My Buck wish list

StuntDouble · Mar 10, 2012

We're still a good part of the year away from Christmas, but I figure I'd get my list in early

. This is more of an idea thread, just some things I'd love to see from Buck in the near future. I know most of them probably won't see the light of day, due to financial or practical reasons, but that's why I call this a "wish" list.

- Bring out an Ecolite 500 series. I'd love to see a 501 with paperstone slabs, with or without bolsters.

- Build this thing I would buy one of those things in either size, even if it meant paying a bit of a premium for that model.

-Buck Special with 4" blade. I know there are smaller knives within the 100 series fixed blades, but nothing with the same blade width of the Special. Again, something I'd pay a premium for.

-Flat ground slipjoint models. I would buy another 301 or 302 if a flat ground model came out.

-BG-42, in anything.

-Jigged handles scales in the 300 series. Bone, delrin, or whatever. I'd love to see jigged handles on regular production models from the US made line.

That's pretty much all I can think of..anybody else have a wish list for Buck?

Plumberdv · Mar 10, 2012

Tops on my wish list is that some that are already being produced and that I want, would become available on their web site! Then I'll worry about new models.

THE_LONGBOW · Mar 10, 2012

Irrelavant

thenextarcher · Mar 10, 2012

My wishlist can be summed up pretty quickly "all buck models ever made" haha

ArfinGreebly · Mar 12, 2012

Well, since we're trading in fairy dust here . . .

1) I wanna Buck Sodbuster. I wanna, I wanna, I wanna.

2) Could we maybe do a Wharncliffe Whittler? The classic pattern, not the current interpretation. The classic pattern is one large Wharcliffe main blade at one end, and two small pen blades at the other end, straddling the main. (Modern interpretation seems to be either the "half whittler" with a single pen blade, or a "full" whittler but with one pen blade and one coping or sheepsfoot blade. Classic is two pen blades.)

3) A Buck 500. Oh, wait, those have actually been found in the fossil record. Revive the species?

sitflyer · Mar 12, 2012

1) C'mon Buck... Add the 500 to the Custom Build series...
2) Paperstone Ranger with the 442 Drop point blade...they'll sell...
3) 112 in the Custom Build section...Nickel Silver as an option

StuntDouble · Mar 13, 2012

I just thought of another one to add to the list earlier today:

Paperstone handles on the 100 series fixed blades.

Pug-butter · Mar 13, 2012

When are they bringing back the 124 already? That thing is basically my dream knife: a traditional BK7!

KP · Mar 13, 2012

Sitflyer - you read my mind. Yes, yes and yes.

mhasman · Mar 13, 2012

Mine is super-simple: "Few more 532s"

A.P.F. · Mar 13, 2012

I too have simple wants -

1) The 112 available through the Custom Shoppe
2) Desert Ironwood as a slab choice.

Buck would sell a ton of 112's that way.

akula83 · Mar 20, 2012

Custom 112, titanium bolsters, S90V blade with Torx adj pivot, with high quality wood inlays.

bucksway · Apr 2, 2012

Custom 112..................................................................Again....................................................

ADDICTEDD · Apr 3, 2012

Easy:

Make A model of the Buck 110 EcoLite with a pocket clip (preferably 4 way positional, but left right tip up would suffice) and an ambidextrous thumb-stud.

This would completely modernize the 110 and if they could keep it around the same price would sweep the competitors like the Spyderco persistance, Ontario Rat 1, etc.

Can anybody think of a better knife than that below $65?

pinnah · Apr 3, 2012

StuntDouble said:
-Flat ground slipjoint models. I would buy another 301 or 302 if a flat ground model came out.

If we're going to dream about slipjoints, here's my dream.

Take this Canoe...

Now, yank out that pen blade and replace it with a bottle opener/screw driver blade like you see on this old Ulster.

Now, push yourself back from the keyboard for a moment and try to picture result and ask yourself, how often do you have a cutting task that really demands a small pen blade compared to the number of times that you have a beer bottle opening task and then tell me that I'm not proposing the single most useful blade combination ever for a slipjoint.

While I concur about the superiority of flat grinds on slip joints, I'll grant Buck their hollow grind if they would produce this Canoe variant. And yes, it should be made in the US and made available with the traditional black Buck scales.

pinnah · Apr 3, 2012

ArfinGreebly said:
Well, since we're trading in fairy dust here . . .

1) I wanna Buck Sodbuster. I wanna, I wanna, I wanna.

ADDICTEDD said:
Make A model of the Buck 110 EcoLite with a pocket clip (preferably 4 way positional, but left right tip up would suffice) and an ambidextrous thumb-stud.

This would completely modernize the 110 and if they could keep it around the same price would sweep the competitors like the Spyderco persistance, Ontario Rat 1, etc.

Can anybody think of a better knife than that below $65?

I think Sitflyer has already made a prototype for both of you.

Addicted, I think one thing that would make your dream better is if it was done in a drop point blade.

Arfin, as much as I'm drawn to the Sodbuster, I think the Paperstone Ecolite 112 (in a drop point) can be viewed as Buck's own variant on the basic theme of an affordable, simple and straight-forward working knife. Imagine Duane's knife with black paperstone.

Arfin, I'm not sold on either thumbstuds or a pocket clip for the paperstone version. I could see adding a lanyard hole, but that is as far as I would go. I think Duane's knife should be targeted at the $40 price range.

What I *can* see is them bringing back the 111 (or 560, without the awful holes) but done in a brushed stainless scale. On that knife, I could definitely see the thumbstuds and removable/reversible pocket clips (and drop point blade too). If they could do that $75 range, I agree with you that they have a Kershaw beater. Add carbon scales and super steel blades for even more.

Getting back to Duane's drop point Ecolite 112, if I were marketing manager, I would offer those at or below cost to anybody working in National or State park service. Then work to get the drop point Ecolite 112 sold in every National Park store, with commemorative laser etches of the Parks on the blade.

For that matter, I would make that knife the standard model for group buys.

What a stunning knife Duane made. Buck would be nuts not to put that into production.

sqoon · Apr 3, 2012

pinnah said:
Now, push yourself back from the keyboard for a moment and try to picture result and ask yourself, how often do you have a cutting task that really demands a small pen blade compared to the number of times that you have a beer bottle opening task and then tell me that I'm not proposing the single most useful blade combination ever for a slipjoint.

You're not proposing the single most useful blade combination ever for a slipjoint, but it ain't bad. I argue that the SAK Farmer has you beat... but I'd buy it.

ArfinGreebly · Apr 3, 2012

pinnah said:
If we're going to dream about slipjoints, here's my dream.

Take this Canoe...

[Pic here]

Now, yank out that pen blade and replace it with a bottle opener/screw driver blade like you see on this old Ulster.

[Pic here]

Now, push yourself back from the keyboard for a moment and try to picture result and ask yourself, how often do you have a cutting task that really demands a small pen blade compared to the number of times that you have a beer bottle opening task and then tell me that I'm not proposing the single most useful blade combination ever for a slipjoint.

While I concur about the superiority of flat grinds on slip joints, I'll grant Buck their hollow grind if they would produce this Canoe variant. And yes, it should be made in the US and made available with the traditional black Buck scales.

While that's not a bad idea, may I humbly point out that, while I can open a bottle with the can opener, I can't open a can with the bottle opener. I should also mention that I've used the punch more than the screwdriver, but I can also make holes with the can opener.

Alternative proposal: replace the pen blade with the can opener. The Imperial/Ulster hook style can opener has been my favorite for forty years. The one on my Imperial has opened countless cans all of shapes.

I'd buy one. Heck, I'd buy two.

OzarkCreekWalker · Apr 4, 2012

Is this a wish list or a "It would be awesome if Buck made a..." I'll go with the second option
I would like flat ground 300s, but Buck would probably have to change or get all new machinery, which is probably unlikely

I'll take:

- Custom shop 301 or the 300 Series with an upgraded steel, Please!
- Maybe an AG S30V 102 as well!
- 300 series with bone (with the bolt and hammer shield or no shield at all)
- US made canoe and trapper

kidcoyote · Apr 6, 2012

a spring assisted vantage
buck sod buster
110 in black paperstone
buck to offer a vantage with full serrations
buck 110 in dymondwood so it could go with my buck 300 series slipjoints in dymondwood