promotional buck 184's

[crazydave789]

does anybody know if they did any promo items?

I ask because I bagged a second cheap one off ebay which has just turned up. It has pouch, spikes, compass and a very rudimentary kit in the handle. unfortunately the compass was broken in transit when the seller packed the packed the spikes in there as well so beware!

Anyway back to question - the blade has a shiny area where someone in the past as tried to erase where the camel cigarette logo had been etched into the blade. Was this common? as the blade appears to be a second or is at least substandard as it looks to have slipped during the grind, leaving a different profile on either side and a slightly thicker tip, looking down the blade it looks like its been bent due to the uneven grind.

Normally I'd look at refinishing it myself but I know how hard buck steel can be so is it worth stripping it down and sending just the blade off somewhere for remedial works. I would send the whole knife but it gets expensive mailing from the UK.

Or should I leave it be as a rare example of duff busk workmanship?

 

[Joe Houser]

Hello Dave,
I have never heard of Buck doing a promotional 184 for Camel cigs. Do you have any pics that you can send? The grind issue sounds curious. If you look inside the hollow handle, can you see the nut used to fasten the blade and handle together or is it covered with glue? I ask this partly because to "stip it down" is pretty dificult because you have to expose that nut and it is usually burried under a bunch of epoxy.

 

[crazydave789]

Hi Joe and thanks for the reply.

Its definately the camel logo but its pretty faint as someone has had a good go at scrubbing it out. I seem to remember over here at least some adverts for the 185 for a camel sponsored 4x4 competition/expedition where it was claimed to be the official expedidion knife so wondered if they did a few 184's first.

I'll try to take some decent pictures of the grind and logo and post them up but I know its difficult.

The handle knut is grey epoxyed in.

I am tempted to remodel the blade and polish it it up or at the least grind a better tip as the work slippage or whatever it was has left a very thin tip with a thick 'blob' at the end of it.

Its a shame really as its obviously not been used in anger or even sharpened correctly so cosmetically is in a much better state than my other one

 

[crazydave789]

Ok I take it this is one of those forums where I have to host the photo's elsewhere so to save time here's the ebay link

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWN:IT&viewitem=&item=200102379008&rd=1&rd=1

the top right picture shows where its been 'scrubbed' and a halfway down the saw section you can just make out the start of the camel logo.

on the middle left where the convex grind meets the flat 2 inches back from the tip you can see the kick in the grind.

the bottom two pics show the same the left with the kick and the right shows a long lazy curve again where the grind meets the flat of the blade.

hope that gives an idea.

tea and buns

Dave C

 

[crazydave789]

Oh - comparing it to my other one its in much better nick as it hasn't been used as an axe and a hammer. So is there an easy 'non post across the atlantic' way of restoring the blade with acid for example?

Dave C

 

[wh4f]

Oh - comparing it to my other one its in much better nick as it hasn't been used as an axe and a hammer. So is there an easy 'non post across the atlantic' way of restoring the blade with acid for example?

Dave C

I believe the blades were bead blasted, that would probably fix it right up.