The Sunday Picture Show (February 6, 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 6th Some Golfing trivia.
1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower hits a Hole-in-One on the 13th hole at the 7 Lakes Country Club, Palm Springs CA
1971 Alan Shepard, Apollo 14, 5th man to walk on the moon, is the first man to play Golf on the moon.

This week I have a Buck model 521 Memory Series knife. A short lived series as near as I can figure from about 1992 to 1998. Seven different scenes were listed in the 1992 catalog. It is tough to find these in excellent condition. The image is a soft adhesive backed aluminum foil that dents easily so any pocket carry at all pretty much trashes them. The 521 picture knives were a lot less common than those found on the smaller 525's. In 2006 there was another short run of 521 picture knives called the Artist Series. The images were less fragile and on both sides. I never had any interest in playing Golf but did work on a Golf Course grounds crew summers and weekends while a college student, 1971 to 1975, it was a lot of fun.

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Here are the standard knives. The 521 VIP-I is above and the 522 VIP-II is shown below. Blade size is 2.75", same as the more familiar 501. The 521 has brushed stainless steel sides and the 522 is the fancier version with a polished blade and polished beveled frame edges. I have a 521 in my collection that sports a 522 blade. Both were introduced in the 1990 catalog. The 522 lasted thru 1998 and the 521 until 2001. The blade steel changed from 425m to 420HC in 1994. My 522 below has a 1989 date code so that would make it a first production knife with 425m. Interesting construction feature is that the blade pivot and frame pins are hidden. I wonder how Buck did that on such a thin knife.

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Hi Roger & All of the Buck knife enthusiast's,

Happy SPS I hope you are having a safe and peaceful weekend. Thank you Roger for hosting this event each week so that folks will come too it from far and wide to enjoy all things Buck. Also, thank you to each of you who takes the time to post a few photos or add to the conversation.

How about a knife or two similar to the VIP. However, uniquely different.





The Duck is a barrowed photo from an old sales site
 
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Thanks once more Roger for hosting the Sunday Picture Show. These are 110’s to which I have added cap screws to the pivots. #5X40TPI HeliCoils in the right hand scales and counterboring the left hand scales facilitate changing blades. I call them “slow switchers” because the screws must be removed to change blades. Selector models are “fast switchers”.View attachment 1736778
 
Thanks for another Sunday Picture Show, Roger, and the history around some of the lesser known knives that Buck has produced. Thanks to all who add photos and comments.
For today's show I have a 529, one of a series that Buck did with different animal skins used as the cover. This, eelskin, is the only one I have but several here have the entire series.
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Chilebrown can I help with your sickness and have you send me a few of your spectacular 110 knives. I see that you need to stop hoarding all the great knives you display every week. I only have a few but I plan to get more. Thank you and all who show the eye candy every week.
 
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Chilebrown can I help with your sickness and have you send me a few of your spectacular 110 knives. I see that you need to stop hoarding all the great knives you display every week. I only have a few but I plan to get more. Thank you and all who show the eye candy every week.
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Thankyou tommycopper1. It could be a sickness possibly but what a fun illness. Today's copper BG-42 bladed custom Buck 110 was created by Jason Motchan.
 
Love that Frontiersman. Can think of a few uses and not just for hunting. Heck of a defense knife for the woods.
 
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