The Sunday Picture Show (April 2, 2023)

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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. Above all, enjoy the show. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)

April 2nd is National Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich day.
It's on the internet so it must be true. Tomorrow I'm going to make me a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich and post a picture along with my favorite beverage. Let's see your sandwich. I do not know who declared April 2nd to be the day. Apparently it was a thing the soldiers brought home with them at the end of WW2.

Oh the horror!!! I took this 212 Ranger Skinner out for a photo and it's RUSTED!!! I'm not a big steel know it all. I'll have to look up W2. Is it prone to resting? I'll need to address this tomorrow so I'm soliciting advice about what to do.
About the knife. New in the 2018 catalog as a Legacy edition of 250. W2 steel with a blue and white lucite handle packed in a wood box. I'm not a big fan of the sheath, it is a knife I think would do better with a pouch type sheath. Let's see you sheaths if any of you went with a custom. 2018 also saw a Yellowhorse model and a 30th BCCI edition. In hindsight I sure wish I had sprung for the Yellowhorse.
It's a Retro design. I see the 212 Skinner as a remake of the 1940's models 111 or 113 Skinner.

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Happy SPS Roger - I have some knives I have not set my eyes on for a few years including the same 212 as yours. I guess I need to start going thru and checking them.
I will let you know in a year or two once I get thru them all if any have rusted. LOL.

I have a couple of the originals similar to yours Roger. I will dig them out for a couple pics later today. (Sunday)

Getting ready for the Oregon Knife Show coming up in a couple weeks. Set up my display and filled it with a few old custom shop knives. Not taking near as many knives as I have in the past.

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905 Mountain Man Bowie. Only one I have ever seen from the old custom shop with a blade cutout.
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yep Roger. w2 is a carbon steel similar chemically to 1095. it will discolor and rust over time. I have that same knife.

can't tell how deep those spots are. light rust I use an eraser to remove and flitz to remove without affecting the finish. deeper spots get harder.
 
Greetings to all on another fine SPS morning. Today two of the four bone handled 110s offered in the 1990 & 1991 catalogs. The other two sport Damascus blades with nickel silver bolsters, and are a good bit harder to find at reasonable prices.........
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Recently bought this at a members auction I know it is a 118 I believe cut down to a 116 - I think the mod was done prior to it leaving the factory. the sheath has the long flap so I think it is correct.

My greasy fingerprints are on the grip but the knife is brand new in my opinion. Thank You Roger for the SPS.

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Recently bought this at a members auction I know it is a 118 I believe cut down to a 116 - I think the mod was done prior to it leaving the factory. the sheath has the long flap so I think it is correct.
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It sticks in my mind that the original concept 116's were made from 118's. I can't find the reference.

Addendum: It took awhile to remember and find Larry Oden's May 2007 Newsletter article. And I quote..
"Chuck said that the earliest Buck 116s also incorporated model 118 blades (often with broken tips!) and that they were likewise ground down to Les Bowman’s specifications."
 
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Love PBJs, should not only be a National Day, but, should be considered one of the major food groups.😁

Thanks Roger(sorry about the rust) for another Sunday Picture Show, thanks to all for posting photos and comments.

A hurriedly taken, crappy picture of my DY 212 'Fancy Lacy'
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A much better photo of same
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All three of my DY 'Lacy' knives
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