Jan. 16th, (1/16), so show off your 116!

[DrMegabyte]

I'll start with this rather unusual 116: A factory build out from 2024 with Sure Grip Handles. Bought for me at the Buck Factory Store by a good friend, I was told it was the end product of blades from an earlier 116 special run plus left over 105 handles from some Sure Grip test builds.

 

[wonderboy1377s]

 

[fuzzybuck]

 

[pjsjr]

I only have plain jane 116s...
I have only used the 116 on dove, never for caping. Would not know how to go about that.

 

[DeSotoSky]

I purchased this one for the sheath. The maker got it just right. You can shake it upside down and the knife stays in place but still draws in and out nicely. Thought it odd that the two rivets were different, one bright and the other brass. Notice the pommel, the early castings had porosity and instead of discarding it Buck would plug the defect. I have several examples of this in my collection.

 

[DeSotoSky]

This is my fanciest 116 Caper. A Custom Shop Stag Tine Damascus. It's a Beaut.

 

[DeSotoSky]

Anyone here remember the good ole days when "Web Specials" were actually special? Buck offered many interesting limited run build outs at really good prices back in the day. This Cherrywood 116 Caper was a build out of 57 in 2011. 116 Capers were not a standard catalog knife in 2002 but were included in the Klinkhammer Series I set that year so I speculate these blades were left over from that project. There is a build out list by Hubbard as a sticky.

 

[pjsjr]

Anyone here remember the good ole days when "Web Specials" were actually special?

I do, Roger, and wish I had the foresight to purchase many more than I did. You do have some beauties!

 

[jb4570]

 

[bertl]

never for caping. Would not know how to go about that.

I think it would be pretty hard to cape a dove.

 

[DeSotoSky]

This is the 2012 Chip Flint 116 Caper with a Buffalo Horn handle and nickel silver Elk inlay. There were 9 fixed blade knives in this series which ran from 2006 to 2014. I don't know why, but the only knife Buck did not include in this series was the 105 Pathfinder.

 

[DeSotoSky]

Buck 116 with Elk Tine handle. A 1 of 24 web release in 2019. Check out the clip point, unique on a 116. An ebony spacer and distressed leather sheath round out the attractive kit. Joe Houser's logo is on the COA so I assume these were his project.

 

[DeSotoSky]

116 Caper from 2017. Cocobolo and brass with a 420HC blade.
This was a Joe Houser build-out, 1 of 38.

 

[Happy Hippo]

I only have one 116. Don't recall if it has a sheath or not. I am going to have to redo all my pictures to include more info.

 

[Vaporstang]

 

[Generalist]

116 fiber barrel nut.

 

[eveled]

The 116 caper was the missing link in my black phenolic set, so when I saw a 116 on Bucks web page I snatched it up.

Trouble was it had a Cherrywood handle. So I still needed a black phenolic one to complete that set and now I needed to find more Cherrywood knives. What was supposed to end one set, was the seed for another set.



Then a few years later I found a Caper with a stag handle. Yep the beginning of another set.

 

[pjsjr]

What was supposed to end one set, was the seed for another set.

Looks like a set up to me

 

[eveled]

Looks like a set up to me

Yes it was definitely bait in a trap,