I've purchased my first Buck 110.....
and i'm ready to have some fond memories with it, i was reading the "110 memories" thread, great stories in there, and i figured it was time to buy myself my own little slice (heh, slice, get it?
) of Americana and American history....
i've read other threads on wally-world (graaah, HATE wally-world, wally-world BAD!) having the Buck 110 collectors tins knives for dirt cheap, so i stopped off at the local (Portsmouth, NH) wally-world to see if they had any
they had two left (not counting the display model) for $18, i tried out the display model to see how it felt in hand and was impressed, a nice, *solid* knife, decent edge, but not shaving-sharp (i could fix that on the Sharpmaker easily enough), it was a nice knife, so i bought the last two tins.
i figured it was a win-win-lose situation, and the wins outnumbered the loses, the wins were i get 2 knives for little more than the price of one, they come in a nice little tin. with a sheath, and a keyring/bottle opener (what is it with Buck and bottle openers anyway? , my Metro keyring knife has a bottle opener built into it.....), so i get more Buck goodness for less than just the knife/sheath itself (they were selling the knife/sheath for $25ish), the lose was wally-world gets my money, and i'm trying to keep my wally-world purchases to a bare minimum as i'm not a fan of their anticompetitive business strategies
okay, rant aside, the 110 is a really nice knife, solid construction, good quality blade, the thing just has mass and heft that's missing from the more modern knives, plus, i like the basic simplicity of it all, no bells and whistles, no fancy tools, just a blade, a handle, and a locking mechanism, can't get much simpler in a folding knife, and in folders, simpler is usually better, less parts to break....
i got the second one for collector's value, it's going to stay shrink-wrapped in the tin, and hopefully will increase in value....
although...
i have been thinking that it'd be nice to give the second one to Dad, all he has for knives are a tiny SAK keyring knife, and an old scrimshawed dual blade pocketknife (not even sure if the scrimshaw is real, the whole thing feels cheesy)
is it better to keep Buck #2 for collectors value, or give it to Dad, i'm not sure if he'd even use it, he;s not really a knife knut, he sees them as tools....
....and considering the condition his pocketknife was in (about as sharp as a butter knife, before i had a go at it with the Sharpmaker...), i'm not sure he'd really use it
and i'm ready to have some fond memories with it, i was reading the "110 memories" thread, great stories in there, and i figured it was time to buy myself my own little slice (heh, slice, get it?
) of Americana and American history....i've read other threads on wally-world (graaah, HATE wally-world, wally-world BAD!) having the Buck 110 collectors tins knives for dirt cheap, so i stopped off at the local (Portsmouth, NH) wally-world to see if they had any
they had two left (not counting the display model) for $18, i tried out the display model to see how it felt in hand and was impressed, a nice, *solid* knife, decent edge, but not shaving-sharp (i could fix that on the Sharpmaker easily enough), it was a nice knife, so i bought the last two tins.
i figured it was a win-win-lose situation, and the wins outnumbered the loses, the wins were i get 2 knives for little more than the price of one, they come in a nice little tin. with a sheath, and a keyring/bottle opener (what is it with Buck and bottle openers anyway?
, my Metro keyring knife has a bottle opener built into it.....), so i get more Buck goodness for less than just the knife/sheath itself (they were selling the knife/sheath for $25ish), the lose was wally-world gets my money, and i'm trying to keep my wally-world purchases to a bare minimum as i'm not a fan of their anticompetitive business strategiesokay, rant aside, the 110 is a really nice knife, solid construction, good quality blade, the thing just has mass and heft that's missing from the more modern knives, plus, i like the basic simplicity of it all, no bells and whistles, no fancy tools, just a blade, a handle, and a locking mechanism, can't get much simpler in a folding knife, and in folders, simpler is usually better, less parts to break....
i got the second one for collector's value, it's going to stay shrink-wrapped in the tin, and hopefully will increase in value....
although...
i have been thinking that it'd be nice to give the second one to Dad, all he has for knives are a tiny SAK keyring knife, and an old scrimshawed dual blade pocketknife (not even sure if the scrimshaw is real, the whole thing feels cheesy)
is it better to keep Buck #2 for collectors value, or give it to Dad, i'm not sure if he'd even use it, he;s not really a knife knut, he sees them as tools....
....and considering the condition his pocketknife was in (about as sharp as a butter knife, before i had a go at it with the Sharpmaker...), i'm not sure he'd really use it
