What to do?
Just prior to Jeff Hubbard announcing that Buck was discontinuing the Master Series, I had an order in place for one of the 110's in Master Series. My intentions were to include it in an upcoming folding hunter test, simply because I was very curious about BG42. At the time, this was just yet another purchase of yet another production knife. No big deal. (More on that particular purchase in the Good, Bad & Ugly Forum.)
Today, I took delivery of the promised Buck 110 Master Series. Now here's the dilemna: I got this thing simply to see what it was and to test it and possibly use/carry it. But my reasons for wanting to test it and report on it as another production option have now been totally obliviated by Buck's announcement that it's not even a valid choice anymore. So in other words, whether this knife is significantly better or worse than a standard Buck 110 as a user, is almost irrelevant, and pales to it's status as a collector knife.
Personally, I'm not a collector, merely a user and so that wouldn't much keep me from my original path except that it occurs to me that I may well be able to trade this for some other perfect user/now collectable like say a good BlackJack or such.
What do you all think? Test it and report? Or trade it and report?
I doubt that if BG42 is really any good that this is the last we'll see of that particular steel, but it might really be the last we'll see of this particular model. Hmmm.
mps
Just prior to Jeff Hubbard announcing that Buck was discontinuing the Master Series, I had an order in place for one of the 110's in Master Series. My intentions were to include it in an upcoming folding hunter test, simply because I was very curious about BG42. At the time, this was just yet another purchase of yet another production knife. No big deal. (More on that particular purchase in the Good, Bad & Ugly Forum.)
Today, I took delivery of the promised Buck 110 Master Series. Now here's the dilemna: I got this thing simply to see what it was and to test it and possibly use/carry it. But my reasons for wanting to test it and report on it as another production option have now been totally obliviated by Buck's announcement that it's not even a valid choice anymore. So in other words, whether this knife is significantly better or worse than a standard Buck 110 as a user, is almost irrelevant, and pales to it's status as a collector knife.
Personally, I'm not a collector, merely a user and so that wouldn't much keep me from my original path except that it occurs to me that I may well be able to trade this for some other perfect user/now collectable like say a good BlackJack or such.
What do you all think? Test it and report? Or trade it and report?
I doubt that if BG42 is really any good that this is the last we'll see of that particular steel, but it might really be the last we'll see of this particular model. Hmmm.
mps
