I remember a few yrs. ago there was a huge advertizing campaign to launch the new Sawby lock folding knife.These knives never made it to the general market.What happened?The knives that were made were sold as the 1st.collector club knife,with gold etching on the blade.Does anyone know why they were never mass produced?
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Robb,
We stopped production on that sereis when we discovered that the lock strength was not up to our standards. If you took the knife and smacked it against the heel of your shoe, the lock would sometimes fail.
There are maybe 2000 531's out there that did not come back to the factory during the recall. About half as many 535's and only 5 532's. If you ever see one of the 532's, with the standard inlays, it is most likely one of two that belong to Chuck Buck that were "Liberated" from his possession a few years back.
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Joe Houser
Director of Quality, Buck Knives Inc.
Buck Collectors club Administrator
We stopped production on that sereis when we discovered that the lock strength was not up to our standards. If you took the knife and smacked it against the heel of your shoe, the lock would sometimes fail.
There are maybe 2000 531's out there that did not come back to the factory during the recall. About half as many 535's and only 5 532's. If you ever see one of the 532's, with the standard inlays, it is most likely one of two that belong to Chuck Buck that were "Liberated" from his possession a few years back.
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Joe Houser
Director of Quality, Buck Knives Inc.
Buck Collectors club Administrator
CJ Buck
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The lock mechcanism was an interesting thing. The lock centered around a spring tension that forced a protrusion into a gap in the blade. When you smacked the back of the knife hard agains your shoe etc the sudden stop in momentum would compress the spring unlocking the knife. The lock would not fail in normal use but we felt that this was such a normal test for lockback knives that if our knife failed this "test" people would complain and even worse hurt themselves.
Case in point...one funny story was at that Shot Show where we were telling our dealers that the knife would not be ready in time because we were redesigning the lock, our then VP sales and marketing was demonstrating to a large dealer the shoe test. The knife failed and the razor sharp blade bit into his thumb all the way to the bone. Blood everywhere.
He answered all dealer questions from then on just by showing his bandage...
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CJ Buck
Buck Knives, Inc.
AKTI Member #PR00003
Case in point...one funny story was at that Shot Show where we were telling our dealers that the knife would not be ready in time because we were redesigning the lock, our then VP sales and marketing was demonstrating to a large dealer the shoe test. The knife failed and the razor sharp blade bit into his thumb all the way to the bone. Blood everywhere.
He answered all dealer questions from then on just by showing his bandage...
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CJ Buck
Buck Knives, Inc.
AKTI Member #PR00003