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Value on this Buck 110?

colubrid

colubrid

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Can anyone help me with putting a value on this 110.

Has three dots on the tang. Would like to know the value as I was thinking of selling or trading it.
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Value tends to be in the eye of the beholder. But the first thing that you need to do is establish. Is it just a user or does it have any value as a collectible.

There are a few things that I can quickly tell you from the pictures that could affect it's value as a collectible.
1. The ".110.." indicates that it's 1980 vintage.
2. The sheath is more recent vintage and is not original to the knife.
3. The knife is clean but it does not look like it's in original unused condition.

I'm sure other's will soon jump in.

Good luck with it.....Mike
 
Thats not the sheath to this knife in the picture. I have the original black sheath with the silver snap button.

SO with the original sheath and real world pricing (this forum) how much would this sell for $20, $30, $40...?
 
Basically I don't like the square bolsters and want to get a nickel 112. Would that be an uneven trade if i put it up in the classfieds here? I don't want to embarass myself.
 
You might get $30 delivered, if the original sheath is in good condition
 
colubrid said:
Basically I don't like the square bolsters and want to get a nickel 112. Would that be an uneven trade if i put it up in the classfieds here? I don't want to embarass myself.
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I don't think you'd be embarassing yourself. Someone may want an older 110 and not be into the 112NS they have laying around that much.
My "concern", if I had a 112NS to trade, would be item 3 in Mike's post above.
Good Hunting...
 
Buckaholic said:
My "concern", if I had a 112NS to trade, would be item 3 in Mike's post above.
Good Hunting...
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Is it the blade or the bolsters? The blade was sent to someone who refinshed it by taking out the scratches. The bolster has just been polished. A buffing wheel could probably take out the scratches.

Are you saying that early 110's are best left untouched and not polished or have sharpened or refinished blades?
 
colubrid said:
Are you saying that early 110's are best left untouched and not polished or have sharpened or refinished blades?
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That's purely an opinion of the individual collector...like patina: some demand it, some don't want it...

That blade refinish looks good. Wish I could do as well. Those bolsters will take a lot of sanding/buffing to get those gouges out. The brass almost looks like it has air bubbles from the casting...Is a 3-dot that old that Buck still used the old gravity casting??? :confused:

Boy...you sure have small hands...I can see why you'd want a 112 instead...have you considered the Buck 55 as a EDC? Nice and compact; won't drag down your pants, looks like a 110 but smaller...
 
chickentrax said:
The brass almost looks like it has air bubbles from the casting...Is a 3-dot that old that Buck still used the old gravity casting??? :confused:
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...Looks more like it was used to drive tacks in something and then buffed over...
:eek: :cool:
 
DarrylS said:
...Looks more like it was used to drive tacks in something and then buffed over...
:eek: :cool:
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I drove down to the PO last week and mailed my tacks return...should get a nice check back, both state and fed... :) ...both are already spent... :(
 
chickentrax said:
I drove down to the PO last week and mailed my tacks return...should get a nice check back, both state and fed... :) ...both are already spent... :(
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...Yeah...I know that feeling...My tacks "return" turned out to be "non-returnable" to me this year...Seems they had to be returned to the credit card companies before they got to me. My influx of new acquisitions from Buck and various places has been significantly reduced of late. Wish the wife had never learned how to access my CC acounts through the internet...:(
 
colubrid said:
Is it the blade or the bolsters? The blade was sent to someone who refinshed it by taking out the scratches. The bolster has just been polished. A buffing wheel could probably take out the scratches.

Are you saying that early 110's are best left untouched and not polished or have sharpened or refinished blades?
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To me, my reference to Mike's "item 3" is that it appears to have a finish on the scales and the boslters look like it's been mechanically buffed. The straight gouge on the rear bolster looks smoothed out and not abrupt.

That being said, someone will take it if you don't want it. I have an older Buck that has a finish of some sort on the scales. I don't polish my older ones too much, if at all, but that's only because I'm a lazy sheet.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4424098&postcount=19

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...Here's my last acquisition...I wish you could see the "patina" on this one. I'm really torn about removing it as it has been developing for a long long time...The blade swap was done by Wilde Bill...Thanks Jake...:thumbup:
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DarrylS said:
...Here's my last acquisition...I wish you could see the "patina" on this one. I'm really torn about removing it as it has been developing for a long long time...The blade swap was done by Wilde Bill...Thanks Jake...:thumbup:
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Thats a nice one. But what I don't undersatand is why is it okay to replace the blade and not alter a knife by removing patina, polishing ect?
 
colubrid said:
Thats a nice one. But what I don't undersatand is why is it okay to replace the blade and not alter a knife by removing patina, polishing ect?
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Probably the same reasoning as an antique car being repainted...Some collectors here say that it should be allowed to age naturally...and not be "restored" by removing some of the original finish...the same applies to dings, scratches, gouges I suppose...

As for replacing the blade, that pretty much destroys getting an accurate date of the knife...which I understand also devalues it as a collector item...even if it's a premium steel reblade...that knife DarrylS has pictured has a "new" profile blade in it; the proper blade profile for a 2-rivet is the long false edge blade...but it's BG-42, so I can understand why someone would want it rebladed with that blade...

But I'm not a collector; I could be wrong...
 
It's all personal preference Colubrid. Some guys here polish all their goods...goes back to sailor days or just the way they like them.
I polish bolsters using a cloth on my 110 BuffCote, my 110FG BG-42 Koa, 110 SamDam, 110 Idaho, and 110AG. It just depends.

But the old ones I leave alone.

And, similar to what Trax said, while we here may like D's knife, it is no longer a classic "oldie".
In fact, I think he should send that POS to me. ;)
 
[/COLOR]...I didn't say it was okay to replace the blade colubrid and keeping or removing a patina is actually a personal preference thing IMO...This knife, if it has any added value at all, might have that added value only because the blade was swapped out by one of the masters of Buck Customs from years ago. That be Wilde Bill Cody who no longer is a part of the Buck Custom Shoppe...A knife is worth what someone is willing to pay and only that much...I never buy for investment purposes...I buy 'cause I like 'em...:D ( ...and if the wife don't know it...heh heh heh... )
 
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