What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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5K Qs said:
Here's a trailer that often spends most of the summer on the street a couple of blocks from where I live. Jeff could throw his guitar inside and hook it up to that custom Caddy (?) and tour in style!
ETA: The car looks like a Chevy to me (especially the front "logo" and hood ornament), but there appears to be a spare tire holder on the trunk, and I don't remember those on Chevys. But my memory is unreliable. o_O
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- GT
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55 or 56 with a continental kit
 
afishhunter said:
Doubtful they are using 440C as a standard blade steel again, especially for the offshore 371/373.

As far as I know, the last 440C knife they made was a limited production 112 Anniversary knife.

The 300 series never had 440C blades. Those contracted with Schrade and Camillus used 440A. When Buck started producing the 300's in house, their standard steel across all models was 420HC.

As far as I know, the 37x and 38x offshore knives still use 420J2.
It is possible they upgraded to the 7CR14MoV and/or 9CR18MoV, that BTI uses on the Schrade, Old Timer, and Uncle Henry lines. (most of the Imperial line has 3CR15MoV; Thesame class as 420J2, I believe.)

Allegedly, the 7CR... is equivalent to 440A. The 9CR... is equivalent to 440C (or 440B, according to some.)
It would make sense to upgrade from 420J2 to either 440A or 7CR14MoV, since the offshore Bucks are in direct competition with the offshore Schrade/Old Timer/Uncle Henry's, which have a much better blade steel than the offshore Bucks do, yet they both retail at the same price point. 🙄

Buck switched from 440C to 425M because the 440C was/is hard on the machinery. For that reason I doubt they will use 440C again for anything but limited runs.
(when 425M became too costly, they switched to 420HC. I heard that Buck was the only company using 425M, which added to the cost of the steel.)
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Thanks for the info. :):thumbsup:
After I posted about the steel on my father-in-law's Buck 373, I started doing some research about Buck steel. I found a couple of threads on the Buck forum that contained some of the same info you reported.

knarfeng said:
The Buck web site says 420J2.
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Buck 373 Trio Pocket Knife - Buck® Knives OFFICIAL SITE

The Trio is a traditional three-bladed pocket knife with a clip point for detail work, a spey blade for skinning, and a sheepsfoot blade clean cuts.
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Thanks, Frank. :):thumbsup:
Your approach, going to the Buck web site, would have been WAY more efficient than various semi-random Google searches I was running yesterday. :rolleyes:🤓
I DID manage to answer my question by finding a PDF of a 2022 Buck catalog that said the 373 used 420j2. Since I received the knife in August 2022 and my FIL passed away in late 2021, he must have bought the 373 in 2021 or earlier, and I concluded his must have had 420j2 blades.

What puzzles me is why dealers are allowed to get away with using false info about blade steel in their descriptions of products. 😲

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
What puzzles me is why dealers are allowed to get away with using false info about blade steel in their descriptions of products. 😲

- GT
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I think its incompetence more than anything. I was just on a large knife dealer's website where the description bragged about proudly being made in America and the photos clearly showed "China" on the tang :rolleyes:
 
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