It is, more than anything else, YOUR knife collection. Collect what you like and make the items in it how you like them. Some like Spa some don't.I am one of the new Buck fixed knife collectors. I noticed the Buck 119 being carried by Pedro Pascal in "The Last of Us" but interestingly, I started buying Buck fixed blades a few weeks before I saw the first episode. I got my first Buck (three line 119) while in Boy Scouts many years ago and still have it. I recently went and bought a few cheap Gerber knives (Prodigy's) to keep in various vehicles / go bags and while digging thru the knife drawer in the garage found my old Buck 119 pre date three line with its original flap cover sheath and box. I was curious as to its value and looked it up on the Bay and was awestruck with all the varieties of 119 and 120. So many variations I had no idea existed.
I have a very very mild OCD that manifests itself in collecting;...guns, vintage cars, AFV's, wrist watches, antique Japanese swords, civil war sabers and now fixed blade buck 119's/120's (I even bought a couple new 124's from Buck a couple weeks ago). I find great satisfaction in the education/research process followed by the development of a collecting plan and then the hunt for the ever more perfect examples. I now find myself fascinated with variety of steel's used and their qualities. I have collected 119/120 parings of two line, three line, inverted three line as well as a variety of the 119's made over the last 5 yeas using various steels and handle configurations. I have two custom 119's in process with Buck with no fuller/blood grove S30V blades and have acquired the last three 119 BOM editions.
I have also picked up a few Buck 110's and may be falling into that rabbit hole as well...
I like the tradition and history of Buck, its quality manufacture, family ownership and American made products in this day of the big conglomerate, and mostly its unconditional guarantee of its products and the almost family relationship it strives to have with its customers. It is the kind of product and company I have always striven to do business with whenever possible in my life.
Question to you all...Is it better from a collecting standpoint to leave the older vintage knives in their original as acquired "lightly used" condition of should I send them all in to Buck for a "spa treatment"? I know with my vehicles they all need to be as original as possible but brought back to as new. The vintage watches need to be functioning but as original as possible but the wear and patina of time adds value. My guns are all modern for the most part beyond some old Winchester 94's and a few WW1 and WW2 items which I have kept exactly as I got them.
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'Sudden' Popularity of Buck Fixed Blade Knives?
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pjsjr
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I'm interested to know the answer to your question also.
I know new in the box(NIB) will command a higher price in most cases. Probably depends on the collector's personal goals and interest.
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My opinion:
If it's for your personal collection to enjoy long term with no intent of selling, I think a spa treatment would be nice. If you might sell it to another collector, I think doing anything other than a thorough cleaning might change too much.
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One thing about collecting, you're supposed to "buy the item, not the story".
One other thing about collecting, you're supposed to "sell the story" which is often easier to do if the item looks the part.
One other thing about collecting, you're supposed to "sell the story" which is often easier to do if the item looks the part.
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Personal Preference...
I recently sent a batch of 110's off for a spa treatment with notes on each to NOT do any blade changes.
All have full or near full blades with minimal sharpening and good bolsters and slabs.
All are slab sided inverted two liners and I had decided they deserved a restoration.
Remains to be seen if they will remain here for the family or find new homes.
But, the two Very mint V1,V1 112's that show the natural patina,, have never been touched with polish or sharpening, and never been stored in the original sheaths, will remain as such.
So for me some will never be touched, only fondled, and some will come back to potentially become users.
For what its worth, I could have worked on the ones I sent off but two or three hours per knife was just too time consuming in my old age. in some of these ancient threads we talked about and had how to pics of cleaning up old knives.
Now im babbling incoherently....
I recently sent a batch of 110's off for a spa treatment with notes on each to NOT do any blade changes.
All have full or near full blades with minimal sharpening and good bolsters and slabs.
All are slab sided inverted two liners and I had decided they deserved a restoration.
Remains to be seen if they will remain here for the family or find new homes.
But, the two Very mint V1,V1 112's that show the natural patina,, have never been touched with polish or sharpening, and never been stored in the original sheaths, will remain as such.
So for me some will never be touched, only fondled, and some will come back to potentially become users.
For what its worth, I could have worked on the ones I sent off but two or three hours per knife was just too time consuming in my old age. in some of these ancient threads we talked about and had how to pics of cleaning up old knives.
Now im babbling incoherently....
Well, for myself, I won a little Buck 722 Custom folder at a pistol match and it rekindled my desire for Buck Knives! I have Muscular Dystrophy and using folding knives like a 110 or even the 722 is extremely difficult. Then, I sold my ATV and took some money and bought a Custom Shop 119. While waiting for it, I was on Ebay and found some I just had to have!! My collection of fixed blade Buck Knives is sitting at 15 with most of them being a BOTM knife or Custom shop version. This picture is a sample of what I have been able to acquire in two short years!! The only two folders I have are the 722 and my June 2022 BOTM 830 Marksman. I am able to work the locking mechanism on the 830 so I usually carry it everyday. I am hoping for a BOTM 101 in a high end steel this year! But that one is on the wish list.
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I wasn't going to collect ANY fixed blade knives. And I'm not influenced by any shows because I didn't watch those. I started collecting mainly 112s. But then I picked up a few fixed blades and, c'mon, they are so cool! Now I have a few dozen. Not a huge collection by some people's standards but, in my eyes, a large one given that I wasn't going to collected any fixed blades. So a few months ago, I also started collecting some Case pocket knives. My collection is for myself right now and then later for my poor son who has to deal with it when I pass. God willing, I don't intend to sell anything in the near future.
Edit: I forgot to add that I really like the knives I buy to have the boxes. Almost all of my knives are in the box. But then again, I don't have a lot of vintage stuff, where boxes might be next to impossible.
Edit: I forgot to add that I really like the knives I buy to have the boxes. Almost all of my knives are in the box. But then again, I don't have a lot of vintage stuff, where boxes might be next to impossible.
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I'm the same way.. I like to have the full set.