Pimping and modding the Buck Vantage Pro S30V

I knew somebody would "Hotrod" this knife. Way cool. You don't have a picture of those skeletonized liners do you? Thanks for the info.
 
Silverdagger said:
I knew somebody would "Hotrod" this knife. Way cool. You don't have a picture of those skeletonized liners do you? Thanks for the info.
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+1 on skel pics. Seems like you know what the heck your doing. Time will tell how it holds up-give future updates please. I am not trying to pose an argument when I ask...Why? I actually find the Pro at least light enough if not a little too light. What is your reason for modifying? BTW nice mod.
 
Silverdagger said:
I knew somebody would "Hotrod" this knife. Way cool. You don't have a picture of those skeletonized liners do you? Thanks for the info.
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imafritz said:
+1 on skel pics. Seems like you know what the heck your doing. Time will tell how it holds up-give future updates please.
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Sure, I'll disassemble the knife sometime and post some pics of the skeletonized handle.

imafritz said:
I am not trying to pose an argument when I ask...Why? I actually find the Pro at least light enough if not a little too light. What is your reason for modifying? BTW nice mod.
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This is a good question that gets deep into the philosophy of general purpose versus specialized knives. The stock Buck Vantage, like most commercial knives, is a general purpose knife. Now I am by no means a knife collector (as I own less than 150 knives), but I have enough knives to dedicate each to a specialty. For opening packages, I don't need a beefy blade, I want something thin that cuts like a laser. Just like when I make a skinning knife, I will not be using it for anything else but skinning, so I will design the knife for just this purpose and this purpose only, and expect it to perform especially well for a skinner. It will perform poorly for any other task, in fact it could suffer significant damage.

This "hotrodded" knife is dedicated to opening cardboard packages. It's not an EDC knife, my package opener USED to be my EDC knife but the sticky stuff that gets onto the blade from package opening drove me nuts.

So far the knife has been performing very well, due to its thin geometry (2.5x thinner than stock) it zips through cardboard effortlessly. The regrind also makes the blade very easy to sharpen. The edge bevel is about 0.5mm wide so very little steel needs to be removed. This makes retouching very easy.

Now I don't like to create hype, but since you ask I'll talk about what rehardening does for edge retention. In short, 3.5 rc points doubles edge retention for the same steel, and allows a thinner cutting edge which further increases edge retention, so we're talking about 4x longer cutting over stock. So far the edge retention is every bit as good as the theory predicts, I've yet to resharpen it and it still shaves. S30V is chosen because it is especially good at cutting cardboard, cutting nearly twice as much cardboard as 154CM at the same hardness. Those vanadium carbides make a huge difference. I actually have some CPM S125V stock, maybe I should duplicate the blade in S125V hmmm.... :)
 
cotdt said:
Sure, I'll disassemble the knife sometime and post some pics of the skeletonized handle.



This is a good question that gets deep into the philosophy of general purpose versus specialized knives. The stock Buck Vantage, like most commercial knives, is a general purpose knife. Now I am by no means a knife collector (as I own less than 150 knives), but I have enough knives to dedicate each to a specialty. For opening packages, I don't need a beefy blade, I want something thin that cuts like a laser. Just like when I make a skinning knife, I will not be using it for anything else but skinning, so I will design the knife for just this purpose and this purpose only, and expect it to perform especially well for a skinner. It will perform poorly for any other task, in fact it could suffer significant damage.

This "hotrodded" knife is dedicated to opening cardboard packages. It's not an EDC knife, my package opener USED to be my EDC knife but the sticky stuff that gets onto the blade from package opening drove me nuts.

So far the knife has been performing very well, due to its thin geometry (2.5x thinner than stock) it zips through cardboard effortlessly. The regrind also makes the blade very easy to sharpen. The edge bevel is about 0.5mm wide so very little steel needs to be removed. This makes retouching very easy.

Now I don't like to create hype, but since you ask I'll talk about what rehardening does for edge retention. In short, 3.5 rc points doubles edge retention for the same steel, and allows a thinner cutting edge which further increases edge retention, so we're talking about 4x longer cutting over stock. So far the edge retention is every bit as good as the theory predicts, I've yet to resharpen it and it still shaves. S30V is chosen because it is especially good at cutting cardboard, cutting nearly twice as much cardboard as 154CM at the same hardness. Those vanadium carbides make a huge difference. I actually have some CPM S125V stock, maybe I should duplicate the blade in S125V hmmm.... :)
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Good enough:thumbup:
 
Nice mods look cool almost like a spydie you should take a dremel and make the opening hole more circular :P. Not to copy it would just fit the overall design better.
Sadly I had to send in my Vantage Pro to buck today. Sent it priority insured delivery confirm it should be there by saturday. So from what I heard I should get it back within 2 weeks :P. My problems where lockup, centering, pocket clip screws breaking.
 
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