The Sunday Picture Show (April 24, 2022)

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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)

This week I'm starting the show with the first variation of the Kalinga. Introduced in the spring of 1970, the original price was $50. The tang stamp was initially inverted, switching to upright in 1973. The Kalinga ran pretty much unchanged until 1981 when the pointed guard gave way to the blunter style, the micarta handle changed to laminated Birch, and the 440C steel gave way to 425m. The guard probably changed just before the handle as transitional knives with pointed guards can be found with Birch handles. In general micarta handles are most likely 440c and Birch handles 425m but no telling what happened during the transition. A lot of changes took place in 1981. Originally the display box was hinged but became a 2 piece box in 1985. Joe Houser gave a model history in the May 2007 Newsletter.


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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)

This week I'm starting the show with the first variation of the Kalinga. Introduced in the spring of 1970, the original price was $50. The tang stamp was initially inverted, switching to upright in 1973. The Kalinga ran pretty much unchanged until 1981 when the pointed guard gave way to the blunter style, the micarta handle changed to laminated Birch, and the 440C steel gave way to 425m. The guard probably changed just before the handle as transitional knives with pointed guards can be found with Birch handles. In general micarta handles are most likely 440c and Birch handles 425m but no telling what happened during the transition. A lot of changes took place in 1981. Originally the display box was hinged but became a 2 piece box in 1985. Joe Houser gave a model history in the May 2007 Newsletter.


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Happy SPS everyone and as always, thank you Roger and everyone else helping to keep it alive.

I've always wondered why the re-profiling of the guard took place in later years.... too bad they changed it to the chunky thing that they have on them now... no doubt saving on machine work. I've been tempted to rectify that someday.

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These two guys didn't arrive in time to make it into fixed blade Friday... so they made it here.

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Good Morning Roger and all of you fine fellows. Today I present a small project I put together over the last few weeks. Price pins are 1972-73 catalog pricing. Knives are 1970s manufacture excluding the 103, 105, 118, & 102 which are late 80s early 90s.

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Thanks Roger for another Sunday Picture Show and thank to all who post and comment about Buck knives. Never really noticed the difference in the guards. Now that I have the later version sure looks clunky.
caquino caquino nice photos, the top 192 has nice burl for the handle. Don't remember seeing a pommel, with the two lines like that on a 192 before.
matthewtstock matthewtstock Nice work on that display. Brings back memories of eyeballing Buck's knives in the hardware store, wishing and hoping.
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Thanks Roger for hosting another Sunday Picture Show.
A little stroll to the garden this morning with my Buck 110 yielded us some fresh asparagus. It's been a dry and cold spring, just had some snow last week. So most things in the garden are having a tough time.
Good to see so many nice Buck knives today!


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Thanks Roger for another Sunday Picture Show and thank to all who post and comment about Buck knives. Never really noticed the difference in the guards. Now that I have the later version sure looks clunky.
caquino caquino nice photos, the top 192 has nice burl for the handle. Don't remember seeing a pommel, with the two lines like that on a 192 before.
matthewtstock matthewtstock Nice work on that display. Brings back memories of eyeballing Buck's knives in the hardware store, wishing and hoping.
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caquino caquino nice photos, the top 192 has nice burl for the handle. Don't remember seeing a pommel, with the two lines like that on a 192 before.
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Neither had I... and now there's another of those knives that just listed on ebay. Yes, the handle is box elder wood burl... and when the light hits it, as my wife would have said " its enough to knock your pecker off into the weeds"....
 
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