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When I asked about my new Buck 470 awhile back, Guy gave me some info and also seemed interested in my Scoutlite I mentioned.
I found it recently and it doesn't have the "C" marking to indicate when it was made. I bought this around the mid-eighties, I think. The Buck plastic handled folders were just coming out and seemed all the rage (at least at our local K-Marts!
).
This was my EDC for several years. It has the official seal on the left blade side, with the following inscription around the seal:
OFFICIAL...........KNIFE
BOY SCOUTS.......OF AMERICA
(just imagine the seal in the middle there and ignore the dots--they're for spacing purposes only).
The model number is at the tang on the left side:
BUCK
412.
U.S.A.
The period after "412" is actually representative of a dot impression which is centered heightwise after the "2" (I just can't do the same position with the computer). Nothing is on the right side of the blade.
At a knife show I went to last fall, I saw an identical looking knife with a blue handle and a West Virginia logo on the blade. Mine has a medium to dark red handle with "SCOUTLITE" in a rectangle on the left scale. It appears to have a brass pivot pin and two brass pommel pins holding the stainless endliner in place. It also has what appears to be a stainless rocker bar pin, and a loooong rocker lock. The handle is finger grooved.
I learned not to pry things with this knife. As a result, about 1/32" of the tip has been broken off (after I tried to pry a riser cover off a fire system riser at my old security job). It was also abused in I forget how many ways! Mine's still reasonably tight, though, and quite usable. I kinda wish I'd bought the other Bucklite versions (often with olive colored handles) back then.
Anyone else have a Scoutlite or another version 412? Were these Model 412s often done with different logos and themes?
Just curious!
Thanks,
Karl
PS I keep remembering things! This is the knife I carried to Lethal Force Institute in '88 for the Armed Citizen I course with Ayoob. It also went with me to Saudi Arabia when I was an MP in the Army Reserve. So I must have carried it from about mid eighties to around 1993, when I switched to an Endura.
I found it recently and it doesn't have the "C" marking to indicate when it was made. I bought this around the mid-eighties, I think. The Buck plastic handled folders were just coming out and seemed all the rage (at least at our local K-Marts!
).This was my EDC for several years. It has the official seal on the left blade side, with the following inscription around the seal:
OFFICIAL...........KNIFE
BOY SCOUTS.......OF AMERICA
(just imagine the seal in the middle there and ignore the dots--they're for spacing purposes only).
The model number is at the tang on the left side:
BUCK
412.
U.S.A.
The period after "412" is actually representative of a dot impression which is centered heightwise after the "2" (I just can't do the same position with the computer). Nothing is on the right side of the blade.
At a knife show I went to last fall, I saw an identical looking knife with a blue handle and a West Virginia logo on the blade. Mine has a medium to dark red handle with "SCOUTLITE" in a rectangle on the left scale. It appears to have a brass pivot pin and two brass pommel pins holding the stainless endliner in place. It also has what appears to be a stainless rocker bar pin, and a loooong rocker lock. The handle is finger grooved.
I learned not to pry things with this knife. As a result, about 1/32" of the tip has been broken off (after I tried to pry a riser cover off a fire system riser at my old security job). It was also abused in I forget how many ways! Mine's still reasonably tight, though, and quite usable. I kinda wish I'd bought the other Bucklite versions (often with olive colored handles) back then.
Anyone else have a Scoutlite or another version 412? Were these Model 412s often done with different logos and themes?
Just curious!
Thanks,
Karl
PS I keep remembering things!
This is the knife I carried to Lethal Force Institute in '88 for the Armed Citizen I course with Ayoob. It also went with me to Saudi Arabia when I was an MP in the Army Reserve. So I must have carried it from about mid eighties to around 1993, when I switched to an Endura.