Official Buck Picture Thread

David , your welcome. That's why I don't hunt ducks. I'd like to someday but don't know the difference so I'd have to go with someone who knew what they were doing. I look at them and just see duck. It was a lot of fun cleaning them with the girls. My 9yo daughter helped but I didn't post a picture because she used a little Case on hers. :)
 
kyhunt said:
David , your welcome. That's why I don't hunt ducks. I'd like to someday but don't know the difference so I'd have to go with someone who knew what they were doing. I look at them and just see duck. It was a lot of fun cleaning them with the girls. My 9yo daughter helped but I didn't post a picture because she used a little Case on hers. :)
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I had a class in college where we had to master identification of ducks by wing only. Conservation Enforcement major.


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Tony, handsome 110's. The red handled 110, is that a standard steel blade with Ti coating? Thanks, DM
 
David Martin said:
Tony, handsome 110's. The red handled 110, is that a standard steel blade with Ti coating? Thanks, DM
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Yes David, it is standard 420HC with the Ti coating. TiALN which is the first version then known as BuckCote....if I'm not mistaken. This particular blade has a "3" engraved in it. According to the letter of authenticity that accompanies the knife, it was a test blade for the coating.

I'm more interested in the checkering of the walnut and the cherrywood. Must somehow be related to the green Master Series.
 
The coated blades (BuckCote) came in 4 flavors. Dark Gold was TiN (Titanium Nitride). Light Gold was ZrN (Zirconium Nitride). Charcoal was TiAlN (Titanium Aluminum Nitride). Maroon was TiCN (Titanium Carbonitride). Buck later used TDLC {Tungsten Diamond like Carbon (Tungsten Carbide)}. The TDLC blades were not chisel sharpened.
 
Thanks tiguy. The one in his photo is not chisel sharpened. You sure about it being Zirconium a 1997? DM
 
David Martin said:
Thanks tiguy. The one in his photo is not chisel sharpened. You sure about it being Zirconium a 1997? DM
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Mine in the photo would be considered the "Dark Gold". Maybe it being a test blade accounts for the current sharpened condition.

 
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This autoconversion is extremely well built and looks nice in cherry wood with nickel silver bolsters.

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2TonyB, those are amazing 110's. I've seen green ""Master series" before but never brown or red engraved /checkered 110 handles. Those are sharp.
 
The TD process and the resultant coating appears to be a good solution for high temperature, high pressure, metal forming dies because of its resistance to galling. Knife blades would not be subject to such adverse conditions.
The original thrust of the Buck Cote development was to get a hard ceramic type material on the working edge. This was accomplished by applying a Particle Vapor Deposition coating on the whole blade and then chisel grinding the blade to expose the hard material on the micro edge. This has worked well in my experience for 3 reasons. The edges are very hard ranging from 82 to 92 HRC. The blades tend to be self sharpening because the soft substrate wears away in preference to the hard coating exposing more coating as you cut. The edge geometry is inherently twice as sharp a double bevel edge.
I don't think the TD process would have worked well in that application because coating thickness was only around 1/2 a mil.
I tried to find the original article on the Buck Cote process, but I'm having little luck. My recollection is that the light Gold or Champagne coat was ZrN and was harder than TiN.
I neglected to add that that the sides of the coated blades could be used as a finishing steel to touch up uncoated blades.
 
I got this yesterday, can someone give me some info. on it? Is it a knock off? Are the red handles common? Thanks.

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tiguy, yes those Buck Cote knives had different bondings applied. They did work as those lucky enough to get one found out. DM
 
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