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This is my longest carry EDC...been carrying it most weeks since 2005, got a pretty low angle going and its sharpened on a ezy-lap pocket diamond hone to a decent working finish (eventually I'll buy an edge pro and give it a polished edge). I am having muskrat knives in the near future make up some orange micarta scales to put on it.
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The blade is soft flexible, for sure those two will have a place in the kitchen!
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I've been a Buck 'accumulator' for decades, starting with my first 119 back in the mid-70s. I've probably lost or traded off almost a dozen or so down the years so my current holdings are a bit thin.
Let's start with a 184 with a story:
I picked this up off of one of my soldiers while we were working down in Honduras in early 1990. He was tired of lugging it around (if you've ever had to carry one of these things on your belt you quickly realize just how heavy they really are). We got to talking one day and he admired the new Casio watch I was wearing. He offered up this 184 in a straight trade and I bit. I got the knife in the condition you see it in - well used and missing a few of the extras, including one of the anchor pins (anybody have an extra anchor pin for sale?). But, the knife itself is in good condition and I figure it'll be worth something. Some day.
Next up, my modified 119:
I carried this for a while in the Army. I had one of my mechanics put the knife on a milling machine and drill the lanyard hole in the pommel. The original Buck sheath didn't hold up too well (plus, Buck sheaths were hard to fit onto the USGI pistol belt). This sheath was made, if I remember, by Brigade Quartermasters and it worked quite well. A great workhorse of a knife, but I was really bothered by the excessive upsweep of the blade tip that was common on 119s sold in the 80s.
A used and somewhat abused 110:
This knife lived on my pistol belt, in the accompanying Brigade Quartermaster nylon sheath. I carried this knife for 20+ years and it got used for everything from opening MRE pouches to cutting commo wire and rope to driving nails (note the gouges and nicks on the bolsters). Just a good, unpretentious working knife.
Let's move to more modern times.
The Bucklite Max:
Perhaps one of the best values in a fixed blade knife today. I have both the large and small blade versions of this knife. Excellent blade shape, very good handle profile, light and comfortable in the hand. I love 'em!
The Alpha Hunter:
A good concept, but this thing is just too uncomfortable in the hand. Too much exposed steel in the tang.
The PackLite:
WallyWorld was selling these for around $15 earlier this year. What's not to like about a $15 Buck?
Buck Trapper:
A Chinese-produced model that is surprisingly well done. In fact, I'll go out on a limb here and say that it is as well executed as my Model 301 Chairman Series stockman. Not sure if there is a message in that statement, but there it is.
That's it for now. I've got others laying around I have yet to photograph, and I've got a new Ranger Skinner fixed blade on the way. I saw the prototype at the Blade Show and absolutely fell in love with it.
Brian
Let's start with a 184 with a story:
I picked this up off of one of my soldiers while we were working down in Honduras in early 1990. He was tired of lugging it around (if you've ever had to carry one of these things on your belt you quickly realize just how heavy they really are). We got to talking one day and he admired the new Casio watch I was wearing. He offered up this 184 in a straight trade and I bit. I got the knife in the condition you see it in - well used and missing a few of the extras, including one of the anchor pins (anybody have an extra anchor pin for sale?). But, the knife itself is in good condition and I figure it'll be worth something. Some day.
Next up, my modified 119:
I carried this for a while in the Army. I had one of my mechanics put the knife on a milling machine and drill the lanyard hole in the pommel. The original Buck sheath didn't hold up too well (plus, Buck sheaths were hard to fit onto the USGI pistol belt). This sheath was made, if I remember, by Brigade Quartermasters and it worked quite well. A great workhorse of a knife, but I was really bothered by the excessive upsweep of the blade tip that was common on 119s sold in the 80s.
A used and somewhat abused 110:
This knife lived on my pistol belt, in the accompanying Brigade Quartermaster nylon sheath. I carried this knife for 20+ years and it got used for everything from opening MRE pouches to cutting commo wire and rope to driving nails (note the gouges and nicks on the bolsters). Just a good, unpretentious working knife.
Let's move to more modern times.
The Bucklite Max:
Perhaps one of the best values in a fixed blade knife today. I have both the large and small blade versions of this knife. Excellent blade shape, very good handle profile, light and comfortable in the hand. I love 'em!
The Alpha Hunter:
A good concept, but this thing is just too uncomfortable in the hand. Too much exposed steel in the tang.
The PackLite:
WallyWorld was selling these for around $15 earlier this year. What's not to like about a $15 Buck?
Buck Trapper:
A Chinese-produced model that is surprisingly well done. In fact, I'll go out on a limb here and say that it is as well executed as my Model 301 Chairman Series stockman. Not sure if there is a message in that statement, but there it is.
That's it for now. I've got others laying around I have yet to photograph, and I've got a new Ranger Skinner fixed blade on the way. I saw the prototype at the Blade Show and absolutely fell in love with it.
Brian
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Just grooved up my Avid's scales...
did you do this with the scales it came with?
I've been a Buck 'accumulator' for decades, starting with my first 119 back in the mid-70s. I've probably lost or traded off almost a dozen or so down the years so my current holdings are a bit thin...
A used and somewhat abused 110:
This knife lived on my pistol belt, in the accompanying Brigade Quartermaster nylon sheath. I carried this knife for 20+ years and it got used for everything from opening MRE pouches to cutting commo wire and rope to driving nails (note the gouges and nicks on the bolsters). Just a good, unpretentious working knife.
Brian
Great post and good stories to go with the knives...can you please tell me about your sheath for the 110? It looks awesome...did you make it yourself out a seat-belt? Very nice and heavy duty looking.
Im glad you like the The Bucklite Max, I was looking at them online the other day and would like to get one, so its good to know that you have a good review on it.
Thanks.
could someone please help me find out about this knife i received as a gift several years ago. It is a koa wood handled dagger in ats-34 steel BOS heat treated any info would greatly help
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniondarthbobo/5984399417/
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