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ItsTooEarly

ItsTooEarly

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Got these 560 handles today and some small ones....
Thanks for looking,
ITE

560s... click 2 times to make the pics Bigger...

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:)
 
Now all you need are some blades, screws, backsprings, etc. and you are in business!:)
 
those are a good find there early..
but these are the thin ones and will have to be riveted..
 
Plumberdv said:
Now all you need are some blades, screws, backsprings, etc. and you are in business!:)
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Yep...You should be able to strip down some WallyWorld 110's for the parts...

Or...A set of Titanium scales flanking a drop-point 426 blade would look cool... :D
 
Nice find Early.Just visit your pawn shop and buy that old beat up 110 for parts.Then I think knife supply companies may have the rivets.www.Sheffieldknifesupply.com
Good luck.Post a photo when you get one put together.O blades from Leroy.DM
 
Thanks everyone... I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them... May be trade a set to Leroy and put a set in my show case or something like that... I have a 560 with just pins holding it together already with a unsharpen blade that I got from some guy that use to work for buck... I got some pics if you want to se it... :)

ITE
 
ItsTooEarly said:
I have a 560 with just pins holding it together already with a unsharpen blade that I got from some guy that use to work for buck... I got some pics if you want to se it... :)
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Sure, post the pics! :)

And if you have a pic of the Buck employee, CJ and Joe would probably like to see that one, too... :D
 
ItsTooEarly said:
...I have a 560 with just pins holding it together...
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That brings up an interesting point/question...What kind of pin(s) did Buck use for the 560 series???

As you can see, the heads of the pins are domed and polished...



I am wondering if these pins aren't two-piece pins...I find it hard to believe that a Buck employee could peen over a polished pin head without leaving tool marks...or buff the pin head after installation without hitting the Ti handle...

I have some grommets with polished heads that are two-piece...one is hollow, the other is solid and an interference fit in the hollow side...

Trying to pin a 560 together and get an OEM look to the pins would be a real challenge...
 
The pins on this knife are just to hold it together, maybe to work on it... Leroy use pins in his handles when working on his knives... you can tell the differents on the pins... the top one has pins....

ITE

560s...
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chickentrax said:
That brings up an interesting point/question...What kind of pin(s) did Buck use for the 560 series???
As you can see, the heads of the pins are domed and polished...
I am wondering if these pins aren't two-piece pins...I find it hard to believe that a Buck employee could peen over a polished pin head without leaving tool marks...or buff the pin head after installation without hitting the Ti handle...
Trying to pin a 560 together and get an OEM look to the pins would be a real challenge...
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howdy my feathered friend you have made me happy :)
as for once i have answers to your questions!!!;):cool:
the pins are not peaned, they are "spun"
with a tool in a jig to dome them over..
if you look verry closely you can see that there
is a verry slight difference from one side to the other!
 
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Those pins come from our supplier with one end already headed. We place that end on the "anvil" and hit the go button. Down comes a spinning and oscilating domed anvil which puts the head on the other side. Not sure what they are made of.
 
Headed rivets such as these that we use are either 302/304 stainless steel or nickel silver, depending on the application. The shear strength of the stainless is obviously greater than nickel silver, but forming the head on a nickel silver rivet is much easier and you usually maintain better "action" using the nickel silver becasue of the extra work required for forming the stainless rivets.

Bill Keys
Director of Manufacturing and Engineering
Buck Knives, Inc
 
Thank you both, Joe and Bill, for providing an insight into the manufacturing process required for the 560 and other such knives. Very insightful. I'm sure that others like myself can learn from this. Maybe not duplicate the process at home ourselves, but just knowing how it is done will force us to think of the operations required in ways we would not have before. ;)
 
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