"RARE" Buck Knife

DeSotoSky

DeSotoSky

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I've seen this fracture before but not as large. Semi-circular chip with origin at the choil-blade junction. Currently listed on an auction site as a rare Buck Knife with a $400 bin. Interestingly the knife in this example is a first edition 1991.

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Seen that and was going to post. Unbelievable...

Edited to remove off-topic rant.. :)
 
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I've seen that semi circle chip come from chopping and torquing to remove knife, with hollow grinds. seems to happen sometimes more on hollow grinds than other grinds. havent seen a buck do that until these but seen other brands with that distinctive shape.
 
If I saw those pictures I would think they were done intentionally. The radius’s are both almost perfect. Fascinating.
 
Do you think Buck warranted these knives? Instead of trying to sell a broken knife I would try to get it replaced.
 
I ran into a guy selling a few Bucks at a gun show that had some high priced custom knives. They had the same custom modification as the knife in your photo here. He was very insistent that these were factory custom modifications and well worth his high price.....LOL.
 
jb4570 said:
I ran into a guy selling a few Bucks at a gun show that had some high priced custom knives. They had the same custom modification as the knife in your photo here. He was very insistent that these were factory custom modifications and well worth his high price.....LOL.
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What throws people is that the fracture is always so smooth and hemispherical.... so they think it couldn't be an accident...... every one I have seen is like that though.

I kinda wish Jeff Hubbard would chime in on how often they see this and the cause if known. Personal theory is a microfracture at the junction/corner when the blade is fine blanked....
 
The knives I saw like this looked to me like someone had chipped the blade, got an idea to grind the half circle out of the blade to cover up the chip. Then later claimed it was custom work (custom to remove the damage they caused to the blade). I could be wrong it would be interesting to hear from Buck as they must get this type of damage sent back all the time.
 
I can visualize someone processing a deer, trying to cut through a joint and twisting the knife in the process.
 
I saw that knife up for auction. Reminded me of my first Buck knife my father gave me at Christmas. I was young (11-12) didn't know a thing about knives, let alone Buck Knives.
Somehow, someway I manged to get a perfect semicircle chip from the cutting edge. It was about the size of a fingernail, the round part. I was devastated. Read the warranty info in the box and sent it in. Got a new blade and all was well. Still have the knife but no box.
 
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