Steel question

[Ravenn]

I'm sure this has ben done to death, but...
What was the last year Buck used 440-C stainless steel.
I've been trying for some time to find a vintage mod 105,and one just literally fell into my lap two weeks ago. Acording to the Buck Collectors site, its a 1986 manufacture.

Thanx
Ravenn

 

[Buckaholic]

I'm sure this has ben done to death, but...
What was the last year Buck used 440-C stainless steel.
I've been trying for some time to find a vintage mod 105,and one just literally fell into my lap two weeks ago. Acording to the Buck Collectors site, its a 1986 manufacture.

Thanx
Ravenn

For the 110/2 series Buck swtiched to 425 Mod in 1981 then to 420HC in 1994.

Not certain about the fixed blades though.

 

[Joe Houser]

From what I have been able to find out, Buck used 440C forgings from late 1961, the year they went "production", to about 1967. In 1967 they switched to conventional blanks of 440C. You can't fineblank 440C but you can conventionally blank it.
We used those 440C blanks up until about 1981. Very little in the way of records to back that up but it is generally agreed that we switched all of our models from 440C to 425mod in or around 1981. I am sure that inventory levels of the various models meant that some we swithced over sooner and some later.
Hope this helps.

 

[Ravenn]

Gents.. thank you for the info. While my ultimate goal was to aquire a 105 in 440-C, I'm very pleased with the edgeholding ability of this knife. AFter carving an Atlatl, with three shafts ,ad fig 4 trap trigger,and splitting some wood with it, I would have still taken on a deer skinning job, and not looked back.

Again thans for this

Ravenn

 

[chickentrax]

...AFter carving an Atlatl, with three shafts ,ad fig 4 trap trigger,and splitting some wood with it...

Darn BabelFish!!! The only part of this translation that came through was the wood splitting... :grumpy:

Anybody know of a better translator??? Is Google any better???

 

[DarrylS]

Darn BabelFish!!! The only part of this translation that came through was the wood splitting... :grumpy:

Anybody know of a better translator??? Is Google any better???

...Atlatl is where my ex-wife said I claimed to be after a "binge night" with the boys when we won our only semi-pro football game back in the early 70's...LMAO...I meant to say Atlanta...Georgia...but my tongue felt like it had a fur coat on it at the time......
...I shoulda said I was busy makin' one of those things...

 

[Haebbie]

Darn BabelFish!!! The only part of this translation that came through was the wood splitting... :grumpy:

Anybody know of a better translator??? Is Google any better???

Hühnchen, should a German decode English therms for you?

Atlatl: Hand operated catapult for shafts (spears), looks like a slim cudgel with a handle on on side an a Spur on the other Side.

Shaft: Spear for an atlatl

Trap Tigger: A device to make release levers for a step in catch (when I understood correct)

Best,
Haebbie (substitutionally for Chicken's decoder ring)

 

[Hawkeye5]

Thanks Haebbie...:thumbup:

Falkenauge

 

[Joe Houser]

>>AFter carving an Atlatl, with three shafts ,ad fig 4 trap trigger,...

Amazing....
I hate to be a bad host and admit this but, I thought we had decaf Dave under a new name. All I thought I was looking at was a bunch of typos!!!:foot: