Large Or Small Buck Vantage?

Yes, if you are referring to the 25 minute long vid. Sorry you were not able to get desired results with your force. What is still off about it?
 
Haha yup, that's the one. Very informative; I enjoyed watching it. And my main gripe was the lockup. It was extremely late, practically touching the other liner. But I don't want to hijack the thread lol
 
I currently have 7 Buck knives from the Vantage line(Vantage and Vantage Force). I've got the 440, Sandvik, and S30V varieties of each. Overall, I've had very good luck with them. Several came with slight blade play and/or lock-up issues, but this was easily remedied by "tuning" them. I, admittedly, don't use mine heavily, but I do carry them often and see no reason they would not hold up exceptionally well to reasonable EDC use. I prefer the large Vantage Pro personally. The small is just to small for my XL glove sized mitts.

Also, a friend of mine was looking for a new knife a few years ago. I knew he'd be extremely hard on it(he's a concrete laborer), but didn't want to spend much on a pocket knife. I let him look over my collection, and he decided he wanted a Buck Vantage. He's purchased two of them since then, and uses one or the other daily at work. He's cut thin metal wire, poly sheeting, ropes, and who knows what else and has even used them as a screwdriver(much to my chagrin as I harpen them for him). Both his Vantages have performed admirably, and are still going strong. So much so that he says they're the last knives he'll buy.., he hasn't caught the knife bug yet. :p
 
fatheadhill said:
I currently have 7 Buck knives from the Vantage line(Vantage and Vantage Force). I've got the 440, Sandvik, and S30V varieties of each. Overall, I've had very good luck with them. Several came with slight blade play and/or lock-up issues, but this was easily remedied by "tuning" them. I, admittedly, don't use mine heavily, but I do carry them often and see no reason they would not hold up exceptionally well to reasonable EDC use. I prefer the large Vantage Pro personally. The small is just to small for my XL glove sized mitts.

Also, a friend of mine was looking for a new knife a few years ago. I knew he'd be extremely hard on it(he's a concrete laborer), but didn't want to spend much on a pocket knife. I let him look over my collection, and he decided he wanted a Buck Vantage. He's purchased two of them since then, and uses one or the other daily at work. He's cut thin metal wire, poly sheeting, ropes, and who knows what else and has even used them as a screwdriver(much to my chagrin as I harpen them for him). Both his Vantages have performed admirably, and are still going strong. So much so that he says they're the last knives he'll buy.., he hasn't caught the knife bug yet. :p
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Glad to here your friend has had good luck with them. Looks like he's putting them to the real test which is hard work and not spine wacking.
 
sunandsteel said:
I don't think it's suppose to be used to hack up wood and such. Imo it's good for what it was designed for at a good price. If it doesn't hold up to serious sphine whacking tests and prying open things without breaking or loosening up the blade, well guess what, that's not what it was designed for.
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Odd. My lockup failed from stop pin wear without a single spine test or chopping wood. Contrary to your repeated insinuation, I haven't yet seen anyone mentioning Vantage issues in this thread bring up spine "testing". The only spine wacking I do with knives was batoning with my ZT 0350, which performed to perfection, and cost the same as my Vantage.

It's just my opinion, but I think their stop pin is a bad set up for a knife with a flipper. If it opened with a fingernail cut, I'm sure it's well known lockup issues would be unheard of. You just can't get away with flimsy liners and tiny stop pins on a knife made to open so fast.
 
Fatheadhill. Thanks for the post. I'm glad to hear about your real-life experiences. My Vantage does card board cutting and kitchen duty. As long as it gets used for cutting, I think it will last a long time.

Grownstar, keep trying to shift the liners relative to each other. Unless the lock bar is out of spec, you should be able to improve your lockup.
 
o4tg said:
Odd. My lockup failed from stop pin wear without a single spine test or chopping wood. Contrary to your repeated insinuation, I haven't yet seen anyone mentioning Vantage issues in this thread bring up spine "testing". The only spine wacking I do with knives was batoning with my ZT 0350, which performed to perfection, and cost the same as my Vantage.

It's just my opinion, but I think their stop pin is a bad set up for a knife with a flipper. If it opened with a fingernail cut, I'm sure it's well known lockup issues would be unheard of. You just can't get away with flimsy liners and tiny stop pins on a knife made to open so fast.
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I haven't experienced any problems on my $25 Vantage Select and I'm assuming they have the same "flimsy liners and stop pins" maybe even worse. I use my knives to cut and expect nothing else from them and only use fixed blades if I'm going to baton.
 
Thanks for all the help everyone. I think im looking at the large now. I appreciate all the help! :)
 
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