The Sunday Picture Show (July 9th, 2023)

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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. Enjoy the show. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)

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On this day, July 9th, 1918 The Dutchman's Curve Train Wreck, Nashville TN
Est 121 deaths and 171 injured. The reason for the collision was human error. The westbound train was supposed to yield at a point where double tracks merged to a single track, but didn’t. That left both trains charging around the blind curve at about 60 miles per hour on the same track. When the trains collided the impact caused the wooden cars to telescope into one another, splintering and catching fire. The disaster led to improved rail car design as the great loss of life was blamed on the use of wooden passenger cars. Attention was also given to improvements in train operation signaling. An interesting (to me) side note, this was a 50-60 mph head on collision between two steam locomotives. I found reference that both locomotives were repaired and returned to service the following year. I think that remarkable as I would have thought both would have blown to smithereens. If you look at the 2nd picture it was said a crowd of 50,000 onlookers had gathered.
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Here is a rare 112 Ranger made for BCCI in 2011. Build quantity of 75.
Red (plum) Paperstone handle, barehead nickel silver finger groove frame, and a S30V drop point blade.
Hard to pick a favorite but this one is high on the list.
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Hello Everyone,
I have a knife that I think looks very good with nickel silver bolsters and matching Dymondwood scales without any pins from 1995.


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Happy SPS to all you Buck nuts. Thank you Roger and each of you who add to the conversations or add photos.

I do wish I had picked up the Plum colored BCCI 112 & 110s. However, the BCCI Sambar S30Vs were first, so I did not get the Plums when they came out.
 
Here's a 1991, I believe 1st production year, 192. In Buck's 1991 catalog it talks about the 191 & 192 and the 691 & 692 coming out later in the year.

In Buck's 1992 catalog it only lists the 192 & 692, no mention of the 191 & 691's, they show up in the 1993 catalog.

Does anyone know for certain when the 191 Zipper first became available?

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Thanks Roger, for doing the Sunday Picture Show, thanks to all who post photos and comment.
In a recent thread, paperstone 112 and 110 were discussed and mention of a black paperstone was made. For the longest time I thought this was black 'til I got it out in the sunlight. I also wish I would have bought that 'plum' 112, it's a peach.
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topgun03 said:
Here's a 1991, I believe 1st production year, 192. In Buck's 1991 catalog it talks about the 191 & 192 and the 691 & 692 coming out later in the year.
In Buck's 1992 catalog it only lists the 192 & 692, no mention of the 191 & 691's, they show up in the 1993 catalog.
Does anyone know for certain when the 191 Zipper first became available?
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The Vanguard and Quest were first listed in the 1991 catalog. They were released late in 1991 so any 1991 model is scarce. The original design of the guthook on the Quest was found by CJ on a hunting trip to be functionally too small and production was immediately halted. The guthook was redesigned to be larger and the knife re-released in 1992 as the Zipper. I believe the name related to someone commenting that the new guthook design opened the animal like a Zipper. Any 1991 is a tough find and the Quests are even rarer.

Comparison of the 1991 Quest and the 1992 Zipper guthooks. Notice the "PAT. PEND." on the Zipper.
Additionally notice the upright tang stamp orientation which later switched to the current horizontal orientation.
I think the orientation change happened around 1994 (?).
I have somewhere in the black hole a 1992 Zipper First Production run in a display box. I'll look for it and take a picture.
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topgun03 said:
In Buck's 1992 catalog it only lists the 192 & 692, no mention of the 191 & 691's, they show up in the 1993 catalog.
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My comment on that would be that the 1992 catalog would have been prepared and printed late 1991 so guthook redesign had not taken place in time for the catalog. I have noticed it is not uncommon to find Buck knives with a date code the year preceeding the first catalog appearance.
 
DeSotoSky said:
The Vanguard and Quest were first listed in the 1991 catalog. They were released late in 1991 so any 1991 model is scarce. The original design of the guthook on the Quest was found by CJ on a hunting trip to be functionally too small and production was immediately halted. The guthook was redesigned to be larger and the knife re-released in 1992 as the Zipper. I believe the name related to someone commenting that the new guthook design opened the animal like a Zipper. Any 1991 is a tough find and the Quests are even rarer.

Comparison of the 1991 Quest and the 1992 Zipper guthooks. Notice the "PAT. PEND." on the Zipper.
Additionally notice the upright tang stamp orientation which later switched to the current horizontal orientation.
I have somewhere in the black hole a 1992 Zipper First Production run in a display box. I'll look for it and take a picture.
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Great, now I’ve added 2 knives to my wanted list, the 1991 Quest and 1992 Zipper. My interest is in the wood 191’s but if I came across a 691 Quest I’d certainly try to get it too now that I know they exist.

Thanks for the info
 
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