Older Buck 300 Series Knife Shield

[boykinlp]

Can someone please explain exactly what this shield is, and maybe why it was chosen to use? It appears to me to be a knife, hammer, and bolt(?). What is the official name for the shield? Thanks.

 

[Old Biker]

It's what it looks like. A knife being hammered through a bolt. In the early days of Buck knives they used to test and advertise their knives, by hammering them through a bolt.

O.B

 

[DeSotoSky]

As Old Biker said. The hammer/knife/bolt shield is a historical icon for Buck dating to the 1940's when Hoyt Buck would demonstrate the toughness of his knives by cutting a bolt on his anvil. Here is a YouTube link with Lori Buck talking about it. Of course you can find other YouTube videos of people giving their Buck knives a wack.

 

[MT_Pokt]

Referred to as the "KBH". Knife, Bolt, Hammer. Buck's trademark.

 

[Happy Hippo]

In the older ones, the hammer is open at the butt end. And the oval shield is less rounded.

 

[bertl]

In the earlier knives, the shield was glued in a depression of the handle scale. When Buck started using the integrated sintered frames, the shield was on a tower attached to the frame.