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VorpalRain

VorpalRain

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Use the search feature to read old posts from Buck employees who have participated in the forum.

Joe Houser's old posts where he answers questions for example. You can use advanced search and just put his name in the "Member Search" space to get a list covering many years where he answered hundreds of interesting questions.

Here's one example: (Joe mentions Bill Keys in this post and Bill is another name to search to get more great threads.)

From Joe: """In regards to the 111 Classic, the last Buck catalog that shows it was printed in 1983. From 1984 through 1990 we made over 12 thousand more 111 Classics. I remember when they were discontinued and I remembered that we kept making them for larger dealers that wanted them.
I have a theory as to why you cant find one with an 86 date code or later. The shop probably figured "why bother getting new stamps since the model is disco and we are only making this one more batch". I like this theory because the standard run for a batch of 110 sized blades back then was 6,000. Looks like they ran 2 batches after the knife was disco."""

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/buck-111.753312/page-3#post-8374512
 
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All I gots were dat the request could not be found... did I need to say please?
 
I don't know, Dave.......are you in the shed?

It turns out that a glitch with the search feature will not allow the link to work for some people.......in the shed or not. :)

So.......I changed it to something everybody can use.........a post from Joe as an example of what will be included in the search of his name.

Here's another example........ a question that Bill Keys answered.

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Back when I started in ought eight, not really it was 1974, we glued all of the 110 and 112 inlays on to the brass sides. They were being glued on long before I started also. The brass being used at the time was provided by Revere Forging. We would glue the inlays on (they were rectangular blocks) then sand, shape, drill and finaly rivet the wood to the brass.
In early 1975 we began a conversation to the sintered brass, from Pacific Sintered Metals, which is what we still use today. for the first few months of using the new sintered brass, we glued the wood to the brass, but by mid year had transitioned to only riveting the wood to the brass. I am very familiar with this as I was the first operator on teh "inlay" riveter for the 110's to only rivet the wood on. I also still have the scar on the bottom of my left index finger where the removed a rivet from my finger after i drove it into my finger from the top (we didn't need no stinkin guards back then:)).
At that time, we were still using only 2 inlay rivets, one at the front and one at the back, plus the rocker rivet/pin.
The glue that we used was a 3M two part epoxy structural adhesive- tough stuff. We still use it on the fixed blade knives (119's, 102's, ect). Great adhesive and great gap filler which was one of the main reasons we used it on the 110/112. We dyed the glue for the 110/112 black to make it less obvious, otherwise the glue is a light gray color.
To clean everything we used trichlorethane (spelling?) which was a great solvent; also kills plants, animals, brain cells and pretty much anything else that it comes in contact with or that breathes it- but it was a great solvent. It would not disolve cured glue though. the best release agent was heat; get the handle very hot and the glue would release (at least sometimes). The solvent has of course been outlawed for many years.
We actually used the same solvent with wax in it to do the final cleaning on the 110/112 back then.
Hope this sheds a little light on the glue and gives you a bit of useless info the is entertainng.

Bill Keys
Director of Manufacturing and Engineering
Buck Knives Inc.
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Tons of good info in those many, many old posts..........much of it forgotten.

Explore, you young Buckaroos.......cut and paste.........rise above the grasshoppers.

Even experts can explore and refresh memories, Dave.

:)
 
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Dave, I thought of a way you could use your veteran's knowledge of who's who on the forum.

I thought of searching out Bill Keys and Joe Houser for old posts.......who else can you suggest for those in search of actual learning about Buck Knives????

Lately there's been more bickering and trying to promote and sell books, knives and sheaths than learning like we used to do (well, we bickered some and we learned some, too).

There's a wealth of knowledge on these forums if one wants to mine it.
 
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VorpalRain said:
Dave (hope you got it figured out) I thought of a way you could use your veteran's knowledge of who's who on the forum.

I thought of searching out Bill Keys and Joe Houser for old posts.......who else can you suggest for those in search of actual learning about Buck Knives????

Lately there's been more bickering and trying to promote and sell books, knives and sheaths than learning like we used to do (well, we bickered some and we learned some, too).

There's a wealth of knowledge on these forums if one wants to mine it.
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You are absolutely amazing.
 
VorpalRain said:
Dave (hope you got it figured out) I thought of a way you could use your veteran's knowledge of who's who on the forum.

I thought of searching out Bill Keys and Joe Houser for old posts.......who else can you suggest for those in search of actual learning about Buck Knives????

Lately there's been more bickering and trying to promote and sell books, knives and sheaths than learning like we used to do (well, we bickered some and we learned some, too).

There's a wealth of knowledge on these forums if one wants to mine it.
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you sure love poking at folks. not sure if you sit there grinning while doing it though.

im ibtl.

on the main topic...yes Sir...lots of good info archived on this site. more than many realize unless they were there when it happened......and of course remember it.:)
 
Yowsrr no reception of high tech world in MY shed ... that is all OLD scholars shi*ie
Well I did writ down every thing I could in addition to dileing up phone lines and burning through rolls of quarters
Lots good info ya can get ifn ya just talks to some one
Like did you know once upon a time Buck had a Prayer and Gideance room? It later become a storage room were a lot o parts got stored
Yep gots a lot o info stored in the old hard drive in me head .... only problemis have bad sectors that are unmaped.. kind like in one ear roll around a bit then out that other ear
Some times crazy stuff makes an impression and sticks like the above
 
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you sure love poking at folks. not sure if you sit there grinning while doing it though.

im ibtl.

on the main topic...yes Sir...lots of good info archived on this site. more than many realize unless they were there when it happened......and of course remember it.:)
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Yep sometimes I do grin a bit hopefully get a few to grin and or giggle also! Yep I recalls quite a bit of that there when it happened stuff... was not always working in that dayum shed ... took to working in the shed to be outa old ladys sight and off her nerves... used to read forum sometimebefore had a email to sign in with shush don' tell no ones dat I snuck in on government computers at NIST.... were dey filmed a lot of that be-yond tomorows land stuff...seems I do recall lots of it too ... was before took to working in that dayum shed ...
 
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Yep sometimes I do grin a bit hopefully get a few to grin and or giggle also! Yep I recalls quite a bit of that there when it happened stuff... was not always working in that dayum shed ... took to working in the shed to be outa old ladys sight and off her nerves... used to read forum sometimebefore had a email to sign in with shush don' tell no ones dat I snuck in on government computers at NIST.... were dey filmed a lot of that be-yond tomorows land stuff...seems I do recall lots of it too ... was before took to working in that dayum shed ...
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yes Sir, i imagine you were there for most of it. they only had 6 years on this site before you showed up and set them straight on the error in their ways.:)

jokes aside when was the buck forum started....was it around back in 1998 or did it come much later....guess i could search for oldest posts and maybe see how far it goes back........hmmmmmmmm.
 
Dave, you got any names of old forum gurus whose posts could be mined for education?

I see Buck110 deleted all his posts.

There went a bunch of priceless information.

Oh well........I think he was mad about something.
 
Works fine for me.

You must have an equipment problem. My computer displays a long list of posts.

Edit: It turned out to be a glitch in the search function where certain links can't be shared.

I fixed it.
 
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Works fine for me.

If you're having problems with your phone or computer I suggest you just search it for yourself.

It's easy enough.
 
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