The Sunday Picture Show (May 16, 2021)

[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)

This week I have a story of how I found this knife. There is a small knife show put on every November by the Jefferson County Knife Club in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. It is a 90 mile drive, Penny and the pup always accompany. While I check out the show Penny reads a magazine or walks the dog. In return for letting me go to the knife show I take Penny to check out some of the local antique malls. I spied the tip of this custom sheath sticking out from under something in one of the display cabinets but was unable to see what was in it so I had to fetch the attendant to open the cabinet. What a pleasant surprise, I pointed out that the knife did not properly go with or fit the sheath and asked if they could take any less. The mall called the booth holder who agreed to $50 off the price. The best knife find of the day was not at the knife show but at the Antique Mall on the way home. I found a home for the sheath with a deserving 120 General.

About the knife. Joe Houser did a short review of the 122/124 knives in the December 2006 newsletter. The white teflon spacer knives were about the first 300-500 made. This one would be the second variation. The first approximately 50 knives were marked BUCK*, had a slightly smaller handle, and the lanyard hole was in the center of the pommel.

 

[jbmonkey]

thanks Roger for hosting the show. Aryan isn't here yet but sure he will be soon. im still up so im jumping in early on this SPS. this ones on my belt so its getting the post tonight..

dont worry i got a story for this one.....so I wanted a no fuller 119. didnt really want to pay custom shop prices, but no other easy option really. so other than the no fuller s30v and brass upgrade costs....picked cheapest handle I could get minus the phenolic choice to keep the price lower. there ya go.....my story.

 

[skylercstevens]

Very nice find Roger. Here’s his daddy pulled from Buck archives. One liner 122/124 concept/prototype with I’m assuming lucite.

 

[Arian29]

Greetings,
Thanks DeSotoSky for SPS and all participants.

I have a 309 and 640 XL with stories.
Both these knives were not easily available to me. I had to put in extra effort to acquire ‘em.

309 was no more in production, and out of stock at dealers. but this knife was BNIB with a friend, she knew I liked it - she liked it too, so I offered her a 112 FG (new) in exchange and she accepted after a while.

Blade Forums 2018:
I didn’t book it on initial release/offer, because I joined BF in May2018, and was not much into Traditionals back then. After seeing the pics here, I placed a request on BF exchange and was lucky enough to get it. It’s one of the best BUCK knives imho.

Aryan

 

[Arian29]

640 XL,
This knife has a story of it’s own. It was a tribute to six employees who devoted 40 or more years to Buck Knives.

It was not easily available (to me) but with the help of a Buck dealer finally I got it.
My most cherished Buck Knife.

.

 

[Old Biker]

O.B.

 

[Haebbie]

Thank you, Roger for another picture show and to all the others who fill the show with life. Here’s my very first 122/124 - flower power a it’s best.

haebbie

 

[Arian29]

My first big Buck knife #124,

 

[caquino]

In the mid 70's, I went up to Oregon to visit my Mom and Step-Dad (Roy).

While my real Dad and I had a very acrimonious relationship, Roy and I hit off in a big way.

Ironic... because Roy and real his son weren't on speaking terms either. I think we took to each other because I was what he wanted his son to be, and Roy was the Dad I never had.

At the time, his son and I were about the same age, in our early 20's... gawd, that feels like such a lifetime ago .

Anyway, during that trip, Roy pulled me aside and took me to a storage shed in the side yard, opened it and said "this all is going back with you, I don't want my blankity-blank son getting his hands on it when I die".

In the shed was multiple machinist tool chests, (now vintage) RCBS and Pacific reloading equipment, and other assorted stuff. In a box with fishing gear was these 2 unused items that have been that way ever since I got them.

But the most cherished knife he gave me wasn't a Buck, it is his Ka-Bar USMC fighting knife, that he carried as a young Marine Corporal in WWII, and was made by him into a "theater knife" aboard ship while enroute to some Pacific location. As with many WWII vets, he seldom spoke of his service.

 

[Arian29]

You got some very fine 124s,,,, red Linen and others I’ve seen

Thank you, Roger for another picture show and to all the others who fill the show with life. Here’s my very first 122/124 - flower power a it’s best.

haebbie

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[Haebbie]

You got some very fine 124s,,,, red Linen and others I’ve seen

Yes, Aryan, through the time I found some good ones.

 

[mbkr]

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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 week I have a story of how I found this knife. There is a small knife show put on every November by the Jefferson County Knife Club in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. It is a 90 mile drive, Penny and the pup always accompany. While I check out the show Penny reads a magazine or walks the dog. In return for letting me go to the knife show I take Penny to check out some of the local antique malls. I spied the tip of this custom sheath sticking out from under something in one of the display cabinets but was unable to see what was in it so I had to fetch the attendant to open the cabinet. What a pleasant surprise, I pointed out that the knife did not properly go with or fit the sheath and asked if they could take any less. The mall called the booth holder who agreed to $50 off the price. The best knife find of the day was not at the knife show but at the Antique Mall on the way home. I found a home for the sheath with a deserving 120 General.

About the knife. Joe Houser did a short review of the 122/124 knives in the December 2006 newsletter. The white teflon spacer knives were about the first 300-500 made. This one would be the second variation. The first approximately 50 knives were marked BUCK*, had a slightly smaller handle, and the lanyard hole was in the center of the pommel.

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Eureka! moments are fun

 

[pjsjr]

In 2005, Thompson Center Arms added TC No 15, Buck Nessmuk to their collectibles. Having joined this forum earlier that year I didn't see the announcement until the edition was sold out and the few that were for sale were way over(one here on the Bucks For Sale, $500.00) the issue price of $161.95. I loved the shape and history of the knife and being by Buck made it a no brainier. I had been running labrador retrievers in field trials and had a lot invested in that venture so had to shelve it(buying the 'muk) until I got out of the field trial game.

Some time(2016) ago I saw one had sold on the bay and it rekindled my desire for this knife. I remembered someone posted on the here about skylercstevens and his ability to dig out obscure Bucks so I messaged him. He got back to me(thank you Skyler) with a link to a thread in another forum where a fellow was asking about the value of the Thompson Center No 15 Buck Nessmuk...I was so excited that I didn't notice that it was a two year old post! I joined that forum, messaged him, and ask if he still had it and if he was willing to sell. I even told him the price the one had sold for!
He lived in Canada, and after many messages, emails and help from one of the BF mods(who lives there) with the shipping and money exchanges with/to/and/from Canada, the knife #146 of 150, I had wanted for years is now with me...

 

[pjsjr]

This week I have a story of how I found this knife.

Thank you Roger for taking on the SPS. I like that you sometimes have themes that we can or can't follow. I love knife stories, so this week's edition is special, for me.
Thanks to all who post photos and tell their stories.

 

[IDhorace]

Idaho 2005 Bucks

Mrs ID was born in Idaho, and I’ve been coming here from an adjoining state since 1967 (skiing, work, etc). So when our youngest was about done with HS we started talking about moving back to Idaho. That happened for us at the end of 2005. Which, coincidentally, was the year Buck Knives moved to Idaho from that other place. Over time I have picked up some of the 2005 dated offerings from Buck and placed them into the collection as commemoratives more of our own move than Buck’s. And I’m grateful that the company chose to use the special date code to remind us. That's my story... and please don't "go all lumber" on your 2005 offerings now you know someone buys them ;-)

 

[matthewtstock]

This 124 was the first knife I bought just because I had to have one. It was 2009 when I first discovered the Frontiersman and unfortunately the model had been discontinued. I was more careful with my hard earned dollars back then and was not interested in paying whatever they were selling for on the bay. Luckily I found an old listing on craigslist and was happy to pay the $100 the seller was asking. The knife had been on a few "camping trips" and was a little beat up. I think that is about the time I found bladeforums and learned of the spa. A short while later I had satisfied my need for a 124, little did I know the "need" is never ending, which is OK by me.

 

[mbkr]

This 1991 303 was the last pocket knife my Dad carried. I think my late uncle Willie - my Mom's youngest of five brothers and only 12 years older than me. He lived with us for a while and he was more like an older brother than an uncle - anyway, I think Willie gave the knife to Dad. He carried it for many years and it saw a lot of use. I don't know what he did to the clip blade. Dad could sharpen a knife, just using a medium stone, really well, so... not sure what he did.
Wish I knew the story
Dad's last knife:

 

[TAH]

Owned and operated since 1973, this one comes with stories spanning 48 years. Everything from protecting me from imaginary Indians on trail rides as a kid to exploring Monument Valley a few years ago.

 

[Chilebrown]

 

[matthewtstock]

Idaho 2005 Bucks

The Idaho marked blades are a favorite of mine as well. I just sent this little beauty in for a touch up. An old two pin that someone had re-bladed with an Idaho blade.