What I would love to see buck re-introduce!

[jb4570]

I like to see Buck open a full service Custom shop again. I have ordered a custom shop 110 (a first for me and it's for my mate). But, I'd like to be able to order any knife from Buck and to have them make a complete custom to my design would be to cool!!!!

jb4570

 

[jackknife]

What I'd LOVE to see;

1.The wrangler come back.

2. The cadet in those poly pearl handles.

 

[WilltheBarb]

I’d like to see the fixed blade sets make a come back, a skinner/capper set or maybe a skinner/110 set. That would be cool. How about a hand axe/110 set in a common sheath. Set it up with the axe and knife horizontal in the small of your back. That would help to keep it out of the way while going through brush and would keep the weight distributed nice and low and evenly distributed. The more I think about it the more I like it.

 

[Guntotin_fool]

I realize the business model has been set by Bucks desire to sell thru the big box stores, but I would prefer to see them abandon the China operation and strictly make American knives. Put the three flags on the package, (www.madeinusa.com) and sell it for what it costs. I personally do not buy things on price, I buy on quality. I have told Joe I keep a Woodsman given to me by my father in 1972 in a shadowbox over my desk as a reminder of the good times that knife accompanied my father and I on. You don't tend to keep that sort of fondness for overseas knockoffs.

I realize that my words are not that strong, but I believe the MADE IN THE USA label still means an awful lot to most of Bucks Customers.

I am a contractor who long ago learned the price of cheap tools, spend a bit more for something that will last your grandkids lifes. Once you learn to buy that way, you suddenly end up with a lot more money. Let's face, paying 10 or 20% more for a product that will last your lifetime is a true bargain. Build it that way, sell it that way.

As an outdoorsman, I also would prefer that my tools and equipment be made in a place that respects the earth and its resources, today China is an armpit in the industrial areas because there is no pollution monitoring, no clean burn furnaces and forges. It looks like Gary Indiana in the 1960's.

As for products i wish they brought back, the 181 Odyssey, in the ATS blades, I just do not find the 420 to be as good, and again, for the money, the upgrade is very cost effective.

I would also like a new knife, marry the blade of the pathfinder, with the size of a woodsman, a slightly heavier duty woodsman, perhaps with a drop point or less of a scalloped out clip point.



(Edited to add, by the phrase "Sell it for what it costs" I do not mean selling it at "cost" but selling it at a price that gives Buck fair return on its investment, meaning disregard the market pressure to sell to a price point, but price it to a quality point.)

 

[bigfish44]

I would like to see the 107 with micarta handle come back

 

[Maverick4546]

I would like to see a dedicated Buck sharpening system with the angles marked specifically for Buck knives. With a tech sheet (which can be downloaded for updates) with all the factory angles for all the Buck knives (past and present)

I would love to see a Europe specific Buck - no lock - sub 3" - folding hunter type knife.

 

[rnr]

The new BuckMaster 184 (version 0.2) ought to be made with an integral one-piece hollow handle blade - just like a Chris Reeve Survival Knife. I suppose that would be EXPENSIVE to manufacture states side but that's how most folks would want it?

Looks like I was on the same page as some of you guys. I liked the old BuckMaster, but it was just too cheaply built for me. And I'd like to see it redesigned too.

 

[Mike Kerins]

I'd really like to see Buck offer the old linen micarta as an option on their knives; both black and the deep red. :thumbup:

 

[DarrylS]

I'd really like to see Buck offer the old linen micarta as an option on their knives; both black and the deep red. :thumbup:

...In total agreement with Mike on this...:thumbup:

 

[300Bucks]

319 Rancher but with a flat diamond sharpener blade instead of a leather punch. Or a 321 with a choke tube blade instead of a gut hook. Since they are meant for field users how about a slighty subdued orange scale....just a thought

 

[GIRLYmann]

Guntotin_fool: Agreed!
However I would just like to add that the problem with off-shore products is the question of integrity and not really a question of workmanship. Meaning the trustworthiness of an OEM in delivering an end-product which meets up to the exact specifications; and then live-up to the full expectation of the customer. A quality product can be manufactured anywhere in the world; as it really boils down to having good work ethics, which shows up as a workforce having a cheerful "corporate culture" in having completed an honest days work - and that especially so for everyone in production. Instilling pride in ones work is something which must be taken seriously by management. Substandard materials use in manufacture is not the fault of the ordinary worker. Poor skills makes for shoddy workmanship. That's entirely correctable with stricter QC. Having all the right people - makes all the difference in the long run. Great people deliver great goods. Poor management makes nothing but great loss. Having said that, I am certain that all OEM's realize that there won't be re-orders if they fail to make the grade.

 

[Guntotin_fool]

GIRLYmann.

I agree in concept, but in practice, I have never found anything that has been shipped off shore to stand up to the quality of something that it replaced. UNLESS and this is the big one, it is a foreign car that has been offshored to the USA. The biggest surprise to all of the foreign automakers has been the unflagging quality of the american made product.
Toyota, BMW, Nissan, VW, and others have all built plants here and then found out that the best made cars in their line up are the ones built here.

I suppose someone can find some other places that are the exceptions, but I am exposed to tools every single day, they earn my living, and I will tell you that factually, tools made overseas and brought back here never stack up to the original MADE IN THE USA tool. I am sure it is troubling for some to say this. For a while I was selling building security products and we tried hard to keep stuff made here. When we visited Vendors in singapore, malaysia, and other places, we found in almost all cases, decrepit machinery, very low reinvestment in the infrastructure of production, People who were in no way considered "team members" and looked up at Us and the management with utter fear and loathing.

We did find a few exceptions but for the most part, that was the resources available. We found one factory in India that was very modern, seemed to be very well run, and staffed entirely by young women. They made a very good product but it made your skin crawl, no idea why, it if was teh women only workforce, and the all male management, or what, but you got the feeling all was not copasetic there.

"A quality product can be manufactured anywhere in the world" maybe, but not the norm. Work force skills are product of a lifetime of education in most cases, and when the education is not there, then the products are not there.

I understand in theory that a lot may be possible, but in reality, its going to take lots more than just opening a factory to make good products.

 

[GIRLYmann]

See your point. Some things should always remain American-made. Like a harleyD for instance; wouldn't be the same if it was built elsewhere. For such is the high market esteem for reknown US products that people remain faithful customers - past, present and future. Now there in lies an excellent example of how an American product should always be made - being largely overbuilt, loud in every way and chromed to the last bolt. One can almost always feel the great sense of pride and true workmanship emitting from the sight of one. It's a global head turner which screams "America, Number One!".
That's it then! The new BuckMaster MUST BE "made in the US"; let it become an icon of American ingenuity and a source of great national pride.

BTW, if you had noticed that people in INDIA are largely improvished. But as a people that all demand that the life span of their material purchases last more than a generation. For instance note the abscence of kitchen glassware for common everday use. Car's which are running antiques. And womenfolk who are dressed in traditional robes which were fasionable ages ago in ancient Greece or Rome! And yes, men are still MEN there.

 

[Mansour]

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