Little Buck 309

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fishtale

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Spent the weekend getting to know a little Buck 309. Nice small two blade "pen" knife. It's about 3" long, main clip blade and small pen blade. It was made in Idaho, so it's fairly new. Nice pocket size, just kind of disappears in the RF pocket.

I only did a little light work with it...mail, apples, whittling. I'm going to try it all week to see if it continues to grow on me.
 
Those are nice little knives. I had one for a while then gave it to a friend. I have wanted another one ever since.
 
Nice knife. You will find it will hold up. I have some 300's from the 70's that look as good as new. I looked up the 309 on the Buck site and I noticed they put an American Flag next to it to show it is built here in the U.S. I am glad they did that since they are making a lot of knives (???) in China and it is nice to know before you buy.

By the way, the 303 a 3 1/4" stockman is one of my favorites.

http://www.buckknives.com/search.ph...egory_id=238&search_term=309&return_op=search
 
Quick update.

I sort of re-profiled the blades on the bench stone the other night and quickly increased the cutting efficiency. The 309 has proven to be a good office carry knife. It can put a hole in the plastic coffee cup lid like no ones business!

I've been fascinated by the Peanut threads but I don't have one. So, I picked what I thought would make a good substitute from the collection...hence the 309. Half stops, bone handles and the brass blade separator seem to be the biggest differences.

I'm going to continue carrying the 309 this week and can already say a Case Peanut looks to be the next purchase.
 
Hey fishtale,

I worked with a guy who carried one of those as his only knife. You know, one of those old guys whose idea of a pocket knife was a small two blade thing. He did just about everything with that little knife. Buck makes those 300 series pocket knives with stainless steel pivot pins and bolsters, and they are a very strong made little knife. I have to admit that the Buck 309 is maybe a sturdier built knife than the Case peanut. Gene used his very heavily in the machine shop in what I would call abusive conditions, and it did well.

When I was in my 20's, it seemed that all the "old" guys always had the standard two blade pocket knife. Sort of a classic I guess.
 
Jackknife,

My father-in-law carries the same pattern "pen" knife but it's made by Case. He carried it thru his WWII service in the Pacific with the Navy (Iwo Jima). His father (my kid's great grandfather who immigrated from Italy and passed away long before they were born) carried the same pattern...also made by Case.

They never believed in the need for a big knife, always thought they were kind of silly. "What do you need that big thing for...bear hunting?" Then they would laugh a bit.
 
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