Nothing like a classic!

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BigBlack87

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You know, Kershaws and SOGs are great. Spydercos and Benchmades are awesome. ZT, the Sebenza, and so many more are, simply put, functionality wrapped in elegance. But every now and then, there's nothing like carrying a Buck 110 on your belt! Everytime I throw it on (about a week at a time every two or three months), I feel like I step into the world my father knew. A simpler world. A world where men were real men! A world where people worked for what they needed. A world where a handshake was all the contract you needed because you trusted your neighbor. This is a world I know through my father and my grandfather, and a Buck 110 reminds me of that. Tacticool and modern design are fine and dandy, but history in a sheath is something else all together.

Just some thoughts from today.

Thanks for reading!
 
I enjoyed your story and agree with you about a better simpler world. I do the same thing on weekends in the summer.
 
Your right and thank you for posting this I carry a buck 112 everyday on my belt and love it simple fuctinal and classic americana there truly is nothing like a classic
 
FordFan said:
Thanks for sharing. I appreciated all your comments about a simpler time.
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I did also. I was fortunate to experience those early times. Twenty years of not locking the doors. My mother used to feed sandwiches to railroad "bums" who knocked politely at the front door.
 
Nothing like tangible ancestral recall... (particularly when it involves goat buggies).

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^My father, engaging in what he claims was common at the time.
 
I feel the same way about the time in which men carried slipjoints :p

The 110 came out after I was born.
 
bring that simpler world back. :p i'd have no problem carrying a 110 or 112 for life, sit back and watch everyone else spend their money. :D
 
I feel the same way, and it's why I gave my 110 to my best friend. He isn't a knife guy, but he liked it.

Now I miss it. I'll probably be ordering a custom one.
 
Ken44 said:
I feel the same way about the time in which men carried slipjoints :p

The 110 came out after I was born.
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The sentiment defiantly applies to slip joints as well. My grandfather carried a stockman in his pants pocket every day, that knife is currently on my shelf and it is very special to me. As is his old Western hunting knife.
 
Kwon Kwang said:
I feel the same way, and it's why I gave my 110 to my best friend. He isn't a knife guy, but he liked it.

Now I miss it. I'll probably be ordering a custom one.
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I'm currently saving for a custom 110, should pull the trigger right around the same time that jolly fat guy comes around!
 
Thanks for the comments guys! Its nice to know other folks feel the same way. I'm not old enough to have lived in the times we're talking about, but my Dad and Grandfather sure did bring me up with the mindset of those times. Heck things advance so fast these days, its so much different from even when I was a kid (in my late 20s now). One example, we played OUTSIDE when I was a kid, and everyone on the street looked out for everyone else's kids. Nowadays it's like neighbors are diseased, heaven forbid we talk to one another, let alone be trusted with each others children.
 
I very much agree. I was lucky enough to grab a couple of the CPM154 models when they were out.
 
Been just sitting here a thinking just good life was back in the "good ole days" of a new '57' Chevy & the Coka Cola Dance Parties and not a worry in the world but who you were going to ask to date next weekend and what new 45 Record you were going to buy.! Yes sir ~~ Jerry Lee Lewis - Buddy Holly - and yes the 'King'= ELVIS..!! We never really new what a problem was till Nam and then all hxllo broke loose and our world as we knew it was falling apart.** And it has been that way from those days gone by till now ~ that you never ever really know anybody like you did in 55 = 56 = 57 = 58 and there abouts.!!*
What a shame .... but I still have the Buck 110 I was given to me by my Gran-Dad and then I added a 112 to it years later and still have it but in better shape than the 110.!! LOL
Well I am going to bed a try and "Dream" about those days way gone by.! Durn.*
 
The 110 is a must for any knife person to try at the least. I tried to say they were oversized, impractical, and outdated, but their heft just feels like quality, and every once in a blue moon I'll carry one. I agree with you, it's a nostalgic folder.
 
BigBlack87 said:
You know, Kershaws and SOGs are great. Spydercos and Benchmades are awesome. ZT, the Sebenza, and so many more are, simply put, functionality wrapped in elegance. But every now and then, there's nothing like carrying a Buck 110 on your belt! Everytime I throw it on (about a week at a time every two or three months), I feel like I step into the world my father knew. A simpler world. A world where men were real men! A world where people worked for what they needed. A world where a handshake was all the contract you needed because you trusted your neighbor. This is a world I know through my father and my grandfather, and a Buck 110 reminds me of that. Tacticool and modern design are fine and dandy, but history in a sheath is something else all together.
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This bit in bold pretty much nails why I prefer traditional design knives. The only thing I can add, as an engineer/designer, is that I'm fascinated by designs that "continue to earn their keep" by continuing to deliver functionality. Old does not mean outdated when the design continues to be functional. When that happens, old becomes classsic.

One aspect that you've hinted at that does it for me is the patience required for 2 handed opening and closing. One hand open has it's place but honestly, it's not *NEEDED* as often as we think. And... traditional knives can be 1 hand opened if you really need to. Still, most times, the traditional knives remind me that I have a choice to slow down and remind me that I have connections to the past.

Anyway, this thread needs pictures!! Would love to see some of the "classics" that other carry, co-mingled with their modern carries.

My 110, purchased in 78 along side a 112 (not moved on).

Buck 110 and 112 by Pinnah, on Flickr

The Buck 500 Duke, my favorite of the Buck lockbacks. This one pocket ejected into oblivion.

Buck 500 by Pinnah, on Flickr

The Schrade 5OT. Nice dress up knife. A bit small for EDC but the steel is stunning.

Shrade 5OT by Pinnah, on Flickr

The Opinels, #10, #9 and #8. In terms of delivering performance, these are cutting genius.

Opinel by Pinnah, on Flickr
 
I slip my 110 in my jeans pocket most weekends. Feels real good in there.

For many of the same reasons, I switched to shaving with an 80 year old double-edge razor a few of years ago. Wanting to go to a straight one day.
 
do most of you carry your 110, 112, or in my case 501, in belt sheath? i carry mine in the belt sheath and never tried carrying it in my pocket.
 
cards94 said:
do most of you carry your 110, 112, or in my case 501, in belt sheath? i carry mine in the belt sheath and never tried carrying it in my pocket.
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The 110's too big for any jeans pocket I have. It fits into the watch pocket, sort of, but it's uncormfortable and it "prints" badly. The same is true for the 112, although it's a much better fit, especially with the newer "rounded edge" models. The 500, being slim, fits the watch pocket best of all of the three knives.

Still, they all come with belt sheaths for a reason. But if you're wearing an outdoor coat, any of them will fit in the pocket OK. Regular pants pockets? Well, depends on the style, cut, and fit — hard to say in general.
 
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