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Flatlander1963 said:
Well I got on the list for two sets this morning. Its just impossible to pass on those 500 series knives in S30V.

David I printed off the new letter and the pictures are a little better than the ones I mangled to put on the forum. I'm pretty confident looking at them (and the writeup) to say this is what most would call Green Canvas Micarta. Like these handle I was fooling with a while back:
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Thatsa cool lookin knife Flat, still foolin or is it finished?
 
Thanks Flat, nice work on the 110 . I'll let it stand like that until someone gets one and verifies the error . DM
 
I haven't been on the forum for a few days and I saw this thread. Like a lot of BCCI members, I haven't received the March newsletter. I went to the website and looked at the "Heritage Set", plus I read the whole newsletter. I am extremely interested in some of these knvies. One nice thing I noticed is they all come with black leather sheaths, so if we want to use them and not display them, we can do that.

I don't have a 532 yet. My favorite Buck is a 535, so I am thinking the 532 with S30V steel is in my future. Of course getting the 500 would be a good compainion, then again, why not get the whole set. :cool:

Anyway, thanks for the heads up and I need to make a decision before they are all gone.
 
Fritz,

I put it together but now its in pieces again. Just the scale laying in the used items tin in the shop. I may try to do something with it in the future.
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David Martin said:
I wish someone will get one of these and tell us what the handle material really is . I still say it can't be both . The canvas offers a better grip . As if the linen micarta needed it but there is a difference and I think there is a strength difference in canvas as well .
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Just for the sake of discussion, it could be both, but for making Micarta it may not be. I doubt if they use a wide variety of fabric for Micarta. However, in bookbinding I have used many grades of cotton, canvas, muslin and linen. I have also used many grades of linen/cotton (canvas) blends. The idea of a cotton/linen blend is to utilize the best characteristics of both fabrics. I have also used silk/lenin and silk/cotton blends.

I don't know about Micarta's strength, but the strongest fabric I've come across per weight is the "military grade" linen, no longer used by the military, now popularly known as "airplane linen" because it was used to cover the frames of the first warplanes. This material is still made on old looms in Ireland and is used for fine clothing and artist's linen canvas. Just a side topic.

I would like to know the definite composition of the Micarta on these knives, too, more for curiosity than anything. I've already decided to buy, I'm just trying to decide how many and of what.

To me the pictures of the knives look more like a canvas (cotton) than a linen weave.
 
wolfdog said:
I would like to know the definite composition of the Micarta on these knives, too, more for curiosity than anything. I've already decided to buy, I'm just trying to decide how many and of what.
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Rationalization #1) If you buy the whole set, you save $10, plus you get a nice wood display case, $435. But, if you go to the meeting at Smoky Mountain Rendezvous you get it for $415. That comes out to $83 for each knife and one free display case, hum.....

(Everyone needs a least one or two rationalizations everyday.:rolleyes:)

BCCI Lifetime Member # 1644
 
All,
The material is green canvass micarta and the use of linen in the description was my doing. I apologize for any confusion. Also, the 112 picture is a mistake - we considered handle rivets but chose not to use them. Buck provided a digital picture of the 112 with and without rivets and the wrong picture was sent to our printer!! To top things off, we did not have an opportunity to proof read this issue and several other things in the newsletter did not get a final "ok". The newsletter is even missing the issue date on the front cover! At any rate, the Buck Collectors' Heritage set should be a very, very desirable group of knives and we were delighted with the pricing we were able to get. I could be wrong but I do not recall any of these models (except of course the 110) ever being offered in S30V. I have a matching 110 and 112 set that Leroy Remer made for me several years ago that is identical to these knives (except for the steel) and they are even nicer than the newsletter pictures would lead you to think. Because of the premium steel, nickel silver/stainless steel frames and micarta inlays, I am confident that many of these knives will end up being users. That will only make the unused knives in collections even more valuable as time goes by.
Thanks!
Larry Oden
 
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Thanks for the clarification Larry Oden ! :)

I know I'm going to use at least one 110 as a user.
 
peter78 said:
Rationalization #1) If you buy the whole set, you save $10, plus you get a nice wood display case, $435. But, if you go to the meeting at Smoky Mountain Rendezvous you get it for $415. That comes out to $83 for each knife and one free display case, hum.....

(Everyone needs a least one or two rationalizations everyday.:rolleyes:)

BCCI Lifetime Member # 1644
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Thanks for the "rationalizations", Peter. My problem is that I want these as users, but I want them as display also. :(
 
Thanks Larry for the clarification . Now, if I could recieve this newsletter, I'll be ordering the Duke . I want one to carry and use . I already have two 110's w/ S30V steel a drop point and a clip . Since I'm partial to the drop points and have always liked the 500 series, I'll ante up and you can deal me in . I think anyone who procures one of these will appreciate how the canvas micarta sticks to your hand . DM
 
thanks also here Larry!
when i get the news letter i may have to have a set!
and i will be at the rendezvous if wife is not sick!
 
Still, have not recieved my newsletter today . So, I ordered a 500 via a hand written note and mailed it w/ check today . DM
 
I MUST HAVE the 112!!!!!But no newsletter...I just seen this thread...Was not S30V a steel you could get in the Custom Shop last year?
 
bucksway said:
I MUST HAVE the 112!!!!!But no newsletter...I just seen this thread...Was not S30V a steel you could get in the Custom Shop last year?
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I got a 110 last year with the S30V blade, but I haven't even seen a 112 offered from the custom shop. At least from what they call the custom shop now.
 
For the short time Buck let us order the 112 from the CS, you could order whatever was available for the CS 110.
Here is a FG, Ram, S30V 112 & a FG Sambar stag, S30V.


By the way, I was dissapointed with the Elk stag look of the Sambar on this one!
jb4570
 
Plumberve,in the fall of 2008 Buck took orders for ONE MONTH, 30 days only, for Custom Shop 112's....I managed to get just 2 but they were the first and last ones ordered...I consider them to be one of the highlights of my small collection I display...[Only at BCCI events] I now display apox 45 odd/1of1/rare/prototype and in 2009 I won a award for my display in Alanta..You never/rarely see them for sale...I think the total ordered was 90 to 100,maybe less.Options were limited..Only on the forum [I THINK] was it ever mentioned they were for sale ....Oh how I wish Buck would do it again! I would sell KJ's lawn tractor for a few..
 
JB...I would love to add that one to my display,I would take really good care of it,show it much love and tenderness,and let many strangers lust after it in Alanta,at the Gator show and hopefully at Smoky Mountain....Do you need a tractor???
 
bucksway said:
JB...I would love to add that one to my display,I would take really good care of it,show it much love and tenderness,and let many strangers lust after it in Alanta,at the Gator show and hopefully at Smoky Mountain....Do you need a tractor???
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If I ever let it go Clint you will get the first shot at it. Tractor:), my yard is barely big enough for a lawn mower. Do me a favor and take lots of photo's of the knife events for those of us who can't go, and post some great photo's of the 110 Dave/Bucksway displays:thumbup:
jb4570
 
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