What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Old & In The Way said:
I'm carrying a new to me, old Schrade Cut. Co. today.

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Gorgeous find!
 
willgoy said:
Interesting, thanks for the info. My Bucks are all stamped Buck so I assume they're not contract ones? My 309 sawn delrin has stainless pins not brass.

Regards, W
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rune1279 said:
FWIW, even the contract ones are stamped Buck.

I'm no 300bucks, but as far as I know the silhouette of Idaho on the pen blade of your 309 means it was made in the year they moved the factory to Idaho (2005), so it's probably not contract. Mine is a 2010. Maybe they updated the tooling in the intervening years, or maybe they did something a little special for the moving-year, to account for the slight change in blade-shape?
--Mark
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  • Schrade made the 30X series for Buck from ~1968 to ~1971.
  • Camillus made the 30X series for Buck from ~1971 till 1985.
  • Buck has made the 301, 303, 305, and 309 in-house since 1985.
    All other 30X models were made by Camillus.
  • Schrade and Camillus knives all had long pulls on the main blade.
    IIRC, Schrades had a crimp on the bolsters, while Camillus never did.
  • Camillus and Schrade made two-spring stockmans (303 & 301.)
    IIRC, Buck stockmans made between 1985 and 1991 were two-spring. All Buck stockmans made since '91 are three-spring. (And are no thicker than the earlier two-spring knives.)


Here's the Camillus-made Buck 303 I carried for many years next to a 1997 Buck-made 303.

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My thanks to Mark & Frank for even more Buck background - these quite austere knives give a of use and delight, as I wrote earlier, a kind of dependable build-quality like a SAK. Tough too but not coarse. In my Euro-ignorance... :D I had no idea that stamp on the Pen blade represented Idaho, thought it was some odd type of boot or stovepipe ornament :eek::D:D

Paul, I hope your 303 quest will soon end and not be like Jason and the Golden Fleece :) The 303 Yellow I have is a much liked knife and it often goes out in a day-pack.

Stephen O & I.T.W. Thanks for your comments on my David Laguiole, a faithful servant and represents a very old type of French knife from nearly 200 years ago. The Peach kernel jigging on that Swell End/Teardrop you show is a marvel, wonderful shield complimenting it too.

thanks, Will
 
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Jeesh, I was a little worried there Todd, I saw you didn't post your Oeser one day either this or last week:D

Always nice knives Buddy:thumbup:;)
 
arizonaranchman said:
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I just received this #81 Northfield Abiline in African Blackwood yesterday - a beauty to say the least. This is my third Stockman now. This one is 4" closed and I particularly like the long-pull. The fact that the spines of the main Clip and Spey blades are flush with one another makes this one more sleek. Typically it seems the spine of the Spey blade rides a bit higher than the main blade in the Stockman pattern. On my #66 Calf Roper and my Case large Stockman this is def true.
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Seeing this last night made me realize that I have been neglecting my blackwood Abilene, so in the pocket it went today
 
Nice to see the African Blackwood 81 popping up. I will be carrying mine tomorrow.
 
paulhilborn said:
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Jeesh, I was a little worried there Todd, I saw you didn't post your Oeser one day either this or last week:D

Always nice knives Buddy:thumbup:;)
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Ha Ha... :rolleyes:
Yea I was in Padre last week and this week I have no excuse! Good to know someone cares about me Oeser addiction. I hate to ever let it leave my pocket!
 
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