SK Barehead 501

afishhunter said:
D DocT
The congregation was sitting in the pews waiting for the service to begin.
Suddenly there is a really loud "POP" up front. Standing at the podeum is the Devil!
Well!!! There is a mad scrambling as everyone stampeeds to the exits to get away from God's number one sworn enemy!
Devil looks at his stopwatch and thinks to himself "not bad ... only 2.8 seconds to empty the place ..."
Then he notices an old guy sitting in the rear, calmly reading the church bulletin.
Devil walks over to him, clears his throat, and says
"Excuse me, but do you know who I am?" (Devil can be polite, if he wants to be.)
Old man glances up at him and says "Yep." and goes back to reading the bulletin.
Development says
"Umm ... You know who I am, and your not afraid of me?"
Old man says "Nope."
Devil says
"You do realize I can kill you with a thought, torture you throughout eternity, remind you of every mistake, bad idea, and wrong choices you've had, emasculate you hourly, and pretty much make you wish you never existed ... right?
Old man lays the bulletin down, and says "Don't doubt it at all."
Devill says "And yet you're still not afraid of me?"
Old man says "Nope. Not even a little bit."
Devil is getting upset now and yells
"WHY ARN'T YOU AFRAID OF ME?!?"
Old man laughs as he picks up the church bulletin, and says ...
"Dude, I've been married to your older sister for 60 years!"

Fortunately, you're married to a sweet little angel that never yells, and never gets gets upset, angry or violent. Not one of the devil's sisters. :)
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Hahahaha! That is a good one!

No, my wife is a sweet gentle person. I was only kidding with the cartoons.
 
What is the timeline on these? Also, do we know how many have been ordered? Just out of curiousity. Not sure how many have to be purchased to get them to make a special run like this.
 
BP_ said:
What is the timeline on these? Also, do we know how many have been ordered? Just out of curiousity. Not sure how many have to be purchased to get them to make a special run like this.
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I ordered 250 of these, so I will have that amount when Buck calls me to pick them up!
 
I ordered two. But I am very disappointed that the tang is not stamped but lasered!
 
st8yd said:
I ordered two. But I am very disappointed that the tang is not stamped but lasered!
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yep. wonder why some buck models are stamped and some arent. price points or something else?
 
st8yd said:
I ordered two. But I am very disappointed that the tang is not stamped but lasered!
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jbmonkey said:
yep. wonder why some buck models are stamped and some arent. price points or something else?
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This question has been visited before, it has been found that stamping can cause micro-fracturing in the premium steels so... premium steels are lasered and standard steels are stamped. Not a price point thing at all, just the opposite. I do agree that stamped tangs are much nicer but Buck has a reason when they don't.
 
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DeSotoSky said:
This has been visited many times.... short answer... it has been found that stamping can cause micro-fracturing in the premium steels so... premium steels are lasered and standard steels are stamped. Not a price point thing at all, just the opposite.
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interesting. could ya elaborate Sir as to what is premium and what is standard.

I'm gonna assume premium means being s30v, cpm154, 154cm, s90v, 20cv, in recent and/or current production? I'm assuming standard steels means 420hc not sure what other steel might be standard other than 5160? talking recent and current steels used often......not so much older stuff such as bg42 as an example.

what about 440c, d2?

thank you.
 
I would say premium in current context is anything other than 420HC. I think this is a more recent change. If you look at some of the older Alaskan Guides for example (S30V) they are stamped, the new ones are lasered. I do not know when the change took place. I guess your question is are there any currently produced knives in steels other than 420HC that are stamped. I can't think of any at the moment but am not all knowing. Hopefully others will chime in on this but we are hijacking the thread a bit here. /Roger
 
DeSotoSky said:
I would say premium in current context is anything other than 420HC. I think this is a more recent change. If you look at some of the older Alaskan Guides for example (S30V) they are stamped, the new ones are lasered. I do not know when the change took place. I guess your question is are there any currently produced knives in steels other than 420HC that are stamped. I can't think of any at the moment but am not all knowing. Hopefully others will chime in on this but we are hijacking the thread a bit here. /Roger
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yes Sir. thank you and fair point on hijacking....back to the topic.......

got one on order myself. looking forward to it.
 
There's a lot that are tang stamped. I am no metallurgist, but it seems to me if it works most of the time, there ought to be a way to make it work all the time.
 
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