New Lite knife info?

View attachment 791389 Easy question. You take the head off the pivot rivet with a spotting drill and push it out. Install a #5X40TPI Helicoil in the R/H scale. Counterbore the L/H scale with a #5 counterbore to accommodate the head of the cap screw. The S-110-V blades were custom made by Leroy Remer. All of the old style Selector blades will fit this set up. The metal handles also take a Helicoil because the pivot rivet hole is 1/8” diameter same as a #5 screw.
 
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This is just my opinion and it might be completely wrong, but the way I see it, the old Bucklites seem to be the predecessor to many of today's more popular lightweight knives. Put a spyderco delica/endura beside an old Bucklite 422/426 and also add in the mini and large griptilians and you can see many of the similiarities. The spydercos and benchmades just seem like a more modern advancement of the old original Bucklite design. That is about my only gripe with Buck knives. Seems like they came up with something really good with the lites and just stopped with it, unless they turned more into the bucklite max or bantam, which are good knives but it just seems like Benchmade and Spyderco really went with the lightweight concept and took it to the next level with g10, and different steels with a standard pocket clip and screw together where you can adjust out any slop..................

But again, I think I'll be tickled with any Bucklite whether it is the old original or upgraded. The originals were really ahead of their time if you think about it. Kind of a hunting knife/ tactical all rolled into one. When I was about 14, the old green Bucklite got you approval at deer camp from the old timers in camp that carried a 110 and it was the envy of most of my buddies whose moms wouldn't let them have anything other than a slipjoint. Not bad for a knife that probably cost $10.
 
What is surprising to many Buck collectors is how collectable the old Lite's have become. .and how much they will bring when sold. I think they make a cool display with all the colors and graphics and even tho the runs were typically 500 or more some are seldom if ever offered for sale. But once in a while a horde will come on the market and the cost will be reasonable. I started with 112's and chased a few 422's then constraited back to odd 112's. One I sure wish I had kept was a red Boy Scout with a 112 blade. .
 
One of these? Hoping to hand this to my nephew if he sticks with the Scouts. I already gave him the blue Cublite and have another for his younger brother.



 
If the new ones don't come with a pocket clip, I'd love to see that original style sheath in that same material.
 
tiguy7 said:
View attachment 791389 Easy question. You take the head off the pivot rivet with a spotting drill and push it out. Install a #5X40TPI Helicoil in the R/H scale. Counterbore the L/H scale with a #5 counterbore to accommodate the head of the cap screw. The S-110-V blades were custom made by Leroy Remer. All of the old style Selector blades will fit this set up. The metal handles also take a Helicoil because the pivot rivet hole is 1/8” diameter same as a #5 screw.
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So is there a bushing that the blade pivots on and the #5 soc. hd. cap screw goes threw to the helicoil or does the blade pivot on the screw threads?
 
The blade pivots on the bushing which is squeezed (immobilized) between the handles when the screw is tightened.
 
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