Let’s talk about your Buck 124,119, or 120 i wanna Hear stories and see pics!

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pic I used in last SPS.....but heres a 5160 steel 119. started as a factory blem as shown in the handle and not shown on the hollow grind being offset. makes a perfect harder user.

Mak had it, did a vinegar, I think, type patina job on it. I got it from him and have used it on cutting swampy jungle mess. being carbon steel that swampy jungle use made it nastier and darker colored. its seen good and harder use from chopping palm fronds down to trimming branches and other weedy tree like plants, etc. among household tasks if it's on my belt. great knife and a true user.
 
jbmonkey said:
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pic I used in last SPS.....but heres a 5160 steel 119. started as a factory blem as shown in the handle and not shown on the hollow grind being offset. makes a perfect harder user.

Mak had it, did a vinegar, I think, type patina job on it. I got it from him and have used it on cutting swampy jungle mess. being carbon steel that swampy jungle use made it nastier and darker colored. its seen good and harder use from chopping palm fronds down to trimming branches and other weedy tree like plants, etc. among household tasks if it's on my belt. great knife and a true user.
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So you don’t worry about scratches at all! And she chops good?
 
Jared Leland said:
So you don’t worry about scratches at all! And she chops good?
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nope....not worried at all. 5160 is a very tough steel.

not great as it's hardly designed as a chopping knife, but can do little bit of everything well enough.
 
Don’t sell 420hc short, It’s tough enough and stain resistant. Just about the perfect all around knife steel. Especially with Buck’s heat treat IMHO.

Good Gawd man stop worrying about the scratches on your knife. Get out there and use it for what it was made for. There will come a time you will pull it out and all the honest scratches will make you smile. You will say I wouldn’t trade this old scratched up 124 for 2 new ones.
 
eveled said:
Don’t sell 420hc short, It’s tough enough and stain resistant. Just about the perfect all around knife steel. Especially with Buck’s heat treat IMHO.

Good Gawd man stop worrying about the scratches on your knife. Get out there and use it for what it was made for. There will come a time you will pull it out and all the honest scratches will make you smile. You will say I wouldn’t trade this old scratched up 124 for 2 new ones.
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I was Gonna buy a Kabar Becker BK9 for chopping but if you are telling me the 124 is safe to do it then shoot i wont Buy one! I’ll just do it all with my 124
 
Jared Leland said:
I was Gonna buy a Kabar Becker BK9 for chopping but if you are telling me the 124 is safe to do it then shoot i wont Buy one! I’ll just do it all with my 124
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You are right! No more worry about scratches and scars! It makes it mine! PS what do you use for sharpening yours??
 
The 124 goes through vines like a laser. I sharpen on Smiths diamond bench stones.
 
Once Upon a Time (or this ain’t no BS) I was knee deep in grenade pins in the North of Norway, the Japanese were coming at me in T-72’s, I pulled out the same Buck 119 I use to cut railroad ties with back home - cut the barrel right off that T-72 - the Japs turned and rode back to New Delhi ASAP! How’s that for a battle scarred story?? Here is the BUCK 119, laying on the last tie plate I cut up with it. OH
Ps. There could possibly be some slight poetic license and maybe some exaggeration taken with this story. The Buck 119 is real!
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These things are wicked. Ordered a 110 the other day and now I'm on a internet picture tour of everything buck. The 119's are stunning. I saw the 5160 steel 119 and got me to thinking that I have a katana I took the tsuka apart, fuchi, tsuba, kashira, etc...And have a good 5160 blade left over. Where should I go out here to ask if anybody wants this piece? The makers board? It would be for free. Just thinking someone might be able to use it and maybe turn the blade into whatever they want.. not sure how that really works though. Other than that.. I'm just mineral oiling the blade up, and I'm just holding onto it for no reason. anywho, I dig the 119's online alot. Especially the red micarta handled one. I'm gonna have to go to rehab cause of this place fairly soon I'm thinking lol! This place is awesome
 
Old Hunter said:
Once Upon a Time (or this ain’t no BS) I was knee deep in grenade pins in the North of Norway, the Japanese were coming at me in T-72’s, I pulled out the same Buck 119 I use to cut railroad ties with back home - cut the barrel right off that T-72 - the Japs turned and rode back to New Delhi ASAP! How’s that for a battle scarred story?? Here is the BUCK 119, laying on the last tie plate I cut up with it. OH
Ps. There could possibly be some slight poetic license and maybe some exaggeration taken with this story. The Buck 119 is real!
Buck-119-Special-1997.jpg
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You didn't drive them all out. Some of them stayed and and opened sushi restaurants.
 
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