Something about the 110 that I never knew

[knarfeng]

I traipse all over the forums. I learn stuff.

Here is a comment that Bernard Levine made about the Buck 110. The thread wasn't about 110's, it just kind of got mentioned in passing. But I thought it was a cool piece of information that some of the folks who just hang out here on the Buck Forum might like to read.

Which alas leaves out pocket cutlery backsprings, which are not made to any particular standards -- except they are made of the same steel as the blades they work, and are heat treated along with those blades, to minimize hardness differences that would accelerate joint wear.

This points to the brilliance of the rocker bar lock, introduced by Buck on the first 110, and now widely used. The spring inside this mechanism is a short piece of round 'music wire' which is designed and manufactured AS spring material, which is minimally stressed in use, and which never fails or weakens. The rocker bar can fail, but not the spring.

BRL...

 

[110 Dave]

the first 110 had a built in spring / spacer combo
not a music wire bar that did not come out tell later