this before and he just says, "Yep, those are strange dots."

:D

In the past some of us have theorized that these are Four-Dotters with a later year stamp added, but this one clearly has no third dot and when you look carefully at the placement of it......the year stamp couldn't have covered it.

Also......how would you add to an existing stamp? Don't you have to re-heat the blade to stamp something into it after it's been stamped once? And is that feasible?

That's a good question for some of our steel gurus and knife makers to answer.
 
Fellows, I am by no means the egg head on this, they should show up this evening with answers. But, I think we have gone over extra dots several times in the past. I seem to remember those dots will be associated with the etching for some reason...or at least its a good guess......

300Bucks
 
I have to agree with David, show me another couple of knives with the same stamping and then I'll believe it's special, otherwise, it may just be some fluke.
 
Rockwell tests are done farther down on the blade so they don't show.

Voids would not be uniform and conform so perfectly to previous stamping patterns......and neither would Rockwell tests.

And, of course, three Rockwell tests would be going a bit overboard.

No, there's another answer, but we don't know it yet.
 
Also, after a little searching I found that.....

Larry Oden’s list of verified dot patterns from the Dec. 2005 BCCI Newsletter includes:
Ranger marked Buck **112>* (that's Dot Dot 112 >Dot, just like this one).

I was just hoping that Joe or somebody had found more information about these dots lately.
 
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