What if: Custom Shop 300 series

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What if they offered the 300 series in the custom shop? You can choose bolster materials, scales, any combination/number of blades. Do you think it can happen?

I'd go for a 303 frame, NS bolsters, oak scales, clip and coping blade, sharing the pivot like a proper jack knife. Yeah.
 
301 with nickle silver bolsters, redbone scales and the clip, spey, and sheepfoot arrangement. Or brass and rams horn scales, Oh! I know! water buffalo scales.......Oh man. This would really cost me...........
 
OK, Here's the Blade Show scoop, I am sure we will hear it again in Idaho and I don't think it is an industry secret. The tooling/machines for the 300s are getting old and worn, That area is really not capable of doing premium steel cut-outs and milling effectively. Buck is beginning to replace that tooling and will be in much better shape to offer some 300 'perks' in the future. No custom shop was mentioned just regular production. The future was defined as several years, naturally a slower change than we want is the norm as such machinery is expensive and is bought in work zone amounts. Scale options are available and I was 'pushy' at least for that, so don't hold your breath. Yellow and Dark Dymondwood are on the way out. We did get brass and rosewood as a replacement. Now if we can at least get an quality jigged bone, I will be able to make the several year transition...ha (I consider quality to mean a random jigging pattern).

In discussions of the past at knife shows, etc. the custom shop reasoning has always been to have only enough models as it can handle as it is a special work area. Also the higher end knives such as 500s are considered more special than the 300s, which are considered everyday knives.

So there you go, my outlook is that maybe before I get senile there will be a fancy scaled 300 with special steel blades. Oops I amaybetherealready...

Who ami I? 3 something.
 
300Bucks said:
So there you go, my outlook is that maybe before I get senile there will be a fancy scaled 300 with special steel blades. Oops I amaybetherealready...

Who ami I? 3 something.
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Welcome to the Buck forum 3 something!! ;)
 
I'd like to see a 301 with burgundy micarta scales, nickel or stainless bolsters with clip, sheepsfoot and an awl/file.
 
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Ok, we can still play for fun.....

A 301 in special scale (jigged bone, horn, stag or elk) with special steel. Either the Swedish specials or s30. AND, applause here, Clip, full length heavy sheepsfoot/warcliff and Badhammers awl. I think you would see the awl as a smooth awl like the last model of the 319. This knife could hold its head high when someone called it a "stockman" but would almost be as useful as a Scout knife, hey maybe the awl would have a small Phillips head as its tip......300

Example for smooth awl. I think a Phillips tip would work. Put the awl by the main clip blade and sheepsfoot/Warcliff on the other end.


Here's a Photoshop 300 I made a long time ago, maybe will make a new one.


Here is fake photo of what I call good jigged bone....
 
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I'd like to see the flat grinds, brass liners and a quality bone , stag, ram or wood handle on a 301 or yikes a 307:D. Heck if the brought the flat grind back I would do what I could to have a full set of the 300s. To me the 300 series should have a flat grind. But that's just my opinion. Man now that would be a dream knife for me. The 307 reintroduced with the flat grind rams horn scales or stag 3 blades . I'm sad now since it doesn't exists.
 
So if I show these pictures your gonna be OK ? 300






Old Custom Shop did it. I actually dislike the differences in front to back. It irks me when sides are not half-way matched.
 
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300Bucks said:
Ok, we can still play for fun.....

A 301 in special scale (jigged bone, horn, stag or elk) with special steel. Either the Swedish specials or s30. AND, applause here, Clip, full length heavy sheepsfoot/warcliff and Badhammers awl. I think you would see the awl as a smooth awl like the last model of the 319. This knife could hold its head high when someone called it a "stockman" but would almost be as useful as a Scout knife, hey maybe the awl would have a small Phillips head as its tip......300

Example for smooth awl. I think a Phillips tip would work. Put the awl by the main clip blade and sheepsfoot/Warcliff on the other end.


Here's a Photoshop 300 I made a long time ago, maybe will make a new one.


Here is fake photo of what I call good jigged bone....
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Thanks for the pics. i'm thinking I'd also prefer the flat grind profile over the current on. Not sure it would make much difference with regards to my cutting needs, just like the looks of the flat grind better.
 
300Bucks said:
So if I show these pictures your gonna be OK ? 300






Old Custom Shop did it. I actually dislike the differences in front to back. It irks me when sides are not half-way matched.
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:(:eek: I couldn't find a smiley crying. That's is something else. What year did they do that? I never knew the custom shop did those ever. I also never realized Buck actually did the long nail pull. I always thought it was just the Camillus and Schrade contract knives.
 
We are talking the old custom shop. Back when Leroy Remer worked there and he was just learning to shave. They are Camillus made contract knives. Back then that's all the Buck slipjoints there were. Back then if you designed it and could pay for it, they would build it. I bet this is all talked about in the new upcoming BCCI history book that will be available at Idaho 25th............. 300
 
KyHunt, Ditto that! A 307 was just too much for me to think about! In Ram Horn, flat grind...... My heart just skipped a beat.
 
Well I bought a used 307 off of the "bay" last fall. It rarely leaves my pocket. It has taken the place of my other Bucks, Case etc. Every once in a blue moon something else will find its way in there, but the 307 has really taken my heart. I would love one a little fancier just for the heck of it.
 
300Bucks said:
So if I show these pictures your gonna be OK ? 300






Old Custom Shop did it. I actually dislike the differences in front to back. It irks me when sides are not half-way matched.
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Yes, that's exactly what I would like. I agree with the two different types being irksome, but it is a beautiful knife.

My pulse did quicken a bit. I'm ok now.
 
I guess if its too irksome it wouldn't be hard to find a home for that "ugly" knife.:D
 
This is the closest I have to my dream knife. Its tiny 309. I think its elk but not 100% sure. I bought it off the bay a few years back .





 
dogstar said:
What if they offered the 300 series in the custom shop? You can choose bolster materials, scales, any combination/number of blades. Do you think it can happen?

I'd go for a 303 frame, NS bolsters, oak scales, clip and coping blade, sharing the pivot like a proper jack knife. Yeah.
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Dogstar, I am right with you on the Jack configuration but I would want a Sheepsfoot secondary blade and some nice red bone or stag on mine.
 
KYH, You got a gem. Someone custom made those elk scales and I don't think it was a early factory production example. It could have been the early custom shop but who ever did that installed the glue-in early shield on that elk that they took off in the beginning. A gem, one I would be proud to find....

Everyone is talking good sense on knife design.....300
 
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