The Sunday Picture Show (December 18, 2022)

[DeSotoSky]

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)


December 18th, 1867 The "Angola Horror" train wreck. The worst train disaster at the time leading to upgrades in rail safety. East bound express train from Cleveland OH to Buffalo NY. 2.5 hours behind schedule and hurrying to make up time. The wooden passenger cars were heated with pot bellied stoves at each end and kerosene lamps for light. Of important note is that the car axles were a "compromise" to run on both the 56.5" standard gauge of the New York Central and the 58" gauge of Ohio. This allowed the cars too much side to side movement on the track causing instability, The rear most car snagged on a track frog, bending the axle and derailing. The car plunged down into an icy gorge landing at a steep angle. All the passengers were thrown to one end of the car onto the pot belly stove and the pot belly stove from the other end landed on top of them spilling the coals. The wooden car burnt quickly, fueled by the kerosene from the lamps and the stove coals. 49 were burnt to death in the fire, not all bodies could be identified.
The accident and the public outcry that arose from it influenced many railroad reforms that soon followed, including the replacement of loosely secured stoves with safer forms of heating, more effective braking systems and the standardization of track gauges. (Wiki)

This week I have a 105 Pathfinder. An ordinary 40 year old knife in not so ordinary NIB condition.
3-line tang stamp with 2 spacers would date this one to the '82-'85 time period.
In the box was the $33.99 original price tag from Ames. (department store chain 1958-2002)
I checked out of curiosity. The dealer cost in 1983 was $18, that would have made retail $36.

 

[Arian29]

Greetings,
thanks DeSotoSky for SPS, and all members and visitors who post pics and comment.
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[Chilebrown]

 

[BuckShack]

Happy SPS everyone. I still love the look of these. They will never go out of style.

 

[BuckShack]

 

[howiema]

Thank You for the SPS , a couple of my favorites here

 

[pjsjr]

Thank you another Sunday Picture Show Roger. Thanks also to those who post photos and comment.
I like all of the phenolic handled knives in the 100 series. The 118 being my favorite. The 105 is a close second.
This 2005, 105 was re-handled by Doris Yazzie. I have read that, at one time, she worked for David Yellowhorse.

 

[kyhunt]

Thank you once again for the SPS.

 

[topgun03]

 

[Uncle Timbo]

Good Sunday morning and thanks to Roger and all for posting pictures of your beautiful Buck knives.

 

[TAH]

How can I not post on the Pathfinder SPS.

 

[Vaporstang]

Thanks for hosting the SPS!!!

 

[timbits588]

Thanks DeSotoSky for the SPS.
I don't have any Pathfinders, but these struck my fancy today after seeing a few other wood handled examples posted and reading about the wooden train cars.
The site of that train wreck isn't too far from me (only about 40 minutes).

 

[jmh33]

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[jbmonkey]

thanks Roger for hosting. thanks all for posting pics and keeping it going......

120 pro today.....

 

[Old Hunter]

I have a long association with the Buck 105 Pathfinder. My Cousin Mac bought his at the MCX, Camp Lejeune NC in June 1966, it lives with me now.

I bought mine in late summer 1976 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground MD PX. It was my ARNG field knife and fixed blade hunting knife for many years. One of the best Buck Knives! OH

 

[matthewtstock]

Good Morning on this fine Sunday. Many Thanks to all involved that keep this a weekly tradition. For review this morning an inverted two line, bone hard fiber spacer 119 with Atchison sheath that I recently acquired. I gave the blade and sheath a home spa leaving the original owner's name intact (a must).......

topgun03 That is one fantastic twinset.

 

[bertl]

The sheath for this 105 dates the knife as 1968. Here's a bit of humor for another type of pathfinder.

Bert

 

[Old Hunter]

bertl great cartoon (I remember learning that song in Boy Scouts - where we sang it, rather poorly, but to the very top of our lungs! OH

 

[DOGPOUND77]

anonther white melamine barrel nut twinset...