Prototype sold?

[spike116]

Anybody from this site buy that prototype?

 

[Plumberdv]

I considered it after he lowered the price $25. I was thinkin' "how hard would it be for anyone to have Chuck's name engraved on any old knife". While I was pondering that, it sold.

 

[110 Dave]

which knife do you mean?
the one with the 450 blade?

 

[Plumberdv]

I was talking about this one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/BUCK-PROTOTYPE-...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item20adb65c29

 

[110 Dave]

hummm... an odd one.. MHO
looks like he was trying to get buck to partner with him like some of the other
knife makers..
and it was sent back..to the maker

worth a look see any way..
i would not have bid 40 for it..
now if Joe was the seller diff ball game..

 

[chickentrax]

hummm... an odd one.. MHO
looks like he was trying to get buck to partner with him like some of the other
knife makers..
and it was sent back..to the maker...

Would you really want to buy a knife that was refused by Chuck Buck???

It's an OK looking knife...I never heard of the maker, but that's not unusual...I seldom get out...maybe 334dave or one of the regular Blade Convention goers has heard of him...

On the 450 Proto...Not me, although I did put in a token bid...Just so I could add my endorsement to the styling and design...

Hey Chuck! If you build it...I'll buy one!!!

 

[CJ Buck]

Not familiar to me but Dad does have a life outside my view. Not sure what it would have been a prototype for and anything we would have looked at or requested would have been quite a bit more expensive than that.

 

[sliderfisherman]

looks kind of like an altered 192-vanguard.

 

[spike116]

Sorry guys, I meant the prototype with the 450 blade and the paperstone handle.

 

[chickentrax]

Sorry guys, I meant the prototype with the 450 blade and the paperstone handle.

Yes. This is the auction for the "Buck Prototype w/450 Blade" -

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200393557207

And this is the knife -

(This thread was a continuation from another thread)

 

[110 Dave]

twin post sorry

 

[110 Dave]

Not familiar to me but Dad does have a life outside my view. Not sure what it would have been a prototype for and anything we would have looked at or requested would have been quite a bit more expensive than that.

yep that was my first thought..
but ya know
good taste is affordable with a buck though
yea lota bids on that 450 but no sale at 26$

 

[Plumberdv]

Seems like a rash of "prototypes" are hitting the Bay. I just saw this one. A prototype 385 toothpick.

"THIS IS A PROTOTYPE THAT WAS NEVER RELEASED TO THE MARKET"

 

[Bill Keys]

The 450 with the paperstone handle looks like one of a bunch of odds and ends we have been playing with as we look at paperstone handled products. It is not any sort of collaboration with anyone. Not sure how the person obtained it, but I am guessing it was a "walk out" and given or sold to someone who is reselling it. A lot of people have worked on, touched the various samples. I know who the project people are on the paperstone products, since they work in my department; I don't think the seller is one of them.

Bill Keys
Director of Manufacturing
Buck Knives, Inc

 

[chickentrax]

Regardless of how it got on eBay, I like it...I would buy one...(as pictured above)...

 

[DarrylS]

...I liked that "prototype" as well. I have a couple of the 450's and I have always liked their blade configuration. It's a direct swap with the 112 blade and I have a 112/450 laying around somewhere. The blade is tougher in the tip area, just as the 442 blade is, than the standard 112 clip point's tip...:thumbup: