What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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It's the 20th Anniversary 111 model that was released earlier this year. They were introduced in 2005 as a variation of the 110 with curved bolsters, like the 55. I'm a little confused on when they were discontinued, so maybe someone who actually knows what they're talking about will come along, and fill us in.

Ironbut Ironbut - The 55 and 111 were introduced in 2005. The 111 was discontinued in the Fall of 2008.

Here's a 111 that I have along with the info on it.

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Buck Knives : Lockback
Year: 2008
Misc: USA Made 111 Pattern
Handle: Ironwood
Steel: Stainless Size: 4 7/8"

EDIT: The bolsters and integral liners are stainless steel - the blade is 420HC

The pictures were taken in my out door photo studio when I first joined BF
 
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I think you're thinking of the 101 fixed blade.

And yes, there was a 111 with the fancy scroll work.
You're correct. I was thinking of the 101 fixed blade.
I am pretty sure there was a bare head of the 110 just before the fixed blade came out. Was that also a 111?
Honestly, the bare head was my first thought for a recent production 111.

I know the "111" model designation has been used for at least two or three different knives over the years.
 
293 Serpentine Jack Trapper and 804 Splitback Whittler Schrades. And still diggin the Wenger Canyon.
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See the tracks on that piece of ash firewood in my 2nd pic? That's how the Emerald Ash Borers killed the tree. EAB is an invasive from Asia for which there's no known native predator.
Have a fine Saturday. Stagurday or Schradurday, or whatever gets yer motor runnin.
 
293 Serpentine Jack Trapper and 804 Splitback Whittler Schrades. And still diggin the Wenger Canyon.
45C1CDB0-0E17-4EAA-911F-2A20C0723BFA.jpg
2D864C83-2F78-49FB-8AEE-FBAA2B9CA47B.jpg
A5D6F107-5C1E-4B09-AE5C-CB4ED06D15EE.jpg

See the tracks on that piece of ash firewood in my 2nd pic? That's how the Emerald Ash Borers killed the tree. EAB is an invasive from Asia for which there's no known native predator.
Have a fine Saturday. Stagurday or Schradurday, or whatever gets yer motor runnin.
Great selection of knives. 👍
Sad the EAB is killing the Ash trees. I hope they fair better than the Elms in the place I "grew up".
City lost something like 90% of the Elm trees to Dutch Elm Disease. ☹️
Several streets that had Elm trees on both sides wound up getting sunshine on the pavement for the first time in 80 or 90 years for over a mile, after the sick trees were felled.

Somehow even single trees that were several blocks from another Elm tree were lost.
The 170 plus year old Elm (planted by the original owner, one of the Lumber Barons, when the house was built in the 1830's or 1840's) in my grandparent's front yard was one of the solo trees lost.

(I "grew up" in Clinton, Iowa. The Lumber Capital Of The World, in the early to mid 1800's. At the time Clinton also had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world. I believe there were over 20 lumber mills in the town. Clinton sits on the Mississippi River. Lumber from MN. and WI. were floated down. Allegedly, around half the town is built on leveled sawdust mounds. Supposedly, some of that sawdust has been smoldering for over 200 years now. "Spontaneous Combustion" "thanks" to flood water seeping through the ground over the years.)
 
Great selection of knives. 👍
Sad the EAB is killing the Ash trees. I hope they fair better than the Elms in the place I "grew up".
City lost something like 90% of the Elm trees to Dutch Elm Disease. ☹️
Several streets that had Elm trees on both sides wound up getting sunshine on the pavement for the first time in 80 or 90 years for over a mile, after the sick trees were felled.

Somehow even single trees that were several blocks from another Elm tree were lost.
The 170 plus year old Elm (planted by the original owner, one of the Lumber Barons, when the house was built in the 1830's or 1840's) in my grandparent's front yard was one of the solo trees lost.

(I "grew up" in Clinton, Iowa. The Lumber Capital Of The World, in the early to mid 1800's. At the time Clinton also had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world. I believe there were over 20 lumber mills in the town. Clinton sits on the Mississippi River. Lumber from MN. and WI. were floated down. Allegedly, around half the town is built on leveled sawdust mounds. Supposedly, some of that sawdust has been smoldering for over 200 years now. "Spontaneous Combustion" "thanks" to flood water seeping through the ground over the years.)
I grew up in metro Detroit in the 60's and seventies. Many streets were lined with Elms as you describe. Simply beautiful trees. They were all dead and gone by the time I went off to college :(
When I bought my house here in Missouri in 1994, there was a smallish elm in my side yard. It was a fine, healthy tree. Then one spring it leafed out and looked normal but over a two week period all the leaves turned brown and fell off and it was dead. I fear all our ash trees are similarly doomed :(
 
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