I'll give you the info as I remember it. BTW, the knife they are talkking
about is Devon Thomas stainless damascus blade/bolsters and schrimshawed by
joyce Davenport. Nice knife.. Sold it at the 94 Knifemakers Guild Show.
Brett (Seber) contacted me in Nov of 93 and asked if I would join the team designing
the Crosslock. I had a good reputation in making liner locks and they
needed that expertise. I flew to El Cajon in late Nov '93 and met with
everyone. I returned to Ky with a basic prototype that Roy Helton had built
and started on the improvements. I consider Roy as the designer of it. All
I did was make a good liner lock out of his design and build prototypes.
For the next 6 months I built about 75 different prototypes-different blade
styles and conbinations but with the same bullet handle shape. Brett tried
his best to drive me crazy but since I was already crazy, he failed. These
knives have a "CP#" (CP 01 - CP 75) engraved on the reverse side of the
drop point blade. Should become a collector piece if they ever surface.
The June 94 issue of Blade Magazine ran the first article on it. It was
titled "The Buck 110 of Tomorrow" .
The big introduction for it was at the Blade Show in 94. Buck had given Roy
and I a license to build our own versions and I had 2 at the show. One won
the Most Innovative Knife and the other one went to Ken Warner, editor of
the Knives annuals, and was one of the knives on the cover of Knives 94. I
gave that knife to CJ Buck and have no idea where it is now. Hopefully in a
good place. Buck won Knife of the Year for the Crosslock.
In the following years I've built about 200 custom versions, both in the
bullet shape and in my Model 4 shape. I still get orders for it. Roy built
a number of the (don't know how many) and i imagine still does.
