Show your "ODDBALL" Knives

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bertl

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Some production knives are just oddballs with something unusual. If you have one, show it here.

I'll start off with a Schrade Buck 301. It fits the classification for the period 1967-1971 with no model number, handle pins, no spacer and with the secondary blades stamped "BUCK". The oddball part is that BUCK is stamped on the wrong side of the secondary blades. This is a knife I got from Matt about a year ago.

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Bert…this could be a fun thread! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Here's a Buck 110 that I purchased from Dick Matheny.
It made it's way all the way through the factory not having the tang stamped.













 
I have seen other 301s with a serrated blade…maybe not really odd, but very rare.




 
Don't really have any oddballs but can't wait to see what shows up here!
 
Is 3/4 of a stamp better than no stamp at all?

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I don't have any error Bucks, here is the oddest Buck knife I have.






jb4570
 
Add serrations and a gut spoon to a model 123 and you have the model 129 fillet knife.

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Stumps, that's an interesting 110. Can you put a rough date on it without the stamp.

Bad, I guess Camillus must have been making a knife similar to the 317 for KaBar.

DeSoto, that 3/4 stamp is neat. It makes you wonder about the stamping process. I have a 129 with spoon, but no serrations.

Here is another Schrade Buck 301. This is a 1st Version, but it has through rivets after being sent in for warranty work. Joe Houser told me that they did less than a dozen of these before deciding it was not an effective repair and that it cost too much. After this, they simply replaced the knife.

Bert

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Just a 321 with a 313 blade, or a 313 with a gut hook.


A 321 remade without the gut-hook blade. Slides in a sock nicely.


I guess you would call this one 'Jigged' Delrin. Who ever did it made it look pretty decent. Unless someone put on new scales and re-did the BUCK shield, but the factory jigging came later.


Barlow someone stuck a Buck blade in.

Shows family connection, Remington knife has tang ground off and Remington just 'inked' on, but main blade does not have the traditional Buck swedge on top ? I think there was a Camillus made like the Buck with no swedge, but I can't say whether the Remington started as a Camillus model or a Buck look a like.


This likely hurt the hand. Hope they lived
 
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Not a knife but a knife related oddity:

enjoy:

Haebbie


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Haebbie, it took me a couple of seconds for that to register. I wonder what they said to the proofreader?

300, I was sure you would have a few photos to contribute. Is the 321/313 an aftermarket change or, unlikely, out of the factory?

Bert
 
The gut hook version, I am sure came from Camillus that way. Both models used the same design and size main blade and someone in Camillus got one mixed up or ran out or something . The single blade is someone's alteration. 300
 
bertl said:
Stumps, that's an interesting 110. Can you put a rough date on it without the stamp.
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Bert…I haven't looked up what Matheny said about it, but I would say it's in the area of 1978 two dot through 1981 three dot judging from the frame and pins.
 
Here are two 317s with handle pins. The first photo compares the relatively rare 317 "salesman prototype" at the bottom and an oddball 317 with handle pins at the top. Notice that the pins of the "salesman prototype" are smaller. The second photo shows the tang stamp for the "salesman prototype" and the third photo shows the tang stamp for the oddball 317.

Bert

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Sky, I know its a weird one. Not sure if it was a bubba job or left the factory this way.

either way its worth discussing lol
 
This is sort of an oddball knife.....I used to own one a few years ago that had a letter from David yellowhorse calling this the "oh-oh" knife. In the letter he explained how only one side was to be inlaid, but he started inlaying both sides and didn't realize the mistake until 50 were complete. I had another letter from Chuck Buck Explaining the mistake and he said he liked it so much he picked-up 3 of them.

I saw this one the other week and decided it was time to have a "oh-oh" knife in the Collection again.....





 
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