DeSotoSky
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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)
Was a bit busy and a bit lazy today so this week I'm doing repeats. I'm going to post some random fillet knife pictures.
Not everyone has them but if you do, let's see them. I'll try to find some interesting ones. Most of these are older and not the best pics.
First up, the model 126 Alaskan Guide Fillet. TiN coated blade in S30V. Rosewood Dymondwood handle and full tang. No model number, just BUCK/USA. It has the tiniest date code I've ever seen just after the A, I had to use a magnifying glass.
The model 021 Clearwater Bait Knife. Slightly stiffer 5" blade with some serrations on the spine. There is a matching 6" and 9" fillet. I don't think they made the Bait Knife very long, The red handled ones were 420HC.
Interesting Cedar Creek Fillet by the Iron Mountain Knife Company (now defunct). Buck made the blades for these.
127 Oceanmate with custom Stag handle. This one is factory with a 2010 COA. (not my picture)
The short 4.5" 125 StreamMate fillet is not as common as the 123 and even less so with serrations. Shown here with a brown Kraton handle c.1986.
125 StreamMate and 127 OceanMate with Yellow Kraton handles. They are listed but not pictured in the 1984-1986 catalogs. The catalog refered to the color as "Nautical Yellow". The yellow Kraton knives came with black leahter sheaths as opposed to the normal brown leather. I do have the 123 somewhere.
Would not be complete without a Buck 121 with horizontal stamp. This would be the earliest, 1964 I think. I would have thought that this knife would have had a keeper strap sheath originally, but in 1964 holster style sheaths were being introduced, I wonder if with was available optionally or is this just a replacement sheath. Regardless, it's the sheath it came with. The 121 was bumped from its Fisherman status when Buck introduced the Kraton handled Mate series fillet knives in 1984. The 1985 catalog lists the 121 as the Guide. The scalers disappear just after the start of the 2-line era. A 2-line fiber spacer knife with a scaler might be the hardest variation to find.
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