My dad's Bucks

You all have given me some food for thought. As much as I’d love to give those knives a new lease on life, I have the newer one my wife gave me. Maybe I’ll do like some of you have suggested and leave my dad’s knives alone and put my own wear and scars on mine.
 
StuntDouble said:
You all have given me some food for thought. As much as I’d love to give those knives a new lease on life, I have the newer one my wife gave me. Maybe I’ll do like some of you have suggested and leave my dad’s knives alone and put my own wear and scars on mine.
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That sounds great. You can always do something later. It isn't as if it is urgent. You will probably not regret leaving them as they are.
 
eveled said:
FWIW, I’ve sent a couple extremely sentimental Buck 110’s in for blade replacements. No regrets whatsoever.

I’d tell them to leave the dings and character and put new blades on them.

I carry a 110 that belonged to my Dad everyday to work. Its on its second blade so far.

Sorry for your loss.
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That's what I would do.
The frames are perfect just the way they are, and those dings dents and scars tell a story.
Get a new blade put in these and you can carry and use them, all their history will still be there too.


Just remember every ding dent and scare on the frames of these knives were there to stay, the blades were being ground on and just generally worn away, he probably would have continued to do so until the blades were used up.
 
A blade swap means a front bolster sand and polish, so those battle scars will likely go away. Like other said. It's not like Buck is going to run out of 110 blades so there's no urgency.

Besides, it might be cool to hand down 2 generations of used up 110s to your kids.

Just sayin'...
 
MT_Pokt said:
A blade swap means a front bolster sand and polish, so those battle scars will likely go away. Like other said. It's not like Buck is going to run out of 110 blades so there's no urgency.

Besides, it might be cool to hand down 2 generations of used up 110s to your kids.

Just sayin'...
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Ah, I didn't know that about the blade replacement process.

While we don't have kids of our own, I've got a few nephews (and maybe my niece) that would probably love to receive them at some point.
 
I thought about sending my dad’s old 112 in for a blade replacement so I could start carrying it but to me that changes the story of the knife. I have plenty of other knives to carry including a few 112’s that I’ve purchased so I realized I didn’t feel the need to mess with dad’s.

No kids here either but someone will appreciate it as is when I decide to pass it down.
 
Sorry about your Dad. You’ve got some great keepsakes to hold onto. For me I’d take care of getting the edges sharp and then just use them once in awhile. I do that with my Grandad’s old knives just to get them some fresh air from time to time.
 
I wouldn't replace that 440C 3-dot blade or have them polish it so much you lose those crisp right angles. I'd polish it myself with Flitz. Sometimes they can grind down the bottom of the tang to bring the tip down. Buck will establish a new edge if you want just tell them to leave the bolster and wood alone. A blade replacement and full buff job makes it just another Buck, not Dad's Buck :)
 
StuntDouble said:
My dad was a hard worker up to the day he retired, mostly as a heavy equipment operator and truck driver. He would do a little bit of everything though, and would take on anything that popped up. He led a rough life, so it figures that the tools he owned were subjected to some pretty harsh usage as well. When he passed away this past Tuesday, his girlfriend asked me if there was anything he owned that I wanted as a keepsake. The only thing I could think to keep was a beat up old 110 I saw him using one day. I didn't get a good look at it, but I could tell that thing could tell some stories. Well, she set it aside for me, and I picked it up today.

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As you can see, that knife hasn't had it easy. I'm guessing my dad was fond of using a grinder to resharpen it, and the tip is long gone, either by accident or by design. It also looks like it had been used as a hammer at some point, going by all the marks along the top of the handle and on the butt. The lockup is still relatively tight though.

While I was going through his personal effects, I actually stumbled across another 110 that I hadn't seen before.

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Going by the date codes, it looks like this one is from 80-81, so it's a bit over 20 years older than the other one he had. I'm not sure why this one doesn't seem to show as much use. It definitely still shows evidence of being sharpened on a grinder, and one of the bolsters appears to have been used to beat the hell out of something. There's a little blade wiggle, but again, not as much as I would have expected for as much abuse it probably went through. I also don't think I realized just how much blockier the older versions were. They're definitely more hand filling than the more rounded handles produced today.

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Finally, there's a shot of both my dad's knives with the 110 my wife got me as an anniversary gift a couple years ago.

I've been debating sending the old ones in for the spa treatment, or at the very least a blade replacement. As it is, the tips stick out of the handles on both of them, so they're not exactly safe to carry. And who knows what kind of damage was done to the heat treat when they were put to the grinder for a new edge.

What say you all? Reblade, or just hold on to them as keepsakes and use the new model?
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Wow, you pop used that knife like a rented mule.

I approve!
 
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