The Sunday Picture Show (July 28th, 2024)

[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. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)

On this Day July 28, 1855 The USS Constellation is commissioned. Classified as a "sloop of war", and the second ship to carry the USS Constellation name. She was the last sail-only warship built for the US Navy. The original ship to carry the USS Constellation name was the (1797-1853) Frigate, and one of 5 sister ships to the USS Constitution, built for the fledgling US Navy. There was a mistaken belief that the new ship was a rebuild of the original Constellation, so the ship was modified to match the earlier vessel's appearance during refits in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Controversy over the vessel's identity lasted into the 1990s, The Navy did not dissuade that belief during her history but she is actually a completely different ship although some minor parts were used from the deconstructed original. She is designated a National Historic Landmark and preserved as a museum ship in Baltimore. Decommissioned in 1955, she last sailed on a training cruise to Gibralter in 1893.
5 Ships carry the name USS Constellation. The other 3 are:
CC-2 battle cruiser 1920-1923 (construction cancelled due to conditions of a 1922 Naval Arms Treaty, sold for scrap)
CV-64 aircraft carrier 1961-2003
FFG-62 guided missile frigate (under construction, 2029 delivery)

Read more about her operational history in Wiki.

USS Constellation (1854) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

YouTube virtual tour (9 minutes) worth watching IMO

Opening image this week is a 927 Slimline Skinner with a Water Buffalo Horn handle.
I would place this one early '80s Custom Shop because of the sharp vertical grind line adjacent to the tang.
"Generally" that line became more curved starting about 1984.

 

[MT_Pokt]

Happy SPS!


The wife and I visited the USS Constellation a few years back. If you've never been on a ship like that, it's nothing like the pirate ships in movies! Pretty cool experience!

Here are a couple of my 927s and a 929 Senior. I think I have 2 other 927s not pictured.



Off to the farm to cut up fallen trees today!

 

[Ironbut]

Years ago we took the kids, and grandkids down to Inner Harbor in Baltimore for a family outing at the Aquarium, and we visited the Constellation.
Nice knives this morning, as usual. And here I am with my morning cup of dark roast & a 50 year old 110.

 

[howiema]

Here are My EDC's, swapped out the pro hunter scales with the newer web exclusive I use when carrying in a sheath knda like it. Thank You Roger for the SPS

Oh yeah don't forget the sheaths Enjoy Pete

 

[Chilebrown]

 

[BuckShack]

Happy SPS. Nice weather = more yard work. Larrin Magnacut 501. Bring on the Magnacut!

 

[howiema]

I am going to double dip today yesterday was dads birthday he would have been 95, this is the one he gifted me many years ago.

 

[Old Hunter]

Its been hot lately, has me thinking cool thoughts. Buck 110 with D2 blade steel. OH

 

[bucksway]

Great show so far! My favorite fixed blades are the 927 type profile including the Gen-5. I have used a 212 for desk duty and like it also..I chased the Sturgis 112's as a nice subset but for some reason I never could find one NIB with all the paperwork. Maybe the box was hard to pack when riding home..

 

[GPyro]

Thanks Roger!
I look forward to seeing everyone's contributions.

Here's a 925, with a big burgundy micarta handle, BG42 blade right outta heat-treat.
And a beautiful leather sheath.

It's probably my favorite knife.

Thanks.

 

[Uncle Timbo]

Roger and everybody else, thank you for sharing Buck knives from your collections!
The USS Constellation reminds me of a 65' wooden pirate ship I was fortunate enough to help build in Snug Harbor, St. Petersburg. The Lady Barbara. I have a fondness for old black and white pirate movies and I love them so much I would of worked for free if I could of afforded it. I worked as a carpenter and it was a dream come true for me.
Forgive me if my link is not allowed. I'll remove it if so.

 

[DeSotoSky]

Uncle Timbo "carpeted and air conditioned" Pirates never had it so good!
It must have been very fun and interesting to help build, Thanks for sharing the link.

A cute little 525 with scrimshawed ships c.1996

 

[pjsjr]

Thanks Roger for your dedication to The Sunday Picture Show and thanks to all who post photos and comment in the thread.

A 315 with a nautical scrim on swordfish bill by Dale Fisk...

 

[jbmonkey]

thanks Roger for hosting the sps for us today.......

lot 'o' orange on me today.....

 

[mbkr]

Happy SPS

830 BOTM

 

[Invoice]

 

[pjsjr]

I Invoice great Macassar ebony cover on that 110, love it!

 

[SoDak81]

Good looking bunch

 

[SoDak81]

Awesome Sturgis Knife. Reminds me of the good old days of growing up in the Black Hills and going to the Rally with my dad and uncle.

Every respectable biker needs a 110 on their belt when they're out on the scooter.

 

[matthewtstock]

Good Evening Gents. Impressive show, as always. Many Thanks to all who continue to contribute on Sundays.

GPyro That is one sweet knife. I've not seen too many like her. Wondering where you acquired her. Perhaps DOGPOUND77 ?

howiema Love the collection of sheaths/knives. Exceptional V3 from your father.