Slim Selects

DeSotoSky

DeSotoSky

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I did not pay very much attention to these when they first came out but peaked my interest recently.
Has anyone put together a list of all the colors offered to date?
Were the 110's and 112's always offered in the same color?

For added interest to the thread, Here are the nail notch reds I picked up off the web specials page. Slim Selects usually have thumb studs.
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I like the red handles, nice when combined with the nail nick. Cannot answer your question but I did buy a 112 with a blaze orange handle at Academy - gifted it to a friend. For myself I ended up with one of each of the version with the Micarta handles, one brownish, the other greenish. OH
Edit to add picture (was hiding from me!)
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The 110 and112 Slim Selects were introduced in 2019. Since then, the Buck catalogs have listed them in these colors for both models:

Blue - 0110/0112BLS2-B
Chartreuse - 0110/0112GRS1-B
Red - 0110/0112RDS2-B
Gray - 0110/0112GYS2-B
Black -0110/0112BKS1-B
Tan - 0110/0112BRS2-B
Blaze Orange - 0110/0112ORS2-B
OD Green - 0110/0112ODS2-B

Not in catalog:
Exclusive 110 in Teal model 0110BLS1-B
Exclusive 110 in light Blue model 0110BLS3-B

Were there any other colors offered as web specials or exclusives?
 
Mike years ago was at a factory sale and they had a full set of every color made in a frame and it's more colors than what is in the catalogs and such. I may have a pic he sent me of it...ill look but it was years ago.

Makael Makael do ya have that pic of the full set of these ya took still? thanks

found it...it was in my texts this was in 2020 and my memory of it was all wrong it wasn't all that many colors at that point of production of them....
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Thanks for the responses everyone. I'll add 2 minor variations that I know of. Black and Red with nail nicks instead of thumb studs for Canadian export. There may have been others.

edit.. add Chartreuse 112 w/ nail nick
 
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I'm color blind challenged. Trying to match P plb 's list to jbmonkey jbmonkey 's picture # left to right..
How close am I? I really don't see a treal or lt blue. I guessing on some others. Updated with jbmonkey jbmonkey 's suggestions.
Not shown....Lt Blue. That makes a total of 11 colors.

1 black
2 gray
3 brown
4 tan
5 OD green
6 chartreuse
7 blue
8 teal
9 blaze orange
10 red
 
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DeSotoSky said:
I'm color blind challenged. Trying to match P plb 's list to jbmonkey jbmonkey 's picture # left to right..
How close am I? I really don't see a treal or lt blue. I guessing on some others.

1 black
2 gray
3 ?
4 tan
5 OD green
6 chartreuse
7 blue
8 ?
9 blaze orange
10 red
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from that pic I found.

1-black
2-grey
3-brown
4-kinda lightish orange maybe tan
5-od green
6-dont remember the name, kinda light lime/yellow
7-blue
8-teal
9-traffic cone orange
10-red

so basically 10 up til december of 2020.....dont remember what else might have come out since that time..
 
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In a thread from Sept. 2019 Tecate Tecate said, "Looks like less than 100 of each flavor available as "Web Exclusive Colors" in both 110 and 112: Teal: Burnt Orange: Violet: Tan." You'll see nice photos here:

Buck Web Specials: 4 New Flavors of 110/112 Slim Select Models

Looks like less than 100 of each flavor available as "Web Exclusive Colors" in both 110 and 112: Teal: Burnt Orange: Violet: Tan:
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From Dec. 2019, ScottK ScottK said, "Picked up one of the 112 Slim Select Colors web specials in brown." Also a nice photo:

What's your newest Buck knife

Yep. Cost of living over there must be mighty high. But then I wish Buck would open a factory outlet store a driveable distance for me here in the midwest...... you know, just to make living more affordable for "you guys" near Post Falls. I try to think of the other person.:D That's some nice...
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Poking around the web, I see some images of one in forest green (not OD Green).

So, it appears Buck made sample runs of several colors that didn't make the cut for mass production, and they let them go as web specials. I think they did the same type of color prototype runs with the 110 and 112 LT's but sold those at a factory sale.
 
I've been looking thru this thread at all the different color 112's..I'm really surprised how many are out there! I usually keep a close eye on odd 112's with the view of adding them to the collection. The last few years I have looked for more traditional oddballs and especially the Take aparts and older LE's and Customs and these flew under my radar. Same thing happened to me with the Ecolite's! But in that case I really thought it would be a long term model and I would have time to pick up rare variations later.
I think collecting the Slim Selects in rare colors will be like the 422's . For years they got no respect and you could get them on Ebay cheep until finally collectors woke up and realized how limited and hard to find some were. Living near Post Falls for the Factory store and especially watching for Web specials and acting quickly when they do pop up will be very rewarding for collectors for these relatively inexpensive Bucks. Plus they make great users!
 
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