Thoughts on what little you can see of this Buck?

CaseyChaos · Nov 16, 2014

Anyone seen this new model?

David Martin · Nov 16, 2014

Casey, The handle looks good. Go Aggies! DM

gedlicks · Nov 16, 2014

That's a new one for me. Looks good.

oregon · Nov 16, 2014

Anatomical and good looking removable grip. Huge choil and thumb hole for excellent fine control of the business end of the knife.

DeSotoSky · Nov 16, 2014

It kinda looks like a follow up on the Thorn. It was suggested more knives along that line would be coming.
Read the last sentence.... "many new designs to come".
539 is a recycled model number, originally the TruBlue fillet.
OK teaser, where did the picture come from?

oregon · Nov 16, 2014

A companion frosty photo, from Buck's facebook images https://www.facebook.com/Buckknives/photos_stream?ref=page_internal , for your amusement:

Stumps · Nov 17, 2014

I see that Buck is referring to this as their new "Open Season Bird Knife" due out in 2015.

skyhorse · Nov 18, 2014

Very nice.

J Hubbard · Nov 18, 2014

That is one of our new Flagship hunters

Jeff

skyhorse · Nov 18, 2014

oregon said:
Anatomical and good looking removable grip. Huge choil and thumb hole for excellent fine control of the business end of the knife.

I like that choil as well.:thumbup:

RAZORBLADES · Nov 18, 2014

Great looking knife ,except for the cut out that serves no purpose I can see whatsoever,I don't buy any knives with cut outs like that.it makes me wonder why they do that to a great looking knife,does it appeal to new knife buyers?because it sure doesn't appeal to me.

155440 · Nov 18, 2014

RAZORBLADES said:
Great looking knife ,except for the cut out that serves no purpose I can see whatsoever,I don't buy any knives with cut outs like that.it makes me wonder why they do that to a great looking knife,does it appeal to new knife buyers?because it sure doesn't appeal to me.

You can stick your thumb there to choke up on the blade. I have one on my paklite skinner and it works well enough for what it's designed for.

RAZORBLADES · Nov 19, 2014

155440 said:
You can stick your thumb there to choke up on the blade. I have one on my paklite skinner and it works well enough for what it's designed for.

No..I don't think so,I have folders with holes and its only used for blade opening,I don't stick my thumb in them to choke p on a blade,lol..it's just a weak point that serves no purpose on a fixed blade knife..I have a lot of buck fixed blade knives and not one time have I Sid to myself man all this knife needs is a hole in the blade...lol

Mitch110 · Nov 20, 2014

How did they get the birds to stay still for the photograph ?

Just kidding ! Nice looking tool there.

oregon · Nov 22, 2014

Mitch110 said:
How did they get the birds to stay still for the photograph ?

oregon · Nov 22, 2014

DeSotoSky said:
OK teaser, where did the picture come from?

The image is from Instagram: http://instagram.com/buckknives

155440 · Nov 22, 2014

RAZORBLADES said:
No..I don't think so,I have folders with holes and its only used for blade opening,I don't stick my thumb in them to choke p on a blade,lol..it's just a weak point that serves no purpose on a fixed blade knife..I have a lot of buck fixed blade knives and not one time have I Sid to myself man all this knife needs is a hole in the blade...lol

No, it's definitely a thumb hole to be utilized for an alternative grip, when Ron Hood was describing his knife he designed for buck, he did discuss choking up on the blade for finer detail work.

Here are some pictures demonstrating what I mean on a paklite skinner

RAZORBLADES · Nov 22, 2014

I use knives a lot,most of my fall is spent in the woods hunting and enjoying the outdoors,doing a lot of things that require a knife.ill sayit again,fixed blades need no cut outs added ,this is some designers dream that someone gave the nod on,I've handled plenty of the pak lite knives,definitely not or me,I've never met anyone that likes th looks of these cut out cookie cutter knives...

wfsltt · Nov 23, 2014

DeSotoSky said:
It kinda looks like a follow up on the Thorn. It was suggested more knives along that line would be coming.
Read the last sentence.... "many new designs to come".
539 is a recycled model number, originally the TruBlue fillet.
OK teaser, where did the picture come from?

I like the basic blade design, but the handle needs some serious improvement to make it sell. The sheath nees redesigned too. They need to loose the metal name tag and screws and put a full wood handle on it. The handle needs to cover the hole in the handle too. The hole just adds a place for guts and blood to gather making the knife harder to care for and the hole adds nothing for pinch holding that a good properly designed wood handle would do better.

wfsltt · Nov 23, 2014

CaseyChaos said:
Anyone seen this new model?

On this the hole needs to go away and again...full wood handle. Do not leave the spine of the blade exposed it just makes you hand hurt if you use the knife very long. It would also be nice to see this in full flat grind rather than hollow grind. I do like the trend, but the design needs refined a bit to make it a good knife.