My first experience with an altered Buck knife

gsea

gsea

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Let me start by saying Bucks are my knives period. I admit that being an oldie in mind and age most of my knives are Ca era and earlier. I gravitated toward the alpha hunter because of its design and especially its one hand opening feature. But this is the first folding alpha that I have seen this on, I do only own 6 though. Here it is a new/old 279T that I picked up. It did have the plastic black handles on it. I switched them. This knife does not shut completely (1st photo). Pardon my lack of blade terminology, on the choil where the blade is cut (I assumed they are stamped out) there is "left over material" looks like not a clean stamp. I hope you can see in the pics what I am talking about. This extra material prevents the blade from completely closing and sitting on the bar. Hope this makes sense. I plan on removing the blade and trying to file it off instead of sending it in for a warranty fix.







 
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Something looks weird about that I wonder if someone did that after the factory.
 
Definitely wierd. Not sure what they could of done though. If Buck wasn't on an eight week turn around I would send it to them to see what they would say.

st8yd said:
Something looks weird about that I wonder if someone did that after the factory.
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Hard to see in the photos, but it almost looks like a blob of "jb weld" on there??

I like the scales you put on it :)
 
Bucks been going downhill recently, a lot of companies have actually, not surprising considering the recession and everything. Hopefully they will get back on track, but with bucks current management, I would not expect it, its a real damn shame I tell you
 
Blastermaster said:
Bucks been going downhill recently, a lot of companies have actually, not surprising considering the recession and everything. Hopefully they will get back on track, but with bucks current management, I would not expect it, its a real damn shame I tell you
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I don't particularly agree.
I have brand new Bucks, and Brand new Buck designs... they are perfectly fine.
I have old ones too, and those are fine too.
I believe that with social media, you simply hear about things that in the past occured but were not as publicly discussed worldwide so easily.....
 
Blaster,

As this knife was made in 2003, as the date code indicates, I do not believe it is an indicator of the current state of Buck Knives. I don't believe that it is certain that the problem with the knife was the fault of Buck. I for one do not agree with you that Buck is going "downhill" and I think the current management is perfectly capable of continuing the quality of Buck Knives that we are used to.
 
Looking close I can see where the lines of the blade was stamped out. Looks like someone tried building up the kick with whatever that glob of stuff in the photos is for some reason.

I absolutely don't agree with the statement that Buck's quality has been going down lately. I bought enough Buck knives last year to know first hand. :thumbup:
 
Thirty-seconds with a rattail file and as good as new. After close up examination definitely not a Buck factory problem. It was some sort of "glob". My guess is it was not new/old stock as described on the bay (there's something new) all though they cleaned it up nicely except for where they used it for mixing/applying a small amount of cement like material. Another reason I love the alpha folder, user friendly maintenance. Maybe I can get a job in Stumps custom shop, I make good coffee ;)

 
Hi gsea,

Happy to see you were able to fix your CC issue (You Rock my Buck Brother). My thoughts are that whom every had your knife in the past added the blob of JB Weld to the kick to keep it from seating all the way down. Why, to turn it into a gravity knife! this knife opens so easy that if the blade were to remain open just a bit you would not have to use your thumb on the thumb stud at all to flick it open. You were to quick with your repair for me to ask you to give it a wrist flick test:rolleyes:.

jb4570
 
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jb4570 said:
Hi gsea,

Happy to see you were able to fix you CC issue (maybe you can now fix the title of this thread). My thought are that whom every had your knife in the past added the blob of JB Weld to the kick to keep it from seating all the way down. Why, to turn it into a gravity knife! this knife opens so easy that if the blade were to remain open just a bit you would not have to use your thumb on the thumb stud at all to flick it open. You were to quick with your repair for me to ask you to give it a wrist flick test:rolleyes:.

jb4570
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You are probably right, If you leave the blade open just a tad you can flick it easily with no thumb stud. I will change the title as soon as I figure out how.
Thanks
 
You never know, the person you bought it from might have himself bought it from someone stating it was new.

I one time bought a vintage Estes rocket (Saturn V) from the auction site. It had been opened, parts removed, and then re-shrink wrapped. The guy I bought it from had himself bought it thinking it was new in box and sold it to me thinking it was NIB. ( I got a refund in case you're wondering how it ended).
 
Gsea,

I completely forgot to mention that your handles are simply beautiful on the Alpha! Did you make those yourself?

jb4570
 
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