The Sunday Picture Show (September 21st, 2025)

[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)
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On this Date, September 21, 1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major John André plans to West Point. A strategic fort on the Hudson, control of the Hudson river valley would effectively divide the colonies in half giving the British the upper hand. Andre was captured, the plot uncovered, and he was hung. Arnold escape to New York, and went on to accept a commission with the British. The story of how Arnold went from being a Revolutionary War hero, trusted by G Washington, to someone whose very name became the definition of traitor is very complicated and I'm not even going to try except to say it contains all the elements of bravery, ambition, lack of recognition, financial hardship, and for sure he was more than a little twitterpated with an 18y/o beauty whose family were British loyalists. The YouTube video link above is 9:15, the narrator is a bit corny but I enjoyed his story telling the most.
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My opening this week is a beautiful and unique Buck 106 with a Red Birch handle. Beautiful because this knife has the most attractive Red Birch laminated handle I've ever seen. The pictures do not do it justice. Unique because of the Red basket weave pattern sheath. I've never seen another like it and is the reason I purchased this axe. The axe has a 1988 date code and that would fall in the time of the original Custom Shop. The axe and handle must have been "selected" IMO. The seller had this to say about the origin of the axe and sheath...

My neighbor ran the leather shop at Buck in El Cajon CA. It may have been a proto type that he tried out for pre production.

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[Tecate]

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)




My opening this week is a beautiful and unique Buck 106 with a Red Birch handle. Beautiful because this knife has the most attractive Red Birch laminated handle I've ever seen. The pictures do not do it justice. Unique because of the Red basket weave pattern sheath. I've never seen another like it and is the reason I purchased this axe. The axe has a 1988 date code and that would fall in the time of the original Custom Shop. The axe and handle must have been "selected" IMO. The seller had this to say about the origin of the axe and sheath...

My neighbor ran the leather shop at Buck in El Cajon CA. It may have been a proto type that he tried out for pre production.

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That is a beautiful axe/sheath combination.

I only have modern versions of the 106:

 

[Arian29]

Greetings,

 

[Arian29]

 

[Ironbut]

Thanks for the SPS Roger. I hope everyone's having a great weekend.

 

[howiema]

Some old posts from years ago , Thank You for the SPS Roger and all whp contribute. Enjoy Pete

 

[kyhunt]

Thank you again for another SPS. I need to take some new pictures. Here’s a snapshot from a few months ago at a motel. I actually kind of like the picture.

 

[Chilebrown]

 

[matthewtstock]

C Chilebrown very nice 110. I am wondering who Cecil Clark was? Google did not give me any information.

Real nice knives this morning gents. Many Thanks to all who participate. Unfortunately, I have nothing new to offer this morning.

 

[Chilebrown]

Cecil Clark originally had a knife distributorship in Ohio. He relocated to Newport Kentucky and opened a retail shop with his knife distributorship called the “Cecil Clark Knife Company”. One of these samples was displayed in the shop. The business closed down two years ago. This information was given to me by an ex-employee; Greg Smith.

 

[Uncle Timbo]

Good morning all. Fantastic SPS! My thanks to Roger and everybody who participates.
Roger, that's one beautiful hatchet.

 

[matthewtstock]

Thank You Paul. I dig the design of his sign.

 

[bertl]

Buck introduced the N1 Series in 1989. The series included about eight models with serrated blades. Production numbers varied, but with only 700 or so knives, the 317N1 had the lowest number of knives in the series.

 

[hunterjrg]

 

[wackafew]

Happy SPS everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying your Sunday.
Always nice to see some handsome Buck knives! This 110 came out of Leroy Remer's shop. Buffalo horn and Mammoth tooth spacer.

 

[tongueriver]

Buck introduced the N1 Series in 1989. The series included about eight models with serrated blades. Production numbers varied, but with only 700 or so knives, the 317N1 had the lowest number of knives in the series.

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I wish I had my example; I foolishly let it go several years ago. Imperial Schrade either made the knife or at least the serrated (Wonda Edge) blade or sold BUCK a license to make it, or maybe even Camillus had a hand. Anyway the serrated blade is a patented Schrade. Hey... that even rhymes.

 

[bertl]

I wish I had my example; I foolishly let it go several years ago

I got this one from Larry Oden about 12 years ago.

Bert

 

[Culprit99]

Duck, duck, goose.

440C, 440C, D2.

https://flic.kr/p/2ruK6U1

 

[DOGPOUND77]

joe houser custom golaith

 

[DeSotoSky]

Model 123N1 LakeMate with serrated blade. This one is date code 1989. I did not find the 123N1 with a quick look in the catalog but 1990 shows 4 other "N1" code serrated knives. The 301N1, 105N1, 110N1 and 426N1. To find all 5 1990 serrated knives would be a collecting accomplishment.

1990 Catalog