The Sunday Picture Show (August 25, 2024)

matthewtstock said:
howiema howiema Nice Custom. Love the 420HC, finger grooves, pins. Nice job on the sheath, pretty darn slick.

W wackafew Impressive cantaloupe. According to google the average melon weighs 3 pounds.

560 & sheath found in a junk bin at the show for $15 ............

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A little black rock leather and rich and 2 coats of snow seal and a tooth brush 3 sunbaths love the 560 I need one
 
Happy SPS to All the Buck knife lovers. Thank you Roger for hosting this weekly event and adding to our knowledge a bit of History as well. Also, thank you to each of you who take the time to share photos and add to the conversations.

Another shot of Dale Fisk art.

 
Happy SPS

A few years ago PBS's "American Experience" did a documentary on the "Mine Wars". It was well done.
Half my family comes from the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee. I don't recall any of them being miners, but a couple drove coal trucks. Coal mining was a hard way to make a living.
The last twenty years of my career, I was the design engineer for abandoned coal mine reclamation projects. Below is the only set of before/after pics I have of same view. The before was talken in the winter, but it didn't look much better in the summer. No undergrowth and scraggly, sickly trees. The project was considerably larger than these pics show. The mine was located near the headwaters of Perche Creek in Boone County, Missouri. Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) was draining directly into Perche and there were various safety hazards.
I don't have any coal related Bucks. This one has black micarta which looks a little coal like 🙂


Perche project before:


Same view after:
 
mbkr said:
Happy SPS

A few years ago PBS's "American Experience" did a documentary on the "Mine Wars". It was well done.
Half my family comes from the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee. I don't recall any of them being miners, but a couple drove coal trucks. Coal mining was a hard way to make a living.
The last twenty years of my career, I was the design engineer for abandoned coal mine reclamation projects. Below is the only set of before/after pics I have of same view. The before was talken in the winter, but it didn't look much better in the summer. No undergrowth and scraggly, sickly trees. The project was considerably larger than these pics show. The mine was located near the headwaters of Perche Creek in Boone County, Missouri. Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) was draining directly into Perche and there were various safety hazards.
I don't have any coal related Bucks. This one has black micarta which looks a little coal like 🙂


Perche project before:


Same view after:
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Nice.
Wasn't Michigan Tech. originally a mining school?

No mining experience here, but I've worked at a few coal fired powerplants thru the years.

The knife I was carrying outside today

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This is a Buck 391 Omni Hunter 10pt with a Sandvik 12C27m blade. It used to have a rubberized thermoplastic handle that while feeling good, was not very pretty. I used dymalux cocobolo for the handle. I debated putting Corby bolts in the handle, but decided against it. I thought the cocobolo would show more grain than this and in hindsight, I should have added the bolts for a little more contrast. The wood just looks plain to me. I guess the handle isn't rounded enough on the sides to really show the layers/grain of the laminated wood. I really like this blade design and to me, the 391 feels much better than the similarly sized 113. Buck should think about making this blade with a fancier handle.
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Great show so far. I'm always happy when we make page 2. Any reports from the St Louis Gateway Area Knife Club show this weekend? I see matthewtstock matthewtstock picked up a nice 112 yesterday (post #4). I belong to the club and normally attend but Penny had some minor surgery Friday so I opted to attend her instead.
 
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DOGPOUND77 said:
Just an old buck i had out admiring today.
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Love that knife DP. I remember having coal heating down in southern WV. We had a coal chute that led down to the basement. One pretty big floor vent that was like 24" x 24" and 36" high in the center of the house. We would put our pants and shirts on that floor vent to warm them up to go to school. One time I left some light brown corduroy pants on the vent a little too long. They had black stripes from the coal. I thought mom was going to blister my hide. But she didn't. :)
 
DeSotoSky said:
Another coal themed knife for the show, a 422 BuckLite with the handle marked COALITE.
The blade has the etch of a Miner with a pickaxe. Documented on the 1985 Special Projects List.
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Nice. The handle on that one's black? I have one I bought around that time, that took the place of my 110 for every day carry for a few years. It's sort of maroon, or maybe dark brown. I don't know.:)
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Ironbut said:
Nice. The handle on that one's black? I have one I bought around that time, that took the place of my 110 for every day carry for a few years. It's sort of maroon, or maybe dark brown. I don't know.:)
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Yes, the handle on the COALITE is black. The really dark Maroon was used early on, say '84/'85. There was also an Olive Drab.
My very first Buck knife was an '87 Olive Drab 422 .
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Uncle Timbo said:
Love that knife DP. I remember having coal heating down in southern WV. We had a coal chute that led down to the basement. One pretty big floor vent that was like 24" x 24" and 36" high in the center of the house. We would put our pants and shirts on that floor vent to warm them up to go to school. One time I left some light brown corduroy pants on the vent a little too long. They had black stripes from the coal. I thought mom was going to blister my hide. But she didn't. :)
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I remember the same whole program. 1950. Three years old. I would drop nuts down the 'big floor vent' in the summertime for the mice. Mom cured me.
 
When I was going thru the Special project lists looking for 112:'s I was impressed with the Coal mining Safety award Bucks.. Both in the amount ordered and the quality and features that the Company picked.. Very few low cost and many higher end fixed blades.
 
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