New Buck Slipjoint Models

300Bucks said:
Follow-up to comments.
Limited Edition Boone and Crockett series with Paperstone scale
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Those are the best looking Buck stockmen I've ever seen. What is the story behind them?
 
Another question for 300Bucks and others. Does Valox have any advantage over delrin or are they roughly the same? I like the simplicity of Bucks traditional designs! Good hard working knives!
 
Valox AKA PET, or Polyethylene terephthalate. Clear form used in water bottles. Also use to make injection moulded engineering parts (Buck). Mixed with fiberglass a lot....Valox apparently easier to mould, readily available and pretty tuff. Delrin still in the game, with the new yellow scales. good ole Delrin..(As I get older, I like less change) Valox may not 'gas' off as bad as Delrin. Some of my older Camillus made Bucks look as if they are 'chaulky'. Mineral oil scrub takes care of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate

The limited edition run in cooperation with Boone and Crockett Club, I just call B and C's.

Two offerings, a 301 Boxed in a decorative tin and a set of 303 and 309 also boxed. All are Paperstone scale material in dark green. Paperstone it polished where is angles to bolster level and the flat surfaces are the slightest of eggshell finish. The bronze colored emblem in scale depicts D.Boone and one David Crockett in side relief. Bucks Boz 420HC blades. Should eventually be up on website. I think they are working on some of that as we type.

300Bucks
 
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Very good innovation, I like the yellow knives, admire the slanted bolsters,don't mind that shield and really impressed by the green knives. Stainless is OK with me as an all round worker. That pen knife is excellent!

Now I have to find an outlet who ships to Europe....
 
I have had some real problems with some of the late model Bucks. That said, they have always stood behind their products and I must say my 110 and various Buck slipjoints are as good as they get, maybe better than most. The pics on this thread are getting me really interested in getting a couple of new Bucks. Very nice.:thumbup:
 
The yellow ones are already available..

300, Thats really cool that the shield is an integral part of the liner.
 
I'm having a hard time locating the yellow handle bucks. Can someone point me to a source for these?
 
Very, very cool. I actually think that shield looks awesome against those yeller handles! I'll be picking up all of these before too long if my wallet will allow it!
 
300Bucks said:
Follow-up to comments.

Made in the USA. Yellows are production line knives. The black sawcut is the standard bearer of the Buck slipjoint line. It changed slightly with the scale going from Delrin to Valox material. Did you know the knife,hammer and bolt shield is not a shield. It is a raised panel intergal with the liner, fits thru a scale hole and is stamped. Can't fall off because of glue faliure..... The Chariman series Cherrywood scales and the Dymondwood scale series share the same scale material just in different color. For 2010 both of the Cherrywood and Dymondwood lines will have the new 'Comfortcraft' rounded edge shapes. So will the Yellow series. The black sawcut Valox remains 'square' edged and the Limited Edition Boone and Crockett series also shares square edge shape and that LE series uses the new Paperstone scale material.

My dumb guy opinion would say that, if history is an indicator, after a few years one model is dropped to put another variation into production. (Only so much factory space) But the black sawcut has remained the standard bearer since the 1980's.....

Steel options, very seldom and few. Usually associated with Limited Editions. But be aware Buck now has its own laser blade cutter for production level output. Soooo lets hope for some standard production SV30 or even the Sandivic steels that they are using on other models.....

If anyone is ever at a knife show where the factory has a booth, stop and give the folks your opinion. You never know........300Bucks

Limited Edition Boone and Crockett series with Paperstone scale
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I would kill for a Buck 301 in Sandvik 13C26 hardened to a 60HRC.
I think I would have "found my vorpal blade".
 
"The black sawcut is the standard bearer of the Buck slipjoint line. It changed slightly with the scale going from Delrin to Valox material."

300 - can you tell us when they made the switch from Delrin to Valox? And why? I assume that price / availability has something to do with it, wonder how the material properties compare -

Thanks,

Fish
 
Hi 300. What is the paperstone material? those boone bucks look really nice. I like the shields.
 
Pardon me, y'all, if this has been mentioned (reading on my new iPhone and I'm too lazy to search back through) but I just noticed on a popular auction site that some of the Chinese-made models come with yella handles now too. I saw a sweet looking canoe.
 
So where would I got to find one of the new models? I didn't seem them listed on Buck's website or on some of the major knife retailers? Are these only on fleabay?
 
Navihawk,
Paperstone is a 'green' material, post consumer wood fiber with phenolic resins. http://www.paperstoneproducts.com/ It has already been use in a couple of newer model Buck semi-knives. You know the key chain type..... Also used in kitchen counters, etc.

fishinfs,
I will check on change from Delrin to Valox and will ask Buck person why ? I am sure it is a change in process to either cut down steps or improve scale/liner mating technique....but let me ask to be precise. I am making that big BS statement based on Valox is more readily adaptable to injection moulding.

300Bucks
 
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