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Here is a first production run that I had found on the bay.
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How about a few proto types. HL
 
bertl Thank you the fillet knife is one that Buck was selling during the 20 year event, the Oddessy was one that I received in a trade. HL
 
Ok I'll play, this knife has a lot of firsts, not just for Buck but the industry as a whole...

I know Spyderco is usually credited with making the first folder with a pocket clip in the US but the first version was made in 1981 or there abouts but it was made in Japan, like with many things in the cutlery industry most new ideas are just variations on a previous idea.

IIRC the Buck Titanium 186 was the first US made folding pocket knife with a pocket(belt) clip? Actually I believe the 186 had a lot of firsts in 1986 when it was released.

It was the first US production titanium folder and the first modern folder made to be disassembled by the owner. It also had bushings on the pivot and the rocker for the lock back.

This was a fantastic knife for the time but it was made in a very limited run and for only one or two years and then the very thing that Buck advertised, (the ability to take it apart and clean it) caused the demise of the 186 and made Buck change it forever to the 560, a riveted clipless version.

Apparently too many people took it apart and couldn't reassemble it causing an increase in customers sending them back to Buck for service.

Actually I just wanted a reason to show it off again. :) ;)

Here's a few pics of mine and the box I keep it in.

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A few of the knife.

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David Martin said:
Tony, a nice old 110. Ha, I remember when .22's came in boxes of 50 like that. Dog! DM
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A little legend to go with the ammo... The box now only has 49 rounds. The one round that is missing was used by ole Eugenia Rxx to commit suicide in 1954. She did it in the carriage house attached to the house I grew up in. Dad tore down the carriage house in the early 90's and built a deck.
 
Tony, what a story! When I saw the box, I thought it was from the 50's. Do you have the rest of the story written, which led up to this incident? DM
 
David Martin said:
Tony, what a story! When I saw the box, I thought it was from the 50's. Do you have the rest of the story written, which led up to this incident? DM
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Don't really know a whole lot. Eugenia had some sort of metal deifcit. She lived with her parents. Her grandparents built the house in 1898. I did know the "old" lady that lived down the road that cleaned up the blood. A really weird coincidence...the grandmother of a lady I work with was best friends with Eugenia's mother. For thrills we would invite our friends to sleep in the carriage house room....I think we did once.
 
David Martin said:
Tony, a nice old 110. Ha, I remember when .22's came in boxes of 50 like that. Dog! DM
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And I remember when a box of 22's cost 50 cents. As kids me and a buddy would put our money together to buy a box at the hardware store.... something that would make the national news today. When they passed the gun control act of 1968 I couldn't buy ammunition again until I turned 18 after graduating HS.
 
I can't remember when they cost that. Man! The trouble was, none of us had the 50 cents anyway... DM
 
Here is a 1st that never made it.
Buck/Wittaker Navigator multitool
These were prototypes that were made but the tool never made it to production.







 
My first Selector. Not the very first, but , I think, early Buck-428 version, because its handle says Bucklite instead of Selector.

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