The Sunday Picture Show (May 1, 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)

May 1st...May Day. May Day has many different meanings depending on the era and culture. May 1 falls about halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice Celebrated in Scotland and Ireland it marked the beginning of summer and was when crops were planted and cattle put out to summer pastures. Festivities were held to protect the cattle and crops. In the late 18th century America May 1 became to be associated with the Labor movement. May 1, 1886, 200,000 workers went on strike for an eight hour work day. Violence ensued and became what we know from history as the Haymarket riots.

Haymarket affair - Wikipedia

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Point of interest.... It has nothing to do the the International Distress Call MAYDAY. Phonetic equivalent of the French m'aidez (help me).

Mayday - Wikipedia

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For Show & Tell this week I have a Buck model 107 Scout. This knife originally appeared in 1973 as a 4" paring knife in the model 200 Empress Trio kitchen cutlery set. As a part of that set the knife did not have it's own model number. The knife became popular with husbands who borrowed it to use as a small game and fish knife. We find the knife in the 1976 catalog as the 107 Scout and was supplied with a pouch sheath. The knife I show here was a limited edition of 150 knives done for BCCI in 2006. Samber Stag handles with no pins and an ATS-34 mirror polished blade make a nice package. There was a second fancy 107 as part of the 2012 Legacy collection. It sported an elk handle with mosaic pins and a hammer/bolt gold etch on the blade.



As announced in the Septemmber 2006 Newsletter.


Image published in Harpers magaine. There were 8 deaths and 60 injuries.

 

[Pony_Hernandez]

My setup for today.

 

[matthewtstock]

Good Morning Gentlemen. Nary a 107 in my collection. I have developed an itch for the 102. My latest acquisition, from 1992...

 

[bertl]

A 107

Bert

 

[Chilebrown]

 

[2TONYB]

 

[Vaporstang]

Thanks for hosting the SPS!
Using an older picture of my 107. I have posted this photo several different times, each time telling myself I will get a better picture of it. And yet, here is the same old photo once again... Have a nice Sunday everyone!

 

[pjsjr]

Interesting and informative stuff, Roger, thank you for this week's Sunday Picture Show. I didn't know about the origination of the 'mayday' call for help or the eight hour work day. Thanks to all Buck fans that post and comment in this thread.

Last September I purchased this lot of five, '73-80, like new Bucks mainly to get this 107, that seemed new in the box..."Mayday, Mayday"

 

[jbmonkey]

thanks Roger for hosting, and thanks all for your pics.....

no 107s, so this guy today.....

 

[jmh33]

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I can play!!
John

 

[Haebbie]

My 107 and the comparing Empress Trio knife for your show, Roger. Thank you for your ongoing work. I'm looking forward to see some beautiful knives.

Haebbie

 

[longbow1968]

Loving the 107’s. You guys never fail to disappoint…

 

[DeSotoSky]

Here is the 2012 Legacy Collection model 107.
A run of 250, elk handles with mosaic pins, mirror polished 420HC, and a gold etched knife/bolt logo on the blade.

 

[DeSotoSky]

I've shown this before, A "Baby Scout". I purchased the knife and sheath together at a gun show and it was a head scratcher. I think the "story line" I was given at the time was that it was a salesman's sample. My WTF moment turned to a DUH moment when I realized what I had was an early 90's 3" paring knife stuck into a late 90's 475 Mini-Mentor sheath. The 2nd and 3rd pictures show it along with an actual 107 Scout (a 4" paring knife). I don't always believe everything I'm told but the price was right and it tickeled my fancy.

 

[DeSotoSky]

I came across this picture while looking for the pictures shown in the post above. I have no recollection of it other than it appears to be some 107's shown in the Steak Knife box. From the picture I can't make out if any of the knives have serrations.

 

[GPyro]

I like those knife sheath combos

Good show so far.

Here's a 402 s30v DLT exclusive.
Remember those?
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[tiguy7]

Thank you Roger for the SPS and the History lesson. Today I have a 110 Legacy take apart Aluminum knife with Olive Drab Micarta scales and a Lightning Damascus blade.View attachment 1806506

 

[pjsjr]

I don't always believe everything I'm told but the price was right and it tickeled my fancy.

Cool story Roger, glad the price was right. It doesn't usually work that way with me.

 

[topgun03]

A 2 line 106 with micarta spacers. I'm sure there's plenty out there but it's the first I've seen with micarta versus hard fiber spacers.

 

[pjsjr]

A 2 line 106 with micarta spacers.

...and with an inverted stamp