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Is This A Common 110?

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Telechronos

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Is this a common 110? Any information from the collected body of knowledge on this forum would sure be appreciated.:confused:

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Telechronos
 
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I took a look and that sure does not look like anything we ever did, not even close. One exception to this would be that during a time in, I believe the 1970's, they had an informal incentive program for employees at Buck. If you made your numbers you could customize a knife for yourself. That 110 is the kind of customization some of the employees did. The only problem with this is that there is really no way to know if the knife was made by a Buck employee or by someone else in their garage.
Unless the seller used to be an employee, and has the story to go with it, I would be very hesitant to purchase such a knife.
 
Joe Houser said:
I took a look and that sure does not look like anything we ever did, not even close. One exception to this would be that during a time in, I believe the 1970's, they had an informal incentive program for employees at Buck. If you made your numbers you could customize a knife for yourself. That 110 is the kind of customization some of the employees did. The only problem with this is that there is really no way to know if the knife was made by a Buck employee or by someone else in their garage.
Unless the seller used to be an employee, and has the story to go with it, I would be very hesitant to purchase such a knife.
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I used to smoke a lot of non-tobabco herb in the 70's. Had really bad glacoma
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. Thank Bob Marley that I am now cured and don't do that medicine now.
Once got so into trimming a small Christmas tree that it ended up looking like Charlie Brown's. You know, just getting into the Zen of the moment.
There are quite a few things I don't recall from that era...maybe I worked at Buck and just "forgot".
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Buckaholic said:
There are quite a few things I don't recall from that era...maybe I worked at Buck and just "forgot".
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Hey Buckaholic--I used to take a lot of that same medicine. I think we worked next to each other at the Buck factory. I must have misplaced all the knives I customized, because all my 110s now are pretty good-looking.

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STR does my customizing now. I don't think he listens to Bob Marley.
 
It is obviously an old knife. What does the Tang Stamp say so we can know if it was built by Goose during his glaucoma cure period?
 
At one time I heard that the motorcycle crowd used to add their own finger grooves to improve the grip in case of a dispute over a woman, a beer or some other territory. Most knives I have seen like this predate the factory FG version. I think someone at the plant once told me the plant started making the FG version when they realized that they were getting a lot of knives back for repair with the FGs cut in them.
 
It is a fifth version, var. 3, (1972) in answer to WilltheBarb's question. It is one of three toally identical ones that I have seen through the years. FGs are milled, and all three to the same exact pattern.

Telechronos
 
Telechronos said:
If you really do have an exact duplicate in your junk box, I'd be happy to take it. I'm not proud:rolleyes: .

Telechronos
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If these were not done by Buck perhaps an early customizer had a small business selling custom finger grooved 110's. That would explain why they are exactly the same. I've seen a few like yours but assumed there were all garage hack jobs done by different owners.

If you can find out who did the work it could be an interesting collecting angle. Can you post a pic of your 3 together? How do they feel in your hand?
 
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