What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Hickory n steel said:
The 300 series was truly at it's best back in the 90's.
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I don't have enough Bucks to confirm or deny that. I have a set of four 300 knives with yellow Comfort Craft Delrin covers from about 2010 and each of them is perfect. I also had a pair of Black 301s, one of which has a proud rivet from ~2007. (I modified the rivet so it wasn't a bother and that's actually my favorite 301. I gave the other to a friend.) So maybe there is more variability in F&F, but it's really too small a sample for me to form an opinion. But I've not bought a 300 series in quite a few years. I'm not sure what the current F&F is like.

On the other hand, I really like the Edge 2000 blade profile on a working knife. It definitely holds an edge longer. So in that regard the modern Bucks are better.
 
knarfeng said:
I don't have enough Bucks to confirm or deny that. I have a set of four 300 knives with yellow Comfort Craft Delrin covers from about 2010 and each of them is perfect. I also had a pair of Black 301s, one of which has a proud rivet from ~2007. (I modified the rivet so it wasn't a bother and that's actually my favorite 301. I gave the other to a friend.) So maybe there is more variability in F&F, but it's really too small a sample for me to form an opinion. But I've not bought a 300 series in quite a few years. I'm not sure what the current F&F is like.

On the other hand, I really like the Edge 2000 blade profile on a working knife. It definitely holds an edge longer. So in that regard the modern Bucks are better.
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In my experience the blades were more consistent, but I was just talking about the profile and blade grind that I prefer.
 
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Case Knife of the Week is a sawcut 6347 with stainless blades:
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Colonial/Imperial/Schrade Knife of the Week is an Imperial serpentine jack my wife gave me on a blizzard day in January 2014. She thinks she got it from her dad when he got a new knife. It got me carrying pocketknives again after 45 years of rarely having a knife in my pocket.
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- GT
 
When I worked part time at Sears in high school and at UI, i used my employee discount to buy a few pocket knives. Two were Bucks ~ one of those black scaled lockbacks, and the little one called the Lancer. Although I still have the Schrades I bought then, the Bucks got lost. Probably my boys, because the Camillus, Schrades, and Craftsmam were usually in my pocket, but the two Bucks just sat vulnerably in a jewelry box on top of my dresser.
So I cannot tote a Buck slip joint today like 38.7% of today's porchsters.
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The MBA staffers at Sears apparently saw the resemblance between this knife's main blade and the famous Alamo knife preferred by that guy from Tennessee named Jim. So they named this Stockman, Stock Number 95044 a Bowie. That was before corporate buzzwork speak made up SKU for stock keeping unit. The 95 means Hardware Dept.
I never bothered to try to find out if it was made by Ulster, Camillus, or Schrade. I like all three equally.
 
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