Standard 110 Scales?

[OhShoot]

....The veneers used for Buck knife handles all have the grain oriented in the same direction, so technically, and functionally, they are not plywood. However, they are more stable than solid wood.

They're not all Dymondwood?

- OS

 

[BG42EDGE]

From CJ Buck:

The process is very similiar to making plywood. You start with sheets of Birch veneer. Then you put those sheets in a vaccum chamber and flood the chamber with resin (and color). The resin is thus sucked into every pore and stabalizes the wood, protecting it from heat and water. The wood acts like the fiber in fiberglass and gives a supporting structure for the resin.

Then you put those resin impregnated sheets under heat and pressure. The resin remelts and welds the sheets together. Based on how you stack them you can get multi-colored effects and if there are contours on the handle it can be a very attractive look. With a 110 being so flat the vendor creates a special top layer for the handle insert and when we switched from real Ebony the impregnated wood consistently looked more like real wood then real wood.

Well, there you have it......I disagree that it looks more like real wood than real wood, though.......I think that's a good salesman talking.



Anyhow, it works good and we appear to be stuck with it if we buy new 110s.......let's see, when was the last time I bought a new 110?

Oh yeah.......they called these "Bone."

Looks like bone.....but who knows?

 

[bertl]

I believe DymondWood is the trade name for a particular type of laminate.

Bert

 

[OhShoot]

I believe DymondWood is the trade name for a particular type of laminate.

Bert

It is. And Buck mentions it on some knives, some are glossed over in description so that you don't know if it's actual wood or laminate being used.

My question is, though, are all the laminates that Buck uses Dymondwood (from Rutland Plywood Corporation)?

- OS

 

[puukkoman]

From CJ Buck:



Well, there you have it......I disagree that it looks more like real wood than real wood, though.......I think that's a good salesman talking.



Anyhow, it works good and we appear to be stuck with it if we buy new 110s.......let's see, when was the last time I bought a new 110?

Oh yeah.......they called these "Bone."

Looks like bone.....but who knows?

That bone looks more bony than bone!

 

[BG42EDGE]

Yep, I think they are bone.

Of course, that's just when some guy comes along and tells ya different!