Signed production folder: Value increase or just cool?

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stonproject

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Ill make a long story short. I have a friend whos mother is very good friends with chuck buck. Every year my friend gets a new knife from his mom and mr. buck.

Couple years back he got a Buck Tempest. I fell in love with it. It ended up having a mechanical issue so he sent it to his mom, and his mom brought it to ChuckBuck. He got the knife fixed, and got the blade engraved with his signature and dated "2012".

Does this happen very often with production knives? Does the owner engraving his signature add value to the knife or is it just cool?

This is also a discontiniued knife...

Sorry if its in the wrong section :)
 
I don't think it adds value. If anything, if you do a ridiculous Darrel Ralph butcher job signature where you just drag the engraving tool all across the blade, it probably hurts the value.
 
Scurvy092 said:
I don't think it adds value. If anything, if you do a ridiculous Darrel Ralph butcher job signature where you just drag the engraving tool all across the blade, it probably hurts the value.
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lol ive never seen a darrel ralph signature...

I was just curious since buck knives are so popular, and the tempest is a discontinued model.

I wasnt sure how often chuck signed things... By the way his signature is absolutely prestine lol
 
Chuck (or another member of the family) signing Buck knives isn't a new or especially unheard of thing. There are several signed (signed on the blade using a dremel with halfway decent cursive) Buck 110s and such on Ebay for a fairly large sum of money being asked. They are usually limited run, or anniversary, or Buck Collector Club models. Whether it's worth it, is probably in the eye of the beholder. I myself have a Spyderco Street Beat whose box was signed by Sal Glesser. Is it cool? Well, I think so. Could I get someone to pay me a significant sum over what a standard one costs? Probably not.

But then, you know what they say, there's a buyer for every product...
 
Quiet said:
Chuck (or another member of the family) signing Buck knives isn't a new or especially unheard of thing. There are several signed (signed on the blade using a dremel with halfway decent cursive) Buck 110s and such on Ebay for a fairly large sum of money being asked. They are usually limited run, or anniversary, or Buck Collector Club models. Whether it's worth it, is probably in the eye of the beholder. I myself have a Spyderco Street Beat whose box was signed by Sal Glesser. Is it cool? Well, I think so. Could I get someone to pay me a significant sum over what a standard one costs? Probably not.

But then, you know what they say, there's a buyer for every product...
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Now what is Sal engraved your blade? :p

I see what your saying though. I guess it might be worth seeing how many tempests exist with Chucks signature
 
Plenty of people have Hinderers or Hinderer designed ZTs with Rick's signature. I don't think it adds any value to them.
 
You'd be best to ask on the Buck forum. They are the ones most likely to pay a premium. I don't really understand how all the different variations float their boat. Some patterns are more collectible than others too.
 
I don't know about increased value. I was talking to Chris Reeve at Blade Show and asked him to sign the box of a new Sebenza Snakewood. Ended up selling it a year or so later for what I paid. It was interesting addition but I didn't expect anyone to pay extra for the knife. I did note it on the sale post and it did sell rather quickly, but it was an unused Sebenza with nice snakewood.
 
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