The Sunday Picture Show (February 20, 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 day in history February 20, 1962. John Glenn becomes the 1st American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7.
Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. WIKI
Quite the american hero he went on to serve as a Senator from Ohio for 24 years and in 1998 flew into space again at the age of 77 aboard the shuttle Discovery.

I have shown this one before but it is the only Buck knife I have relating to space flight. I originally thought the image looked like a Susquatch, turned out that it is an Apollo Space Suit. Hamilton Standard (became Hamilton Substrand) was involved with the suits and portable life support systems. The knife is c.1988. It took me awhile to figure that one out. I came across one of the old newsletters with a list of 505/506 limited editions, I think by Oden. If anyone knows which newsletter, let me know, I can not find the reference now. edit..I found it June 2011 Newsletter


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A second knife to help kick start the show. My recently received 212 Ironwood. I'm pleased with the wood and the edge grind is nicely uniform.
Those of you who already have a 212 know that the standard sheath does not do it justice.

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Do not particularly care for the box, you could put 10 knives in it. As someone who has to store (more than) 20 knife boxes it is a real pita. All of these magnetic boxes are just too big for what Buck puts in them. I guess it's simpler for Buck to inventory one size fits all.
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The swedge and blade grind do not merge to the tip symmetrically. Not noticible when you only look at one side.
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DeSotoSky said:
A second knife to help kick start the show. My recently received 212 Ironwood. I'm pleased with the wood and the edge grind is nicely uniform.
Those of you who already have a 212 know that the standard sheath does not do it justice.

Do not particularly care for the box, you could put 10 knives in it. As someone who has to store 20 knife boxes it is a real pita. All of these magnetic boxes are just too big for what Buck puts in them. I guess it's simpler for Buck to inventory one size fits all.
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Going overboard on the boxes while issuing uninspiring sheaths with the Legacy/Special Edition knives is something I would like Buck to reconsider.
 
DeSotoSky said:
A second knife to help kick start the show. My recently received 212 Ironwood. I'm pleased with the wood and the edge grind is nicely uniform.
Those of you who already have a 212 know that the standard sheath does not do it justice.

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Do not particularly care for the box, you could put 10 knives in it. As someone who has to store 20 knife boxes it is a real pita. All of these magnetic boxes are just too big for what Buck puts in them. I guess it's simpler for Buck to inventory one size fits all.
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The swedge and blade grind do not merge to the tip symmetrically. Not noticible when you only look at one side.
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I like to see things like a wee bit of assymetry as proof a human did the final grind :)
 
Roger, another interesting and informative issue of the Sunday Picture Show, thank you. Thanks also to those who post and comment.
If you only have the one space related Buck knife, I'm anxious to see what out Buck bothers have. I have none, but I do have a 212 with the Burgandy Micarta handles. Not sure if it was SK or C&C that had it made, a watch and some stamps that relate to the USA's space programs.

The USPS has issued commemorative stamps chronicling our space achievements. Before accumulating Buck knives I accumulated stamps and have the issue of John Glenn's 1962 Project Mercury flight as well as others. For more, if any of you are interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._space_exploration_history_on_U.S._stamps

The watch I purchased while in Viet Nam in the early seventies. I didn't know of it's significance then and not until I had it cleaned and serviced a few years ago.

This article is from GQ...
In the early 1970s, Nasa astronaut Colonel William Pogue was assigned to crew the first US space station, Skylab. In testing, Pogue did not have access to a standard-issue Omega Speedmaster as these weren’t supplied to astronauts until nearer launch. As an alternative, he bought a Seiko 6139 – the brand’s first automatic chronograph. Pogue liked it so much that in November 1973, when his time came to blast off for Skylab, he packed his new Speedmaster but also took his beloved Seiko without seeking Nasa approval. The 6139 thus became the first automatic chronograph in space. “I had been using the Seiko for well over six months (perhaps over a year) and had found it very handy for timing engine burns,” he would later explain in a letter to watch enthusiast David Bruno. And, Pogue continued, “the self-winding mechanism worked fine in zero-G.”
By Charlie Burton
30 June 2020
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