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Stainless Steel Buck 110????

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sw1911sc

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My favorite Buck and EDC is a 501 Squire. I like the convenient size and the non-tarnishing stainless steel.

My question is why don't they make a stainless steel Buck 110????
 
ya know on the surface that is a darn good question!!
on thinking ( yea i do that some times jest 4 i gets in deep)
a brass liner is self lubeing
steel on steel , well if not cleaned every time could lock up balde to frame!
dont nickel silver do it for ya?
oh and wild bill cody did do a stainless diamond plate small 500 something as a trucker knife proto type for the club meeting in Atlanta ...man was it sweet looking ..
the club sold it for BIG buckaroos!!
other wise i dont know????
how's about it there in idaho land?
 
The blade on your 501 is stainless steel, as it is on a Buck 110. The frame and bolsters on your 501 are nickel silver, you can order N/S framed 110s from Buck Knives through the Custom Shoppe, and occassionally find them on ebay or in the "For Sale" section here on BF.
 
The current production 300s have stainless steel bolsters, liners & back springs. Although I think they would be slightly better off if the back springs were carbon steel. Carbon steel seems to keep its springiness better. I have a current version of the 303 Cadet that just can’t walk or talk (snap closed), beauty knife in every other regard.
 
Buck 110s with solid 440 stainless steel frames were made in the Custom shop in the 1980s in small quantities. Further, Buck has experimented with this configuration. However, no production quantities were built. Mine have been in storage for some time with no problems as far as the blade action, this includes my unfinished prototype.
 
334dave said:
oh and wild bill cody did do a stainless diamond plate small 500 something as a trucker knife proto type for the club meeting in Atlanta ...man was it sweet looking ..
the club sold it for BIG buckaroos!!
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Does anyone happen to have a pic of this knife?
 
Messersmith said:
Does anyone happen to have a pic of this knife?
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i am sure some one does..
you can ask Larry Oden who bought it...
then contact him for a pict..

the more i think on it the more i like the idea of
420HC mirror polish frame and blade ...
or am i out in left field all alone here...
oh and i have one of thoes 440 protos also and no rust!
 
Dave and all,
I do not recall who ended up bidding the highest on that knife. I know I dropped out when it became clear that at least two guys were determined to bid the knife higher than I was willing to go. Wilde Bill Cody did an outstanding job designing this knife. I will also say that Wilde Bill has a very fertile imagination and he comes up with so many great concepts that it makes me feel that I do not have a single creative bone in my body!! How does one guy get so much talent?
 
"The blade on your 501 is stainless steel, as it is on a Buck 110. The frame and bolsters on your 501 are nickel silver"

I was under the impression that the bolsters on the 501 were stainless steel?? They certainly are not nickel plated.
 
sw1911sc said:
"The blade on your 501 is stainless steel, as it is on a Buck 110. The frame and bolsters on your 501 are nickel silver"

I was under the impression that the bolsters on the 501 were stainless steel?? They certainly are not nickel plated.
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:cool:...In doing a bit of pokin' around some data I somehow accumulated...( BCCI Library ) I came upon an article written by a Mr. Greg Smith who mentioned that...
RE: Model 501...In 1994 the blade steel was changed from 425 Modified to 420 HC. Also according to Joe Houser, Director of Consumer Relations and Buck Collectors Club Administrator, the blueprints in 1994 called for a change from stainless steel bolsters and liners to nickel silver. Although this change took place, it doesn’t show up in the catalog until 2003. Hope this helps as to what some of your 501's are composed of...:cool:
 
sw1911sc said:
"The blade on your 501 is stainless steel, as it is on a Buck 110. The frame and bolsters on your 501 are nickel silver"

I was under the impression that the bolsters on the 501 were stainless steel?? They certainly are not nickel plated.
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We're both right..or wrong. It depended on the year the 501 was made, page 511 in Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values has great info. The last sentence in the last paragraph of page 511: Buck has switched the integral stainless steel bolsters and liners to sintered(powdered-metal) nickel-silver technology
 
INTERESTING ABOUT THE 501 BOLSTERS & LINERS!!
My 501s are 1991 and 1992.

I still want a 110 with stainless steel bolsters and liners
 
All of the 500 series products (500, 501, 503, 505) were at one time sintered (powedered metal) stainless steel. The drawback to sintered stainless is its porosity and the difficulty of producing parts with some complex/compound curves etc. Nickel silver is easier for the sintering companies to form and it buffs up much nicer (with fewer inclusions) than sintered stainless. All of the 500 series were changed to nickel silver over a number of years, with the exception of the model 500 Duke itself. The volume of this product did not justify the cost of changing the tooling; thus the small volume of model 500's produced today (mostly for Eagle Scout knives) are still stainless. One other aspect that was changed with the switch to nickel silver is one of the angles on the inlay pocket; when the bolsters/liners were stainless, one angle was at 25 degrees and the other at 15 degrees. When the change to nickel silver was made, both angles were set at 15 degrees. Thus, the inlay became ambidextrous, so to speak.

Bill Keys
Director Lean Manufacturing & Engineering, Buck Knives
 
Bill Keys said:
All of the 500 series products (500, 501, 503, 505) were at one time sintered (powedered metal) stainless steel. The drawback to sintered stainless is its porosity and the difficulty of producing parts with some complex/compound curves etc. Nickel silver is easier for the sintering companies to form and it buffs up much nicer (with fewer inclusions) than sintered stainless. All of the 500 series were changed to nickel silver over a number of years, with the exception of the model 500 Duke itself. The volume of this product did not justify the cost of changing the tooling; thus the small volume of model 500's produced today (mostly for Eagle Scout knives) are still stainless. One other aspect that was changed with the switch to nickel silver is one of the angles on the inlay pocket; when the bolsters/liners were stainless, one angle was at 25 degrees and the other at 15 degrees. When the change to nickel silver was made, both angles were set at 15 degrees. Thus, the inlay became ambidextrous, so to speak.

Bill Keys
Director Lean Manufacturing & Engineering, Buck Knives
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Hi Bill,

Welcome to the Buck forum:thumbup: (I know you are not new here. But, we would like to hear from you more than once a year ;)). Thank you for the info/history lesson. You got any more information that you would be willing to share with this group of Buck nuts???? Any and all info on the 110, 112, 119, 500, 180, 401, 403 and all Alpha models would be very cool;:D;).

jb4570
BCCI 1253
 
Bill Keys said:
All of the 500 series were changed to nickel silver over a number of years, with the exception of the model 500 Duke itself. The volume of this product did not justify the cost of changing the tooling; thus the small volume of model 500's produced today (mostly for Eagle Scout knives) are still stainless.

Bill Keys
Director Lean Manufacturing & Engineering, Buck Knives
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?????? The 06 and 07 500LE's said they are nickle silver bolsters. Bill, Joe, CJ anyone from Buck....can you comment on the statement from Bill above. All Buck 500 Dukes have stainless Bolsters???? I currently have 15 500 Dukes in my collection. The oldest one is the 1981 AZ Highway Patrol and my newest one is the 07 M Ivory. How many of these would/could be Stainless and how many would be Nickle....if any???

jb4570
 
Last year/early-this year's run of raindrop damascus 110 blanks were stainless steel. (that is the blade in my current avatar).
 
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