The Memorial Day Weekend Sunday Picture Show (May 24th, 2026)

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Tomorrow, Monday May 25th, is Memorial Day, a day which honors those who have died in service to our country.
Veterans Day (November 11th), in contrast, focuses on thanking living veterans. Memorial Day has been a federal holiday since 1971, but the roots of Memorial Day go back to the end of the Civil War. Please take the time to watch this 3 minute PBS video.
As covered in the video, the first recognized observance was May 1st, 1865 in Charleston, SC. On May 5th, 1868, General John Logan established May 30th as "Decoration Day". A late Spring date when the flowers would be in bloom to be used to decorate the graves. On that first May 30th in 1868, 5,000 showed up to help decorate 20,000 Civil War graves in Arlington Cemetery. Initially a Civil War remembrance, after WW-I the tradition was expanded to include all American war casualties. The term "Memorial Day" came into use after WW-2 and the name was officially adopted by the Federal government in 1967. In 1968 Congress passed the "Uniform Holiday Act" which moved Memorial day from May 30th to the last Monday in May making it an official Federal holiday in 1971.
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A Buck 110 with a patriotic theme. The handle is ebony and the flag theme on the blade is pad printed. (inked). These were a web special offering for the 4th of July, 2020, not a BOTM. I believe the issue was 750.
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C Chilebrown Wow, thanks for sharing the Dinosaur 110's. They were were done for Sports Authority. I have seen the Triceratops listed in the 1993 SP List as samples only but yours is the first I've seen. You did not show the handle for the mammoths, is that the 1984 Aurum gold etch with Ivory handle? Special knives :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

The T-Rex and Pteranodon were also done for Sports Authority in the smaller 525's
Here is a set I put together many years ago for my grandson.
(1,656 and 2,000 respectively, 1993 SP List)
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Thanks Roger for putting together the Sunday Picture Show and the educational materials. These knives illustrate two of the Ceramic coatings applied to Buck blades. The Model 560 Titanium has an S30V double bevel blade with a TDLC (Tungsten Diamond Like Carbon) finish that has a hardness of 72 HRC. This coating is Tungsten Carbide. The jigged bone 110 has a single bevel 420HC blade with a TiAlN (Titanium Aluminum Nitride) finish that has a hardness of 92 HRC. This BuckCote Ion Fusion material is exposed on the micro edge and cuts like a razor due to the extremely acute geometry and the hard apex. The sides of both blades can be used like a finishing steel to set the edges of regular blades hardened to around 60 HRC. The steeling is performed with the edge of the dull knife leading. The second picture is a knife at 67 HRC being steeled on a TiN coated blade with a hardness of 72 HRC.IMG_0678.pngIMG_0679.png
 
DeSotoSky said:
C Chilebrown Wow, thanks for sharing the Dinosaur 110's. They were were done for Sports Authority. I have seen the Triceratops listed in the 1993 SP List as samples only but yours is the first I've seen. You did not show the handle for the mammoths, is that the 1984 Aurum gold etch with Ivory handle? Special knives :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

The T-Rex and Pteranodon were also done for Sports Authority in the smaller 525's
Here is a set I put together many years ago for my grandson.
(1,656 and 2,000 respectively, 1993 SP List)
525-trex-pteranodon-jpg.1264143

tristan019crop-jpg.1263936
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In 1993 Sports Authority was planning to offer a series of 6 different custom Buck 110 gold etched dinosaur scenes. Today we have a sample knife of a Triceratops that never made it into production. It is very rare. This same year they did release the popular Tyrannosaurus and Pteranadon. As far as I know the complete series did not come to fruition. The Mammoth scene is from the knife you mentioned from 1984. The C.O.A. mentions Mastodon and Mammoth Ivory as handle material. (?)
 
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pjsjr pjsjr One of the best Buck has ever produced. Here's to hoping Buck has some big plans for the 250th Anniversary. Would love to see a matching 119, or the entire 100 series.
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Yeah. I don't buy knives that I'm not going to use, but I have a feeling the 250th Anniversary offering(s) will be an exception, and it's probably going to get costly.:)

Edit: Sorry for derailing the thread, so here's another pic of today's carry.
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531 with mastodon/mammoth—

Years ago, BUCK did a series of the Model 531 commemorating various Civil War battles. One of those knives was for the Seven Days Battle of 1862, and I would love to have one, but only 100 were made. The only relative of mine who died in U S military service died from wounds suffered during the Battle of Glendale (part of the Seven Days Battle). This relative came to America with his widowed mother in 1858. In 1861 he joined the Pennsylvania Volunteers. In June 1862, he was wounded at the Battle of Glendale and died in August, age 26, at a military hospital in Baltimore. I imagine the actual cause of death was infection of the wound, not the wound itself.

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bertl said:
Years ago, BUCK did a series of the Model 531 commemorating various Civil War battles. One of those knives was for the Seven Days Battle of 1862, and I would love to have one, but only 100 were made. The only relative of mine who died in U S military service died from wounds suffered during the Battle of Glendale (part of the Seven Days Battle).
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There were 7 of them. The problem you face is they are serial number matched sets and it is rare for an individual knife to be offered.
 
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